I just learned about the 'Beast of Gevudan" last night and I was wondering what /an/'s opinions are of what it could have been?Yes, it was real.>"Between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious creature known as the Beast of Gévaudan terrorized southern France, killing over 100 people and injuring many more, causing widespread panic and a royal hunt led by King Louis XV. Eyewitnesses described a massive, calf-sized wolf-like creature with red fur, dark stripes, and a long tail, often viewed as a werewolf or exotic animal."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
>>5116833Why would a maned wolf be a maneater? Isn't a big part of their diet fruit? I would imagine somebody's shitbull would be more dangerous than this thing.>>5116815>It was absolutely an example of a phantom animal. The "escape from a rich person's zoo" doesn't sound plausible because all descriptions of the creature involve some phrase like "nobody could figure out what the fuck it was". The Medieval world was not ignorant, they'd have noted some defining trait of the creature which they would themselves use to identify it, and no mention was made of unusual vocalizations that would make Hyena a likely explanation.1764-1767 is only a decade before the American revolution and right after the French and Indian War. This was not the middle ages, this was the 1700s. Ancien Regime France only seems "medieval" because the social and economic structures of French absolutism retarded its development. Newton was already pretty much a century ago. There's a world of difference between the Middle Ages (til 1300-1400) and the 1700s when the age of exploration has been going on for centuries and now modern physics, chemistry and biology (with Linnaeus's Systema Naturae) are all taking off. French robe nobility/people who got state-funded sinecures like >>5116800 is alluding to legit included chemists like Lavoisier who discovered oxygen. The enlightenment and modern politics was also taking off, as was European domination of parts of the world with their own respectable old civilizations (like India). You should read Tim Blanning's Pursuit of Glory and Voltaire's Candide to get a feel for the period. It's probably one of the most fun in human history.
>>5117908>Ancien Regime France only seems "medieval" because the social and economic structures of French absolutism retarded its development.And even then mostly in rural areas the cities had salons and other modern era shit where you absolutely would not get burned for witchcraft* or whatever else dumbass redditors think would happen if you showed people an Iphone in any era before trannies and nigger rights*witch burnings were primarily a product of the protestant reformation which was still early modern and not medieval btw
>>5117688Plenty of swords were less pointy than this.
>>5116754Le pacte des loups was kino, there, I said it.
>>5116754>being forced to retreat and let go of its prey because of 4/5 children beating it with sticksKWABeast
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a 10cm fish species that feeds off the dead skin of larger fish, has demonstrated the ability to recognize itself in a mirror -- a trait that is more so associated with birds and more intelligent mammals.Scientific paper on this phenomenon:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70138-7Video on the subject:https://youtu.be/Drbl5udwk9I
>>5114217Wrasses (Labridae) in general are intelligent fishes
>>5114217Fish possess consciousness. This has been proven repeatedly.
>>5114221fpbp
>>5114221Fish are intelligent:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-fish-know-when-youre-watching-them/
>>5117671Mammalfags and birdfags always be coping
>Fur seals (actually sea lions) are sometimes spotted raping penguinsHow common is this for animals? Using animals smaller than you and of a different species to relieve your own sexual frustration
>>5097852>>5097837it's funny when it's two species that aren't even from the same taxonomic class
>>5058461I’m not gonna question the durability of turtle cock to withstand croc spines
>>5055941THANKS
>>5055948is that a gull or petrel guarding the seal while he rapes the penguin?
>>5055939LOLknew seals were demonic"cute" my ass
Is it actually a multicellular organism?Also pre-Ediacaran thread
>>5116467This one supposedly evolved in the TonianI remember reading something about phosphate depletion being the main reason oxygen levels and evolutionary innovation were stagnant for so long even after the really early modern-like levels of the early great oxygenation (because dissolved oxygen in the ocean makes iron oxides which sequesters the phosphate which is then trapped under the seafloor forever) and a sustainable high oxygen level only became possible once enough land weathering with rivers and glacial flour and stuff happened to supply a large source of phosphate independent of the seafloor.I don't know how true this is but if any anons here are experts in that sort of thing plz elucidate
>>5116467yes
>>5116469I remember reading that during the Boring Billion they think that the day length plateaued at 19 hours for quite a while due to the sun heating the atmosphere somehow countering the tidal friction of the moon or something, although I'm retarded and couldn't explain to you why that works. I remember them saying that longer days after it ended = more weathering = more oxygenation of seawater and atmosphere like you're saying. The end of the Boring Billion also is theorised to have seen the Earth's mantle cool enough for modern-style "cool" subduction to properly occur. But honestly I really need to take a planetary science course I'm retarded, I wish I knew why people think all this stuff happened. I guess if you made a conclusion from their conclusions though (also factoring in that increased solar luminosity is projected to basically end photosynthesis as we know it by increasing weathering and CO2 pulldown within around a billion years of now) the Earth as a planet has/will be only suitable for complex life for a pretty small fraction of its total existence.
do NOT put your penis in it
>>5117954>Diskagma buttonii is a small fossil less than 1mm in length found within the surface horizon of a vertisol paleosol above the Hekpoort Basalt dated to 2200 million years old. If you're willing and able to fuck this thing you have worse things than your sanity to worry about honestly
>farm whales for their milk >make cheese out of it >strap some extravagant label on it >sell it to billionaires as an exotic culinary experience >you are now filthy rich
>>5117910How would you farm whales and extract their milk in the first place?
>>5117940It would be extremely painful...
>>5117940Ask your mom
>>5117940We can use a vacuum hose to suck out the whale milk?
>>5117914>the thing about exotic food is that it needs to taste good firstthat never stopped civet coffee
Looking for a field guide for microbes (book) for the microscope. Does anyone know a good guide?
I don't know any but I enjoy the YouTube channel journey to the microcosmos. Usually it's less about actual information and more about some kind of asmr but they also do more in depth videos about their setups and probably provide links and sources.
When you are the last dog off the assembly line on a Friday.
>>5117707>t. toxobrain
>>5117707>t. oxo
>>5117538Nice thread. Cute dogs.
>>5117900What a dickead
>>5117895>>5117900Anti cat schizo samefag seethe
Alright, lets try this again
>>5116787they're like dragons
>>5117464Whatever they looked like, it must've been freaking cool.
>>5113011Autism thread
>>5117478Autism board
>>5117702nice ass
Podcaster Joe Rogan has warned that mountain lions are running riot in certain states and eating household pets, demanding politicians do more to address the problem.“One of the things they found out in San Francisco in the Bay Area was when they do shoot these mountain lions, they’ve done an analysis of their diet. It’s 50 percent dogs."“They’re doing nothing to curb the population. And this is the thing is like people go, ‘Oh, it’s OK Let nature do its thing.’ No, it doesn’t do its thing. It kills your dog, OK?” he said.He continued: “Fifty percent of their diet is eating people’s pets. So, they’re hunting people’s pets. That means you are, if you’re a dog lover, you’re allowing a monster to eat your dog because you think that’s the right thing to do and to be kind with nature."“No, you have to hunt them. You have to get them the f*** away from you."Rogan went on to share a story about Hanes being pursued by a mountain lion while out for an evening jog and commented: “That is the consequences of letting monsters live in your neighborhood."The host concluded by suggesting that trophy hunting should be rebranded as “monster control” to attract broader support, signing off by saying: “I love animals, but I am on Team People.”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>5117138You will never be "most people" anti cat schizo. You can't even change your posting style enough to pretend to be someone else lmao.
>>5117872@grok is this pissbuttschizo
>>5117872>3 days to replywhalecum back from your ban! /an/ has been peaceful since your proxy site broke :)
>>5084698retarded, next he’ll say we should cull all (therez only 100) the bengal tigers in the sundarbans just to save a couple jeets. mountains lions > offleash untrained dogs with retard ownersif your dog was killed by a mountain lion anywhere other than your backyard, it was your fault.
>>5117877>>5117879>Anti cat schizo is STILL samefaggingKek
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cg5041nrrqro
AI slop
>>5117891Checks out
>he doesn't have a tapetum lucidum
>>5117334I don't get it
good thread
>>5117334>phoneposting redditors will unironically think this is humerus
Anything Seal or Pinniped related, this means Sea Lions/Walruses are welcome here too!
Seals if they have ears
>>5116777Seals are actually very high maintenance to look after, so this makes sense. Basically you'd have to have a massive indoor swimming pool, that can keep cold temperatures. Something most people can't afford.
>>5115714The seal? God's animal.
>>5117585Beal
:D
Sorry I've been MIA it's been kind of a rough patch for me, but I'm going to try and get back at it and post a platypus every day until all of an wants a puggle to snuggle
>>5116869Believe it or not. That is how this thread started. Some anon started a thread betting no one could post a more smug animal than a hippo and I replied with that pic. It lasted for like six months and then it died right when Sakura fish got perma banned and voilà. Can't believe it's been 13 years already.
This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Dang I'm running out of thread.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWms8jgovJoThis is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Last platypic of this thread.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Thoughts on the secretary Bird?
>>4989050is this the only sauropsid amniote with eyelashes?
>>5116700-> >>5007437
>>4989049what's his salary?
>>5116780mealworms
The mighty sperm whale starts its deep dive towards the abyssal dark to hunt the colossal squid
>>5117597>The discoverers originally assigned the English name of the biblical monster, Leviathan, to the whale as Leviathan melvillei. However, the scientific name Leviathan was preoccupied by Leviathan Koch, 1841, a junior synonym for the mastodon>In August 2010, the authors rectified this situation by coining a new genus name for the whale, Livyatan, from the original Hebrew name of the monster.
>>5117701>call a mastodon leviathan and not behemothWhat a waste
>>5116338sharks don't even have a skeleton how can they ever be cool not even in death gtfo
>>5117701It makes even less sense after what you've posted
>>511759599.999999999999999999% of the time narwhals don’t/can’t fight back as their tusks aren’t for combat and can’t really be used that way. Not to say impaling another whale wouldn’t be possible but it would be a Hail Mary.Watch the documentary Invasion of the Killer Whales. It documents the receding ice in noufoundland or Greenland or something and how it used to be a sanctuary for narwhal to evade orcas but with less ice killer whales now inhabit that area year round and have all but genocided the narwhals in that area. At one point in the doc, there is a breeding colony of hundreds of narwhals in a cove and a pod of like 20 orcas come in and slaughter every one of them, hundreds of them leaving none alive, slaughtered every one of them so no I wouldn’t call narwhals a worthy adversary for killer whales. I watched hundreds get raped like it was fucking nothing by only a handful of orcas with my own eyes.
