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mlem
Did you know that bunnies think you look delicious?

>new2bunnies
https://rabbit.org/audiences/for-rabbit-newcomers/
https://www.best4bunny.com/bunny-care/
https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care/
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>videos
https://rentry.org/bunnyvideos
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>>5169891
You would be too if you were surrounded by fools.
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>>5164998
Is it true that rabbits and other rodents like rats can only be litter trained for poop but not pee?
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I think we can all agree buns are the best
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>>5170096
Yeah just too bad they are liable to spontaneously die of GI stasis if you leave them alone for more than 8 hours.
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>>5170097
yeah but you're liable to spontaneously combust into flame yet you don't see me make a big stink about i

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Japanese Spitz edition. Japanese Spitz are basically anime dogs, except real. If you prefer any other breed, you're doing it wrong.

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>>5170005
>tfw it comes back up for several hours, but nobody posts in the dog thread
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>>5170006
Everyone is too busy being outside with their dog to post dog pics online. Thankfully I found a brief respite to share this cute pic of my dog. This dude weighs 135lbs and is nearly 6 feet tall on his hindlegs.
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My jeet neighbours threw a tinfoil ball into my backyard where my dog was chewing on it. What do?
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>>5170085
Did your dog swallow it? If not I wouldn't worry that much about it unless it's an ongoing thing. Maybe monitor the dog for signs of poisoning from garlic or whatever if there's food residue on it but I doubt the small bit they'd get from that exposure would hurt them that much.

Long term, if it's practical maybe see if you can get a camera pointing in that direction, if you can record them doing it again you can probably report them to authorities and get them fined or something. Hard to do much now when it's just your word against theirs.
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>>5170085
Dog poo in bag, light it on fire then ring his door bell

If you found someone like Tarzan would it be ethical to keep him as a pet? Is he an animal?
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>>5169987
He learned to read from books left on the island during the crash, when he met Jane he knew how to write but not how to speak.
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>>5169990
How the fuck did he learn how to read? It doesn’t come out of thin air, you don’t learn from actual novels or books. There’s a reason babies and children learn English from simple words to increasingly complex ones.
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>>5170002
He is characterized as being a genius despite his humble beginnings. There was a baby book or something that taught letters or whatever as well.
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>>5170002
Maybe monkeys are just really good at teaching humans English
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>>5170002
in the disney movie he is taught english by the girl, he is motivated bcs he wants to fuck

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Why wouldnt this work
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>>5168692
Underrated post
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>>5169065
>literal fucknugget breeding
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>>5169477
ha
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>>5168893
I can't believe I'm an adult and I did not know it looks like this inside. I thought it gradually grows and loses parts like how mutation is depicted in popular media.

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How many animals can you name off the top of your head?
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All of them.
t. Adam
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1. eagle
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>>5169196
baby elephant
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fish
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I name this little guy Bob. Now my time is up so I suppose I can only name one.

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They just released the First Look trailer for Blue Planet 3. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvjlkoWkaWA
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>>5166455
kek
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>>5166436
I think I have CDs of Blue Planet 1 still, somewhere.
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>>5166436
>only a few seconds of Attenborough's voice
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>>5169441
Isn't he dead?
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>cgi

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Realistically speaking, what could you have done in this situation?
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>>5168757
They did. It ended when the white man killed all the man eating tigers in india.
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>>5168156
The dude fucked around and found out. The tiger was just being an average tiger. Do you want all the average tigers to be killed because retards would go into their cage?
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>>5167482
the tiger has an higher IQ than this retard, that's in-group preference
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>>5168407
Me and my wife when I come home at 4am

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I want to get a dog. I've never owned a dog before, but after doing a lot of research, I've narrowed it down to a Labrador or a German Shepherd. Which one do you recommend for a first time owner and why?
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>>5169700
i reared one puppy and wouldn't again. tons of work and waiting around for what felt like a big gamble. socialization window closes before puppy shots are done. couldn't do fun active shit until her growth plates closed around 18 mos. easy to fuck up during the fear/flight stages and some breeds are prone to aggression when they hit maturity

my current dog came home ~1.5 years we got straight into training, backpacking & trail riding. already housebroke. no surprises, wysiwyg
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>>5166179
Neither
Get a golden
Only drawback is that They get overweight easily and never stop eating (easily remediable)
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>>5169505
>~1-3 year old generic brown shelter mutt is
90% to be a shitbull and just as likely to have some sort of behavioral issues from trauma
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>>5169912
Why a Golden?
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>>5169943
if your local pound only has pit bulls then you need to drive to a location with more white people

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Fat Fuck Edition

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>>5169888
>food
Butcher scraps
>litter
whatever is most affordable
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I like to pet my mom's cats
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>>5170026
You sick fuck
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he hungers
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>>5169888
Amazon literally just got in trouble for price-fixing on competitor websites, so that there is literally zero difference in price between any listed.

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What's /an/ons stance on massive deforestation that is happening to Taiga forests?
https://www.google.com/maps/@59.1212576,101.5730683,288091m/

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I've been doing some research on canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVTs), and have come to the conclusion that they are properly considered independent organisms of their own distinct species.
They're unicellular, asexual, parasitical clonal colonies descended from dogs. As a group they've persisted for hundreds if not thousands of years.

I've sought out counterarguments but none yet have convinced me.
If you've got any novel ones, let's hear them.
Otherwise speculate on the implications of there existing dogs with almost none of the features associated with dogs.
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>>5169909
ctvt isn't it's own species because it's funnier to classify it as a breed of domestic dog.
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>>5169911
Technically they should be classified as dogs either way by their ancestry, in the same way that humans are apes.
But it is quite funny to imagine official recognition as an American Kennel Club breed.
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>>5169909
getting ball cancer from fucking is one thing but imagine taking a breath and getting leukemia
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>>5169909
They’re like nose cancer that Tasmanian devils get
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>>5169911
I just got the funniest idea for a psyop to play on the SMASHED AND SLAMMED people - breeding tumors.
MICROMINI ALIEN TUMORBULLIES! UNDIFFERENTIATED AND CANCEROUS

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Fencing Edition
Post and discuss foxes as usual.
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I choose to be foxbrained.
Nothing but foxes on the brain.
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>>5169983
I want to trim those claws
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>>5169983
I want to rim those paws
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>>5169962
Russia is so de-saturated and bleak for the sole purpose of making this particular sort of fox pop out even more

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>WWWAAAARRRRUUUUGGGHHH
>WAAAAAAHHHUUUGHH
>WEEEEEEUUUGGGGHHHHH
>WEAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
What do pigs mean by this?
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>WEAK WEAK WEAK WEAK WEAK WEAK
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>when u nutted but she still suckin'
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>>5170014
Hes looking up at the sky which causes pigs to lose their mind.
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>Marine reptiles in the Mesozoic swam in a way not shared by any animal alive today.
>Sabertooth predators existed all throughout prehistory and just happened to die out right as the modern age arrived.

This shits so cool, normally when studying extinct animals you can look at living ones for reference, but that's not possible here. Paleontologists have to start from square one to figure out what the fuck these animals were doing. Any other examples of this?
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>>5169907
Ceratopsians were pressured by evolution to develop the crests since you get one-shotted by a bite from any of the predators of its time.
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>>5170008
Since dinosaurs died off the worst thing any prey animal has had to face would be a lion basically. What was the biggest cat ever? Did they even reach a ton? Plus they’re a “sprint up to you and try to choke you out” type predator. So the animals we see (deer, bison, etc.) don’t have to have tails with spikes and armor and shit, a herd of bison with thick furry coats can repel most lion attacks.
In a dinosaur ecosystem, now you have t-rex and other shit like it as the main threats to your survival. Thick furry coats aren’t going to cut it here against something that can run up and bite you in half or rip your head off, if you’re an animal in that ecosystem you need armor and spikes and all that.
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Sails pretty much died with the dinosaurs. There are still some reptiles that technically have them but they're meme tier compared to pic related.
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>>5170008
Other anons have mentioned anti-predator defenses but I think sexual selection or visual intimidation could've been a factor as well. Spicomellus was covered in overkill spikes despite later ankylosaurs having much more conservative armor while living alongside bigger theropods like allosauroids and tyrannosaurs. I was thinking about this after posting last night but even the predators often had elaborate crests and display structures, a trend seen across theropods. You don't really see mammalian carnivores with head crests or sails since they tend to have more sleek and conservative body plans. Birds can see ultraviolet colors and this trait was potentially present in other dinosaurs, which lines up with how common elaborate displays structures evolved multiple times across unrelated lineages. You see the same thing in pterosaurs as well, multiple lineages evolved large head crests. Mammals have more limited color version because of the nocturnal bottleneck and are generally less reliant on sight compared to smell and hearing. The Mesozoic could've been a more visually extravagant world than today since visual competition within species was more of a factor than today.
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>>5169906
Talking about yourself weirdo

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This is my Chihuahua
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>>5169934
Kill and eat it.
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I think your little dog is cute and deserves a good cuddle. I wish it was with me!
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>>5169934
Her eyes look like juicy grapes
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>>5169934
Reminds me of the "Shh /speee/ my dog is sleeping" guy's dog.
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>>5169934
little shit


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