it's so cruel and unfair
>>5118521>no argumentlmao
>>5118532It wasn't supposed to be an argument, retard
>>5118536I accept your concession
>>5117837>How aware are YOU or any person that they’re most likely not living in the specific environment they evolved to live in?What kind of question is this? Look at any person who lives in an American city, for example, and you will see the soulblight of a creature forced into unnatural existence firsthand.
>>5117407oh im retarded i thought it was a window
thinking about the past extinctions and impending future extinctions (some very soon like the 'akikiki) of hawaii's native bird species again
>>5115450By "re-evolve front legs", I meant so as in "start using their wings as anything other than flight".
>>5115512>and even then those transitory forms have to appear at the right time to be able to compete with species in those established niches or become another genetic dead end, and even then they still have to compete with other transitory forms, so a 4 legged bird has to compete with every other terrestrial vertebrate quadruped that already exists
>>5115436Crows and pigeons and seagulls will inherit the earth
>>5115250you think they have it bad?
>>5115436Crocodilians aren't really doing hot either.
What are your thoughts on bears?
Terrifying, but in an awe and respect sorta way. They embody what, to me, is so scary about the American wilderness. Big and deadly, but ultimately if you are smart - very fun and interesting. Bears are among those legendary creatures from all of human history, like Wolves and Eagles. Majestic and powerful. picrel in The Boss from Banff. 700lbs and something like 30 years old. What an incredible beast.
>>5118050I have heard that bears are stinky.
>>5113325Bears are cool. My favorite is the Sun Bear.
can't bear em desu
>>5113325Black bears are kinda goofy. I can always hear them crashing through the woods before I see them. Just don't startle them or get between their cubs and they are quite harmless in my experience.Brown bears are scary AF. I was driving a 4WD on a wooded trail when a brown bear appeared at the edge of the treeline. It proceeded to run parallel with the vehicle for about a mile at 15-20 MPH before it disappeared into the woods. It freaked me out so much that I didn't get out of the vehicle until I got back to town.For both black and brown bears, I wish people would secure their trash. I'm tired of picking up my neighbor's weed bags and maxipads from my side lot.
I have a small glass tilted jar and I was thinking it would be cool to grow something in it and have it decorate my room. I want something that smells really nice and can change the scent of a room.I really love frankincense so I did some research and Plectranthus Coleoides seems easy to grow and kind of resembles the scent of the resin. I liked brittlebush too but that's not for small places and probably an ass to grow.Any advice or recommendations? I really liked terrariums too but I don't know how to make one.
>>5117960Mint is super easy to grow, smells great, tastes good, grows fast, and looks pretty. Plus it’s fine with waterlogged soil.
Explain THIS
Their long snouts makes me wonder if it's a similar evolution to the gharial made for the Borzoi to specialize in eating fish.
>>5117897All long snooters deserve Bountiful Benign Cuddles.
Tell me about the language(s) of the birds, /an/. Why do we know so little about the meaning of the different calls of birds and how can we better understand and comunicate with them?
>>5117461Crows and ravens "names" within their group. A unique call that's only used for that specific crow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4cohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doj_wt9ER_Q
>>5117461Look up Toshitaka Suzuki's work. The run down is that he studies Japanese tits (hehe) and found they exhibit compositional syntax and can combine sounds to rely different messages i.e. for warnings of danger of specific hazards
Fuck yeah
>>5115973I want to lick the knobs. Not in a sexual way, I just want to lick giraffe knobs.
>>5116930[X] doubt
>>5116767Looks like straight from Regular Show. Or any other Cartoon Network bullshit.
https://www.businessinsider.com/giraffes-might-be-next-banned-thing-on-china-social-media-2024-2Two years later, Chinese still don't know they use their long necks to spy on them.
A thread for otters, wolverines, badgers, martens, grisons, weasels, stoats, tayras, fishers, polecats, ferrets, and ferret-badgers. Post pictures, videos, and stories about these cute, intelligent, and mischievous critters. Thread theme inspired by:https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-otter-tshirt-monterey-bay-aquarium-kelce-7272d1970336b02a3a97b4814a54a2f3
>>5062222MEEP
>>5073950needs more research
>>5062222
>>5074592>past Beijingeither you couldnt help but say Beijing after saying China (intrusive thoughts/ADHD) or you dont know where Beijing is (knowledge inferior to a grade 9 geography student)
I found a little bobcat today bros.
>>5117766What could possibly go wrong?
>>5117763what camera do you use?
>>5117766Sniffing dog buts is unsanitary but you do it anyways
>>5117766Bobkots are cute, but I hiked in on foot and hiked out the same way. Didn't want to carry the little guy eight miles.>>5117769Had to keep my distance or else the little guy would run off>>5117798Casio EX-S8. It's not the best but it's what I had on me.
>>5117766>>5117983samefag brown schizophrenicnice bober op
>Walks in>rekts your whole tree of lifeHow many more branches of life are there we dont know about?
>>5115608No, but birds in general followed a very different evolutionary trajectory from mammals/synapsids and even their brains are wired differently.
>>5107573Savanna hypothesis and pursuit hunting hypothesis have been debunked
>>5098911same
>>5098911But they become less an idiot, even by a small percentage, isn't that a good thing?
>>5115427There's also that one elephant that speaks korean,
Knowing you’re statistically far more likely to be killed by a dog than a bear, which animal would you rather be stuck in the woods with?
>>5118319You statistically encounter more pitbulls than bears. Attacks per hour of human contact are something else. Even with shitbulls counted most victims are children. Without shitbulls dogs are only dangerous to thirdies that earned their fate anyways, just like how angloids earned their shitbulls by refusing to ban canine dysgenics. >my society mistreats dogs and now dogs are mistreating me>how could this happen>do these mutts not respect my religion? my aristocracy’s sporting uses for dogs?
No matter what you think a dog is always easier to fend off than a bear
>>5118463no need to fend off, i would just play dead to trick the bear.
>>5118319knowing you're statistically more likely to be killed by a mosquito than a tyrannosaurus rex, which animal would you rather be stuck in the woods with?
>>5118319The bear is still overall more dangerous: people are just encountering them far less often.
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CHIBKM! (:
>>5118103I look like this and I say this.
>>5118103thank you for your service (eggs)
>eats the bugs lives in the podAnd gives you eggs, based chooks
why is /an/ better than 90% of all boards?
Post crocs
>>5116508most mentally stable incel
>>5116552>InvoluntaryMy whole point is that I DON'T want to have sex, Redditor. Did you forget that you can't farm updoots on the Mongolian basket-weaving forum?
>>5107789Over a month ago they saw a croc on an African cam with a really nasty wound in his side as well as missing a big part of his tail.Fucker seemed pretty resilient, although no new video of him was posted since these 4, so maybe he sadly kicked the bucket already.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eHqrwObzkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l4YZh2iIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZSW0tJscIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkT8Bn0YQEw
>>5107789W croc
>>5117133>SundarbansThe Bay of Bengal does have a lot of giant crocodiles
>largest predatory dinosaur ever>bigger specimens found all the time>recently found to have hunted and killed adult individuals of large herbivore species by biting them in the face>by far the most popular dinosaur>if you combine the popularity of the rest of the top ten dinosaurs, they’re about as popular as T. rex is on its own>has a stranglehold on media depictions in every form, in spite of the small arms>studies will specifically include rex because it increases the odds of the study being funded significantly >is responsible for a lot of interest in dinosaurs in general and helped push the field forward in many waysHow is one species so influential on the field it’s a part of?
>>5106245>largest predatory dinosaur ever By what metric? Certainly not by volume or length. By mass? Mass of what exactly we can't weigh a Trex or any contemporary animal because they died so long ago bones don't even remain.
>>5106894>>largest encephalization of any dinosaur aside from a few small dromaeosaursencephalization within the range of modern reptiles, and about as clever as an alligator. Probably a bit less clever than varanids.>>5112238>i am old enough to remember a time before JP came out and already there were kids everywhere who were crazy about dinosaurs, we had dinosaur cartoons, dinosaur movies, dinosaur toys, bands named after dinosaurs, brands named after dinosaurs, well before JP came out.Yes, but their market range was a lot more limited. Before Jurassic Park, dinosaurs were for, basically, nerd kids. After Jurassic Park, the nerd kids got bullied when they said that Deinonychus was the OG raptor.
>>5112623So, it got less popular by being more popular?
>>5113417>>5113765They totally do play into them being hybrids in the novels. Both of them. In the first one I recall a scene (That was later featured in the Lost World Movie) where the T-Rex has a weird forked tongue like a snake. Like the raptor in your image. In the Lost World Novel there are straight up chameleon Carnotaurus' that play around in the lights and scare the raptors.They were always mutant freaks. They were somewhat accurate mutant freaks, because that was the idea Hammond was going for, but they were still mutant freaks.
>>5106274fake and gay
What the actual fuck how are people this fucking stupid
>>5090575"muh wypipo" ass whining.
kek
kekaroo even
>>5080498Ew
>>5080498Look on the bright side, at least the scammers don't need to put an actual animal in a dangerous situation to "rescue" it on camera now when they can just proompt it
