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Keep in mind that nuclear weapons would be useless against them and since they possess human-level intelligence, they will quickly figure out how to sabotage drones, take down power lines/grids, organize well-coordinated attacks, etc.
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The intelligence running the birds seems to use them suicidally in a way that would either get them killed or physically exhaust them to the point of death within a couple of hours. I think we'll be alright.
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I always thought the infected crows would realistically be the most threatening vectors for the virus in the RE games if they were to aggressively swarm and peck at everything in sight
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>>5117712
There are many more birds than humans and they also reproduce much more quickly
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>>5118167
>Ant colonies typically contain several thousand to hundreds of thousands of ants
>massive "supercolonies" can contain millions to billions of ants
>still, all it takes to kill them its one human with a pot pouring molten aluminum
sheer numbers means jack shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
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>>5091409
>No way to take most them out with nukes without rendering the world uninhabitable for humans
Yeah it's MAD (mutually assured destruction)
The birds will keep the peace unless they want to die in nuclear fire.

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>>5109484
MEEP
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>>5113951
/thread
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>>5117134
Your newfag is showing
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>>5114879

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WTF 4chan and Reddit that elephants were cuddly and gentle and altruistic?!?!?!

Explain this:

https://youtu.be/bfrTxLiMgI0?si=qmeGJnPiT_Bfotcq&t=1055
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>>5117529
based, he got what he wanted
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>>5093806
>jeets build farmland on their migration routes
>crops get wrecked
>jeets place traps and harass elephants
>Elephants fight back

Elephants are capable of holding grudges for years. They do not forget. They do not forgive.
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>>5117529
He's based in my book. He stood by his principles until the end.
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>>5100265
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>>5117529
Horton's first day on the job with the Make-a-Wish foundation

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Obscure Edition.

Love Foxes, Pawst Foxes.

Previously on /fox/:
>>5107373
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>>5118011
Imagine in the future where smells can be associated with videos
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>>5118011
>>>/wsg/6131863
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>>5118011
Agreed.
>>>/wsg/6131879
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new fox
>>5118128
>>5118128
>>5118128
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>>5114508
>Cute
>smart and cunning
>easily stackable

is the fox the perfect animal?

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Post big cats, small wildcats, or anything vaguely feline that isn't a house cat.
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Disney's The Lion King is the most successful theatre production in history. It is recognized as the highest-grossing stage production worldwide, with a total gross exceeding
9 billion. Since its 1997 opening, it has surpassed the earnings of any individual movie, book, or stage show
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saw chinese guy with lion tatts
plenty of non asians with tig tatts
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Why are cats like this
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>major samefagging
>some retard keeps bumping the thread to agree with himself
Guys, i think OP might have been an h1b after all. This is very jeetish behavior.
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>>5096008
Fat retard has no cat manners
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>>5115644
The brown dogfucker has no shame. She has multiple threads up that she keeps up and jannies couldn't care less.
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Because it’s a cat you huge fucking idiot
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>>5117346
You sure talk about this imaginary dark skinned woman who fucks dogs a lot. Too much.

Can you go to /trash/ instead of trying to pull a magical realm on /an/?

COWS DEMONSTRATE FLEXIBLE MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL USE

Cows are now UNDENIABLY far more intelligent than cats and 99% of mammals. If you think it's wrong to eat cats, then you must feel the same way about cows and pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVo41MuLiQ

“The only well-documented case of something comparable comes from chimpanzees, on those – also rare – occasions when they fish for termites by combining the functions of the two opposite ends of the same stick,” Osuna-Mascaró told BBC Science Focus.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-tool-use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/
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>>5101988
They consent to being milked.
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>>5117281
>Leopards of India
>Monkeys are much smarter than cattle and dogs. They are also adorable.
>It's too bad they happen to also be appetizing, because of how they scream when caught.
>I find humans to be very smart and social. But seeing a dozen of humans aimlessly wandering because of seemly brainless hive mentality makes the opportunity to ambush too good to miss.
>Them being intelligent will never be an excuse for me not to consume their meat.

>I wonder if their lack of self-preservation and lack of survival instincts despite huge population numbers is due to their strictly vegetarian diet?
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>>5117281
No quality research has ever proven pigs to be smarter than dogs. They have smaller brains and less dense, simpler cerebral cortices than large dogs.

It’s all been shit science courtesy of academics who come from a culture that simultaneously opposes eating pork and keeping dogs as pets
>oy vey the snout rooting animal could be trained to use its snout to move a joystick and the animal with a more physically sensitive nose did not. dogs therefore are not self aware!
>dogs outside of laboratory finklestein: *effortlessly uses mirror to locate object*
Wrasse pass the mirror test
If “the science” says anything larger and more complex is not self aware it is shit science
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>>5118222
>>5118320
Hunter gather humans usually hunted bears in hibernation. Meat eaters, through history, use this mindset to argue with vegans;
>Eat or be eaten
It is the reality people never are open to admit. Agriculture leading to domestication of livestock resulting to human civilization would never have happened if we never exploited to our benefit.

Or maybe vegans like to have their own eye sockets be punctured by big cats?
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>>5118338
Why even care what vegans think? They define good and evil to suit a preconceived goal but forget to define why you should be good and why you should not be evil. Its all weak shit that falls back on shaming rational behavior as “psychopathic” and calling people evil carnist bloodmouths.

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why is he so insufferable??
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>>5088030
>slaps in millineial gamer quirk chungus meme edits every frame
was cute the first few times, got repetitive and stale afterwards.
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>>5088030
is he down to releasing one video every six months or so?
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>>5092338
>be me
>learn about r/K selection
>think about my parents
>lots of kids, skimped on food and extracurriculars even though they weren't poor
>realize I was r selected
mormons am I right
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>>5118217 (me)
>read the rest of the thread
>we're already talking about mormons
what the
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>>5116698
That sums it up pretty well

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2036 edition

Previous Thread: >>5040573

WHAT IS SPECULATIVE EVOLUTION?
Speculative evolution is the exploration and imagining of how life might evolve in the future or could have evolved in alternate pasts. It's a multimedia sci-fi genre that harnesses scientific principles to create detailed and plausible hypothetical creatures, ecosystems, and evolutionary histories.

RESOURCES:
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Tutorial
>One-stop shop for relevant background information for starting a project

http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/
>Fantastic blog covering all sorts of spec evo topics in-depth

https://specevo.jcink.net/

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>>5116474
could aim for basilosaurus. I like the creepy face.

>>5116532
I thought this was already over and done with? I wish it was with how much identity politics he pushes into everything, it was hilarious when he made a blm disclaimer in one of his random conlang videos.
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>>5116573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04Y6W90J60
kek this was pathetic
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>>5116474

Looks like a cookie cutter shark
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New Kaimere Trylogy
https://youtu.be/dH5J5d3YGsk
https://youtu.be/BHEYNt1tIiI
https://youtu.be/DIadunrliJo
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>>5116532
>>5116573
it's still nice to have a project that works from first principles rather than just being a seed-world

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>>5115710
WORLDSTAR!
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>>5114106
Looks real enough to me. Medically speaking this would probably be "ischiopagus dipus", which is where each twin is connected 180 degrees from each other (almost like end to end) with two legs on one side, at least as its described in humans.
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Has anyone got that image that goes something like
>be careful, we have given the monkeys in the exhibit guns
>why? funny
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxYmm5yCJBg
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>million pity posters ended up being turd worlders and overweight moms
Weird

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Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.

Anhingas welcome also.

Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
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>>4991491
>dives to the bottom passing through several schools of fish and sharks large enough to eat it
>crawls inside a narrow hole to grab one tiny little fish
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
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Post animals that make interesting sounds. Bonus points for surprises: if you'd never expect that animal to make that particular sound, all the better.

To begin: Goldie's Bird-of-paradise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_yr2eB7_Vk
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>>5118059
Speaking of sci-fi sound effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdNyeasi0GI
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>>5118034
It tweets and screams. Its a bird.
>>5118036
Lots of mammals scream.
>>5118044
So far the only surprising one
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About a year ago I saw two skunks having a territory dispute, crazy screaming.
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>>5118044
sounds like an air raid
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>>5118151
You have no ability to appreciate nuance.

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What time is it?
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Soon I can watch ducklings from under water again hehehe
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>>4987489
this thread is almost one year old lol

Cats are significantly less intelligent than dogs. They are slightly less domesticated and have the tendencies that come with that (more persistent independent action and innate skills that help them in the wild, reminiscent of the ways chimpanzees and orangutans outperform humans on select tasks), but overall, have inferior cognition and a less rich inner world, while dogs are complex social animals with more going on inside their head.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs-when-you-count-neurons-have-a-lot-more-than-cats/
Some dog breeds, such as german shepherds, can have over 800 million cortical neurons, twice as much as the average mid sized mutt.

Therefore, since dogs psychological needs are greater than their suffering is deeper, public policy should prioritize canine well being, while making concessions to a clean society and the natural order and regulating cats as if they are simply less aware of their situation anyways, because they are.

Proposed changes:
Dogs must have at least 1/4 acre to roam around in at any given time
It is illegal to crate a dog except under less than ordinary circumstances
Dogs must be allowed to roam in a fenced in park at least once a week, for at least an hour, if their behavioral tendencies allow it
Spay and neuter must be delayed until sexual maturity for dogs to ensure proper cognitive development
Dogs must be taken to the vet for a physical and psychological wellness check at least one every three months
Cats must be kept indoors
Cats must be spayed and neutered as soon as possible to prevent overpopulation
When roaming cats are third class citizens akin to escaped rabbits
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>>5086351
3pbp
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>>5086351
>>5117145
This is the cat schizo samefagging btw. He’s a dog hating muslim from mumbai.

Toxoplasmosis kills 750 people + innumerable miscarriages
Dogs kill… 30 people? all pitbulls

only thirdies think dogs are dangerous because their countries are full of rabid overpopulated semi-wild street dogs
only thirdies dont think toxo exists because they have no way to tell it from the other 50 parasites they have
simple as
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>>5117149
I’m hindu you indian obsessed racist POS dog nutter timmy bitch
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>>5117121
catsisters...our response?
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>>5117121
>>5117149
>>5118225
Anti cat schizo samefag

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Which one is more badass?
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>>5117754
Stupid question. It is in the name, King.
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