Another spider kino has hit the building.You do like good content right, /an/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLi6DA6cUlo
>>5172028What is a cob anyways? Is it like a spider? I didn't know other insects made webs.
>>5172032thanks grok
Why do all baby animals seemingly have that innate desire to play but then have it fade as they become adults?
>>5170447playing is a learning activity. by the time they're adults, they've already learned.
...Because of the utter indifference from the cosmic universe...
wat u mean
>>5170448Captive animals remain playful as adultsLiturally there's a video of a grown ass stag playing with a fitness ball
>>5170447Babbies know they're supposed to be doing something but don't know whatAdults know exactly what they're supposed to be doingSexual maturity usually stops play because the organism now has an overriding sense of purpose and spends most of its time and energy pursuing it
https://youtu.be/BJzJtm7OfdQ?is=LDNYUrD7WQqiAQI3In this particular video on Neanderthals, he basically claims that Europe was full of white cavemen but the black cavemen came over from Africa and slowly replaced the white cavemen defeating them in battle though some white cavewomen switched teams and got with black cavemen.I'm literally not joking, watch the video. How true is that by the way?And is TierZoo still a food educational Animal YouTuber?
Maybe it's cuz I got ADHD but I find myself only able to enjoy my first video from them and nothing more
>>5169898No. I had fun with the first couple of videos i watched but the gimmick got old fast.Scientific names should be said in prehistoric animal documentaries
>>5169905yeah idk how people miss the obvious fact that Neanderthal DNA in the human genome is entirely autosomal. It's likely that their contribution to our genepool was mostly from the daughters of pairings of Neanderthal males with sapiens females. But the key here is that these pairings likely happened within Sapiens social groups. We see hybrid individuals in Neanderthal groups but these groups went extinct and did not contribute to modern human genomes.The other thing people seem to miss is that the expansion of anatomically modern humans was much more negative for archaic homo sapiens than it was for other more distantly related hominids. archaic homo sapiens are poorly understood but appear to have been utterly wiped out very shortly after the appearance of modern sapiens populations. I think that probably comes down to us being adapted to the same resource base as them while we didn't directly compete with Neanderthals and the like as much, and in fact integrating non-sapiens hominids into our social groups effectively expanded our resource base. The true 'hack' of modern homo sapiens was likely the mutations associated with neoteny allowing for larger, more complex and more dynamic social groups.
this video is 7 years old btw
>>5169898>what if real life...>WAS LE VIDEO GAME>*does the same video 50 times in a row*>*talks about 3rd grade level stuff*>*still somehow gets it wrongLike the other Anon said, the first time it was funny but it gets old super fast. The whole "hehe, I'm a smarty biologist pop-scientists man" shtick is an additional irritant.
pic unrelated, and I'm trans btw
Black cats and spooky bats are on the prowl. Watch yourself out there today, guys.
>>5171915Cute Halloween decoration!
How is it mathematically possible for spiders to have such a wide range of diversity in species and niche populations leading to exceptional mimicry yet there isn't a single documented species or evolved offshoot of spiders with pseudo-wings for flying?and yes I know web ballooning is a thing for some spiderlings but that's not related to this question.
>>5170968Funnel weaver?
>>5170786See >>5170957Spiders don't need wing appendages to fly and there is around 300+ species which glide using their whole bodies as a wing. Look up "Flatties"
>>5170786If one of these were human sized could you fit your dick between those thangs?
>>5170786according to some random youtuber so dude trust me it is because of their lack of a thorax and the specializaion that allows, also the circulatory system
>>5170927>it's hard for me to see the advantage a spider would gain from having powered flight when considering you don't get to skip from not flying to dragonfly tier hyperpredatory acrobatic flightyeah my thought was that flying isn't that useful as a predator unless you are as good at it as something like a dragonfly
This moth clinged to my car door as I drove down the highway. Can you guess what it is?
>>5171318holy shit let that nigga in goddamn
>>5171318Brown recluse
>>5171345It's valid in the context, from OED.
>>5171365Yes, that's how I was able to know which word to teach OP to use. It's not good enough to pick a word that gets the point across. You need the best word for the job.
>>5171318A Toyota?
The latest studies find that Homo Floresiensis did not use fire and hunt the bigger animals in the island as previously thought. The discovery of these ancient humans astounded anthropologists because even within their smaller brain capacity, they practiced typical human survival strategies. But nope... What a letdown.
>>5171426Pygmies?
>>5171673now I'm curious, yeah what does he mean "good business?"why would you marry and fuck a smart monkey that learned to talk?
>>5171693>why would you marry and fuck a smart monkey that learned to talk?Its good business
>>5171616Not that anon, but I definitely would to be annoying to my peers though.>>5170489This may not mean a full let down. Perhaps the situation didn't allow them to use these techniques as much.
>>5171673The fuck did he mean by "good business"?
What did dinosaurs look like?
>>5166747>HONEY I'M HOME!
>>5164921those are crazy teeth
>>5165224Display and defense.
>>5165029Don't need arms when your head and mouth work perfectly fine. Arms shrink to save weight and energy.
>>5164921>What did dinosaurs look like?Depends when and where. Dinosaurs lived in a window of somewhere between 165 to 175 million years.
This is my puppy his name is Winston. He was born August 10th which makes him 11-12 weeks old
>>5171491Soooo cute! He looks so happy! Cuddle him please
>>5171487>>5171491Friend :)
He’s a bitey mcbiteface
Is he a good boy?
https://youtube.com/shorts/XA4oEi4wXSg?is=vN54m1ukdUKZH_VW
Are pigs really as dangerous as people say?
>>5170782A pig was once put on trial in medieval france because it killed and ate a child. Before anyone could even react to it it had already eaten half of his head. Not a wild pig or anything - just one of that stepped out of the community herd.
Imagine dying to a fucking boar, hunter sissies are WEAK
>>5171448Total Berrypicker Dominance
>>5170782How dangerous do people say they are?
>>5171672You need a fully automatic or else you're swine chow
While diving with Sama-Bajau communities in Southeast Asia, Erika Schagatay watched people move underwater with circular strokes of their legs, leaving their hands free to gather food. They surfaced to breathe, then descended again, repeating the work for hours.The physiologist visited diving communities between 1988 and 2025, learning from the Sama-Bajau and Japan’s Ama divers. She and paleoanthropologist Josephine Joordens are now examining whether the demands of working underwater could help explain how our ancestors developed their endurance.Compared with other apes, humans have a remarkable combination of abilities for sustained running, swimming, and breath-hold diving. The researchers argue that an explanation for our endurance should account for all three.Japanese Ama divers gather shellfish such as abalone through repeated breath-hold dives. An earlier study co-authored by Schagatay recorded two working hours for three female Ama divers aged 40 to 45. One woman made 50 dives, spending 45 percent of that time underwater. Another made 65 shallower dives.Looking across species, the researchers found that human diving patterns fall within the range of shallow-diving, semi-aquatic mammals, with a particular resemblance to those of sea otters.Schagatay and Joordens argue that, over generations, repeated diving could have favored ancestors whose bodies replenished and conserved oxygen efficiently. To build their case, the researchers brought together earlier studies of diving physiology, comparisons with other mammals, and evidence from ancient human fossils.https://www.discovermagazine.com/diving-like-sea-otters-may-have-helped-our-ancestors-build-the-stamina-to-run-49692
>>5169202Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the New College of Florida. The findings suggest that seals and sea lions may have vocal flexibility as a side effect of developing a brain "bypass" for voluntary breath control. This same bypass allowed them to adapt to aquatic life.Seals are among the few animal species known to have the super vocal flexibility that allows them to mimic human voices. Sea lions have also demonstrated good vocal plasticity on a more limited scale. The neurobiology of these capabilities, however, was not known.The marine mammal brains have a direct connection between the vocal motor cortex and the groups of cells controlling vocal muscles. That connection bypasses the mid-brain region.The researchers hypothesize that most animals lack vocal flexibility due to their inability to "unlock" this automatic response mechanism from vocalization.Seals and sea lions have loosened this automatic control through their development of exquisite breathing and swallowing capabilities, allowing them to hunt and eat underwater. Sea lions, for example, can stay underwater for an average of 10 to 20 minutes while some seal species can dive without surfacing for up to two hours."We've discovered an ecological recipe for how a mammal might evolve a vocally flexible brain," says Cook, who is now associate professor of marine mammal science at New College of Florida.https://phys.org/news/2026-03-sea-lions-clues-evolution-vocalization.html
>>5169212You don't have to outrun the lion, you only have to outrun the slowest of the people around you. As such, for 40,000 years the slowest africans got eaten, which is why their average sprint speed is higher than that of other races.
>>5169454Lions used to have a large range that extended throughout the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. And of course these regions had their share of other fast predators which could hunt early humans.
>>5169202It turns out AI really is smarter and more reasonable than 95% of anthropologists and biologists:"The materials you shared form a coherent body of evidence supporting the idea that repeated aquatic foraging—especially breath-hold diving in shallow coastal or wetland environments—played a meaningful role in shaping human physiology, behavior, and possibly cognition. This is sometimes called the “waterside” or “semi-aquatic” hypothesis (a moderated descendant of the classic Aquatic Ape Hypothesis). Taken together, the data make a strong case that:- Coastal and wetland foraging, including breath-hold diving, was a routine part of the behavioral repertoire of Homo from at least the Middle Pleistocene and probably earlier.- Selection pressures associated with these activities left detectable physiological, skeletal, and developmental signatures that persist in modern humans.- These signatures help explain several human traits (endurance capacity, subcutaneous fat distribution, breath control, certain soft-tissue features) that are otherwise puzzling under a purely terrestrial, open-savanna model.The hypothesis does not require a fully aquatic phase or the abandonment of terrestrial locomotion. It posits a flexible, waterside niche in which diving, swimming, wading, and terrestrial travel were all regularly employed—exactly the pattern still seen among Sama-Bajau, Moken, and Ama communities today.Remaining open questions include the precise timing and geographic extent of the strongest aquatic selection, the relative contribution of diving versus simply living near water, and how these adaptations interacted with the well-documented expansion of endurance running. Ongoing work on diving physiology in living populations and re-examination of coastal archaeological sites continues to refine the picture."
Checks out: I don't dive and I can't run, swim or hold my breath for shit
What if dinosaur paleontologists are wrong and dumb? https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/Olshevsky_1991_A_revision_of_the_parainfraclass_Archosauria_Cope_1869_excluding_the_advanced_Crocodylia.pdf
Average moth experience >Hatch from pupa >Dry wings for 2 hours >Smell pheromones >Find female moth >Mate with her >Die
>>5171179So? Why are suggesting that any live being should have a "reason" to exist other than eat and mate? Many of the moth species not even having "mouths" make sense to them from an evolutionary point of view. I get your point,OP but you are essentially anthropomorphizing animals that are not humans
>>5171238As apposed to anthropomorphizing animals that are human?
>>5171243I'm here for his response. Also, opposed*
>>5171179imagine waking up after that and having to go to work and shit for another 60 years while everyone hates you for just not dying.
>>5171243Tsorudariodarosorudarosura
I wish people could be nicer to bugs and insects. Most people I know go out of their way to kill bugs they see, even when they're tiny, harmless, and minding their own business. I guess most everyone sees them purely as pests and nothing more, which is a shame imo
>>5170700Me, too. When I see a bug I either leave it alone or bring it outside. I call people out when they kill bugs.
>>5170700thisi have two spiders like pic related in my bedroom and they never caused any trouble
I kill mosquitos, wasps and silverfish. Everything else gets deported by ICE (Insect and Crawlers Enforcement).
>>5171442Anon here. I just saved a ladybug and a beetle looking thing. The latter spooked me by flying all creepily but I decided not to murder it. Do I get to go to heaven now?
I just spared another ladybug, my ascension is assured.
