Hello /an/,You are now reminded that Bumblebee season has officially begun in the northern hemisphere. Bumblebees and Solitary Bees are in massive crisis so this thread will be to discuss ways to help them, ask questions about how to plant for them, and general bombus chat.Note that Mellifera (‘honey bees’) are NOT in crisis, are actually a major culprit in the decline of Bumblebees and Solitary Bees, and aren’t even native to most of the northern hemisphere anyway - so they are banned from this thread. Wasps are fine (but still shit).Previous: >>5117649Related: Vipers Bugloss plugs being prepared by based Anonymous from the other thread.
Another one chilling on the roses, these guys are all over the place and just completely unbothered by me trying to take pictures of them. They sure look like extremely tiny bees.
>>5136824>>5136825Looks like Perdita aka ‘the Fairy Bee’ although there are a few species. Native to the US. The smallest bees on earth so you’re very lucky.
>>5136903>native to the USThat makes sense as I'm in NC. Sweet. Gonna have to get a lot more of those planted, spent an hour this morning marking out about a 700 sq ft section of the yard to get converted to pollinator garden.
bee butt
>>5135909>>5136198>>5136824>>5136825>>5136925OP again. I’m so sorry again, my man, for the delay on this. I’m hunkered down in the chill zone so I have all day to dedicate to helping out on this now. Again, please accept my apologies for the delay. Just bear with me as I do some google fu on your native plants and wild bees. Native is always the way to go, always. Also, your sun and land size is fucking next level. I wish, wish, wish we got space like this in the UK because if you play it right, you are going to be helping likely tens of thousands of wild bees. No cap. Literally tens of thousands. Anyway, gimme a bit and I’ll be back. And thank you for just being so fucking based.
Only normal horses ITT.Last thread that laid down >>5119481
>>5137090He saved all those pit ponies from that mine collapse. At the bottom of this mine lies a big big horse.
>>5137090rest in power, king.
>>5137090...John?
>>5137157That's a VERY good picture.
>>5137157You thought about horses too much. What's the next step of your master plan?
hi im a raccoon. post moar animals taking selfies.
Hope everyone is having a hoppy day :)
the one and only
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>>5137190NIGGA THAT'S NUTS
is it really worth it
>>5136632the atari 2600’s controller didn’t have one
>>5136506snoof
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>>5137170wow
>>5136455>Unbothered. Daubed. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing
>thread image limit reached>no more daily sealNooooo :(. Goodbye thread-kun you will be missed! And to think the dreaded poop seal was the last seal posted here...
>>5132543I'm also lurking here without posting, so you know. They're lovely. I appreciate the stuff posted and factoids.
Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male seal and male penguin anal sex, Adélie is the most compatible penguin for rape? Not only are they in the ice shelf egg group, which is mostly comprised of penguins, Adélie are an average of 28" tall and 14.3 pounds, this means they’re not large enough to be able to survive harbor seal dicks, and with their unimpressive Base Stats for feathers and access to Ice Armor, you can be rough with one. Due to their mostly water based biology, there’s no doubt in my mind that an aroused Adélie would be incredibly wet, so wet that you could easily rape one with your massive seal cock for hours without getting sore. They can also learn the moves Bussy, Retard-Stare, Krill Kill, Feathers, and Three Kilometers From Basecamp It Is Walking Towards The Mountains On The Horizon But Why, along with having feathers to hide birdskin, so it’d be incredibly easy for one to get you in the mood. With their abilities Squawk and Cheep, they can easily recover from fatigue with enough water. No other avian comes close to this level of compatibility. Also, fun fact, if you pull your gigantic seal cock out enough, you can make your Adélie penguin turn inside out! Adélie is literally built for seal dick. Ungodly feather stat+high krill pool+Ice Armor means it can take cock all day, all shapes and sizes and still die from anal rape before coming for more.
>>5132722>What's your favorite seal speciesleopards all the way. crab eaters are cool too
> hooot-hooo-hooo---hoo-hoo> hooot-hooo-hooo---hoo-hoo> hooo?
>>5130219why are the murderous little bastards so fucking cute
>>5126136love these dudes, if i had to pick one noise that represents my childhood it would be the humble mourning dove
>>5126136>>5128756>>5137040probably the single most soothing sound you could possibly hear. Yuros don't know what they're missing.
HoowoooOOOOOOoooo
>hoo ho ho ho ho ho hoooOOOooo
I fucking despise armchair paleontologists. I wouldn’t even care about their ramblings if it wasn’t for the fact that every time a new paper drops, they make a shitty idea off of it. And whether it’s by video, blog or Twitter post, if it picks up traction it somehow ends up being seen as fact by the general paleo community. Actual literal headcanons being made up with zero professional research or backing behind them. >Nanotyrannus being dubious even though we already knew about its tooth count and fore arm difference a decade before the 2025 paper.>Dakotaraptor being dubious because of some guy pointing out its sickle claw had a vague resemblance to a Nanotyrannus claw. (Yeah no shit they’re both theropods) It’s like they needed a new target to point the dubious finger at after the Nano paper dropped.>Nanaimoteuthis being a shellfish specialist despite the very paper describing it pointing out wear patterns on its beak that prove the contrary.>Carnotaurus being the “Cretaceous cheetah” because it ran fast, ignoring literally every other aspect of its anatomy.>The average Edmontosaurus being a 15 ton monster that regularly raped Rex, because of a paper describing a superadult specimen that represented the smallest top percent of adults lucky enough to live that long.>Titanoboa being an obligate piscivore because it had adaptations for hunting the most common prey source in its environment.For years I have watched this endless cycle and it’s god damn exhausting. If you want your thought experiments to be seen as scientific, go get a degree, start researching, and publish an actual paper about it. You can't just make a hypothesis, stop there, and assume you're correct, it doesn't fucking work like that. Why does the science community that prides themselves on "Realistic portrayals" not know how to fully read through a published paper?
>>5127856Hello Carlos Albuquerque, long time no see!
>>5134812I love Dimetrodon. That being said, I'm going to kill you with my bare hands.
>>5134812Actually it's a misidentified Secodontosaurus
>Prehistoric Planet ep 1>What if trex.......... didn't enter a frenzy at the sight of anything alive?>woaaaah
Somewhat related to what OP's talking about, I keep hearing people say carcharodontosaurus was definitively larger than giganotosaurus but I can't find a single source for that claim that isn't youtube shorts slop.
>Fur seals (actually sea lions) are sometimes spotted raping penguinsHow common is this for animals? Using animals smaller than you and of a different species to relieve your own sexual frustration
>>5056691lol
>>5073030bring them, pl0x
IF YOU WANNA PASS YOU GOT TO PAY IN ASS
>>5129318kill all maoriniggers TOTAL ISLANDER DEATH
I'm going to post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants to snuggle a pugglePrevious thread >>5065820 hit image limit and before anyone says it yes the males (and only the males) venomous (mostly seasonally). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1puF5nSDV6Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AvIwt6lEQDk
>It is illegal to own, buy, or sell a platypus in Australiafuck you bro
>>5136022Platling
After watching enough vtubers react to More Parz, I learned of the platy's ability to glow when exposed to black lights. Then another vtuber reacting to Casual Geographic, I learned that most marsupials glow like this.What's you guys' ideas on why? Could just be their fur oils happen to glow like that, for no reason. But maybe the tazzy tiger's vision had something to do with it, so they developed it as a defense.
>>5136811platyling? Either way I like it. They also have no name for a gathering of platypuses and my vote is for a delight. "I came across a delight of platypuses while hiking along a riverbank the other day" I think it works.>I learned that most marsupials glow like this.What's you guys' ideas on why?Night camouflage. Platypuses and most animals in the region can see in those spectrums. To us it looks neon turquoise, but to them I bet it's close to the same matching earth tone as their fur in daylight.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5136747It's completely legal to want one and to support their conservation though.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
They can live their life like all regular insect Larva-Nymph-AdultThey are harmless and cuteBut under special circumstances when there are too many, they suddenly molt into a ravenous flying swarm of locustsLike a Mr. HydeAre there any other living creatures with this insane ability?
I'd say dragonfly, the underwater stage is like something out of a horror movie.
>>5137155sockeye salmons turning into suicidal sex beasts
post about big cats (panthera genus).>images>news>art.
Which recently extinct big cat (as in people directly causing their downfall) would you have wanted to have seen in person?
>>5136793sabertooth cat girls(they got fucked to death)preferrably all of thembut a european or persian lion would be hella cool
>>5136793American cheetah
>>5136827I second this but not because I like it. Because we know so little about this animal that it's cause for curiosity. It's essentially a cheetah that's suspected to have come from something like a Puma.
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>>5137122He stole the show!
>>5137160reminds me of the one where a lion or tiger accidentally falls in
>>5137132>BEHOLD, A MAN
Put your paws in the air like you don't care edition Prev: >>5122210
>>5132182>>5137162Do you know for sure if it's airborne allergens or some kind of food allergy?For my last dog we ended up buying an air purifier, a second dog bed, and special food.The beds got washed once a week.
And we stopped using dryer sheets.
>>5137111Do I have to steal fat from a plastic surgery clinic
>>5137169Only if you want. Grass fed tallow from a local farmer is another great option!
>>5137165I'm pretty sure it's grass. She had (milder) symptoms towards the end of last summer, went almost fully into remission during winter, and it got bad again as soon as the grass started really growing. Plus the redness always starts on the backs of her thighs where I think she picks up pollen from the ground when she squats to pee.She's eating the same food I've been feeding her since I got her last year. She sleeps on my bed, which is covered with a sheet that I've been washing weekly. Same for the couch. I wash her stuff in bleach with hypoallergenic detergent. I wipe her down with hypoallergenic baby wipes when she comes in from outside.It's not fleas or mites. I found nothing with a flea comb before I took her to the vet and now she's on Bravecto. The vet wrote her a prescription for Apoquel but that shit's $200. Every single alternative is like $100 a month too. Steroids put her into remission for a few weeks and they're reasonably priced, but they're terrible for long term use. I've had her on everything that's possibly effective and affordable for probably a couple of months now: fish oil, coconut oil, cetirizine, and chlorpheniramine. That stack wasn't enough to clear her up, but I was hoping that it would be enough to prevent another flare up once she was already clear, but that wasn't the case.My real question is, are there decent people who would take her and spend the money to treat this shit? And are there enough of those people around that it's worth trying to find them? I've got a light dusting of autism so it's really hard for me to imagine rational people who don't think like I do. Like, I know I could find Mexicans who would take her, but they'd do a worse job taking care of her than I'm doing. And I know there are pit freaks who are used to blowing tons of money on allergy meds, but I don't want her getting mauled by a pittier pit, or being treated like she's harmless and mauling something else.
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monday mindfulness practice
Why are male cats such deadbeats? Why don't they look after their kittens?
