Can they REALLY break a man's arm? I'm skeptical. I doubt they could break either of my mighty arms.
>>5166811Or a literal child and people applied to it adults by extension
People who know, know the real danger is if they drown you.
>>5166479I herd the geese at my apt complex I'm sure you could do the same with swans. they hiss but all you need is a pole to assert authority
>>5166749Idk why people fear of them, I used to handfeed them seeds, sure they bite my fingers all the time but it's more like awkward rough tickle then bite from dog or cat
>>5166749They're nice birds and so are geese. People just aren't used to dealing with an animal that demands respect. They can definitely recognize individuals even if they change clothing.
post the most abominable dysgenic creatures that have been "created" by mankind
>>5164338Artie Lange levels of SMASH here, Jesus.
>>5166066Holoprosencephaly, non-survivable. It's a "natural" birth defect rather than some creation of mankind. Happens in humans too.
THE PYRAMID SKEEM GIVES AND TAKES
>>5151024>Looking at the top, and then comparing it to the bottomcrazy
>>5164338>he knows
i've never taken my pets to the vet and i just let life takes its natural course
>>5165022I would pray and let God decide
>>5165293OP implies that he doesn’t do anything for his dying pets.
>>5165291>it's not distressing to dieCome here you little snotnosed pissant faggot, let me put a kabar through your chest cavity and have you choke on a throat-ful of blood in your final moments. Let's see then if you still think dying is not distressing.
>>5164618I inherited the dogs my Mom and I raised when she died when I was 18. I am proud that I have cared for them since then but god damn have I not given up several career opportunities because then I would not have the time to actually own these dogs.I love them but will be glad to close that chapter of my life when they finally die.
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.
There is even the hypothesis proposed by Pardo (2017) stating that Lissamphibia is not a monophyletic group, but that all three lineages are temnospondyls, and caecilians would be stereospondyls. The fossil in question is Chinlestegophis jenkinsi.
Is the japanese giant salamander basically the closest convergent thing we have to what these wouldve looked like?
>>5166752And the chinese species. The tail and body plan of salamanders are clearly plesiomorphic, so yes, they closely resemble their temnospondyl ancestors.
>>5165214I was not keyed in to recent amphibian research well enough to know this. That’s baller.
>>5166810Marjanovic and Laurin stick to the position regarding caecilians. They maintain that the issue is controversial and reject the monophyly of Lissamphibia, yet they have already taken for granted that Batrachia (Anura and Caudata) are nested within Temnospondyli. It is amusing to recall how, nearly twenty years ago, they asserted that Lepospondyli was monophyletic and included Lissamphibia; nowadays, however, the majority view is that Lepospondyli is polyphyletic, with its members scattered across the phylogeny of Carboniferous tetrapods.
i have always loved animals, but recently i have been struggling to reconcile eating meat with this position. at the same time, it is incredibly difficult to not eat meat. it seems a cruel punishment for humans to have to eat animals despite the fact that they are so lovely and decorate life so wonderfully. how do you reckon with this and what steps should i take?
>>5162521> I WILL NOT BRING ABOUT ARCADIA> I WILL NOT BE THE BRIDGE TO THE OVERMAN> I WILL NOT REIFY GOD'S KINGDOM ON EARTH FOR ALL HIS CREATURES> NO YOU CAN'T MAKE ME I WONT I DON'T WANNAOkay...?
>>5163476he's a roided out youtuber who supplement copes and eats for a living
>>5161224nigger do you eat dogs or something?dogs are predators, so are we. we eat meat. that's how it is and ought to be
>>5161224I share meat with my pets.I say yum, they say yum.Just raise and sacrifice the animals you eat humanely you gigantic faggot. The vast majority of domesticated animals are specifically raised to be eaten.
>>5161224The world would be a better place if more people had that kind of empathy, no matter what insecure faggots say. Do what you think is right.
Nothing against cats, I just prefer dogs since the affection and love you give them seems to really make a difference in their lives. Like, it actually -means- something to the animal itself.They'll protect you with their lives if you raise them right.With cats, the minute things get inconvenient, they tend to lash out.Even heard of few stories about cats almost immediately feeding off of their dead owner when they got hungry.Yeah I get you need to eat but damn...
>>5164232Way more than 24% dogs are abused, pitbulls, or both so this is actually way lower than expected
>>5164232What's a pet supposed to do? Throw you a funeral?
>>5165281Exactly what taxo would do..
i feel bad for zoomers and younger dog lovers. cats have won. the Internet is for cats. there were brief period of motion pictures and mainstream media pushing dog propaganda for about a century, but as the nature intended, cats are far more interesting to humans.
>>5166802When cats were captured in daguerreotype before dogs were captured in photo, you know there is weird human impulse to turn cats into symbols or images over dogs.
Semi experienced invertebrate owner, first time owning any predatory species. About an hour ago I received 10 Lychas tricarinatus (L3). (Got them in a trade for millipedes) I did my research before the trade, and various forums told me that scorpios of this size can eat Red Runner hatchlings, which I have plenty of. But now looking at how tiny they are should I search for smaller foods? I can run to a store to get fruit flies. I want to provide the best care I can, so any advice on feeding will be appreciated
>>5166795You can just kill the roaches if they're too big. Scorpions are perfectly happy to scavenge pre killed prey
>>5166797Ohh good to know!I thought that this was only for adult ones (some people feed them boiled eggs, but idk if that's responsible)
Why is there no fucking EAGLE thread? Aren't you guys patriots?
Some dumb lady GOT RID OF THEM ALL
>>5166771>Aren't you guys patriotsAlbanian patriot thread
i am a HOKKAIDO patriot
Japanese Spitz edition. Japanese Spitz are basically anime dogs, except real. If you prefer any other breed, you're doing it wrong. Previous >>5155127
>>5166584It was probably age. MY dog is on its way out because she has a soggy artery. I'm just making her remaining years the best possible with whatever the meds can do..
>>5166584He was 15. Two particular causes popped out to me, the floor cleaner I mentioned and an infection via tooth decay, which can also be my fault because I didn't brush his teeth often enough.I'm basically blaming myself for my dog's death.
>>5166655I mean everything has to die someday, if they don't die of one thing it's another. And sometimes organs just go bad for no discernible reason. I wouldn't try so hard to pinpoint a specific cause man, it's probably not your fault at all, sometimes stuff just happens and there's nothing we can do about it.
>>5166655Bro, he was 15.Kidney disease is apparently the #2 killer of dogs anyway and most people don't even catch it before it can be somewhat mitigated. Even if you do it normally just means delaying the inevitable a year or two. It could have been anything or nothing.
>>5166661>>5166721Yeah, I still feel absolutely terrible and guilty, but thanks.
Sea otters have been observed using abalone shells as bowls and using them to hold sea urchins to eat.
>>5165820The abelone bowl can also help clear away some of those annoying urchin quills
>>5165820Like finding an usually large marshmallow in your Lucky Charms
>>5165826Adorable
>>5165820hes just eating the abalone
>>5165997So are you saying that this isn’t the sea otter using the shell as a bowl for sea urchin meat, and that all these pictures are showing is a load abalone?
It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
>>5161557Did you at least give it ivermectin?
>>5162944Grab them and dunk them in warm soapy water repeatedly.
>>5158459Based hedgehog bro.Earlier this year I found a hedgehog in my street during the day, running away from a cat. It was dragging its rear leg behind so I thought it might be broken. Scooped it up, popped it in a box, and took it to a vet (I called ahead and they said they'd do what they could, no charge).I kept the box closed on my way to keep it calm. Opened it on arrival and it smelled awful. Like rotting fish. There was a mass of maggots near the top of its head. Bastards were eating it alive. Vet put it down which was sad, but hopefully it was spared a few days of misery and pain.That image of pulsating maggots and the smell of death stayed with me though.
Try spraying boric acid on their backs. This shit cracks chitin and make bugs dessicate, killing them.
It's been surprisingly quiet for the past couple of weeks. There's just one or two hedgehogs at best, when there used to be 10+.I'm a bit worried since it's too early for all of them to hibernate. At the very least the newborns should be looking out for food, but there are none.Vid related from last night.>>5163107>That image of pulsating maggots and the smell of death stayed with meI know that feel, same thing happened two years ago.>>5165046I wouldn't try it, hedghogs have a surprisingly sensitive skin (which is exposed between the spikes).>>5161557Bless you, anon.
I move from Siberia to US and find a turtle without shell. Very cool. Pls excuse English ok
>>5166518Looking at the combined ranges of all turtles, it's shocking how limited their range is in Europe, Siberia and the Arabian peninsula.
>>5166686looks like they need snapping turtles
>>5166625>Be fat lizard>Bloat your ribcage outside your body>Remove your fenestrae so people think you're an anapsid in the future like if you're covering your tracks>Refuse to elaborate. Why did they do it?
reminder
A great philosopher once said, if you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings.
>>5165095What's the purpose of that hood?
>>5165473I don't fully know but their eggs are carried in the hood until they hatch, so it seems it at least plays a function in that. If I had to guess though then I'd say that's an exaptation. Another kind of eyeless animal for the thread though, remipedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemipediaThey're venomous "crustaceans"(in pancrustacea but they're more closely related to insects than decapods(what most people think of as crustaceans)) and they live largely in anchialine(coastal aquifers and caves) systems.
Another eyeless animal for the thread, symphylans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymphylaThey're a group of eyeless myriapods(the group that contains centipedes and millipedes) and they typically live in dirt and rotting logs.
>>5161231
What did dinosaurs look like?
>>5165029Multiple theropod lineages (abelisaurs, carcharodontosaurs and tyrannosaurs) evolved reduced arms because they didn't need them, they used their jaws for killing prey to the point that the arms were mostly useless. It's the same reason why apes don't have tails.
>>5164921my ass, no but seriously
>>5165029square root law
>>5165580>square root lawAccording to archives you've been saying this since 2020 and not once did anyone try to correct you. Presumably because there's nobody here to correct you.
Found this dude in my yard, SW Montana.From image search I think its a Banded Garden Spider.Post more 8 legged friends
Can someone tell me what spider this is?
>>5165263Also i currently have over 7 of them in my Apartment, today i picked one up and brought him inside.
>>5165260
That's a lot of kids right there
>>5163164Good news! I spotted Junior again. Apparently he has been living in some window blinds that I never move aroundCouldnt get a pic though
