has anyone had a pet leech? i want a pet (medical) leech, worth it?
>Paleontology in the 80s: Dinosaurs were warm blooded, fast, large, cool, and could do stuff like balance on one leg to avoid an enemy's counter attack.>Paleontology now: Anything that portrays feathered fat dinosaurinos as more threatening than a poodle is muh awesombro fantasy.
Why was the retard equating a lizard that weighs less than a pound to multi-ton animals deleted?
>>5081073Bottom one looks like it's on its way to the welfare office.
>>5088323>>don't move!>>they can't see you if you don't move!That was a side effect of the frog DNA but they never actually bothered to explain it.
>>5080929I hope a royal poodle will bite you in the ass.
[ ] Shrinkwrapped[ ] Outdated bible-influenced scaly dragon portrayal[ ] Pronated wrists[ ] Crocodile mouth[X] Just Like a Real Animal
Is there a good reason to not just holocaust the population of every dog shelter?
Whoever abandons a pet should be put in a fucking work camp and OP in two
>>5090542i think there should be pet licenses. the dna of the dog is tied to the license. if it ends up in the shelter you have to pay pet support, similar to child support. that would stop this shit real fast.
>>5090222Adopt don't shop and American Saturn worship has been a disaster for dogs>Find good dog>Chop its balls off completely mangling its endocrine system>This causes serious health and behavioural issues and insures no good dog ever passes on its genes>Meanwhile autistic showringers breed mangled freaks and stupid irresponsible niggers let random mutts with severe heritable problems just fuck each other non stop
>>5090285>Huskies and Shibas >Not neurotic fucking nutcases>Implying huskies ever shit the fuck up>Akitas>Stable>Muh superior Japanese breeds forded over 1000 timesTop lelI'm assuming Basenjis being a genuine basal breed have incompatibilities with "modern" life, like high territorialism and deciding "I'm going to do whatever the fuck I feel like"
>>5090222Street mutt dogs are the best
Post rare 'mals.
Giant Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda Maxima) only native to a few remote cave systems in Laos.
>>5090447>still as fast a regular huntsmanFuck no
>>5090448>He's still afraid of HuntiesThey're big as hell but they're harmless
>>5090447He's a big guy
Boars are the coolest, strongest and most kino animalThis is NOT up for debate
>>5089688This is /an/, not /pol/
>>5089795This is a pig threadPigWith a P
>>5088942do you like peccaries? they re almost boar like
>>5089851Not a true pig but I'll allow it.
>this fat bastard decides to visit your yardWhat do
It's actually shocking to me how little serious discussion there is about human hybrids There were some fairly unserious experiments to create a chimp-human hybrid in the Soviet Union around the 1960s or something but nothing came of them.Considering that it doesn't really seem hard to do (just let a chimp fuck your wet pussy) why have we never seen one yet? Is there some biological reason why creating a human hybrid is difficult?
>>5090571Naked mole rats would make better hybrids
>>5090571we should be using advanced biotechnology to make bigger gibbons
The position of his ears triggers my autism.
>>5090571>Is there some biological reason why creating a human hybrid is difficult?Because we're not biologically compatible? Are you retarded?
>>5090571Actually it has been done at least once before
Is possible for us to reach indefinite/near biological immortality? >the state where an organism doesn't die from aging (senescence) but can still be killed by injury, disease, or predatorswhat about stem cells use?
>>5090470no, because our dna shits itself on replication, thats why we age, youre a shittier copy of your yester self, thats why lobsters dont age, they replicate their dna perfectly, but they have other problems that causes them to die, in any case fix the replication issue and you solve aging, and cancer
>>5090471>in any case fix the replication issue and you solve aging, and cancerOk
sure but we'll reach digital immortality first. and even if that's not immortality in a true sense the agents which are digitally preserved will be very happy with it.
>>5090470In theory, yeswe need to find a way to improve DNA repair and and a way to restore telomeres, probably it will involve genetic therapy based on the mechanisms found on other animals that can do those things
Dog board.Dog website.Dog state.Dog country.Doggy dog world.Canicentric solar system.German shepherd galaxySiberian husky superclusterViszlaverseToadline timelineIt's joever for catsissies.
>>5089932Very basedSo excellent and much winningWonderful dog, one of the best dogs there isThank you for your attention to this matter
>>5089843>>5089844>>5089907>>5089846>>5089928Bullet sponges are a must for a complete, inclusive home defense system. >>NOT a cat shitzo. Hate them too.
I genuinely believe that people who hate cats have a better understanding of cats than people who love them on average.Not to imply that people who love cats cannot also be realistic about their mindsets and behaviors, but there's simply far too much misinterpretation and bullshit advice abound.>bro you need multiple cats these solitary predators who jealously guard their territory in their natural environment simply NEED to be forced into an enclosed space with multiple others all day it's for their enrichment!!!like holy fuck man, won't argue they can't tolerate it (and some freak cases do benefit), but they're not uncomfortable living alone.
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>>5090393kek
Post birds, appreciate birds
hooded crow family dynamics from the local park>dad is the big one>has mirrored grey spots on his black wings>will come close but won't do fancy tricks>their son is 2nd biggest>very vocal and up in your face>loves to grab nuts placed in branches and bushes>mum is the smallest>classic low set lady with wide "hips">will only approach on foot where the guys will fly up to you
>>5003749https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVJiGg96sJQ
New>>5092197>>5092197
I debated posting the thread here or on /lit/, but decided it was a bit closer to here. I wanted to make some ideas for various tanks that are themed to literature. I came up with a few ideas I wanted to share for feedback, as well as ask if there were any other good ideas to go with.>Alice in WonderlandStock-Glass Catfish-Upside-down Catfish-Rabbit SnailsDecorations for this one would include laminated playing cards, teapot, and Dwarf Hairgrass.Very straightforward idea, combining "quirky" fish species with the Alice in Wonderland motifs. I debated on others, like some shrimp to dd more color, or maybe even a ropefish, but I worried those wouldn't do well wth the catfish species.>Call of CthulhuStock>Blind Cave FishDecorations for this would would try to capture the surreal idea of an ancient city that can't be described, ideally with an MC Escher-esque 3D-printed background mixed with rocks and a standard Cthulhu statue half-submerged in the substrate.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I like the blind cave fish idea a lot
>>5090433None of that is literature related you uncultured swine
>>5090419I think JP would work better as a wet/dry terrarium kinda thing with a bigger focus on various herps. Like you could add in some skinks, maybe some day geckos, variois species of frog and salamander, you get the idea. Oh and a plecco. Those guys look pretty prehistoric and shouldn't bother the herps too much.
>>5090419>Alice in WonderlandIf you're willing to venture into reef stuff, there's lots of surreal and quirky stuff there. Honestly it could be a thread on its own.>Call of CthulhuThere was a guy in /aq/ that was mulling around this idea with nightmare-ish stuff (tentacles, stuff active at night). Anemones, Tort/hammer/frogspawn coral, brittle starfish (comes out of the sand at night), nassarius snails (comes out of the sand when it smells food), random weird reef stuff, of which there is plenty.>>5090420The issue with this tank is that they start breeding and you lose coloration in successive generations. You could also do a shit ton of tetras. Dozens of neon tetras and one green tetra, for instance. There are a lot of varieties of tetras that are very similar shape and size but with just a difference of coloration. Neon, green (which aren't actually green), bloodfin, blue diamond, rummy nose, black line, blueberry (which is actually waaaay more red than blue), Cardinal. Plus sides is the stocking is readily available and cheap, and a big shoal is a really cool thing to have in a tank.
Mexican Tetras are Dunwich Horror coded, not CoC
Would you eat this
>>5090138Because it is true. Animals with more natural and diverse diets are more nutrient dense. It's not a difficult concept to understand and applies to plants as well.Chickens fed onions and corn also have higher levels of omega 6 fats compared to ones without. A cow that eats lots of fresh forage will produce different tasting milk than one without.Ever seen a cow with yellow fat? Beta carotene from a diet of fresh forage.Go inform yourself. There's plenty of well established studies on the matter.
>>5089110I'd wait for him to grow up, and then eat him
>>5089110idk maybe
>>5089110After naming it and raising it to a full grown adult. I would humanely euthanize it and feast upon its meat.
>>5090149Natural yes, diverse no. Cows need like 6 different types of grass and basically nothing else
>be adult with job now>"finally I can do a good deed and fulfill my desire to get a pet at the same time by adopting a rescue dog">all of the dogs at the local "no questions asked just give us $50 bucks" shelter are pitbulls>look at other organizations that focus on fostering+rescuing smaller breeds>"You must provide 4 non-family references in your application">partly getting a dog because I'm an autistic introvert with literally no friends outside my immediate familyFuck you guys I'm going to craigslist then
>>5088581>exterminate the useless shitbullsBut Anon, it's not a pitpulll, it's a mini XL bully terrier/staffy mix!
>>5090478its not a true mini XL bully terrier/staffy mix until its SMASHED and SLAMMED
>>5090477see>>5087972puppy mills don't give a fuck because they're getting paid. buy 50 puppies to feed to your precious pibble, what do they care.
>>5087473Try a mastiff or "harder" dog, as ironically being a single loner introvert makes you the perfect candidate for one if you have the patience
>>5088508Women have turned everything into dating
I have 2 male cats who are both the same age. One of them is naturally more muscular due to his breed, and keeps stealing the slimmer ones food when I give both of them treats. Every time this happens the smaller cat doesn't even seem bothered and just sits there watching the bigger cat take his shit. I now have to hold the bigger cat after he finishes eating to prevent this. How can I teach the smaller one to tell the bigger one to not touch his food so I don't need to manually intervene. Pic is the smaller cat
>>5089707Arm him
>>5089825war is hell ;-;
>>5089707You feed them both enough they don't care. Sometimes you feed them too much and they still act ike assholes to eachother and now you have one fat cat. I would just feed them separately if it really matters.
>>5089707It will be easier to teach the chad one to wait. I've taught two of mine to wait till the older, weak one has fed itself. Just hold him back and shoo him away when he wants to take the food, and after a while he will remember you don't like it.
>>5089731The opposite is actually true. Dogs become well conditioned by E collars.
dogxisters.................
>>5090329bodied that faggot
>>5090329If I ever saw my cat doing that to my dog I'd punt my cat straight into the wall without a second thought.
>>5090329That cat made that takedown personal lol>who’s bullying who now MUTT
>>5090329Dog is wagging and loves it kek
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?
>>5087830You're not talking about me; you're making up shit I said.
>>5088267no, I'm talking about what you ignoredignorance is the act of ignoring
>>5086289we dont
>>5090175We do though?
>>5090203I don't think we KNOW they did (as in, i don't think there is direct evidence) but unlike with the whole T. rex shitshow, it's pretty fucking obvious they did
