Will dogs ever be able to compete with cats?
>>5118371My cat is in this category and I've always assumed it was because she didn't really have human contact until she was taken in with her siblings at around 6 weeks old. No real human interaction during those first weeks. As a kitten, every little thing would send her sprinting under my bed or TV stand.It's gotten WAY better, but some days, she's still easily scared and will run. Most of the time, she'll run a few steps and turn around and come back to me if I make a sudden movement and say "wait, you're okay". It's kind of ridiculous. One thing I've been doing this whole time is occasionally petting her when she's not paying attention to try to associate those surprises with rewards. She jumps, then snaps into affection mode and happily rolls around on the floor.
>Cat person"I prefer cats">Dog person"ALL CATS SHOULD DIE REEEEEEEE"
>>5118367>>5118371I got my cat because it had swimmers legs and the owners were going to put him down.he's the best cat. 100% calm, friendly, no afraid of anything, and occasionally catches and eats mice... head first...
Dogs are genetically engineered to be clingy, needy emotional slaves.
>>5118368Sounds based to me
Tell me about the language(s) of the birds, /an/. Why do we know so little about the meaning of the different calls of birds and how can we better understand and comunicate with them?
>>5117461Crows and ravens "names" within their group. A unique call that's only used for that specific crow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4cohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doj_wt9ER_Q
>>5117461Look up Toshitaka Suzuki's work. The run down is that he studies Japanese tits (hehe) and found they exhibit compositional syntax and can combine sounds to rely different messages i.e. for warnings of danger of specific hazards
Fuck yeah
>>5115973I want to lick the knobs. Not in a sexual way, I just want to lick giraffe knobs.
>>5116930[X] doubt
>>5116767Looks like straight from Regular Show. Or any other Cartoon Network bullshit.
https://www.businessinsider.com/giraffes-might-be-next-banned-thing-on-china-social-media-2024-2Two years later, Chinese still don't know they use their long necks to spy on them.
A thread for otters, wolverines, badgers, martens, grisons, weasels, stoats, tayras, fishers, polecats, ferrets, and ferret-badgers. Post pictures, videos, and stories about these cute, intelligent, and mischievous critters. Thread theme inspired by:https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-otter-tshirt-monterey-bay-aquarium-kelce-7272d1970336b02a3a97b4814a54a2f3
>>5062222MEEP
>>5073950needs more research
>>5062222
>>5074592>past Beijingeither you couldnt help but say Beijing after saying China (intrusive thoughts/ADHD) or you dont know where Beijing is (knowledge inferior to a grade 9 geography student)
I found a little bobcat today bros.
>>5117766What could possibly go wrong?
>>5117763what camera do you use?
>>5117766Sniffing dog buts is unsanitary but you do it anyways
>>5117766Bobkots are cute, but I hiked in on foot and hiked out the same way. Didn't want to carry the little guy eight miles.>>5117769Had to keep my distance or else the little guy would run off>>5117798Casio EX-S8. It's not the best but it's what I had on me.
>>5117766>>5117983samefag brown schizophrenicnice bober op
>Walks in>rekts your whole tree of lifeHow many more branches of life are there we dont know about?
>>5115608No, but birds in general followed a very different evolutionary trajectory from mammals/synapsids and even their brains are wired differently.
>>5107573Savanna hypothesis and pursuit hunting hypothesis have been debunked
>>5098911same
>>5098911But they become less an idiot, even by a small percentage, isn't that a good thing?
>>5115427There's also that one elephant that speaks korean,
Knowing you’re statistically far more likely to be killed by a dog than a bear, which animal would you rather be stuck in the woods with?
>>5118319You statistically encounter more pitbulls than bears. Attacks per hour of human contact are something else. Even with shitbulls counted most victims are children. Without shitbulls dogs are only dangerous to thirdies that earned their fate anyways, just like how angloids earned their shitbulls by refusing to ban canine dysgenics. >my society mistreats dogs and now dogs are mistreating me>how could this happen>do these mutts not respect my religion? my aristocracy’s sporting uses for dogs?
No matter what you think a dog is always easier to fend off than a bear
>>5118463no need to fend off, i would just play dead to trick the bear.
>>5118319knowing you're statistically more likely to be killed by a mosquito than a tyrannosaurus rex, which animal would you rather be stuck in the woods with?
>>5118319The bear is still overall more dangerous: people are just encountering them far less often.
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CHIBKM! (:
>>5118103I look like this and I say this.
>>5118103thank you for your service (eggs)
>eats the bugs lives in the podAnd gives you eggs, based chooks
why is /an/ better than 90% of all boards?
Post crocs
>>5116508most mentally stable incel
>>5116552>InvoluntaryMy whole point is that I DON'T want to have sex, Redditor. Did you forget that you can't farm updoots on the Mongolian basket-weaving forum?
>>5107789Over a month ago they saw a croc on an African cam with a really nasty wound in his side as well as missing a big part of his tail.Fucker seemed pretty resilient, although no new video of him was posted since these 4, so maybe he sadly kicked the bucket already.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eHqrwObzkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l4YZh2iIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZSW0tJscIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkT8Bn0YQEw
>>5107789W croc
>>5117133>SundarbansThe Bay of Bengal does have a lot of giant crocodiles
>largest predatory dinosaur ever>bigger specimens found all the time>recently found to have hunted and killed adult individuals of large herbivore species by biting them in the face>by far the most popular dinosaur>if you combine the popularity of the rest of the top ten dinosaurs, they’re about as popular as T. rex is on its own>has a stranglehold on media depictions in every form, in spite of the small arms>studies will specifically include rex because it increases the odds of the study being funded significantly >is responsible for a lot of interest in dinosaurs in general and helped push the field forward in many waysHow is one species so influential on the field it’s a part of?
>>5106245>largest predatory dinosaur ever By what metric? Certainly not by volume or length. By mass? Mass of what exactly we can't weigh a Trex or any contemporary animal because they died so long ago bones don't even remain.
>>5106894>>largest encephalization of any dinosaur aside from a few small dromaeosaursencephalization within the range of modern reptiles, and about as clever as an alligator. Probably a bit less clever than varanids.>>5112238>i am old enough to remember a time before JP came out and already there were kids everywhere who were crazy about dinosaurs, we had dinosaur cartoons, dinosaur movies, dinosaur toys, bands named after dinosaurs, brands named after dinosaurs, well before JP came out.Yes, but their market range was a lot more limited. Before Jurassic Park, dinosaurs were for, basically, nerd kids. After Jurassic Park, the nerd kids got bullied when they said that Deinonychus was the OG raptor.
>>5112623So, it got less popular by being more popular?
>>5113417>>5113765They totally do play into them being hybrids in the novels. Both of them. In the first one I recall a scene (That was later featured in the Lost World Movie) where the T-Rex has a weird forked tongue like a snake. Like the raptor in your image. In the Lost World Novel there are straight up chameleon Carnotaurus' that play around in the lights and scare the raptors.They were always mutant freaks. They were somewhat accurate mutant freaks, because that was the idea Hammond was going for, but they were still mutant freaks.
>>5106274fake and gay
What the actual fuck how are people this fucking stupid
>>5090575"muh wypipo" ass whining.
kek
kekaroo even
>>5080498Ew
>>5080498Look on the bright side, at least the scammers don't need to put an actual animal in a dangerous situation to "rescue" it on camera now when they can just proompt it
Saw there was no bug related thread going on. Post and discuss al thins crawly. Other tiny critters welcome as well.
>>5117283It lasted hours and it wasn't the wind.
>>5111379I got into isopods initially for the photogenic rolly-polly cubaris types, but found that the porcellio laevis et al are super fun to watch. Have an enclosure of milkbacks (with a few misc dairy cows and oranges in there) and they're without fail the most active and interesting of my four isopod containers. They were pretty skittish about being out in the open at first but now they're always crawling around and digging and such. Super low maintenance but fun to experiment with if you're looking to interact with them (seeing what foods they like, tracking different 'personalities' etc).
How did he even get in there?
>>5118138Ah fuck, image rotated. It's in a ceiling light fixture if you can't tell.
>>5118138You don't see the giant gap between the glass and screw holding the glass in?
>when you're toxic as fuck so no one wants to eat you and the whole world is just a fun place since you have nothing to worry about
>>5116541Apparently the name pitohui itself is Papuan for "rubbish bird"
>>5116631lmaoIt's literally a shitbird. I'm gonna call people pitohuis now.
>>5116631>>5116635
>>5116610Interesting. So why is the guy in OP handling him like that? Is he retarded?
>>5118433>So why is the guy in OP handling him like that?because he can
Post animals being silly
>>5118361>Inbread dog
>>5118356basedhe knows what's good
Post animals having a bath (licking doesn't count)
>>5113987My God budgies are so fucking cute
>>5113995Great, AI can make pitty propoganda now
>>5118406That image is older than mass-user AI
