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Got a carrot for me?
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Yes i will give you a phallus shaped object bro
> Studies of wild giraffe populations have reported that up to 94% to 95% of observed mounting and sexual activity occurs between males
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lmao at this obviously ai-generated website
https://knowanimals.com/how-long-is-a-giraffe-pp/
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>>5158602
about tree fiddy
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>>5158629

>Perhaps there's a primal urge that keeps drawing us back to Africa for inspiration. After all, this is our fourth model straight from the savannah. If our arousing adventure across Africa has awoken some primal urges within you, it's time to accquaint yourself with the lengthy lance of the giraffe.
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Consider a manul
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>>5140973
outdoor cat owners are the reason they can't really be kept as pets, they die from toxoplasmosis and it's the reason for most of their kittens dying in zoos https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15796012/

up to 70% of their kittens die from toxoplasmosis.
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>>5157026
>catfags are the reason we can't have cats, but cooler
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Manul?
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>>5159089
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long while
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>mfw manul

Why haven't we domesticated deer?
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>>5146764
It's illegal where I live
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>>5146766
t. Santa
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>>5157234
based
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Havent kept up with my deer friends recently as much as I should be doing
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deer popularity...has declined...

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General for the discussion of rodent care with a focus on rats. Other rodents welcome but replies maybe slow
No 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.php
Continuing from >>>5061960
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>>5157845
hey, follow the rules, no bees, just rats
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this game is a.. a.. a squeakload of fuck!
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>>5158107
Here's another
Side shot showing his stripes
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there is a mouse shitting all over my counter top and ignoring the traps that i've baited with cheese and peanut butter

smart little guy

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I have a rat in the kitchen.
He's shrewd. Steals potatoes out of the traps without setting them off.
I've already cut off all sources of food and water and laid out poison and traps. Also a ramikin with salt water in hopes he'll dehydrate himself, but I have my doubts.

Any good ideas?

I love pet rats, but this guy is no pet.
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>>5158313
Shipping costs are always murder in my country. And that's if the mail even gets here at all.
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>>5156884
>voting either side of the uniparty in America be like
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Caught him eating my morning pills from the livingroom table today. I bet he's having a much worse day than me.
He escape behind a bookshelf which I then pushed hard against the wall. He screamed for a while but then came running out.
The girls at work gave me some Nutella to use as bait. They swear by it.
There is no other food or water in his part of the house at all. Only traps and poison.
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>>5158372
>be like
Are you one or do you just talk like one?
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>>5160166
>Nutella
Use braunschweiger or liverwurst instead.
You'll catch every small mammal in five square miles.

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Birds are so free. Are you envious of birds?
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Free to be an outdoor cats meal
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Birds live life on the edge. If they don't eat for 2 days they starve.

Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their child rearing abilities?
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>>5159756
How are these guys so gentle? He's clearly pissed off at the macaque and yet he only shoos it away instead of ripping it apart. I swear pongos are too good for this world
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>>5159975
if he wanted to eat it, there would be nothing to stop him
pongos can be just as brutal as chimps if it means extra calories from a small mammal
I like to think they hesitate with fellow primates since they 'see themselves' in them and by extension, will extend the same rules of combat they have amongst themselves to other primates
- avoid conflict if possible
- if conflict is unavoidable, make your opponent back down first
- if they won't back down, hurt them until they leave
- if they refuse to leave, go for the kill
big man knew he didn't have to go whole hog to get monkey boy to back off
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>>5159756
I want pongos to snap the limbs of every trifling monkey fucking shit
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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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>>5159254
Thanks I'll try. It's hard as an apartment rentcuck without a balcony
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>>5159295
if you need to keep it indoors point a small fan in the direction of the plant but not directly on it on low, that'll help draw away excess moisture. did you check the soil itself? does the mold go underneath? scrape it all out and maybe get some fresh soil to put a layer on. don't mist or water it excessively until you remove whatever it is
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If you give it more light the soil will be drier and you won't have mold problems
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The bottoms of those pots HAVE to have been cut out right? There's no way those tiny planters cut support plants that big. Watering them alone would be a total nightmare.
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If my echeveria keeps making leaves with little clefts in them, if I propogate those clefted leaves, is there any realistic chance it'd grow a plant that has all clefted leaves?

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I have a male hedgehog. Apparently he likes his "boy time" (as people call it) a lot, but does it when nobody is around to clean up after him.
This leads to his cum matting up his fur and basically forming concrete tough hairballs.
The shit is literally as tough as superglue and very difficult to remove. Soaking helps a little, as does soap.
However, even with a stiff toothbrush and a lot of caution, he still ends up with some left in his fur.
He tries to assist me in cleaning it by holding the toothbrush and exposing his neck for me to gently clean it.
But there has to be an easier way to do this. I have his total trust, but he starts to get fussy if cleaning it takes too long.
He'll tolerate maybe 20 minutes of grooming before he decides he's done being groomed and wants to play or eat.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Thank you for your time.

PS:My boy says, *sniff sniff sniff* "chirp chirp", which is his happy to be clean and hello verbals.
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>>5159930
Stop doing it in front of him and then he might stop trying to mimmick
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>>5160142
Nobody does that in front of him.
It's just something male hedgehogs instinctively do or do in their sleep.

The first time I ever noticed the residuals was after one of his naps.
At first I though they were little skin tags, because the concretions were tiny, flat, and dangling of his underbelly skin. So...I carefully snipped one away so he wouldn't get it caught on something and end up with an injury from tearing his skin.
It was then that I noticed it was a solid matting of fur as if he'd been superglued.
I gave him a bath and the rest came out on their own.
Now the gobs of "glue" are ridiculous (despite being infrequent) and more difficult to get out.
Hedgehogs have sensitive skin so most soaps are unsafe to use.
We use a special baby shampoo, which works nicely and is safe for hedgies.
However, i still have to carefully brush out the goo with a toothbrush and some of it always remains because that shit is almost like gorilla glue.

It's fortunate that he's a trooper and usually lets me clean him without a fuss. He's remarkably patient and tolerant for a hedgehog.


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I remember reading somewhere about a hedgehog that actually bit off half his penis.
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>>5160267
>things that never happened
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>>5159976
Nah, just give him a bunch of hedgehog-sized socks.

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what is the WORST animal?
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>>5158585
Love mosquitoes as they reclaim energy from human society and feed it back into nature again as insect meat
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Humans, no contest. They are completely incapable of surviving on their own, and are destroying their own habitats out of greed and gluttony.
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>>5158585
tick
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>>5160399
Are you ultra sure?
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>>5158625
I don't give a fuck about their plight. They show themselves they die

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whats the difference between jungles and rainforests? "theyre both in tropical/subtropical areas" i dont live in either and im near a rainforest whats actually different about them
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>>5160456
>whats the difference between jungles and rainforests?
Annual rainfall. Simple as.
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>>5160456
Usually, jungle just refers to density. There's no specific way to measure it, it's just means the speaker considers a particular piece of forest particularly thick.

However, because the lower rainfall levels in the dry season leave trees smaller and thus let more light reach the floor and thus more vegetation grows there, if you wanted something more scientific you could use "jungle" as a colloquial term for a monsoon forest - ie a tropical forest in areas with a monsoon climate.
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>>5160456
A jungle is a tropical rainforest. Non-jungle rainforests can exist in temperate areas like New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest.

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I'm sad. Post gigafly.

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mlem
Did you know that bunnies think you look delicious?

>new2bunnies
https://rabbit.org/audiences/for-rabbit-newcomers/
https://www.best4bunny.com/bunny-care/
https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care/
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>videos
https://rentry.org/bunnyvideos
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Rabbits are opportunistic carnivores. Here you see a malnourished rabbit hunting a spider.
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>>5159791
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsEcr4HXTOc
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>>5159707
How to conquer the world
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Deploying Tactical Camo Rabbit

I wish I got to see the Great Auk or Haast's eagle
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I miss this fat nigga like you wouldn't believe
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>>5150982
The passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. If they were still around I'd probably just see them outside everyday which makes their loss feel much more tangible.
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>>5152241
>Our carnivorous tendencies. basically every animal extinction and mass extirpation we caused was driven by us eating them or killing them off cuz they were eating our sources of meat or competed for resources by said meat source (livestock).
It's a significant factor but it's far from "basically all" of them, invasive species and deforestation are each just as significant of a chunk and even for the animals that we directly hunted to extinction it wasn't always for food, like the sea mink.
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Neanderthals and Homo Erectus. We just know how roughly they looked and that they hunted with spears and such. I really wanna know how they lived.
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>>5153006
I think that a major factor for island bird species extinction was predation by Polynesian introduced species that acted as land predators (e.g. rats, dogs, and pigs) of both adult birds and more importantly eggs. Chickens originated from Southeast Asia and had behaviors/ reproductive rates that allowed them to handle that shit. Isolated Pacific island bird species did not. I can’t see anything other than the local mallard spinoff species working out domestication wise.

Post bears.
>Information.
>Images.
>Stories.
>Art.
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>>5157446
The results of a blubber diet
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>>5155684
cringe


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