post foxes, love foxesFox that is full and went to sleep: >>5047280
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>>5057715Platinum vein mixed with exposed copper along a cavern wall
>>5057798
Post your favorite art depicting animals
Who are the horniest animals?
>>5057621Absolutely Weinmar
>>5057621Deer have big horns
>>5057621go back to your bug containment thread on /mu/
Rhinoceros.
>>5057621Watusi
I'm looking for someone who also likes unicorns.
>>5052646Gotta be the most boring mythological animal
>>5053196You are mindbroken by a cartoon. Congratulations.
>thinly veiled mlp thread
>>5057730pony board, get over it
>>5054931>Projecting
I'm sorry but wolves are simply the coolest thing of all time.Name something cooler than a wolf I dare you.
>>5055715A ninja
>>5055719/thread
>>5055715
>>5055715THIS
>>5055715Anything bigger or more dangrous
Big cats confirmed is the south
>>5057500You're retarded.I don't know or really care why they deny the existence of some animals in areas, but it's undeniable that they do.
>>5052708wrong.
>>5051790I still dk who paleoschizo is but i hate this deboonker redditor who cant handle banter who always brings him up
>>5051790None of what he said related to paleo dumbass
>>5056993Why can't you fags ever have a normal conspiracy, do you guys just get off to being a retard?
A thread about adorable killing machines
>>5040990I'd fuck the shit outta that dog tho ngl
>>5055530>cropped earsTerrible.
>>5057562Not really. It doesnt effect them whatsoever and they dont feel it. Think of it as tribal humans doing the same ritualistic cosmetic stuff for their tribesman as tradition. Same thing. Our tradition is beautifying.
>>5057744It's like an earpiercing. It effects nothing, they wouldnt care if they had it or not.
>>5055129Wolfdogs are more aggressive than wolves regardless of dog breed
Smug fucker edition
>>5057359That puts my mind at ease, thank you.He's a Congo grey, I've noticed his beak similar to that before in the past, but the "break" between the two parts didn't feel this steep before. Cheers
>>5052679Rip george
WHY THE FUCK HAVEN'T WE DOMESTICATED THEM YET???
>>5057592You don't have to domesticate any birds. You just raise them in captivity and they're just like that. Doesn't matter what it is Cassowary, eagle, vulture they just turn out personable.
>>5054393Silence fag
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>>5056852I think the main difference is not-so-great apes have tails.
>>5057286What's so great about not having a tail?
>>5057303Big steppy and such.
>>5056852>what's so lesser about gibbons?they are LITTLE and SMALL
>>5054955We get it, you're a faggot
"don't talk to me or my daughter ever again" editionFound a juvenile widow in my charcoal chimney. She's still got the gold stripe down her back. I'll have to get her set up with a bigger enclosure soon but I think she's okay in the sling box for now. Also think the middle widow is working on some eggs, it's been a week or so since she ate and she's still looking thicc.
How big is your enclosure for hissing cockroaches? I was planning on getting a couple, just to keep not to raise a colony, but the guides I read range from 5 gal too 20 gal, I assume 20 gal is only if you plan to breed a colony right?
>>5052645Jfc that is the cutest spider I have ever seen. She’s one tiny top hat away from cartoon status.
8-bit caterpillar
>>5057153I'm excited to see what she looks like after she molts. She started on Oct 5th and has been resting ever since.
My 10+ year old G pulchra molted recently, she's getting pretty big.
Is there a way to make a video game about being an animal NOT boring? It always sounds good on paper, but then the gameplay boils down to three mechanics and constant repetition, which of course, makes sense. And I'm not talking about games with an animal for a protagonist like Stray or Okami, but games where you're a typical animal and you need to survive.
>>5056772Imagine a metroidvania style game like that. Could be pretty good.
There's Path of Titans and some other mmo with ice age animals.
>>5056523make it a soulslike
>>5056523A bedbug's life.The gameplay loop is traumatic insemination.
>>5057015there's already plenty of games out there with traumatic insemination, granted they aren't about bedbugs though
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>>5055446I guess, though even if if is, it's definitely on the lighter side, compared to something like say Alien Biospheres which works from a starting point onwards and then sees where it ends uptoo much magic to explain away issues in Kaimere even if it doesn't quite work like traditional magic, and again it is focused around reaching a certain point in time
>>5055410he's admitted several times that he views it just as a setting for his dnd campaign and fantasy novels.
I have this vague notion bouncing around my head of lifeforms that are made out of plasma, constructed from patterns in the oscillations and fields in a plasma, rather than chemistry. They could have evolved in stars, but I'm imagining them as appearing in the early universe, when all of space was filled with plasma. If they evolved to sapience they could construct arcs to survive in during the period between recombination, when the temperature of the universe lowered to the point all the plasma went away, and the birth of the first stars, which they could then move into. This early period of the universe only lasted 370,000 years, which normally wouldn't be long enough to evolve sapience, but this is high-energy plasma we're talking about, with particles moving and interacting very quickly. I could imagine the fundamental processes underpinning their life happening so quickly, that they undergo a full generation in a matter of seconds, which would allow enough generations to pass in 370k years for them to reach sapience.
>>5056082incredibly implausible, obviously, but highly kino. I've had somewhat similar musings about emergent generalized intelligence appearing in the conductive rock structures of a planet powered by the lightning storms of its atmosphere, as by technicality something like that could exist, but it would be insanely unlikely and we would hardly be able to notice anyway unless it somehow obtained a method of interfering with the outside world at a sufficient rate.
>>5056179People talk about mycelium networks as being like neurons, and if one of those became intelligent, it could interact with the world by strategically throttling nutrient flow through the plants it exists around, inducing certain evolved behaviors in them. It could even selectively breed them into more useful appendages using that same nutrient flow mechanism. Some plants are able to replicate ant pheromones to make ants do certain things for them, so the mycelium may be able to take advantage of that to turn ants into tools for it to use.
/kot/ kitty cat generalStaring at you while you poop edition
>>5057395All kots are kangs!
TFW he figured out how to pull the edge of the trash bag out of the trash can and shred it
dreamed of one of my cats dying, felt incredibly sad when I woke up like it actually happened. realized how horrible the day will be when it'll happen for real
Alright, vet gave him an antibiotic shot and told me to isolate him for now. We'll wait a week and if the others don't show any symptoms we'll vaccinate them for herpes.I have a large cage with chicken wire for hens with newborn chicks during the summer, I'll put him there for now, hopefully it doesn't stress him enough to supercharge the herpes, idk how that works. His good eye seems fine, I may have misjudged it because I used a bright light after dark to check it, still she gave me some drops for it.I mean I can take care of him long term it's not like outdoors cats need a lot of effort, I'm just afraid of herpes flare ups and being a potential infection site for anything that passes through, hopefully the vaccine is enough for the regulars.>>5057327We're talking about 2-3 outdoors cats including one that's mine that just come in contact often. They're being "taken care of" but idk if I can intrude on how much they care for them. At least they won't say no the shot if I pay for it.Again sorry for the essay post with the obvious>vetanswer I guess I just needed to tell someone.Here's him trying to climb up my leg.
>>5057688Cute little creature you got there. idk how cat herpes works but hopefully it isnt too contagious. Listen to the vet and love that cat good. Did you pick a name yet?
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>>5057644they snuffle around, I wonder what they actually eat must be microfauna things
Decent success with a diy planaria trap, bait: crushed Malaysian snail :(
>>5057613and can we keep it freshwater this time? i'm tired of all the saltwater turds spazzing around about their "no maintenance, no water changes, very stable" reef tanks.TL;DR: they're ugly, a betta looks better
>>5057645you should feed them, stuff like sinking pellets and blanched veggies. don't rely on them finding food on leaves, that's how you end up with a dead oto.
>>5057732No consolewar cringe
>the most empathetic and emotionally intelligent animal on the planet >is on par with dolphins in treating humans kindly when not threatened or protecting young>became the staple of the wise, relaxed and friendly character in all children's media>except it has periodic moments of sheer mania, typical gentle giants become violence obsessed extremely prone to murder crazed psychopaths, more rage fuelled than a fucking rabid bull>last for months>just mindlessly urged to fuck and kill for months and months before going back to a calm gentle giantwhat the fuck was the evolutionary reason for this
>>5057347calm down kiddo
>>5057354We thinned their population a lot creating little raging retards with a small gene pool.
>>5051585Just move to a mutual combat state
>>5014315Literally me
>>5016349Absurdly based.
