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Hardcore thread
BRUTAL, SAVAGE ASSAULT
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>>5086309
Too funny at least he's clean
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>>5086309
What country is this in
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>>5086309
>Rabbi Schlomo Katzenberg getting gassed 6 gorillion times, 1950, colorized
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>>5086314
the aryan kingdom of hyperborea

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AWAWAWAWAWAWA
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>>5086297
rock hyraxes are evolving into metal hyraxes
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These little guys are cool!
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Jewazon slaves are not paid enough to buy overpriced, fake, shitty, un-nutritioned and poisoned food sold by other jew corpos. Merry Christmas!
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>>5085092
Cats belong outdoors. Being in a house is like a prison to a cat. They enjoy being in nature, exploring, socializing. They are happiest outside.
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>>5086308
Cats are not intelligent enough to give a shit. Every cat I know is indoors only and they do fine. Its not like they’re dogs and go insane without walks.

What cats do actually do is kill songbirds/lizards/amphibians, spread disease, and create conflict with other peoples pets by trespassing uncontrollably, and that’s before addressing that cats are easy prey for larger wildlife, humans, and cars.

The theoretical happiness of the outdoor cat never materializes as greater than the happiness of a non-neglected indoor cat but the ills of outdoor cat faggotry do, reliably. Ultimately you would rather make your cat the worlds problem than spend 20 minutes with a laser pointer. No different from thirdies who “own” street dogs. Cats are fine - indoors. Just like dogs. Your cat can go outside if you can keep it leashed (its not really needed tho) or keep it from escaping. Just like a dog. Otherwise I dont think the world has any obligation to give a shit what happens to your cat just like no one gives a shit what happens to a dog. Both are domesticated carnivores. A dog isnt smart enough to give a fuck about being fenced and leashed and a cat isnt smart enough to give a fuck about being inside.
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>>5086310
Actually people who let pets roam around should be 100% liable for everything that happens to their animal

Your cat was purposefully allowed to roam and got eaten by someones husky? You get charged for killing your cat
Your dog was knowingly never fenced and got shot for chasing sheep? You get charged for shooting the dog
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>>5086310
You're wrong, but I won't argue further because I haven't slept and don't have the energy and I already stated my feelings. I will say that yeah some cats love being inside. I feel like it's a prison for them.
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>>5086312
You can project onto them all you want but half the cerebral cortex of a small dog does not desire abstract ideals. The dog doesn’t either. They’re animals. Cats do fine - no, better - inside.

Outside they kill and die and spread sickness uncontrolled as all animals do, and if you set them loose and it doesnt turn out like your fantasies, you don’t deserve revenge so much as you deserve punishment for allowing anything to happen. The cats early death would be your fault, and the cat never thought “at least i was a free man”, it thought
>me hungry
>me thirsty
>me horny
>me want to kill that
>me check if new stuff where i went before
>pain bad get away

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Festive edition!
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>>5086178
Kumis, anon, it's pronounced kumis. Comes from the mare, not the stallion.
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>>5086184
that's what they want you to think
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The whole bird thing made me realize that horses would SIMPLY inhale you for minerals the moment you for some reason turn bird sized.
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Mare-y Christmare from this timezone. I hope you wake up to scores of horses in your kitchen staring at you while you struggle to wake up.
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>>5086238
marey horsemas

As usual.
The Fox Before: >>5080430
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>>5086197
I literally eat like this.
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>>5086197
Hearing that little critter crunch through a deer's ribs is actually a little bit intimidating. I didn't know they could do that.
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>>5086193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBnydkO7TU
https://youtu.be/2V6Aji1Brnc?t=182
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypaoafQwtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdm4L4ZIUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUIWsWdMAGU

What >>5086197 said but with riot videos
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>>5086193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YChdEmLYs
That meme doesn't bother me desu because it reminds me of better times.
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I saw a fox outside today when I put some seeds for birds, cute little fella

Apparently, larger theropods probably lacked feathers because it would have led their body to overheat (unless they lived in cold regions, like Yutyrannus). Now large dromeosaurs like Utahraptors were larger than a polar bear while living in an environment that was the exact opposite of the north pole climate wise. So isn't it possible they were featherless/sparsely feathered too?
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>>5086289
Because they aren't that big. Polar bear sized at max
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Lions and tigers are covered in fur.

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Welcome to /plant/, the happy green place on this blue board, where growers, gardeners and horticulturists share their love for things that grow.

Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.

>Flora of the World
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/

>Plants of the World Online
https://powo.science.kew.org/

>Hardiness zones
https://www.plantmaps.com/

>Plant ID Sites
https://identify.plantnet.org/

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I think echeveria and sempervivum are my favorite plants to keep because they're very uniform and predictable
I can look at them at a glance and know their care is 100% perfect and living the best life they can, and be proud of their perfectly uniform little rosettes with leaves pressed as tightly as possible together and sun stress on the top lets me know they're getting more light than they can handle, so they're getting their maximum food. Squeeze a couple leaves and you know exactly how thirsty it is.
then you have a spider plant and i dont know what the fuck it's doing, is it reaching, stretching, perfectly content, I have no idea what a 'perfect' spider plant is supposed to look like because they're just bundles of leaves splaying out in random directions at random heights.

I feel like people would disagree with me on this though, do you guys like unpredictable plants?
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healthy spider: / _
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unhealthy spider /-\
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>>5084342
ok, bought some fresh distilled and rinsed out their pot a couple times, hopefully that helps and i'm not just wasting money on corpses
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Do you give names to your plants or am I the only one? In general, my attitude towards my "pets" is equivalent towards a dog or a cat. I don't understand people who stupidly put a cactus on a balcony, and after a month it's dying and they buy a new one. I also keep records of births and deaths of my Plants.
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>>5086265
my plants have genders but not names

Look. /dog/. Dog general. /dog/ general. Generale canin.
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>>5086183
If I was a dog I'd probably piss on the tree that the humans brought in too.

>>5086185
He felt defeated after he couldn't remove the hat.
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>>5086164
Definitely cool
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>>5086156
Sounds like the dog might be developing kidney problems or something like that, I've never heard of a dog drinking too much water unless it's sick
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My dog is prone to getting ear infections but the main issue is that he doesn't let me flush is ear with medicine/preventive care. I've been trying over the past 3 weeks to desensitize him to the bottle by placing the bottle on the ground and rewarding with a treat when he sniffs it. Moving onto moving the bottle close to his face and no reaction gets him a treat. But the moment I open the bottle and actually try to get near his ear he freaks. The time it took me to try to desensitize him the ear healed up on it's own. So I'm really at a loss on what to do here. I've considered pinning him to the ground to get the stuff in his ear the next time but that'll make him hate it even more. Any tips or tricks please guys?
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>>5086290
I dont know if this applies to you because my dog only gets mild ear infections a couple of times in the summer, mostly due to garden hose horseplay/mud removal where he gets splashed inside his floppy ear without me noticing and not airing out. nothing that requires medication.

his ear infections are resolved with 50% white vinnegar + 50% lukewarm distilled water solution which I soak a big cotton ball with, place in his ear, tilt his head, then squeeze the liquid out of the cotton, filling his canal. then close his ear flap over sealing it in and sort of rub and "pump" (sort of like unclogging a toilet). after that I let go the flap, tilt his head to drain, then run to escape the head shake shrapnel

obviously, dont use vinnegar if your dog has sores or scratches in his ear

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Well /an/?
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>>5086235
BIG BAD GALAPAGOS
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>>5086235
Do they even have any way to hurt each other?
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>>5086251
Neck wrestling
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>>5086235
Galapagos outweighs the Aldabra, it wins.
>>5086251
Male tortoises do fight each other during breeding season by charging at each other like wrecking balls to try and flip one over and they also have strong bites so unless one of them has the idea to bite down on the others neck to strangle them before they can retract then yeah they can probably kill each other but it'd be the slowest fight ever.
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>>5086278
I don't think I have ever seen a murderous tortoise up until today.

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Last thread was deleted for some odd reason.

Last posts were about helping an Australian anon to find his lost cat. Hope she's safe, mate.
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both my cats like to sleep in my room and they go to bed at night together. my kitten usually sleeps on the pet mattress next to my bed and my cat sleeps on my bed or mat.
it's seriously cute how our routine is to all go to bed together, but they wake up so freaking early (5am) for breakfast which is annoying

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Just finished watching it. There is an indication of a season 2 like last time, but just an indication.

Genuine positives:

>Smilodon and Mammoth scenes
>Gigantopithecus is the GOAT!
>Humans teased in the last episode
>Overall visual porn
>Some other scenes here and there, kinda subjective
>There are kindo of subtle homages to WWB and paintings of Charles R. Knight, but that might just be me not seeing things as they are

Now to whining lol. Only thing that sticks out is basically just the visual porn of it all and high quality models and animations. Story telling is all over the place and pacing is the same as with last two seasons, but it doesnt seem to work here that good for this period and these animals.

There is an awful lot of patterns you will notice while watching, like constantly:
>Single mother and children scenes occupy majority of every episode

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how are you two dumbasses still arguing with the same points like this just shut up already
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>>5084725
They have no friends or family to talk to, so they just shitpost here.
It's really sad. :(
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>>5084662
>They end up attacking the bull due to it being an aggressor
That is not how animals work. They would evade the bull and try to get to the calf. The only reason they'd attack the bull is if they have a death wish.
>You can't just hyperfocus on size and neglect the unique characteristics these animals evolved to hunt with.
>I would argue that the differences between lions and homotherium are drastic enough. They're two animals with dramatically different dentition, which is one of the most vital things to consider when comparing two different predators.
Size isn't the only thing to look at, but it is the central and most vital thing. But we can look at other factors to consider how they'd deviate. In the paper you linked, the analysis of how bush dogs can be so good at hunting much larger prey included the reasons of a strong bite force and not being a persistence hunter. Those are negatives for homotherium.
>unlikely, fringe case
More equivocation. You're pretending I'm using unlikely to mean that it's rare for a bull mammoth to get hunted by homotherium. The actual point is that it's unlikely that such a event has ever happened at all.
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>>5085013
>That is not how animals work. They would evade the bull and try to get to the calf. The only reason they'd attack the bull is if they have a death wish.
Except that isn't how animals work either? They're living things, not robots with preset behaviors that will always respond in the exact same way to a given stimulus. What you described is just one thing they could have done out of many. The most optimal thing they could have done, but not necessarily what they will always do.
>Size isn't the only thing to look at, but it is the central and most vital thing. But we can look at other factors to consider how they'd deviate. In the paper you linked, the analysis of how bush dogs can be so good at hunting much larger prey included the reasons of a strong bite force and not being a persistence hunter. Those are negatives for homotherium.
The entire incident with the Tapir is said to have taken place over three hours, with it only ending due to human interference. That is by definition a persistence hunt, and the fact that an animal that isn't even specifically adapted for such a feat was capable of it only supports the argument for what homotherium could accomplish in a similar scenario.
>The actual point is that it's unlikely that such a event has ever happened at all.
You're acting like these are different things, but to me they just sound one and the same. A rare event is an event that's unlikely to happen. Saying otherwise is claiming it's impossible for that event to have occurred, or claiming it definitely did happen. If you're not claiming that PP's portrayal is impossible, then what is egregious about it? Documentaries don't have arbitrary baselines deeming that only common occurrences are allowed to be shown.
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>>5085260
>Except that isn't how animals work either? They're living things, not robots with preset behaviors that will always respond in the exact same way to a given stimulus.
It literally goes against their animal instincts. You said it yourself.
>Which will always be what is easiest and safest, as that is simply how animals behave
Are you walking that back now?
>That is by definition a persistence hunt
Persistence hunting is a specific type of pursuit hunting that involves running down the prey over a long period of time. The paper had a whole section about how this isn't how bush dogs hunt and they don't have the long, slender limbs for it like wolves (and homotherium) and that's why they're able to take down prey that much larger.
>You're acting like these are different things, but to me they just sound one and the same. A rare event is an event that's unlikely to happen.
No they aren't. A rare event is something that happened but only has very few instances. Not something that probably never happened. Listen to what you're saying. There's no issue with documentaries portraying something that probably never happened?

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Why the FUCK is there no monkey thread?
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What the fuck is pity? Monkeys are cool
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>>5084942
Just because something is logical doesn't make it a man-made horror beyond your comprehension
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>>5085764
Make it not*
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>>5085579
Look into the monkey hate ring rabbit hole. It's about a bunch of turd worlders making profit off of deranged facebook boomers, animal abusers and adolescent psychopaths by recording monkeys, specifically baby rhesus macaques and similar species getting hurt, abused, tortured or put into problematic situations, sometimes including other animals thrown in the crossfire like this stray kitten >>5084594

Their video titles and captions often have the worlds "Million sad/pity/pitiful/miserable" ect with the summary.
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>>5085772
As a monkey hater I cannot enjoy that stuff. I would love to see adult monkeys getting humbled so they stop acting like arrogant niggers, but not the common baby monkey gore/snuff these fags seem to enjoy.

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Post animal memes
I made pic related after I saw my retarded cat enter the laundry room then scare himself because of it
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>>5086089
Yo lil Donnie... I took a shit on the floor right next to the litter box. How do ya like that shit lil Donnie
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do not look at this rat

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>A high-speed train carrying 650 people has collided with and killed seven wild Asiatic elephants and injured a calf in northern India.

>Five train coaches and the engine derailed following the impact, but there were no reported human casualties, Kishore Sharma, Indian Railways spokesman said.
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>>5085172
We are aryan saar
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>>5085172
Indians are shitting the Ganges river dolphin to death
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>>5085172
Their lives were worth more than all of India
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>>5085177
I notice they care more about flexing before solving the actually pressing issues like horrible city planning, pollution, poverty, retarded tribalistic infighting, etc. Like how the fuck is a space program going to help you?
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>>5085174
>>5085177
Both of these validly apply to the land of feces.

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awww soo cute ^_^ owner probably deserved it ^___^
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>>5086182
Why post a selfie with your post?
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Why is the scar permenant though?
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>>5083909
>"cute angel"
>is literally Yo Donny, the Cat
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its a cute cat desu
fur pattern looks a mask
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