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She separated from a man in the forest to gather deer horns. Bear got to her and mauled her to death

RIP
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>>5129217
For women because they are fucking dumb
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>>5118828
misiek wouldn't do this
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>>5130390
Why are you defending rapists? Are you a rapist?
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>>5130854
I would sure be If I ever met you sweaty
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>>5118828
Pretty common in Europe
Especially in Romania

COWS DEMONSTRATE FLEXIBLE MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL USE

Cows are now UNDENIABLY far more intelligent than cats and 99% of mammals. If you think it's wrong to eat cats, then you must feel the same way about cows and pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVo41MuLiQ

“The only well-documented case of something comparable comes from chimpanzees, on those – also rare – occasions when they fish for termites by combining the functions of the two opposite ends of the same stick,” Osuna-Mascaró told BBC Science Focus.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-tool-use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/
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>>5100611
Cows honestly are very "personable", pigs too but the greater intelligence actually makes them more "guilty" and they seem to be more capable of being greedy vicious shitheads on "purpose"

It never quite stops me from eating their meat, but at least here cows are free-range and grassfed by default
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>cows aren't personable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXBjrSzLRb4
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>>5094225
What now, carnists?

370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain

In our new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we searched for behavioural signs of pain in house crickets, one of the most widely farmed insects. After applying heat to an antenna, we found that crickets didn’t just reflexively flinch and recover. They nursed the harm, returning again and again to groom the affected site, much as we rub a burned hand.

We tested 40 male and 40 female crickets, each experiencing three conditions in random order: a hot probe to a single antenna (65°C, to activate damage receptors but not cause lasting injury), the same probe unheated, or no contact at all.

We filmed their behaviour for ten minutes. Observers scoring the footage did not know which treatment any animal had received.

The results were clear. After the hot probe, crickets were more than twice as likely to groom the affected antenna compared to controls, and spent roughly four times longer doing so.

Could this simply reflect general disturbance rather than targeted care? Unlikely: grooming was directed specifically at the heated side, not spread evenly across both antennae as it was after gentle touch or no contact.


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>>5130736
kinda gross that people are eating crickets
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>>5094243
It's okay. It's a slightly darker version of chicken. Like the lightest cut of meat on a cat would be comparable to the leg meat of an older chicken. Also with a slight cat aroma of the type you can smell if you open their mouth and take a sniff.

HAUG KAWH KAWH KAWH KAWH KAWH KONK KONK KONK RUHHRRRRUCK RUHHRRUUUCK KUH KUH CON CON CON YAWK YOG YOG RUCCCCCK RUCCCCK
WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRK!
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Pige, xd

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Deep sea creatures are harmless. The only aspects of the ocean rational to be afraid of are: drowning/storms, sharks, and venomous jellyfish/conches/whatever, which are all shallow water concerns anyways.
People piss their pants at images of ugly deep sea fish because they're ignorant and don't know they're almost all a foot or less in length; you could crush them with your bare hands. Take the infamous Bigfin squids for example: their body from mantle tip to arms is a foot or so in length. How could one possibly hurt you? Its tentacles are wire thin and its beak is probably less than an inch wide.
The ONLY deep sea creature I could fathom being a rational concern is the Humboldt squid, but even then it has no confirmed kills and you could easily stab it to death with a dive knife if you have no other choice.
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As a diver the scariest things in the sea are by far water currents and small fish who can leave you crippled. I have never found the deep sea scary by itself and im very fascinated by it but the thought of going down this empty stretch of nothing on a tiny submarine being unsure if it's gonna be reliable or just break up on me suddenly is fucked up. Im aware that realistically there's not gonna be a big leviathan or dead angels down there and it's mostly tiny fish I can hold between my hands so the enviroment and the sea itself is a far scarier prospect than what lurks in it. Im sure anyone who has worked on a ship with hyper hazardous waters can see where im coming from. Fish are all your friends though
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>>5131132
Looks like that sand pit thing from start wars. Scarred me for a couple years as a kid in the 80s.
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>>5116435
I thought this was a naked dude raping a deep sea creature based on the thumbnail.
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>>5116769
Based as hell

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It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
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>>5129356
sweet, I am ecstatick.
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bump
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>>5130843
>>5129680
Thanks. The final layer has just been poured. Final results in ~50h, when it's cured. I'm confident about this one, but it'll be the surprise when we'll unmould it.
I'd like to send it to one anon if it turns out decent (and if the shipping costs aren't pure theft).
Despite the european heat wave, hedgehogs are on a breeding/mating frenzy, these days. I can hear come of them huffing loudly when I'm trying to sleep.
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>>5124684
omg. you're the tick guy. I remember you from years ago. you've been at it for ages.
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>>5131164
omg

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My favorite is macaque I wish I could own a pet one
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>>5129967
that is because you're a pityfren
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>>5131103
vulture culture
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>>5131103
high functioning despite deep trauma
>>5131060
either autistic, the most interesting person in any given room, or both
>>5130288
big fan of fantasy and sci-fi
>>5130283
lacking money, always busy
>>5130000
elitist
also chek'd
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>>5129240
I think what this chiefly says about you is that you are not southeast Asian.

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>>5130076
Just get a girl then
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>>5130424
aww, it looks like a munchkin
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>>5130424
its head is bigger than the rest of its body
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>>5127221
Yes.

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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 World
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/

>Plants of the World Online
https://powo.science.kew.org/

>Hardiness zones
https://www.plantmaps.com/

>Plant ID Sites
https://identify.plantnet.org/

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>>5130901
Most invasives are actually nice plants if you don't have a bitch in your ear complaining about them
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>>5131203
good thing you said most because giant hogweed fucking sucks
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I got your giant hogweed right here

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Pick an animal and a tune that you feel would go well with that animal regardless of the lyrics.

https://youtu.be/BKz2U4fvA4U?is=DdbciMUfTSD_Pj7H
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>>5126055
tell me this one isn't perfect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5IxNLkI5M
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>>5130694
kupo!
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>>5130694
That one isn't perfect
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>>5131118
yes it is
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A vervet monkey who has wandered too deep into chimp territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKhP0r5s2aY

So I've had this mango sapling for arround three months and when autumn started here in Buenos Aires, Argentina it started decaying just as you are going to see in my photos. It grew for arround one month and it looked really healthy but nowdays it's leaves are becoming brown and I don't know what else to do. It was outside but the cold weather as I read online makes everything worse so now it's inside my house and 1.5m away from a window.

Please HELP!
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>>5130942
Ir bulbs.
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Hope for the best but it doesn't look that good haha. This is how I repotted it
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>>5131049
Oh boy I love that chicken.
I wonder what kind it is.
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>>5130915
>it's inside my house and 1.5m away from a window
mangoes need huge amounts of light. think about the fact that you will go blind if you look at the sun. that's what the plant wants for hours everyday and all you're giving it is interior home lighting
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>>5131088
Looks good man. notice how there are some moisture beads collecting on the bottom, that is very good. NOW: either put it where it can get direct sun for the majority of the day or get an IR lamp, all that work is for nothing if you dont get her sun and especially heat. also poke some drainage holes at the bottom, water often but not too much and make sure its draining properly. also, consider getting another half-plastic dome and put it over the top for her to retain moisture and heat, greenhouse effect. make sure you keep on top of nutrients, consider getting some fish fertilizer. keep an eye on that tiny spot at the top where new leaves will grow, that is where you will see if she comes back to life or not. also speak nice words to her

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Discuss the field of cryptozoology. No skinwalkers and wendigos allowed
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>>5130631
At that point it'd be easier to admit Bigfoot isn't real or they're all dead now
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>>5130630
His best videos in my opinion are the man-eater videos
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>>5130696
I can be convinced that they are an extinct species of large australopithecine but thinking they are still alive and able to hide in the modern world is pretty far-fetched in my opinion
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>>5123540
Fucking thank you! I tried to subtly make this point to some asshole on another forum bitching about believers "seeing things" then turning around saying how you can see xyz proving it's fake bur he didn't tumble..
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>>5122002
Have you found that pic on /x/?

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Are raccoons too smart to be domesticated?
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>>5121278
The ones I raised were pretty chill.
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>>5121278
Why not just get a cute kitteh OP?
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>>5121282
>but they would just be bred for warfare anyway
why do pseuds always say shit like this
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>>5129234
Doy you think that toadline racoons will become a thing?

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>looks like a cobra
>has a hood like a cobra
>rears up like a cobra
>”but the king cobra isn’t a real cobra…because it just isn’t okay”
My argument here is that the genus that king cobra belongs to should be redesignated as belonging to the true cobras. Cobras belonging to the Naja genus being the only true cobras is random and nonsensical.
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>>5130706
>bunch of extinct reptiles similar to crocodiles found
>believed to be distant relatives of true crocs and to have convergently evolved their crocodile-ness
>name them pseudosuchia (fake crocs)
>turns out they are the ancestors of true crocs after all
>this means true crocs are now placed within pseudosuchia
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>>5130442
How dare they create a set of characteristics to define the term in a formal setting instead of just going “you know a berry when you see it”
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>>5129721
Perhaps God wanted dolphins to be fish tranny? I'm going to call a spade a spade.
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>>5130733
If the set of characteristics doesn't encompass the things people already use the term for then the set of characteristics is bad for that term and they should just come up with a different term to describe the set of characteristics to avoid confusion.
Its like some speccy cunt coming up with a set of characteristics for "car" and coming up with "vehicle with petrol engine" and then some speccy faggot is like "ERM SCIENTIFICALLY THATS NOT A CAR BECAUSE IT HAS A DIESEL ENGINE" but then happily label a speedboat a car. Maybe your set of characteristics is bad if it includes things it shouldn’t and doesn't include things it should. Maybe you should just call them "petrol vehicles" instead of trying to retrofit the term "car" onto them.
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>>5130733
They are reusing and therefore redefining common words. They do, in fact, do this to annoy everyone. The easy sciences are full of midwits with ego issues and they 100% want to create excuses to correct people.
>THATS NOT A REAL FISH YOU’D KNOW IF YOU…
Arts majors are basically this but they live in an alternate reality entirely and think they have a moral imperative to do so. Which can’t be real beyond the word of God because there is nothing that isn’t material or God. God doesn’t allow the fantastical to exist. We have measured the depths of the earth and the breadth of the sky and thus broke the covenant of wonder.

t. physicist

Happy Bat Appreciation Day, /an/!
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mlem
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>>5117165
Just found out about the monkey-faced bats the other day :(
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how did he do it
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>>5126782
Those are some big ears
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>>5129432
new zealand birds must be pretty shit

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BIRDS AND AQUARIUMS CONFIRMED!! TOTAL UPGRADE!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-yj80Guxg
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>>5130768
>holocene/pleistocene ones
Boring, give me some Paleogene/Neogene creatures
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>>5130870
It was always announced for 2026, ie this year.
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Has anyone gone back to 1 recently, I almost couldn't believe how bad some of the animals look compared to 2. Definitely not how I remembered it.
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>>5130976
Most of the base game animals and like the first 4 or 5 DLCs look pretty terrible, yeah. I remember the lion especially is like atrociously bad. But there are remaster mods for most animals on the Nexus that make them look a lot better.
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>>5130976
yeah, PZ2 already looks like a vast improvement


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