I like bats.Only a few more months tol I can take my bat detector out and listen to their pliplops as they munch on some moths.They are diverse and also silly.I love them.
>>5099806I love bats. I recently found out that a close cave near me is a home to several bat species,also the forests surrounding it are protected territory with more few tree bat species. Not only this but there are some bats that live in one of the roofs in the neighborhood houses and fly over my yard every night. Also one question from where you get your bat detector and how much it costs?
a high end bat recording device is $4000
>fly over my yard every night.Ditto. They prey on mosquitoes and would never bother you, so I enjoy their company. Bats are very different, I could never truly understand the American problem.
https://magenta2000.co.uk/product/bat5-digital-bat-detector/I have one of these.It doesn't record, but you point it at bats and set the frequency and it'll play/translate their squeaks for you. You alter the frequency and you can tell what kind of bat they are because all bats have different hz ranges.
>>5099806he cute
gluttony edition
From Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of Were-wolves:1/3>The following story taken from the mouth of an Osage Indian by J. A. Jones, and published in his Traditions of the North American Indians, shows how thoroughly the savage mind misses the line of demarcation between instinct and reason, and how the man of the woods looks upon beasts as standing on an equality with himself.>An Osage warrior is in search of a wife: he admires the tidy and shrewd habits of the beaver. He accordingly goes to a beaver-hut to obtain one of that race for a bride.>In one corner of the room sat a beaver-woman combing the heads of some little beavers, whose ears she boxed very soundly when they would not lie still. The warrior, i.e. the beaver-chief, whispered the Osage that she was his second wife, and was very apt to be cross when there was work to be done, which prevented her from going to see her neighbours. Those whose heads she was combing were her children, he said, and she who had made them rub their noses against each other and be friends, was his eldest daughter. Then calling aloud, 'Wife,' said he, 'what have you to eat? The stranger is undoubtedly hungry; see, he is pale, his eye has no fire, and his step is like that of a moose.'>Without replying to him, for it was a sulky day with her, she called aloud, and a dirty-looking beaver entered. 'Go,' said she, 'and fetch the stranger something to eat.' With that the beaver girl passed through a small door into another room, from which she soon returned, bringing some large pieces of willow-bark, which she laid at the feet of the warrior and his guest.
>>51010272/3>While the warrior-beaver was chewing the willow, and the Osage was pretending to do so, they fell to talking over many matters, particularly the wars of the beavers with the otters, and their frequent victories over them. He told our father by what means the beavers felled large trees, and moved them to the places where they wished to make dams; how they raised to an erect position the poles for their lodges, and how they plastered them so as to keep out rain.>Then he spoke of their employments when they had buried the hatchet; of the peace and happiness and tranquillity they enjoyed when gathered into companies, they rested from their labours, and passed their time in talking and feasting, and bathing, and playing the game of bones, and making love.>All the while the young beaver-maiden sat with her eyes fixed upon the Osage, at every pause moving a little nearer, till at length she was at his side with her forepaw upon his arm; a minute more and she had placed it around his neck, and was rubbing her soft furry cheek against his. Our ancestor, on his part, betrayed no disinclination to receive her caresses, but returned them with equal ardour. The old beaver seeing what was going on, turned his back upon them, and suffered them to be as kind to each other as they pleased.
>>51010283/3>At last, turning quickly round, while the maiden, suspecting what was coming, and pretending to be abashed, ran behind her mother, he said, 'To end this foolery, what say you to marrying my daughter? She is well brought up, and is the most industrious girl in the village. She will flap more wall with her tail in a day than any maiden in the nation; she will gnaw down a larger tree betwixt the rising of the sun and the coming of the shadows than many a smart beaver of the other sex. As for her wit, try her at the game of the dish, and see who gets up master; and for cleanliness, look at her petticoat?'>Our father answered that he did not doubt that she was industrious and cleanly, able to gnaw down a very large tree, and to use her tail to very good purpose; that he loved her much, and wished to make her the mother of his children. And thereupon the bargain was concluded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxvBvCT3oM
It's disheartening how even genuinely intelligent people like Bob Gymlan can get caught up in the Bigfoot nonsense. They basically ignore all the evidence against and go "he's out there i just know it bro i just know it they can't keep hiding him forever"
>>5101529Lost. I read an article a very, very long time ago, before the Internet was common and certainly before anyone had it in their pocket, that large ape-like fossils were discovered (in Montana, I think) and lost/stolen on the way to a natural history museum opening in Philadelphia.
>>5101569Wow, no way? An ARTICLE?
>>5101571Yup. Of course, it was likely BS considering wypipo weren't really anywhere near Montana yet when the Philly natural history museum was founded in, like, 1814 or whenever. There's the story of the giants in… Winnemucca, I think the town was called? The same article mentioned local natives there once upon a time having dealt with a species of large, ape-like cannibalistic/carnivorous humanoid giants who used to hunt said natives until, according to legend, the natives discovered how to control fire, managed to shoot flaming arrows at them and drive them into a cave or well or something and burning them all alive in there. Supposedly, a single skull from this species is in the collection at a local museum in that town.
>>5101575Basically every culture on Earth at one point believed in giants, there’s nothing unique there. Bigfoot people go on and on about what the native Americans believe as if they’re infallible instead of human like the rest of us, and years of breaking sticks into trees and screaming into the woods, and still no solid evidence of bigfoot yet. There won’t ever be any because it ain’t real.
>>5101529Why would there be identifiable bones? Scavengers abound in North America and these things could potentially bury or otherwise move their dead away from well-traveled areas. With a small population and plenty of exposure to the elements, their bodies could be stripped down to the bone and the bones scattered around within a couple weeks of death. At that point I don't think anyone in a position to prove what the bones are would ever find them. Albeit the skull and teeth would break down way less easily. That's a lot harder to explain without a complex culture with well-established burial practices that are effective at hiding bodies.
I love their little big foreheads
>if only you knew how comfy things are
>>5101325>maybe the knowledge is all the photons we've collected along the way...
>>5101391Read it in Robert Picardo's voice.
>>5101325>I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Does anyone else like fancy pidgeons
Post wolves. >Information. >Images. >Stories. >Art. >News.>Previous thread: >>5072801
>AIIIIIIE WOLVES ARE SO BIG AND DANGEROUS*snowballs you*
>>5101470Yes, they are wolves
>>5101543hey dont snowball me
>>5101562you eyeballing me?
>>5101574yes
>Chingo Chongu! Me turn back to wild ambush predator for selfie!How is it possible to be this dumb?
>>5098225Imagine her bingin and chingin when giga mittens was mauling her
>>5101344it's like that webm of a bird walking into a crocodile's mouth
>>5098225post yfw the prey animal gets closer voluntarily
>>5098810big if true.
We need to set a precedent here. Don't save this dumbass, don't let her live, this is the lesson. Don't fuck with wildlife just leave it alone. Your skiing is their home. You staring and provoking it is deserving of a mauling.
Why do pitbull owners refuse to acknowledge that their dog may be dangerous? I'm probably biased because I live in the bumfuck south where every retard owns a goddamn pitbull, leaves the asshole outside on a chain, and fucking yells at it all day instead of training it. Then they have the gall to tell me "Princess would never hurt a fly. She gives the best hug. She's a nanny dog." Seriously they all say these same exact things. It's like the same script word for word. I don't want to say pitbulls are inherently more dangerous than other breeds (I believe this is true but it's so contentious you just can't say it) but they are still dogs ffs. And all big dogs have the capacity to be dangerous. But these people act like it's impossible. And they keep breeding pitbulls like crazy.
>Dog breed that was specifically and selectively bred for pit fighting, high prey drive and hyper aggression >Retards: Erm it's the OWNER'S fault! not the dog! heckin pibbles would never hurt ANYBODY and is a wholesome chungus! It's not that fucking hard to understand. If that wasn't the case, we would be hearing just as many attempted mauling from pugs.
>>5101502>Shitbullfag is a brony and watches a show for little girlsyikes
>>5101450lmao i made that thread and i just called you out there faggot. Get a grip like anon said >>5101447 and curb your autism sperg
They know it is and get it on purpose to feel powerful, weak people always do this, try to find power somewhere whether in pets, trucks, job positions or sports it's pathetic
>>5099749I’ve got a shitmix and she’s very well behaved. No aggression whatsoever towards other dogs or people. Of course I train her and she isn’t chained to a rusted car frame in my front yard. Great dog.
Horse GeneralIt's too hot, I will simply lie here a while edition>>5082847 - Old Grey Mare
>>5101253Horse cannibalism is usually witnessed prior to a civilizational collapse
>>5101253are you sure they're not just cogrooming? they use their teeth to "comb" their grooming partner
>>5101295I think it's from some religious text. The horses turn and eat each other and that's what makes the world end.
Horses love OBSERVING things. I wonder sometimes why they like looming and looking at things so much.
>>5101548It's always fun back home, you look out the kitchen windows at the horses in the stables and they are just curiously looking back at us, following as you move from window to window. Feels a little closer to the family, rather than having them put away in another closed building by themselves.
I caught 3 mice but there's one holdout that's too clever or cautious for the ethical trap. Tiny bits of droppings near the trap vent tells me it's definitely checking out the peanut butter bait, but unlike its friends this one doesn't enter the trap. How do I catch this one without killing it, or should I just put a glue trap outside the no-kill trap vents?
>>5101430Use a roller trap lot less messy than glue traps.
>>5101430Use chocolate with your peanut butter.I tried peanut butter, cheese, and a couple other things to get mine, but chocolate ultimately got him. Rodents can handle a bit of chocolate, so it won't make him sick.
People who neuter cats are sick fucks.
>>5101278Why?
>animals suffer because normie retards buy an animal they cant properly take care ofsay it aint so
>>5101278he cropped too much otherwise its fine
>>5101278Only retarded, sheltered white women have a problem with any of this. Hello, it's a fucking stray cat? They're an invasive species and need basic animal control measures?It's kinder to interface with the natural world in a sane, conservationist manner. It's worse to be an emotional trainwreck treating animals like people and letting them do whatever.The cats need to be neutered so the stray population decreases. Docking its ear is logical because it's not a major hindrance to the cat and it lets you know it's neutered; what, taking the cat's balls is fine but docking its ear a little so the cat doesn't need to get taken in over and over is too far?It's dumbasses like you that cause problems with stray animals in the first place, just like it's dumbasses like you that feed bears, or jump in enclosures in the zoo.
I have a cat, I neutered him because otherwise he becomes unbearable, but his personality hasn't changed much, he's still a perfect son of a bitch who only thinks about killing. He's also a little too strong, I thought that without producing testosterone he would become gay and soft, but he has a lot of muscle, so I can only imagine what this bastard would become if he had testosterone flooding his blood.Anyway, the problem with cats is that they are killing machines. If you don't control the cat population, they cause considerable destruction to the natural life around them. An invasive species destroying endemic species of birds and insects and various small animals is not a good idea.
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>>5101386>>5101403it's actually crazy. they for for like 3/15$I have puffers and bought some to start but yeah they now cover all my tanks and I guess I could sell emAlready sell 1/2 cup floaters for 15$ on facebook all the timeYeah guess i'll setup a bucketit's unironically a chill ~45$/week at this pointthey just keep growin
My Odessa barbs genocided the bladder snails. Before adding them, thriving population. After, zero. All the eggs, too. May have gotten all the ramshorn eggs and small ramshorn too, I only see a handful of big ones now.
>>5101148archerfish, gobies, sculpins, cardinalfish, drum.
>>5101148salmonidsgobiessculpinsdrums (Scianidae)herringscatfish
>>5101386If you have an obligate live food eater like a pea puffer or some loaches, you have two options:>devote literally just as much space to growing live food as the fish itself>buy itI do the former. Many people opt for the latter. One pea puffer can eat 20 bladder snails a week. >>5101410My red root floater and azollas are my food source for my bladder snails. I just throw it on a tray to dry and crumble it into the buckets. I pull almost a half gallon off my goldfish tank every week.
As a pet owner I'd be very concerned about any animals being outside in general.No shot this doesn't backfire and kill some native species.
>>5098183Plus giant kangaroos are just cool
>>5088225Muslims hate dogs.
>>5077172Maori are native animals, what they do to the environment is simply one native animal affecting another. like a weasel eating a rabbit.
it’s over
They should eradict all dogs and breed animals, the cat issue can be fixed by making sure they are fixed and not on the street and the population will go down. But unnatural creatures are a real burden, cull all dogs>>5077153Sounds based
so there is this mutt dog behind a fence in a village in the middle of nowhere and he likes to play with me when i pass by but i never see the owner, like never everis it ok for me to give it a beef stick dog treat or something like that spec for dogs? or he will die and explode like chatgpt told me?
>>5100088>>5100394Explosion here, you have my erxplossion.
>>5100088Just give him a small piece of a beef stick. If he doesn't explode then give him a bigger piece next time.
>>5100088if you give it a treat it will transform into a princess and you'll have to marry herI hope you're ready for that anon
>>5100474Any relation to Nathan Explosion?
>>5100088Try a beef stick yourself. If you don't explode, you know you picked the good, non-explosive kind. If you explode though... Well, at least the dog didn't!
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.
>>5091267>A punt gun is a massive, historically significant shotgun, often over 10 feet long and weighing 100+ pounds. Mounted on small boats (punts), they could kill over 50 birds in one shot.
>>5098807Good luck doing this when most of the birds are too far away and they're dropping all kinds of sharp and deadly objects on you
>>5100263why wait for them to start dropping shit at us, don't we humans have technology like radars to detect where the animals are at? we can fuck them up before they even knew what hit em if they become a serious threat
>>5100269You won't have the chance. There would simply be too many birds.
Birds are smarter than humans
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>>5101492looks polite
>>5101254the ideal man
big fat whiskers
