Post birds, appreciate birds
Penguins are evolving; now they have wheels.We must stop them before they develop lasers!
This is the ugliest fucking bird I've ever seen. Why is it balding? Fucking freak.
Im adopting a new sun conure in a few weeksgive me some name ideas
Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores?>you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome>you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter>often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome>if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys)>if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeatBoy am I glad that we're omnivores
>>5159797>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiomeOP didn't
>>5172881>still upWow, few years ago I got a 30 day ban for reversing a video of a cat getting unstuck from under a car.
>>5172900Those get fucked in a drought thoughMeanwhile carnivores can take full advantage >>5173422This should be a red boardWhat's the fun in animals and nature without discussing their actual behaviour
Weird how elephants have huge tusks when they don't need them for food or defense.
>>5159567It's worse if you're a herbivorous bird. This fucker stinks and can barely even fly
You can't find an image of a snow leopard that I can take seriously.
>>5166847I hate how when I forget about this image and look at it again, it always takes me a couple of seconds to spot him, the camouflage is so fucking good
>>5174290What the hell is his problem?
>>5173257With these images if I can't spot it in about a minute I start to get angry and paranoid that someone just posted a snepless scenery picture to troll.
>>5174419>>5173257With these comments I feel you’re trolling.
Welcome to /plant/, the happy green place on this blue board, where growers, gardeners and horticulturists share their love for things that grow.Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.>Flora of the Worldhttp://www.worldfloraonline.org/>Plants of the World Onlinehttps://powo.science.kew.org/>Hardiness zoneshttps://www.plantmaps.com/>Plant ID Siteshttps://identify.plantnet.org/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>5174283> they think /plant/ is the equivalent of walmartIt shows the lack of respect you have for this general and again treat it like a digital shitting streetThere are no customer service or customers here. This is an internet communityYou're like someone who comes into an internet forum about a hobby or interest and uses it as a search engine for their idiotic questions and then try to degrade it by calling it a walmart customer service as if you are entitled to answers. Oh wait, no, that's exactly what you are doing. If this really is walmart for plants, then you're like someone who gets a plant, didn't read the fucking label that came with it, came back and told them their plant is dying and asking why while their are a bunch of other people behind you in line doing the same thingThis is for people who love plants. Of all levels of expertise and experience. House plant basic care questions have a place, but at least try and do some research first instead of constantly shitting up the general with this and spamming the same stuff. Do you know there are tools in the OP to help you? Did you read the OP? Next time you get a plant, look it up and research it's needs>plant ID (check the OP)>types of soil and nutrients>drainage>sun/shade>watering>cold/heat hardiness and your hardiness zone (check the OP)>overwintering if required>maintenance (dead heading, pruning, dividing)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
erm, chabeebeebee, write me a post about how stooopid everyone else is and how they don't know anything about plants
>>5174307Houseplant shitter projectionRTFL
Just picked a half spoiled lime from my Citrus glauca, I'm such a forage coded subsistencecel
Can someone ID this plant please?
Why wouldnt this work
>>5174245You're a big bug.
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>>5169065Absolutely horrifying, saved, nightmares imbound, thanks for sharing!
>>5174361fpbp
>>5174409Nigger what?
Activists are so Retarded.https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSgsLSfLc/
>>5171276Activists are losing lmao. Stop dunking on them you fucking idiot. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of retarded ideas for fixing the planet but you're even more worthless than them. I much prefer the idiots with good will over a whining fucking "you other people are so stupid" eternal victim any day. God damm, I think id rather suck shit out if a cardboard straw than be in the company a screeching nothing-needs-to-change doomer. I would say youre a corporate shill but its not true, you just don't believe in fucking ANYTHING. And honestly I think i would rather take someone sincere, cringe, and good willed over this fucking HEAP OF BLACK shit conversation that is Will never amount to anything. Being an activist is GOOD. I dont do it myself, but this post makes me want to try. Fucking hope pit, christ, why dont you just pick something you DO believe in and then advocate for that instead of going around and fucking stomping on other people's lunch you absolutely fucking empty human being
>>5174171Tell that to the guy who made the OP's comic.
>>5174171Best post itt
>>5174171fucking based
>>5171359Activist just shit things up and make everyone's life worse and don't even move the needle on the real problems. Can't run your business in a 1st world country because of a retarded carbon credit market system? Better just move production to China where you don't even need a permit to dump industrial waste into a waterway. Also, sorry about your domestic jobs.
Now that the year is over, what is the /an/ news of the year and why is it a newly discovered species of Spinosaur that has a horn? You could argue that the Spinosaurus evolved from Suchomimus but we had never seen such direct cousin link to it.
BREAKING NEWS OF THE YEAR - CATS ARE STILL CUTE
>>5174384https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981126002750
I'm going to post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants to snuggle a pugglePrevious thread >>5118115 hit image limit and before anyone says it yes the males (and only the males) venomous (mostly seasonally).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8 [Embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5L5fVdXueAhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/1puF5nSDV6QI have also been thinking if the daily reminder to want a platypus is too nebulous. It seems to confuse some anons. I didn't want to completely steal Sakurafish's every day until you like it, but After her ban I wanted to do something similar. Mayby a reminder every day to platonically love platypuses, but then 4chan being 4chan some will take that the wrong way. But I am open to suggestions. This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
>>5172040I don't like that the tip of the beak isn't bone. It's kind of freaky
Let's discuss and observe the apes of Africa and Asia.
>>5150192you will eat ze bugz
RIP Venza (the dog)I read online that leopards in captivity can live up to 18–23 yearsLuna's around six years old, who will be friends with her now :(https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGuR2f7Cr-aHCjXiiW9_OccaQ0iVCXGVO
>>5172375i feel like a husky might be a good shot
>>5174074Huskies are too small, Luna's around 45 kilos and she likes to play/pretend-pounce, you need a big dog to handle herVenza was slightly heavier so she could possibly handle herI was thinking a Central Asian Shepherd or other shepherdsShe'll need to be a girl and a puppy too though
>>5174373>Huskies are too smallWhat about an Alaskan Malamute?
>>5174373Have you considered Great Pyrenees? On the one hand, the suit almost every single condition you’re looking for. On the other hand, it’s the world’s oldest breed (known fossils of same breed dating back at least 4,000 years) so it might be literally impossible to ever get one to be friendly with a big cat. Pyrenees are super gentle with every other animal, I have a Great one lol, but wolves/bears/big cats might be an instinctual hard-no for a Pyr. Might be worth a try. Not every pup expresses instinct exactly the same way.
>>5174388I love Great Pyrenees so fucking much, guys, they’re so based. They just do their job and look cool. Back during WW2, the allies wanted to make them into war dogs because of their size and battle prowess (it’s said that one can defend against wolves, two to defend against a bear, and three to take down a big cat with. no dog deaths) but they weren’t successful with a single dog. The Pyrenees refused to be war dogs. They were, however, happy to help haul cannons through the Pyrenees mountains because their specialized mountain paws did a better job than horse hooves in certain places. They’re strong but they don’t want to use it for violence.
Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their child rearing abilities?
I will forever cherish people of the trees and do whatever it takes to keep them safe and happy
>>5167060>>5173154why do you retards have to turn every fucking discussion into some racial bullshit?can't we talk about fucking anything without you faggots seething over niggers?
Pongtastic
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How many users here realize that calling Lissamphibia (modern amphibians) Temnospondyli is the equivalent of calling birds dinosaurs? The consensus is nearly absolute, with the exception of David Marjanovic and Michel Laurin, who theorize that Lepospondyli gave rise to Lissamphibia, but their views are as marginal as Feduccia’s are in the world of ornithology regarding bird evolution.
>>5173077Cacops was a stem amphibian anon, well a temnospondyl
>>5171490Lack of scientific data to make a proper genus. Digging in Africa is tiresome.
The monophyly of modern amphibians is supported by virtually all molecular studies conducted from the 1990s to the present, for instance, in this 2021 study. Funcusvermis effectively bridges that gap, pointing to an origin within the temnospondyls.
It is interesting that, with regard to the habits (terrestrial, semiaquatic and aquatic) of temnospondyls, the lineage that gave rise to modern amphibians (Lissamphibia) is predominantly terrestrial.
>>5167100Nature keeps reinventing sails and nobody knows why.
>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?
>>5172435real dragon
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>>5173968That's just a flap of skin that flares out on occasion, not a bony frill like ceratopsids had
>>5173978It has thin bones in it, it folds back for agility and then flares out when it needs to appear aggressive. It may not serve the same purpose as a ceratops but it is still a lizard with a frill nonetheless
>>5172376>most efficient swim pattern with a marine reptile body plan?Isn't that just becoming a tuna? (what some ichthyosaurs did)
General for the discussion of rodent care with a focus on rats. Other rodents welcome but replies maybe slowNo brakes: muh feet's don't reach edition>Rats need love >Rats need companionship >Rats need free roam time Caring for your rats https://ratguide.com/care-intro Rat first aid: http://neratsociety.co.uk/articles/firstaid.shtml Good and bad food: https://squeaksandnibbles.com/safe-foods-for-rats/ Cage cleaning https://ratguide.com/care/environment/cage_cleaning.phpContinuing from >>>5061960
>>5172777cute good luck ratto
>>5155634we are in a lull of rat ownership.mouse supremacy!
>>5172684Squigger that's nuts>>5172968>all rodents welcomeBut yeah, I haven't found a good breeder and my last guy died in January. Am I even a ratanon anymore?
>>5132918They're so fucking cute when they're sleeping
My dad was an officer in the army, deployed to Somalia back in the 90s. >(Please avoid the zogbot conversation with me. We all have opinions and I probably agree with you but this is the animal board.)He told me this story of the soldiers of whom he was in charge, how they would capture the largest bugs they could find and fight them in a little arena, pokemon style. My dad thought this was kinda retarded and childish but a lot of the enlisted guys really are just like that so it went on for a while. Some guys kept their prized bugs and fed them.Anyway, there eventually was this one bug that my dad said they all just called “the bad bug”. The bad bug fucking killed everything. Big tarantulas, Scorpions, Huge ass beetles. Didn’t even matter it just wrecked them.My dad is not a cool animal lover like me so he’s fucking terrible at describing it. Basically it is not anything like a spider, not a scorpion, not any other kind of aggressive bug he could give me as a frame of reference. He also didn’t observe its killing mechanism because he was concerned with other shit.(1/3)
>>5173306Rock apes, reported by american soldiers in Vietnam.
I was there in '93.Somalies feared us and called the mutt rangers pussies,just saying. We were with them a few times as a protection team while they were doing drug deals ,or weapon deals with local warlords. I agreed with the somalies.What you talk about is the sun spider or camelspider, we also kept them, i also kept scorpions and baby mambas, I had many pictures of Somalia and still have many souvenirs, including a rangercoin ,yep.I watched a camelspider kill a lizzard in less than a minute, the lizzard was 20-30 times larger than the spider.they were put in a bucket. It's cruel and unnecessary, i was not a fan of it but many did this kind of stuff to pass time,including shooting a lot of wildlife. I think the camelspider is the most violent creature i have ever seen, when it feels threatened. If you were gentle you could let it walk in your hand. I watched spiders catch birds in their web and eat them. A hyena walk in a classroom and run of with a small somali to eat it. Africa is a pretty wild place. You don't want to be there without guns.
>>5173521For what it’s worth, it definitely wasn’t the camel spider. Dad was later deployed to afghanistan later on in the early2000’s and got extensive experience with “those fuckers”I think he mentioned something about having to use extra laundry detergent to keep them away. Something about them eating by spitting this goop that dissolves flesh and then slurping it? I think he said they had problems with them coming in the tents and feeding on people’s legs at night. My memory isn’t so clear about that but I do remember him being specific that the bad bug was definitely not a camel spider.>I watched spiders catch birds in their web and eat them. A hyena walk in a classroom and run of with a small somali to eat it.Jesus Christ that’s all so horrific.
>>5173531This is legit re camel spiders>>5173180Scientists and naturalists go to lots of random places, plenty of weird animals were described even just during the 1700s, let alone later. They get funding to go hide in bushes often the more obscure the betterSoldiers can certainly spend more time and man hours in a place, no doubt, but they also often don’t give a fuck and just want to go home
>>5173531Assassin bugs, probably Psyttala or maybe Platymeris. Spit out goop, also stab and inject flesh-dissolving fluid with their rostrum to slurp up their prey, painful as fuck bite. Their american cousins evolved into bloodsuckers.Another possibility is water bugs, Lethocerus ("toe biters") and the like, those don't spit but otherwise match the behaviors. I'm particularly mentioning those because they're attracted to light so that'd explain why they need to be kept away from getting into tents.Also consider goo-spitter beetles (Anthia),
