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post animals just sitting
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>>5138673
It's a blackbird
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>>5133294
Jef, go back to your thread, you are not allowed to go out without your gay collar
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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
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The problem with the "Beast of Gevudan" is that in order for it to become a large enough rumor to where the king would've had to get himself involved, there would've had to be a significant amount of clamor and local discourse involving the nature of the beast. This is problematic, because the fundamental point of discourse when it comes to esoteric matters is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg approach. Does the rumor predate the beast, or does the beast predate the rumor? Evidently, people died - but did the beast kill them, or did an animal? The spreading discourse would've contributed significant focused attribution to the alignment of the animal in any case, and therefore would likely result in the eventual becoming of what those in the modern day would refer to as an "Anomaly". In either scenario, at least at the time of death and subsequent examination of the body indicates that this is indeed true. Were the Beast at its time of death discovered to be a common animal, then surely it would've been recognized by the examiners. The fact that to this day, the animal responsible remains unknown, is a significant factor in esoteric theory and often cited in papers that follow this particular line of thinking.
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>>5138251
Absolutely. And they were making up shit to sell papers all the time. There was no real regulations. The stories about the beast are assumed to be highly exaggerated. Most likely people found wolves snacking on dead people in winter and turned it into a hysteria. Sadly this led to wolves more or less being wiped out in Europe.
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>>5138287
The 1700s and 1800s were the golden age of bullshit artists. Whatever the beast was didnt matter in the end.
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If you take this report seriously it literally has to be a bear based on how specific the teeth count is. Wolves have the same teeth count but not enough molars. Bears happen to have the exact count of premolars and molars and the exact number of teeth. Hyenas have less teeth so theyre out. Big cats like lions and jaguars have less teeth so they're out. If in any reality it's not a bear it has to be an unidentified species if this report is correct.
>tldr frogs have no idea what the fuck a bear is somehow
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Spiders have three lifecycles. When between cycles, it can leave the spider vulnerable to threats. And for those spiders who make it through, it amounts to a kind of rebirth.
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i evicted a spider from his home the other day
i wonder if they know how to get back when that happens
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i know theres a cellar spider under the stand next to my bed
sometimes its web expands to my shoes that i keep under my bed at night, and it gets destroyed when i grab them
i always make sure he's never in my shoes before i put them on
i hope he's catching a lot of silverfish down there
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>>5139231
Who came up with the idea of three lifecycles in one animal. Dumbass writers
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>Selectively breed chickens up to the size of emus
It is possible? pic related is a Bhagel Asil
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>>5135833
Some people think they could beat that thing in a fight by the way
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>>5140142
All I'm saying is that there are high secruity mental hospitals which house 250+ lbs berzerkers and have orderlies which can somehow wrestle whole wing of them into submission. A big bear like a Grizzly can't be that bad in comparison.
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>>5140361
As horrifying as it may be to be mauled by a down syndrome I don't that really compares to a fucking 400kg bear anon
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>>5140361
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>>5140361
Anon that bear is probably over 1000 pounds, a 250 pound schizo is nothing

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>grab fly
>open hand
>fly gone
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>>5139585
flies have dimension hopping powers. Not many people know
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>>5139585
>used to have a 100% catch rate when I was a kid
>now I can't even grab one
Enjoy your youth, anons. Once you hit 30 it's fucking over.
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>>5139629
your instincts are bad, I'm 44 and can still grab flies almost every time.
The secret is to grab the air about 3-4 inches above the fly, they usually fly straight up into the hand.
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>Co-workers yelling in fear for me to come here to get a bug
>It's a June Beetle
>They're genuinely confused as to why I didn't smash it and instead took it outside
>Do Entomophobes really?

Seriously why do people want to smash insects so much? I don't agree with it but I can understand the reaction to spiders (I just put them in a different part of the warehouse) but this was a June Beetle
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>>5138519
I like bugs
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>>5139297
It's not. You're a retard.
>>5138519
Pathetic that they called you because they wanted a bug smashed. I would be more understanding if they expected you to catch it.
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Why are labels so hard to remove in one piece off the product, recyclebros?
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>>5139751
because its like spending 40 cents to recycle old plastic when its like 4 cents to produce new plastic, same with paper, thats generally the problem, its not glass or metals where its actually more useful to recycle them because theyve already been refined
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>>5139751
Because the level of infrastructure to do that is way more fucking expensive than just shipping it to Asia to be burned. But then lets say you do get that level of infrastructure up and running not only that it's extremely affordable for a fully developed nation to opperate, you are still going to run into enviromental hazards with all the solvets and fumes produced to melt the plastic down. You know what will then happen with that? Outsourced to Asia again because they don't care if that vents to atmosphere which means they can undercut rates again.

It's fucked no matter what.
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>>5139984
>>5139748
is the US government also accepting trash and recycling for money while in addition to giving countries money to take it? I heard that and it confused me.
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>>5140135
Yeah. We sell space in our landfills to anyone who wants to buy it, it is a service.

As far as recycling we have a lot of lot of west coast ports that ship primarily to Asia and a lot of ships going there and coming back. So it makes sense to pay the us to take it more than it takes the us to ship it so it subsidizes both your recycling costs in theory from the route optimization. As well as taking materials the us recycles domestically like metals and e-waste.
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Even if it doesn't actually get recycled, for the amount that is collected without being dumped I still like the idea of the plastic and recycle waste being consolidated

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Something fishy is going on here.
Are they survivors of Atlantis or something?
Some schizos even believe they can produce certain sounds and frequencies that can heal you, and apparently communication between dolphins and humans seems possible.
Also, did you know it's unironically illegal to try to talk to dolphins? Not even kidding look it up
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>did you know it's unironically illegal to try to talk to dolphins
Did you know that laws unironically vary place to place and whatever law you're referring to unironically in whatever country you unironically live in might unironically not be applicable where I live, unironically?
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>>5140123
It's illegal to "harass" a dolphin, which has been defined so broadly that it includes being too close. To speak to something, you need to be fairly close to it.
There's no law that says "do not speak with dolphins", but the act of speaking to a dolphin necessarily involves behaviors that constitute harassment, including trying to "elicit a reaction".
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>>5140123
between the time when the oceans sank atlantis, and the rise of the sons of flipperas, there was an age unecholocated of

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Let's have a thread about it.
>SMOLDERING HELLSCAPE BE VERY AFRAID EDITION
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>>5138789
>and then he will begin a massive project to turn the Sahara desert into an ocean. He says this will improve Africa and Europe.
I mean, it'd drown most muslims in Africa and therefore reduce net muslim migration to Europe by half or so.
So he's right, but it doesn't have much to do with the climate.
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>>>/pol/538330111
>>>/pol/538330247
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>>5140128
>it's a "broooo it's totally the sun humans dindunuffin to earth's climate broooo" thread
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>>5138850
unless somebody figures out a room-temperature superconductor that's cheap enough to use for powerlines, the whole concept of massive solar farms on the equator powering the upper latitudes isn't going to be viable due to transmission losses; if it was, europe would have already funded solar farms in the sahara

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It's a perfect time for a deer thread, ain't it doe?
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>>5137594
Proceed
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>>5138229
>even /an/ isn't safe from deltarune
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>>5138236
Kill yourself
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I've seen a dead one last year, but not decomposed enough to steal the skull and getting it home without smelling like a walking deer corpse.
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>>5138236
Kriselle gang assemble

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I guess that's what you'd expect it to look like.
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>>5139706
Dollar store jackrabbit.
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>>5139959
That is not a rodent
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>>5139959
it's a lagomorph thoughbeit
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>>5139706
That's a deer bro
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>>5139959
I saw one in our woods in South Germany many years ago. Was running up a slope and I could barely hold my dog when she saw it.

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whats wrong with my dogs eye
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>>5140174
Probably Candida albicans from a wheat intolerance. Try an elimination diet or switching foods
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>>5140174
premarital sex still exists

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Why do dogs act like you've come back from war every time you're absent for 15+ minutes?
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>>5139521
That’s just how high IQ people act
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>>5139521
>Reality and honesty is mental illness.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_anxiety_in_dogs
It's a long page.
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>>5138856
pack animals dont like being alone
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>>5138882
That just sounds like you coping that your dog doesn't care much about you

Post animals that just look cool
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>>5122641
Elephant snakes are pretty derpy on land.
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>>5123724
Fat
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>>5123900
Before "AI" people would use photoshop and color filters. Nothing has changed.
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>>5127047
Did you accidentally drown your pet lizard by neglect?
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>>5127615
Like a derpy anaconda.

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>lays and egg in you're path
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wait a minute
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>>5140228
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>>5140231
>>5140228
Thanks for posting, perry the platypus


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