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>"So..."
>*sips vegan caramel mocha latte with 10 pumps of sugar-free vanilla*
>"Anyone thinks dolphins are the cutest fish ever?!"
>"They're so smooth looking and they speak in squeaks!"
>*turns to (You)*
>"What's your favorite fish, Anon?"
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>>4950086
>mixing up
fishschizo has d.i.d. :(
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>>4950091
there are several that copy me. One that really hates me for being the original.

But There's only one that can afford to travel the seven seas taking pictures of damn fishes

ok I've only traveled a couple of the seven seas, but I do take a lot of pictures of fishes. And I've drank at seaside taverns on more islands than most people here will ever see
It is my pleasure to bring you pics of some of my NOT FAVORITE fishes.

my favorite fish ever was a RBP that ate everything. But don't tell anyone I have a favorite fish. He was my fave for personality. Little bastard would eat your hand if you got it close to the tank. For looks I love discus and anything saltwater.

for taste I love salmon because I grew up in the PNW and ate a lot of salmon and crab. I do love bluefin tuna sashimi with ginger and sesame tho. pretty good if you get the chance to try it. Scallops too but that's not fishes.

one of the funniest things I saw in my travels is hawaiian natives fishing off the reef. Hauling in fish that would be worth $2500 US in the aquarium trade and eating them right on the beach. Fucking 2 foot achilles tangs for lunch. They're delicious. Naso tangs with streamers I'd give my left nut to own being grilled up on a beach barbeque. It's funny stuff.
Oh and sharks. I've eaten a couple. And conch fritters. And jamaican jerk wrasse. So many good fishes to eat. Just gotta avoid the ciguatoxins. No red tides or glowing dinos. Avoid the barracuda and grouper.
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>>4950091
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>>4950107
FAVORITE?

I can't pick a favorite.
THey're all pretty cool
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>>4950109

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WE WUZ KANGZ OF THE JUNGLE-- ACK!!
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>>4944404
African and Indian lions probably had enough contact with humans to co-evolve with them.
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>>4948307
Why are lions so based? Can we take the lionpill?
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>>4948332
>>4948352
Don't care, at least you dropped the "ermmm akshually lions aren't cannibals" cope
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>>4949906
Hyena bitch detected, opinion thoroughly laughed at and discarded.
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>>4920530
Yeah millions of years later when they evolve into weird ass forms and then slowly die off and ascend to let the younger races have adventures discovering lost relics and shit

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How come a mushroom be so ominous? How does it look so threatening? Why does it look so evil and their vibe is so wrong its beyond human language comprehension? This mushrooms looks like it could and would unleash the hell when you look at it wrong.
Answer me /an/ons
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>>4949854
looks cute to me.
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>>4949854
he may look like a mean and evil ol' shroom on the outside, but once you get to know him you'll find out he's actually a real fun guy
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>>4950108
he's quite poisonous

What if orcas are actually smarter than us but they simply lack the environment and biology to develop civilization?
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>>4949757
>you would expect them to behave like a monkey
ok but consider
the monkeys do not behave like that because they are intelligent and intelligent things are very self inspecting.
they behave like that because they are monkeys and have an urge to pick parasites and dirt out of monkey fur and have a deeply rooted urge to look for things to pick.

an animal that is simply intelligent would just stare at themselves being able to take in all information visually and calmly without engaging in uncomfortable contortions or acting surprised that they have a body part

humans have unfortunately conflated primate grooming instincts with self awareness for being too stupid to imagine self awareness existing without being a primate (unable to admit that they are primates with primate instincts)
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>>4949759
No I pick at zits because i am so smart and that makes me clean. Humans dont have instincts shut up commie
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>>4949759
>ok but consider
>the monkeys do not behave like that because they are intelligent and intelligent things are very self inspecting.
They literally do that.
Humans do that. Just put a mirror in front of a one or two year old.

For any animal that hasn't seen a mirror before you are going to have a short period of confusion in smart animals, a longer period of confusion in dumber animals and the dumbest will never work out that they are looking at themselves.
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>>4949426
>society is.. le bad!
Anon, there's a point where you gotta hit the brakes on the contrarian bus. The computers we're using to communicate with each other right now would not exist without society, and I doubt either one of us would survive for long without modern advancements. I'd rather us not be subject to predation from big cats and bears.
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>>4949856
>For any animal that hasn't seen a mirror before you are going to have a short period of confusion in smart animals
This. Gorillas in captivity have passed the test yet a wild gorilla will initially react to a mirror like it’s another gorilla. An upright mirror in the jungle is not equivalent to a reflection on a pond, so they’re not going to understand it immediately
https://youtu.be/tz0avWZoqjg

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Vetulicola Cuneata edition
post cool cambrian period animals here
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Here's some Cambrian molluscs (art by WillemSvdMerwe, he's making a book illustrating animals from every era of life)
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>>4949573
I tried to draw one based on the image :D
Whatcha think anons?
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>>4949574
From what I gather, it seems to be essentially a vertebrate jellyfish. It's not really a fish, but it seems to have been at a crossing-point where animals were evolving into proto-fish, but in this case evolution did away with things like "a brain" or "sentience", so its got a spinal cord, a mouth, a heart, and gills/spiracles, and that's really about it. Personally I find it an absolutely abhorrent creature - the idea of what amounts to a lamprey that has less brain matter than a barnacle or planlton is abominable, and an affront to God.
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bring them back
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>>4950030
But why? It's like someone was making a fish but only gave it the basic shape and not any of the internal stuff and said
>Good enough, release the beasts.

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Horse General

Winter of our Hopelessness

Thread that got made to lie down for a German show - >>4911995
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>>4931034
>when someone yells HAY! GET OUT OF HERE! but you only hear the HAY! part
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>>4948008
they are going to explode!
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>>4931034
>Idiot trying to throw innocent pony out of the horse market for not wearing a mask
It was a stupid time to be alive.
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Do any of you get paid to horse?

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why are humans the only species with such gigantic discrepancy in dick size between individuals?

Horses and donkeys? All meter long floor sweepers.
Elephants? All tree trunks.
Wolves? Solid sized rockets
Gorillas? All micropenises
Humans? Anywhere from 3 to 9 inches with girth that is as equally variable. 200% difference in size is God's morbid joke.

And im not even counting micropenises which are endocrine disease due to toxic environment but even that just says something and probably happened before industrial revolution too.

Could agricultural revolution have something to do with it, like with million other nerfs? Is it so complicated to maintain consistent flow of hormones and resources responsible for genitals during the fetal development? If the height isn't so variable why such a simple organ like dick is?
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>>4948030
Everyone walking around in the locker room with an erected penis
X - doubt
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>>4948030
i'm saying it's confirmation bias, you're way more interested in human dicks, have observed far more human dicks, and think it's different from cow balls or kangaroo tails or dog feet when those things vary the same way

imagine you told a foot fetishist all human feet were about the same, he'd probably slap you, but to a normal person who doesn't care they are about the same
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>>4946685
religions and cultures that ban or strongly discourage premarital sex. women up with a man who's not so well endowed but doesn't find out until after the knot is tied. multiple centuries of that leads to tiny peeners.
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>>4948096
All threads are incel threads.
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>>4946712
You should suck start a shotgun and blow your fucking brains out.

we are losing the battle...
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>>4949923
dog website

go back
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>>4949844
>oscar for dogs
Maybe I will finally watch it then.
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>>4949844
>r/dog free
Do you really need an entire subs just to tell others you don't have a dog? Being childfree, I get it, since there is still societal pressure to have kids, but nobody gives a fuck if you have a dog or not.
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>>4949874
Shalom
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>>4949844
who is "we"? Did you mean to say 'oui" like the French faggot you are? Figures a filthy Frenchie would be starting console wars on /an/ :/

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Everyone always asks "Where wolf"
Nobody ever asks "Why wolf?"
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>>4949373
well that is true.
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>>4949373
What's the difference?
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>>4949593
I wish I was a mothering wolf…
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>>4948846
>>4949416
in denial desu

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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 kill all succulents and cacti by overwatering lol
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>>4949598
A common whore.
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>>4949827
men who say shit like this are the same men who support trannies invading womens spaces and beating them in their sports and will happily call any woman who disagrees a cunt and a whore to show how progressive they are
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>soak some spagmoss
>put a lid on bucket
>forget about it
>open it a week later

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aq you lazy bones edition
Bunch of links nobody needs or cares about it reads

How do you guys like my new Betta? I named him Liu Feng, he's the biggest betta I have ever seen in my life.
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>>4949646
There's some dutch guy in youtube that grabs water from parks and putd them on jars you can start with that.
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>>4949913
>they are always sold as like kiddie's first aquarium pets.
In terms of aquatic pets they're most definitely in the top 1% of low maintenance animals. The reason they're sold the way they are is because they're dirt cheap and almost guaranteed to hatch no matter how badly the average retard fucks up, so your kid WILL get to have a cool pet for about a week before they all die out because someone put tap water in the tank or something. The funny thing is the actual maintenance required to keep them alive indefinitely is so insanely simple they could easily put it in the instruction booklet or even sell branded tank equipment.
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>>4949968
Isn't that like animal cruelty or whatever? Just buying em to let em die.. or are shrimp seen as too stupid and not worth caring for
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>>4949978
They're brine shrimp. They're bred on an industrial scale for fish food. The few people who find them cute/cool enough to keep indefinitely as pets are literally the only people giving these captive bred species a nice life.
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I had an explosion in my golden mystery snail population because I missed a clutch of eggs and now have a hundred or so baby snails in my 30 gallon tank. The tank only houses cherry shrimp and (originally) 4 golden mystery snails.
What do I do with the excess snails once they reach a larger size and can be collected?
Should I donate/sell them to my local pet store?

Why are vegan animals so big?
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>>4949864
You reminded me of the Steller's sea cow and now I'm bummed out. There's much we don't know about them and how they differed from existing sirenians. Also we'll never know how orcas hunted them.
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>>4949866
He would lure you outside with bags of Liquorice left at you front door at 3am. Then, with you distracted, he would steal all the orange juice in your fridge for sustenance.
>>4949867
Yeah, they were good parents too apparently. I always vouch for animals that are good parents.
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>>4949867
>Also we'll never know how orcas hunted them.
Probably with some difficulty. Isolating the young from the adults and then going after them, maybe. That'd match the descriptions we got about their behaviour:
"Steller's sea cow may have exhibited parental care, and the young were kept at the front of the herd for protection against predators. Steller reported that as a female was being captured, a group of other sea cows attacked the hunting boat by ramming and rocking it, and after the hunt, her mate followed the boat to shore, even after the captured animal had died."
Steller's sea cow was ridiculously big. Two, maybe up to three times the weight of a male adult sea elephant. And Orcas have difficulty with hunting those:
http://eleseal.org/kw/kw_hunting.html
Getting mobbed by half a dozen 5- 10 ton animals while trying to kill one of them through its ridiculously thick blubber and unable to drown it because it's buoyant would give even an Orca pause, I think.
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>>4949908
True, but obviously there was a massive intelligence difference between Orcas and Steller's Sea Cow.
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>>4949909
Maybe not so big a gap, is there much data on sirenian intelligence? They’re not far from elephants which are generally understood as being smart.

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Baby Monkey Lives Matter
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>>4947580
They're pedosadists who are too cowardly to watch actual hurtcore
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monke
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>>4944939
>>4944944
A website that lets anyone watch baby monkeys being tortured, that doesn't require accounts or vetting, and that won't get immediately reported and taken down? Are you dumb or something?
You were supposed to be saving a copy of every video you came across. Serves you right for relying on others.
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>>4938657
You're such a little rat bastard
Kys
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>get pet monkey
Oh my god you’re such a bad person that’s unacceptable

>release back into the wild
Oh my god you’re such a bad person that’s unacceptable

?

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I'm looking into setting up a terrarium for dairy cow isopods as my first terrestrial invertebrate set up.
Are they beginner friendly or should I consider something else like an ant colony?
My goal is something that is low maintenance and I plan on making a bioactive set up.
Also will I need an anti-vibration pad or will an aquarium leveling mat work?
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>>4949985
I'm going to actually buck the trend and say "maybe not," because they're SO fucking simple that you're not really learning about how to take care of bugs. You pretty much just have to keep a box of dirt and leaves slightly wet on one side and you're good to go, and only just occasionally feed them stuff.
They ARE pretty neat though.
>>4950026
that'll do fine, yeah, but keep in mind you will probably never see P. laevis unless you fuck with them, they really do like to hide.
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>>4950045
What would you recommend as something more active or enjoyable to observe?
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>>4950026
That's fine to start with.
The standard enclosure in the isopod hobby is a 6qt plastic tub.

>>4950045
Expanding on this, you'll want a corkbark hide for them. Both because they like it, and because it lets you see them without digging into the soil and potentially hurting one.

>>4950051
Porcellionides pruinosus, or Powder Blue/Orange, are very active and have a unique look about them.
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>>4949994
>>4949996
Rus (Aquarimax) also sells isopods! I bought Opae Ula shrimp from him and he seems like a good dude.
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How do I keep my isopod population under control?
Do I just have to cull them from time to time?
I don't own any predatory species that could eat them.

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>survives since cambrian
how
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>>4948540
bringing politics into everythign shut the fuck up and let me mount you your gonna birth to my kids big sexy
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>>4949076
You would start melting the majority of your brain for nutrients. A kind of latent evo-devo bimboification
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>>4949076
I don't think we have those genes? Never had them. You could look at lampreys, vertebrates which undergo metamorphosis AND whose goal is becoming a parasite that is essentially sessile, but lampreys evolved it independently.

The thing is, the one tunicate that never sticks itself to rocks as an adult is now thought to be the tunicate that's closest to our last common ancestor. Also before the lancelet was recognized to be a more ancestral organism than tunicates and vertebrates, it was possible to think that the lancelet adult was just a paedomorphic tunicate adult like vertebrate adults were thought to be, but again the lancelet is actually more like the original chordate ancestor. Now it's the sessile tunicate line that is the exception.

>it is clearly more parsimonious to accept that metamorphosis evolved independently, than to consider that it was present in the LCA of vertebrates and then secondarily lost. This is because these two options require, respectively, a minimum of three steps (acquisition in lampreys, actinopterygian fish, and batrachians [urodeles + anurans]) vs. six or seven steps (loss in hagfishes, chondrichthyans, coelacanths, dipnoans, caecilians, and amniotes, and eventual acquisition in the LCA of vertebrates if not present in the LCA of urochordates + vertebrates).
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.24245
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>>4948747
Even if its extremely unlikely, hypothetically with no accident or predation could first individual who evolved this ability survive to modern times?
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>>4949172
>So Trump.
Trump can actually speak without an earpiece or teleprompter...
>>4949663
>I don't think we have those genes
I mean, vertebrates are more closely related to Echinoderms than Cnidarians.
The Jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii is claimed to be biologically immortal in theory but in reality, it actually isn't. All Jellyfish are far outlived by trees and glass sponges.
The longest-lived vertebrate is the Greenland shark but they have extremely small brains.
>>4949964
I could imagine a biologically immortal human being born who died from war before they could have children thousands of years ago.


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