A newt
>a whale is a very great fish about one hundred or three hundred foot long, and the body is a vast magnitude; yet the orca, which is smaller in quantity, but more nimble in assault, and cruel to come on, is his deadly enemy.
>>4884217Well no, not really.>>4909011They remove some glands in the ass that helped flavor stuff.
>>4909159I'm impressed they actually drew the horsecock
>>4909159good ol pal wheels the living failure, looks like the one on the right
Egg editionDoes your dog deserve one farm fresh egg, and if so, how frequently?
>>4909568I never even used them, my sister left them here and I was holding onto them.
>>4909570Do more drugs thenMaybe on your trip you will realize animals are naturally attracted to anything they can derive one single calorie from. t. lost 5lbs of beans to boarding a cat. Yes, it ate raw beans. It had to go to the vet for it.
>>4909564Find a way to remind yourself to close the door
>>4909607
>>4909302Keeping them indoors is cruelty, cats want to be outside
>>4909310Then theres literally nothing you can do. If they want to get to the road they'll find a way
>>4909310Cats dont want anything more abstract than to pursue the scents of food and sex and to patrol any territory they have marked. They are dumber than chihuahuas. Just keep them active indoors. Ideally train them to be afraid of the outdoors using air horns or motion triggered water guns.
>>4909282Fill the roads with snakes!
Post deer
>>4907721That's lewd tho
>>4907651Honestly, how hard would it be to domesticate them?
>>4908220The only difficult part about it is to have that pet without an officer eventually shooting it
>>4901184is he really eating the bones of his fallen brethren?
>>4909590Those are HUMAN bones. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deer-caught-gnawing-human-bones-first-time-180963178/
headshitter editionDiscuss anything aquarium related here, including tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, decor, plants, and issues. Before asking questions in this thread, make sure you give us at least some details when asking a question, such as:>Tank size (include dimensions, not just volume)>Unusual Parameters (nitrate, pH, GH, KH)>Any inhabitants + how long you've had them>Age of the tank>Pictures are always helpfulTank Cycling:>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/Stocking and Water Change Calculator:>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.phpComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4909522at first I thought she was eating them. I'm sorta new to this, not sure what should be happening. do I really need to hatch brine shrimp for their survival? I've not really observed her chewing and spitting out food for them to eat, but they do swim around her mouth and gills and they seem to get some food particles. I also see them grazing on aglae here and there.
>>4909520Yeah I found my male Cacatuoides dead 2 days after the 2 females laid eggs. Very suspicious.
>>4909588>>4909530Rearing the two clutches I was using "First Bites" from Hikari at first, then slowly added in BBS until they were big enough to eat them, then microworms, white worms, tiny pellets and flakes etc.Any smaller than first bites is specialist culturing.
>>4909180fuck me that looks absolutely beautifuli've always dreamed of having a tank this style, just sort of a wide, shallow kiddie-pool size tank that looks like you just ripped a piece of a lake
>>4909257>What you guys do with your dead fish? burry them?Fresh: I tend to bury if the shrimp don't get to it fast enough.Salt: the inverts are so fast about it that I rarely even see a body.
/an/ webm threadprevious: >>4897608
>>4909426Since like yesterday, new features remember?
>>4909287>still no sound allowed outside the gif boards
>>4908635they're called pavement apes for a reason
>FIGURED OUT PREGNANCY LABOR HERBS MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE HUMAN WOMEN>CAN NATURALLY COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS FROM MILES AWAY>STRONGEST AND BIGGEST THING ALIVE ON LAND>REMEMBERS FUCKING EVERYTHING>CAN FOLD A CAR>OUTSMARTS ELECTRIC FENCES>WALKS THROUGH HALF A COUNTRY WITHOUT DRINKING ONCE>CAN PLAY INSTRUMENTS AND DRAW PICTURES>INVENTS A TRADING SYSTEM WITH LOCAL WEAT TRUCKERS>CAN OUTMANEUVER RHINOS WHILE BEING MULTIPLE TIMES BIGGER AND HEAVIER>CAN SWIM FOR DAYS>CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMAN LANGUAGES>CAN MIMIC HUMAN VOICES>THROWS STICKS AT LIONS>PREVENTS PREDATORS FROM PROFANING THEIR GRAVESComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4909432real life isn't a dark souls game fagboy
>>4909470Got hit by the booty curse
>>4909429you forgot>NATURAL CANCER RESISTANCE DESPITE HAVING 9.63x10^14 MORE CELLS THAN HUMANS
>>4909429blah blah blah and yet picrel
>>4909432It's much simpler. Elephants got a giant weak point. Grab the trunk and avoid kicks until the elephant suffocates.
Indigo Editionprevious: >>4881506This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answeredClassifieds for finding breeders and products:>morphmarket.com>kingsnake.com>faunaclassifieds.com>caudata.orgMost forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.When asking a question, make sure to include these details:>Type and size of animal>Enclosure dimensionsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4909517I feel like any remotely serious ant terrarium/properly cared for colony would produce enough to feed a small lizard.
How do you even go about tracking down a rare species?
>>4909537like what?
>>4909539like a photo where your mom is less than 300lbs
>>4909524most formivores (idk if this is actually a word but ant-eater is already an animal) eat a fucking ton of prey though. if farming ants was an optimal/efficient way to produce feeders nobody would be fucking around with fruit walks.
specifically in solitary hunting animals, especially mammals. like leopards, seals or tigers. they have the exact same survival strategies regardless of sex, so why wouldn't they both have the same optimized size? is it just so that the male can rape the female?
>>4909585>source: my hairy assInterior grizzlies from the lower 48 are much less dimorphic than the Alaskan peninsula bears, but aren’t that different to the barren ground bears. Again you are making shit up as you go along>>4909587>you think one influence is more important than others when the others drive the oneBecause it is more important. Not all factors are equally important just because they’re all still factors>it's cuteWhat’s cute is you pretending you have a job to go to, yet are still here arguing about this>bergmann's rule is occasionally true BECAUSE of other factors including sexual selection and resource scarcityIt’s occasionally true regardless of those factors as well>but because you want to win an argument you don't understand truth, and block itI’m not sure there’s much left to win. All you’ve done is demonstrate you aren’t as well educated on the topic as you thought
>>4909584I'm actually going to work or to get laid nowbut the mistake I seem to see you making is imagining the "RULES" stand alone.that's bullshit.cope's rule, bergmann's rule, they're not actually ruleswhat is the mechanism? What makes those "rules" work?Gould talks about this and so does dawkinsthe mechanism is sexual selection and resource availability. The rules aren't magic. They aren't right or wrong. They operate on sexual selection and resources.
>>4909593>All you’ve done is demonstrate you aren’t as well educated on the topic as you thoughtI dream of finding someone more knowledgeable than me.so far no joy
>>4909594>I'm actually going to work or to get laid now(Unfortunately, he did not get laid and went to bed seething in anger and live unhappily ever after)>but the mistake I seem to see you making is imagining the "RULES" stand alone.No, I’m not. I’m well aware that they are not universal and there are plenty of exceptions and variables. The point is that you brought those rules into the discussion to show off how smart you are by using brown bears as an example, talking about the relation both overall size and size dimorphism had with higher latitudes/colder climates. You picked one of the worst exceptions to Bergmann’s rule and spoke like you knew all about it, when what you were saying was the exact opposite of reality. Then you tried to add that these rules act in conjunction with other factors only after being told you were entirely wrong. On top of that you had already accused people of trying to act smart by talking about things they didn’t know about and said everyone else was just uneducated. You’re making a fucking joke of yourself and don’t seem to realise>>4909595This is what I meant by narcissism
A fairly interesting and mostly civil thread -by this board’s standards- turned into an old man ranting and shitting himself in just 25 replies. Now at 141 replies just 3 days later and it’s not even about dinosaurs. This has to be a new record! Congratulations to everyone involved, this is a true /an/ work of art
Is this real
Might be a fotomontage. Be careful.
probably AI
>Yes.
>>4908948Actually they are moving the poor cat using strings. This is animal abuse
>>4908277why? is it dangerous?
>pittbulls are violentWhen will this lie end?
>>4909467>18 people dead in 3 years - 10 from dogs likely trained or abused to attackI know its sad and all but isnt this freak accident tier?You could save more lives by flat out banning positive punishment based training. The chavs would just go back to smacking german and belgian shepherds to make them mean. At least this way you can tell chav/immigrant dogs from the pets owned by actual human beings.
>>4909497*19Oops, typoFor reference this is about a tenth of the fatalities caused by foodborne toxoplasmosis, something spread solely by the archaic, ineffective, and potentially abusive practice of allowing cats to roam.
>>4909449The disagreements online and confusion pertaining to this issue isn't so much snowflake "pitmommies" having a spat but rather English speaking countries outside North America classify it differently. In Australia, New Zealand, UK etc. the word Pitbull and all legislation on it only ever means the American Pitbull Terrier type. Pitbull targeted bans in these counties only restrict the APBT. No other dog breeds are referred to as Pitbull. A Staffy is just a Staffy etc. Pitbull is not a breed group in these countries instead they use the more accurate "Bull and Terrier" group. So this is just America's little problem, simply ban the APBT and get over it. >>4909456>Yes, staffordshire bull terriers are pit bullsNot in my country :)
>>4909552We use Pitbull as a blanket term in the US because they are a heavily mutted landrace breed here, not a fancy pedigreed import bought up by gangsters.
>>4909566this. you have some "real" kennels in the shithole part (the south) and then 99% of the dogs conform to exactly 0 standard but "KILL TO WIN FIGHT TO KILL"BSL doesnt work because no standard = lie and call it a rottweiler mix
Maru edition.
Posting my chubber 15 year old kot. I'm so thankful she's still around and healthy, even though I have to buy her some anti-flea medication and I'm broke as fuck...>>4906708I don't know anon, I give my kot little pieces of ham from time to time.>>4906714Obviously giving a cat an entire packet of ham is insane, but giving them a small treat shouldn't hurt.I'd be more worried of giving a cat something that isn't meat, like milk or cheese or even wheat products. My ex's cat used to love eating cookies for some reason.The cat was orange, if it's of any relevancy.>>4906822I'm truly sorry anon. Losing a pet is traumatic even for the strongest adults. Some asshole in my neighbourhood has been poisoning cats and even kitties, and someone even managed to shoot a cat with a rifle some time ago. I will never understand assholes who hate innocent animals who don't do any harm on purpose.
>>4906708>>4906714I just hold the ham under running water for a second to wash away the nasty salt juice
>>4906822Another cat numbs the pain harder. Sorry for your loss.
Why is he laying like that
>>4909581to cool down
>>4909389Is this AI? It looks like an early AI approximation of what a meme is.
many flangelets seething in this thread
>>4909450Projecting, are we? Don't forget to clean that axe-wound :^)
>>4909453Good eye, yes it is. The prompt was "a meme involving animals that AI would laugh at"
anyone have the meme image of the underwater drone feeding the deep sea fish pellets with a spoon with its robot arm, I lost it years ago when my old hdd died
About Jefrey (with one F): Possible half-Scottish Fold, male, found abandoned in some bushes, dirty, covered in fleas in mid-July. He’s growing up fast, and enjoys car rides, climbing trees, fetching his ball, playgrounds, and capybaras. He was named after the Pixies song “Space (I Believe In)”.Originally posted him here back in July seeking advice for potential health problems due to his folded ears.DOB: Probably 2nd half of June 2024Back by popular demand (or at least the demand of a few anons), you can watch him grow up from infant to big boi here.
>>4909266Look at this fucking gremlin.I mean ponder this damned rascal.Yo, check out this hellish spawn.Watch out for this furry goblin.I mean, you should be warned about this devilish menace Be aware of this whiskered maniac.By god, run from this fiendish hellion.
>>4909266look at that little bastard. he knows he shouldn't be doing that.
>>4905362>I barfed a lil
>>4909266hes evil
>>4909270Yes sir we already established that early on>>4909271a bit of both>>4909289>>4909294>>4909315>>4909270Yes he does>>4909271A little bit of bothComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
> Babirusa> Tusks grow into its brain and kills it.
>>4908576Then what's the "point" of adult stage? I mean, it seems to be wasteful to go through all of that developmental cycle to create non-reproductive adult forms. I know evolution isn't strictly logical, but usually there is some order to it.>Since adults do not have a role in reproduction, they are not a physiological part of the life cycle. Thus, the rarity of adult development in the natural world may be an evolutionary response to the lack of their reproductive role. In laboratory settings, development into adults can be induced by high temperatures, but this also results in high mortality because only one out of hundreds of heat-treated larvae will survive and pupate into an adult.>The adult females live for about six days and males only live for around 12 hours, with a strongly biased sex ratio towards females. The adults of both sexes are sterile and are vestigial remnants of a time when the life cycle involved sexual reproduction. The loss of sexual reproduction is likely associated with its infection by Wolbachia bacteria.Okay, Wikipedia explains it>>4908580Crazy stuff
>>4907699billions of years of survival pressure and mutations
>>4905143>boom, headshot
>>4905873This is genuinely unreadable.
>>4904615>Göd, why have you forsaken me? Was my lust for oats too ströng?
