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>There is an idea of a mammal. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real mammal. Only a pinniped. Something of blubber. And though we can hide our cold gaze, and you can shake our flippers and feel flesh gripping your hands, and maybe you can even sense our love of seafood is probably comparable, we simply are not there.
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>Let's see Paul Allen's fish
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The Seal of Solomon

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>Bald Eagles are freedom bombing cats

It's official, c*ts are unAmerican.
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>>5081209
This. It'd be more human to just poison every cat that comes by.
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>>5081679
If you have a large dog, you can do your part by giving it a free lunch
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>>5077170
look at those talons...all the kitty cat skulls it could crush
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>>5083083
>feeding your dogs parasite- and disease-infested vermin
No thanks.
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>>5084005
Dogs can handle it

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post ducks please
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>>5043399
mf'er created the seagulls
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i like to meet with a guy from work down at the duck pond in the village where he lives every few weeks. we just sit there for a few hours, surrounded by all kinds of ducks and waterfowl. they're all used to human presence and some of them come begging for food, i always bring a little bread for them or share my pizza with them that i sometimes get nearby when i'm drunk. i fucking love ducks, they're awesome. i feed them from the hand and watch them for hours while shitposting drunk. great times.
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>>5084009
Sounds great
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If we ever develop the technology to "uplift" animals and give them human-level intelligence, what animal would you most want to talk to?
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>>5084487
Probably my dog to tell him he's a good boy [spoiler]and apologize for stealing his balls[/spoiler].
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>>5084487
Only companion animals or animals who've distinguished themselves for things like human service (i.e. cher ami).
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raccoon
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>>5084491
The Council will hear of this!
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>>5084487
Probably anything that could aid in damaging infrastructure against the government

Imagine the chaos if you could get animals to sabotage rails, power substations and shipping. Closest we've came is training corvids to attack jews

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What are your favorite water spots? I love being around flowing water, its very soothing to me. Sometimes I lay in the beach letting the waves roll over my legs and up to my ears and pretend I'm driftwood, even though I probably look like a washed-up porpoise.
Here's a pic I took of my first time visiting Niagara Falls from the Canadian side, they were very beautiful and I'd love to come back in the summer.
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>>5084924
Better pic
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>>5084924
>Niagara Falls
>SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
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>>5084975
?

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>Animal is adapted to the cold
>Actually, it uses its thick fur to keep its living cells 35+ degrees
Are there any actively mobile living beings with a core temperature (however you would even define that) below the freezing temperature of water? Or at least some of its cells?
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In northernly temperate climates that can support amphibians during spring/summer, like Alaska and Japan, certain frogs survive being frozen in winter while they hibernate. According to what I remember from what I glossed before; they let all liquid in their body but the cells freeze by producing a sort of antifreeze.

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>New orca horror movie like Jaws coming out next year
Will this movie affect the reputation of orcas? Will people start hunting them?
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>>5083901
So still no human fatalities?
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>>5084034
That's Jaws, the original Godzilla, Phase IV, Lake Placid, pretty much any good monster movie.
Show too much and you ruin the monster, especially if your story is too weak to carry the movie.
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>>5083996
Retard
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>>5084034
Cgi is expensive
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>>5083863
It literally just copied anime, even has jap animators and songs.

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/an/'s opinions on hunting and fishing? Just an /out/fag stopping by.
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>>5083153
Note: this user is 100% correct and the sooner you listen to them the better

Ethics have literally never mattered. Its a plea to avoid and excuse select violence. There is no objective good or evil. Only negotiating contracts to limit aggression. Stirner was right. What he missed was the powerful in society already knew he was right before he was even born.

A reciprocal contract can not be made between a human and an animal. Only between the human and the owner of that animal. The only ethics in hunting are well disguised commands of the lord of the lands regarding what he would prefer the peasants do on his parcels. It has never mattered if a deer died for shitty gamey meat or for fun. Its biomass is being consumed by something either way.
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>>5082202
Hunting for fun seems psychopathic
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>>5082202
Its OK if its against common species. You should preserve the endangered ones so they multiply and can be harvested later.
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>>5084640
How else are you gonna practice
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>>5084640
psychopathy excludes prey by definition.

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>these are dinosaurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch/OHY6XsRhhYg
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>>5084809
>https://www.youtube.com/watch/OHY6XsRhhYg
the youtube link thing doesnt work in this board?
https://youtu.be/OHY6XsRhhYg

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Never forget what they took from you
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>>5084625
I dont think high calcium dog food was particularly good for the dogs eating it...
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>>5084626
White dogshit was kino
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It was genius. Dogs shit it out and the birds eat it

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>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.
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>>5082508
Are you posting a throwback to the 90s?
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>>5083364
Where it comes from is irrelevant.
Why? Because old fossils hold up under modern scrutiny.
These days we're able to investigate for pigment traces in preserved feathers and similar integument. This is something pretty new, and isn't something that you'd predict would be possible back in the past.
But, old feathered fossils from China are found to have these pigment traces in them.

So either the Chinese predicted that we'd be able to find these pigment traces decades later and painted them on with microscopic brushes, or the fossils are authentic.
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>>5080929
what the fuck?
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>>5082422
A creature with a generally dull body for camouflage but specific brightly colored spots to attract a mate?
Unheard of
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>>5084210
The ONLY thing I remember about the Olympics was her

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Will they go down as the worst taxonomists given their access to information?

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There’s just something about huge arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc.) that feels fundamentally “correct” and good. Their existence is inherently right; I’m glad they exist. They are the organismic archetype, biologically perfection incarnate.
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>>5083994
H-He's fast!
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>>5083877
But enough about you, chud.
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>>5083579
can't quite decide if this is autism or schizophrenia
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>>5084617
there's a lot of overlap

things evoking emotions could be synesthesia but I kinda suspect it's more disordered thought bordering on hallucinations.
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>someone on /an/ likes animals? must be schizophrenic autism

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what do you think is the most onions animal?
most chuddy animal?
most troonjak animal?
most neutralplier animal?
most cobson-like animal?
most spadeson animal?
most rapeson animal?
most feraljak animal?
most caca animal?
most amerimutt animal?
most meximutt animal?
most slopjak animal?
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>>5084464
>aislop
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>>5084464
Wasps for troonjak.
>Gets pissed off at you for no reason, rips off it's genitals and kills itself.
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>>5084464
Termites for plapjak because their king fucks a bbw
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>>5084464
>most soi animal
basking shark has the largest IAS gape but capybaras are the most reddit
>most chuddy animal
man
>most troonjak animal
mayflies
>most neutralplier animal
white-tailed deer on the interstate
>most cobson-like animal
great white shark
>most spadeson animal?
adelie penguin
>most rapeson animal?
bottlenose dolphin

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>>5084656
>Most chuddy animal is the smartest animal

sup dogs
they bant me cos of my views on chihauhas and pitbulls
whatevs, man.

anyway i see the fox is gone, the original news thread, so that's sad that it died in my absence
but
we are bringing back the animal news, i dont have any rite now cos im not inspired, but we gonna get the scoops for u dont u worry

in the meantime, anyone got some good news from da animals or what?

picrel has aanaimal in its a marmot
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>>5084227
sup dogs still no insippirateion to do animnal news :(


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