Itt obscure animals that only (You) have heard of.I'll start with the otter civet. Which is in fact not related to otters at all. But instead a member of the viverrid family, that is found in Southeast Asia. The reason it resembles an otter is due to something called convergent evolution
>>5169328Why exactly can't humans do this?
Bro never skips leg day.
>>5169747The human immune system is too advanced.If you injected live chloroplasts into yourself, your body would immediately flag them as foreign invaders, trigger a severe allergic reaction, and destroy'em.On top of that, chloroplasts just aren't very efficient energy producers relative to a mammal's caloric needs. For a human to generate enough daily calories from sunlight via photosynthesis, you would need to maximize your surface area and drastically lower your metabolism. That means you would have to be able to flatten yourself out to the size of half a tennis court and enter a coma to survive on sunlight using chloroplasts.And even if chloroplasts could survive inside human tissue, they require specific proteins and genetic machinery to maintain themselves.Sea slugs evolved ways to mitigate cellular stress and keep chloroplasts functional; human cells completely lack the cellular architecture to support, shield, or repair a plant organelle and while the sea slugs do have to replenish their chloroplast supply from time to time, we would have to do it much much much much much more often.That's fucking why.
>>5169808>That means you would have to be able to flatten yourself out to the size of half a tennis court and enter a coma to survive on sunlight using chloroplasts.cool design idea. Thanks
>>5169532Cute
Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their child rearing abilities?
>>5157942literally smarter than Trump
>>5169486(actual) orange man GOOD
>>5157045>thoughts very smart humanoids that secretly know more than ushttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/dozens-orangutans-saved-indonesia-blazes-6469306Many of them are having their habitats burned down by subhumans and it hurts me to see
>>5169490what do they know?
>>5169707too much
I'm going to post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants to snuggle a pugglePrevious thread >>5118115 hit image limit and before anyone says it yes the males (and only the males) venomous (mostly seasonally).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8 [Embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5L5fVdXueAhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/1puF5nSDV6QI have also been thinking if the daily reminder to want a platypus is too nebulous. It seems to confuse some anons. I didn't want to completely steal Sakurafish's every day until you like it, but After her ban I wanted to do something similar. Mayby a reminder every day to platonically love platypuses, but then 4chan being 4chan some will take that the wrong way. But I am open to suggestions. This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5165779Because it's honestly not really a mammal. It's a relic of obsolete Linnaean classification that categorized animals based on perceived similarities (which to be fair that's all they had to go on since they didn't exactly have DNA testing or as good a fossil record as we do). They found this animal that really didn't fit into their pre-existing classification scheme and so just had to awkwardly cram it into whatever was closest to it. Had the Platypus (and Echidna) gone extinct the day before the first europeans arrived and they were only known through fossils, they would 100% be classified as a group of Non-Mammalian Cynodonts (albeit closely related). There would be factoids and listicles like "Did you know that this group of ancient mammal relatives survived in Australia until the modern era?". And of course this has had knock on effects, because since we classify Monotremes as true mammals, that's effected how we classify a lot of mesozoic animals in the Mammal and Mammal adjacent lineages.
>>5169082>CynodontsI kinda knew about that, but still super interesting read. TY for your insightful analysis anon.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
Yay. I can post againThis is your belated daily reminder to want a platypus
>fucks up stink bugs and other invasive absolute shit tier bugs FOR FREESay thank you to him.
Marmorated stink bug situation got really bad here this year and they are one of the most annoying invasive bugs.Meanwhile the Samurais have been spotted only a couple times so far so they're not in high enough numbers yet and still rare.HURRY UP FUCKERS
Long ago in a distant landI, Stinku, the smell shifting master of rankness unleashed an unspeakable smell!But a foolish Samurai wasp wielding a magic stinger flew forth to oppose me!
>>5169828kek
ok so from what i understood from skimming wikipedia they're basically a bunch of all-female salamanders who reproduce by mating with males of other species which makes their genetics so weird they can't reliably be broken down into different individual species
>>5169791hybridization sounds pretty easy in salamanders, because the giant chinese salamander have been fucked over by forced hybridization
I this looks like something i heard about called bumblefoot that apparently doesn't get better on its own so it has to be drained.Saw a friends pet duck limping and picked her up to look and she has this lump on her foot.A small Yorkshire terrier attacked her a few months ago so she has a limp.What do?I heard people soak these to get them to open up and drain them or something but i don't know how to do it and the duck doesn't like to be handled too much.Does this seem serious or not, i will probably show the picture to a few vets and ask if they treat ducks.If it has to be cut open to be drained of puss or whatever then we need to keep it clean but place we live doesn't have a garden so the duck lives on a plot of land where a house is going to be built eventually What do?
>>5169768It looks like a cyst. If that's the case, a vet is the best option because even if you drain it yourself, it could swell up again if you don't remove the cyst wall. I mean, you could try to DIY it using cyst removal vids on YT but that's obviously not recommended.
>>5169782Would be a bit worried about the duck stepping in something wet abd dirty if it needs surgery.Is it likely to be a small incision to lance it or s big cut that takes a while to heal
>>5169794For a cyst, it would be an incision because they have to get in there and cut out the cycst wall, or you risk it reforming. However, if you watch how they handle cysts in cattle hooves, you'd realize that the post op healing is much easier than the procedure itself. They spray their cleaned open sores with a special antibiotic spray and bandage up the hoof. The cow then proceeds to walk through literal shit mud, but chance of infection is low as long as they maintain the wound. Bodies are amazing at natural self-healing and with modern medical tech, that duck has a better chance at recovery than 99.9% of its ancestors. If you cannot afford a vet, do the surgery yourself or cannot maintain the wound after the surgery, then honestly, the best thing you can do is leave the poor thing be. From the animal's perspective, this may be the best option as it would avoid the equivalent of an alien abduction from the viewpoint of a human.
>>5169805Probably gotta keep her in the house with a clean floor first day of recovery at least.Hope its not too expensive.Gotta check the vet actually will treat a duck before i bring her over.I hope its not too expensive as I'm living in Latin America off UK NEETbux ATM
>>5169810>Latin AmericaIt will be cheap af compared to the vets in the UK/US.
Thoughts on the secretary Bird?
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Dingoes are now getting OVER 30 PERCENT of their diet from eating worthless feral cats!! Oh happy day to see these verminous cats get what they deserve! Yet another resounding W for dogchads!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-17/research-project-dingoes-great-sandy-desert/107255966"It's good when the dingoes eat cats, because they are killing our precious animals, like the Greater Bilby and desert mouse," Ms Hunter said."They are bigger than normal pet cats; last week I saw one that was similar size to a dingo," he said.The average weight of a domestic cat is four kilograms; however, feral cats are regularly reaching six kilograms. "They are really destroying our habitats, killing our birds, reptiles, and marsupials," Mr Hunter said."It's good the dingoes are bringing them down."
>>5169563dingoes are dogs albeit
>>5169563Australia has Greyhound racing, what if these crackheads went feral and hybridized with dingoes? Is this the final solution to the feral cat problem?
>>5169629God willing, anon
I like my cats like I like my women: kept indoors at all times.
"Cheesed to meet you", quoth the mouse.
>>5168755This is how you end up making yinglets real
>>5168755pretty sure they made a movie about that.
>>5168755Stop trying to make Skaven.
>WITH BIZARRE RESULTS>CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT>6 BIZARRE FINDINGS YOU WON'T BELIEVE #3Fuck offNot you OP
>>5169735>*Keep trying to make Skavenftfy
You know what they say about guys with big feet.
>>5169555A lot of skeptics in the Cryptozoology community are just guys treating it like a Circus where they sometimes go to point and laugh at everyone else before claiming they're actually interested in the subject and think the super safe pick, the Thylacine, is still alive
>>5169555the most damning evidence for this pic is the fact that this began showing in uk theatres a few days before the first sighting of nessie
>>5169793Don't get me wrong, i don't believe for a second but, as i said, i find it laughable that people come up with many totally legit explanations for what it is. It can only be one so most are bullshitting
>>5169795*I don't believe it for a secondfuck
>>5169795yeah the dead baby elephant explanation is the funniest one for me
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>>5169374I eat cow damn near every day. Not like this guy though. >>5169387Although I will admit I do have some sexy heifers.
>>5169449Give in to temptation..
>>5169458No thanks.
>>5169272If you didn't care..What happened to me
>>5168273
he chillin
>>5168554I look like this and stand like this
>>5168554same energy as that binocular chinaman with the wet patch
>>5168554he likes his home
>>5168554My favorite After Man animal
Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores?>you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome>you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter>often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome>if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys)>if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeatBoy am I glad that we're omnivores
>>5159567eating low nutritious shit like grass and leaves and fermenting it in your own body so you can support a gigantic muscular body sounds pretty amazing
>>5169030You have to spent most of the day chewing and eating thoughMeanwhile lions just eat once and they're good for the entire day
>>5169032>You have to spent most of the day chewing and eating thoughwhat else are you going to do all day? large herbivores look chill as fuck while eating. lions always need to be near prey that they are able to hunt and also need to be in top condition every day or they're fucked
>>5169034>lions always need to be near prey that they are able to hunt and also need to be in top condition every day or they're fuckedThat's how they stay intelligent and in tip-top shapeOnly the strongest can mate and pass on their genes as wellMost herbivores are dumb as a rock thanks to their abundant food source (elephants notwithstanding)
>>5159567On the upside, plants don't run away. For most herbivores, it's free food. I don't think they even have the brain energy to spare thinking of how fucked over they were by nature.>Boy am I glad that we're omnivoresGood if you're a hunter-gatherer chud or steppe nomad chad, but most of humans that lived before the green revolution had to farm:>Clear the land of any other plant, rocks and turn over soil>Just so you can plant a grass with overgrown seeds>Spend most of year tending it so they don't get eaten by animals and praying that the weather doesn't destroy them before harvest>Spends time and energy harvesting it lest it rots away in the field>Isn't even ready yet, got to remove the seeds from the stalks and then the edible part from the husk>Then turn the result into actual foodIf anyone is winning at life, it's the slime mold.
ITT: ugliest dog breeds
>>5167620They are funny and kind nice dogs.
>>5167493Bulldogs in general. Any breed with a smashed in face. I want my dog to look as wolflike as possible. Not like a goblin
>>5167493Really? This is considered ugly for dogs now? Gay looksmaxxing culture has really tainted every aspect of culture now, you just can't just have a dog look like mutt anymore.
>Talking shit about SpudsGuess who didn't get invited to party with the original party animal
>>5167493>>5167620The original breed is good looking, the modern ones look like dog aliens. On the upside, I've heard they're lovable goofs.
What percentage of wild animals do you think die virgins?
>>5169628Probably like 99% when factor in ants.
>>5169704or any other insect.The life of a male praying mantis is particularly horrific; his options are to live as a virgin or to die during his first sexual encounter.
>>5169721Make that 99.0000001% now that I know this fag exists
>>5169704I think animals that were destined to never breed shouldn't be counted.
>>5169736so we won’t count you
