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You know remember Pony the orangutan.
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>>5141682
He's working that fit
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>>5141911
you know exactly why
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>>5142074
they're subhuman?
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>>5141684
humanity, uh, finds a way
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>>5142155
>humanity

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Post wolves.
>Information.
>Images.
>Stories.
>Art.
>News.

>Previous thread: >>5093726
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Why do people run them over with snow mobiles bros...
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>>5140938
What is he looking at?
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Why do so many dogs do this when it's not trained and neither doesn't really happen in nature?
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It's a grown ass dog.
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>>5142117
anon please refrain from mentioning g*rmoids again
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>>5142197
If dogs actually ate shit there wouldn’t be so much shit around. Maybe they can’t keep up with your family of 23, patel?
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>everyone says dogs eat shit
>mine doesn’t
Maybe you need to feed your dogs actual food and not abuse/neglect them

Most normies and all thirdies abuse their dogs
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>>5141966
>dumber than pigs
Pigs are pretty smart

how often do you see these lil fellas where you live.
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fireflies love moist leaf litter and grasses. everyone loves to rake the lawn and cut it super short like a golf course. no bueno.
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They're so cute
Sad they're cannibalistic assholes to each other
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>>5141117
Far less than when I grew up but I've started letting my grass growing longer and let leaflitter accumulate under trees more and they've come back to a small degree.
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>>5141117
Never, they don't exist on the West Coast.
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Theoretically in the grass in the park where it's completely dark, but I don't want to be culturally enriched.

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I just found one of these little fags on the back of my ankle five days after hiking in Scotland. I'd better not have deer-AIDS.

All animal life is precious except for parasites, creatures in this category have no right to exist.
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>>5141609
somebody made a tick orb
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>>5141292
Enjoy being allergic to meat now Anon
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>>5141609
Tick orb thread here >>5119158
Dunno about the bedbuganon
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>>5141609
>>5141929
this was the bedbug jar thread:
https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/2409349
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If you find a tick always freeze it, just in case you develop symptoms.

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>every other insect
>ewwww gross, get it away from me!
>bees
>mmm, delicious bee barf, yum yum
>goo for larvae? Also good!
Why are bees exempt from the grossness factor?
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>>5142146
Aren’t honey bees thriving?
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>>5141648
bumblebees created the friend-shaped phenomenon
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>>5141732
why
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They are the cleanest insect / animal in the world. Their hive is literally antiseptic
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>>5141648
Soft fur, big eyes, one round part, beautiful colors
Totally ignore you unless you're very close to their nest
Ladybugs shares some of that too and nobody find them gross

Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their most celebrated researcher?
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>>5141958
Thoughts on these should be companions of Ponginae from Arinae? >>5141955
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>>5141796
now wait just a minute...
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>>5141556
because unlike lone wolves, flanged pongos fuck
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>>5142308
mmm... venomy

pinnipeds pics
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>>5141075
yjk
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>>5141513
>cray beaters
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>>5141576
you need to take your own life tonight
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bros i love seals so much it hurts

MEGA broody chicken. I have removed her from nest 15 times. I have locked her out of nest 10+ times for several hours at a time. Her broodiness has even become a menace for the other chickens, because they refuse to lay if they cannot access her laying spot, leaving them heavy with egg, but no place to lay. I established a broody-jail. Now the chicken is isolated. Chicken knocks over water within two minutes, every time I give it water. It's summer. Just die of thirst then. How much longer do I need to keep it in broody-jail? Pic unrelated.
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I have removed her from broody-jail. She pecks at the ground. Perhaps she is cured of temporary psychosis.
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>>5142303
NEVERMIND, chicken was sitting on eggs again moments later, just started chucking the eggs at her and splattering them on the ground. EAT SHIT CHICKEN.

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>buy birdbath
>heatwave happens
>need to refill birdbath multiple times a day because of heavy use and evaporation
>buy second birdbath to alleviate obligations
>now ferrying water to multiple birdbaths every chance I get

I just wanted a nice garden feature, god forbid I install feeders
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>>5137308
set up a drip feed, birds love it & there are many ways to do it
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>>5137695
They refused when they were called for a shooting.
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>buy birdbath
>have to change water multiple times a day because fat retard pigeon just shits in it
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>>5140437
I look like this and do this
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I bought a large one and the birds (tits and blackbirds) don't want to use it, instead preferring a much smaller, slightly deeper bowl I had before. So now I got a second identical one. I keep them in the shade on grass, yet the water is so fucking dirty after a single day, it's like these fuckers are 50% dirt. Sometimes a young tit just sits in one making a constant racket while an adult keeps slaving away bringing food constantly.

A Red-Fan Parrot × Black-Headed Caique would be lovely & also interfertile due to sister genera relationship of Deroptyus with Pionites.
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Backed by Science!
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>>5141955
What happened to the carp hybrids?
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>>5142089
I think the scientists that accidentally made sturddlefish didn't want to fuck about and introduce yet another invasive species to outcompete the originals, so the ones that survived are just in a fishtank in Hungary somewhere.

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Are there any species in the animal kingdom, besides humans, where the maternal have the cognitive wherewithal to sacrifice themselves if it meant that their offspring would have a chance at survival.

I'm not talking about matriphagy, but an actual impulsive event like throwing themselves in front of an unstoppable force. Is this unique to only people?
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>>5142173
This seems kind of stupid from an evolutionary perspective. Eggs are cheap and you can always make more if you survive, and trying to protect them is not in any way guaranteed to succeed. Seems like it would be more logical to just abandon them, at least if you're up against a giant machine like that.
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>>5142225
It's just a dumb bird it doesn't know what is farming machinery
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>>5142171
Grouse do this, look up "broken-wing display"

So do deer, and many other animals

Whether it's a matter of instinct or "cognitive wherewithal" is more debatable
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>>5142171
It might happen on rare occasions, but like >>5142174 said, it's more beneficial for the species to prioritize keeping the adults alive since they can fend for themselves better and produce more children later. Some mother animals will even sacrifice their children to survive.

For example, female macropods (kangaroos, wallabies, quokkas, etc.) will fling their joeys to distract predators and escape. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a voluntary decision on their part; their pouch reflex forces them to eject their joeys when they're frightened.
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>>5142278
True but it should have some basic instincts that tell it what fights it can win. If it's like a rat or something, it makes sense to stand your ground, but anything bigger and it should be hardwired to flee.

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Was it autism?

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Check out my cow!
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It does kinda look like a cow, but I cannot be sure without more photographic evidence.
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those are actually milk deer
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>>5141625
Cute, do they have a name?
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>>5141873
>they
she's not transcow
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Check out my shrimp bruh
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>>5125551
Chilean sea ass.
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>>5125551
hot
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>>5125395
Dood. Imagine how tasty that thing would be in garlic and butter and some greens.
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>>5137861
What is this


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