It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
>>5162900How do you clean sticky shit out of their belly fur?
>>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.
How the fuck are Borzois even real?
>>5162259>>5154211>>5156434why do they keep deflating so fast
>>5155061same, they're amazing>>5156434oh no, he's melting! take him to shade immediately
>>5161112demons in furry guise
>>5146723>we wuz wolvez n shiee
>has venom potent enough to kill a herd of elephants>uses it to hunt micewhy do they do this
>>5163573*conspecificNeed a biology spellchecker
>>5161204They can swallow mice whole. Genociding elephants would be pointless especially since elephants are scared of mice anyway.
>>5163573>I expect they bite each other at least that oftenThey literally never bite each othert. cohabbed rattlesnakes for 3 years
>>5161204It's a snake, it won't last long against a predator. When it's attacked, it needs to kill the predator quickly.If an animal in its environment develops resistance to its venom, then it will get into an evolutionary arms race developing more and more potent venom.
>>5161204>has venom potent enough to kill a herd of elephants>still gets mogged by a fuzzy tube cathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z3IIvSJ-ug
There are many cat-adjacent animals like ferrets, minks or even lemurs and so on that are similar on the surface: same general size, long tails, fluffy; and while they're cute in their own way we don't care about them too much, while nothing comes close to the perfection of cats. How just one species won so hard at life?
>>5164936maybe its because you're a cat schizo and dogs are based? just guessin lady
>>5164936See>>5164760Also cry harder schizo lmao
>ACS was banned mid last week and is back to let cats live rent free in its head again ITTLmao what a subhuman
>>5164739sounds like something someone with toxoplasmosis would sayalso, my post saying this exact thing got deleted - probably reported by parasite brain-controlled anons
>>5165001Nice schizo theory. Lmao. Care to explain why the lion thread has that picture of the cat brutally killing a gator still up but the one of the gator eating a cat got deleted immediately?>>5164936Nice projection. :)
You know what they say about guys with big feet.
Speaking of Bob Gymlan and books, I found a copy of this for a dollar at a lighthouse the other day
>>5164630Kino
>>5164887kek
>>5164887
Eating meat is gay.Why do animals eat meat?Are they all fags?
>>5164226any proof?
>>5164192>>5164231I feel my dog a cooked cat that she killed once. She's killed 2 cats so far.
>>5164305*Fed
from troons to furries to more troons and otherkin... It's time for trans-autotrophs. I want to see the children of overbearing leftist mothers refusing to eat in public, telling everyone they are chemosynthetic or some shit
>>5164526meds
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep18952Researchers some years ago found in the Dakota Formation of Colorado (Cenomanian age, good for preserving trackways and some plants, less so skeletons) strange collections of footprints scraping the ground. The prints were identifiably those of a three-toed ~16 foot theropod and there were collections of adults/subadults of various sizes in the same place, preserved well. These scrapings are most similar to those formed by modern shorebirds in mating leks.>The sharply-terminated scratch marks found in association with diagnostic theropod tracks represent active theropod scraping or scratching. The most complete theropod tracks include a large Irenesauripus-like27,28 left theropod track on the left side of the holotype scrape (Fig. 3a) and a smaller right theropod track associated with the right side of a shallow paratype scrape (Fig. 3c). The variable size and depth of the scrapes, indicate different levels of activity and persistence by different sized theropods, which based on footprint length had hip heights between ~1.0 and ~2.0m29 and full body lengths between ~2.5 and ~5.0m. This implies either two or more different species, or co-occurrence of conspecific adults and sub-adults of quite different sizes. Elapsed time between scraping episodes cannot be estimated accurately, but was likely short given the similar, good preservation of all scrapes.If it is true that a 2.5-5m long obligate carnivores were lek mating in a specific spot and scraping to impress the ladies, and each area has up to 60 PRESERVED scrapes, how were so many large predators in the same place? You don't get a dozen polar bears all in the same place trying to get laid. What are all the dinos eating? modern apex predators have low population densities. Is the radius out from the site to get food practical for them all to eat? Is this a sign that large theropods had slower metabolisms than mammal predators? Do crocodilians lek at all?
And if the male dinosaurs were going hungry while they lek mated, which is not unreasonable considering plenty of modern male animals will ignore their own safety and lose body mass in an attempt to reproduce during the breeding season with repeated displays, how long can such a big predatory animal even go without food and be in the same place for? A huge walking-distance radius around them is going to be basically devoid of prey after not very long, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egzZv8tqT_k&list=PL6xPxnYMQpquNuaEffJzjGjMsr6VktCYl&ab_channel=Biblaridionhttps://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/https://sunriseonilion.wordpress.com/http://www.cmkosemen.com/snaiad_web/snduterus.htmlhttps://www.deviantart.com/sanrou/gallery/56844005/nauhttp://www.planetfuraha.nl/https://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/https://sites.google.com/view/lokiworldofrats/homeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
This is a lovely sloppa of a Common Dolphin and a Fin Whale but I have seriously been thinking about Simocetus Ă— Aetiocetus derived Baleen Dolphins.
>>5164150A premonition of a future Mustelid?
>>5164675>I really think land plants would have to re-evolve vascularity from loverworts and algaethat does sound like an interesting concept, I am thinking of how vascular plants could survive in those conditions and closest I could think would be deep tuber/root systems in equatorial regions that see occasional thaw letting them grow leaves for a brief fillup on sugars however there are some cold-tolerant sea grasses of the genus Zostera which grow as far north as the sea of Okhotsk and the Kurill islands, and even iceland with Zostera marina being capable of tolerating months of ice coverage the Phyllospadix genus is also fairly cold tolerant with at least one species growing off the coast of Alaska I could see these being the last remnants of vascular plants even in a severe glaciation, especially if they have enough time to migrate with the growing cold
>>5164717That's a cool idea. They'd be generalists like modern crab eater seals
>>5164783I suppose they would... Much thank you!
Aposematism is a big topic these days.
A recent study in Australia exonerated cats for the wildlife harm they were being falsely blamed for. Researchers analyzed 11 years (2013–2024) of wildlife rehabilitation records in Australia, covering 52,475 individual animals from 158 threatened species.Human and human activities were responsible for most known wildlife harm, followed by extreme weather events (which might also be human-related). Notably, other animals represented just 4.4% of all wildlife injuries, with cats representing a minority of those (0.6%). That is 315 of the 52,475 injuries, and does not account for the fact that cats are scavengers and may have come across wild animals already injured for other reasons (e.g., human caused harm).In addition to falsely blaming cats, it overlooks more common and potentially preventable human causes of wildlife injury. The analysis finds that most harm is associated with human-modified environments, including hazardous infrastructure, roads, entangling materials, poisons in the environment and habitat fragmentation because of development.Another new study reported similar results. It examined hunting behavior among 2,400 semi-owned/free roaming cats. The researchers were interested in testing whether widely cited estimates of free roaming cats killing “61–118 million birds annually” were accurate. They were not!Researchers found that roughly 8 out of 10 cats — 77% — didn’t hunt, while only 23% hunted sometimes or often, and focused mostly on insects. Birds were the least commonly reported prey, resulting in a figure over 300 times lower than reported by cat-killing advocates. Once again, being scavengers, cats could have come across many of the birds, who were already injured/killed for other reasons, such as crashing into windows.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13404142/https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202609.1612
>>5164842Kash.... you gotta leave the dogs alone kash. those were well trained k9s. and now they're at risk of humping the jihadists instead of biting them. hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were spent on training those dogs. and for what?i'll have you know, netanyahu is a dog person, and he's not gonna like it when he finds out
>>5164892TRVKE.
cats should still be inside even if none of them hunted which they dont.
>>5164904This.
what's going on in this thread
no decent human being could think that this is acceptable. Look at all the wasted vertical space. you should be able to stack 8 floors of chickens on top of each other with so much space. this sort of inefficiently is why meat costs so much
>>5164890>this sort of inefficiently is why meat costs so muchNo, it's waht makes meat cheap, you faggot.
>>5164890There's more than enough space, retard. I bet it's much more expensive to build vertically as well.
Did you study zoology/biology/animal science in uni?If so, what are you doing now?I am regretting not picking a degree that involves animals, and I'm honestly considering doing a 2nd bachelors in the next year or so. Learning about humans is so depressing... eheh
I did a minor in bio but dont get it twisted, the more "in-depth" you get studying /an/ stuff at uni the less interesting and more extremely autistic/boring/statistical slop it is. I did a research paper on moth genitalia and the novelty wears out quickly. You think you are going to be the next jane goodall and instead, even in the unlikely scenario you end up getting work as a faculty members bitch, you are getting in debt and making minimum wage to scrape algae off ice in some shithole then grinding on paper formatting to be given minor credit on the citation list
>>5164839>Did you study zoology/biology/animal science in uni?High school. We had several animal science courses.
>>5164853Thank you for the reply anon. So, you wouldn't recommend pursuing zoology? What are you doing for work now if I may ask?>>5164859Nice brother
Caucasian Ovcharka.
>>5164602such a cute, fluffy good boy. His eyes are so happy :)
>>5164602>shoves you in a 600 sq ft apartment for 23.5 hours a dayheh nothing personnel doggo
>>5164602Cut out the AI slopThese dogs look very huggable
Post bears. >Information. >Images. >Stories. >Art.
>>5141396probably for the reason most mammals have prehensile lips, Easier to eat insects, fruits off trees, and other tricky to grab snacks. That's why monkeys and therefore humans have movable lips.
>>5142850they can fuck up a human though.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Gu
>>5141320
imagine being in the middle of the woods on a dark and stormy night and seeing this ferocious beast staring back at you
Nobody cares about rats.In fact, there is almost no issue more bipartisan than not caring in the slightest about the welfare of rats. Almost no belief is more widely shared by the American public than not giving a rat’s ass about…well…a rat’s ass. There are many times more people who think the earth is 6,000 years old than people who care the slightest bit about the welfare of rats.Rats are about as smart as cats. It’s undeniable that they feel pain; one way we know this is that they have the same brain regions that activate in humans when humans feel pain. Another is that when you try to inflict pain on them, they thrash around horribly—trying desperately to get away. It is obvious when a dog is in pain. It is likewise obvious when a rat is in pain for precisely the same reasons, in exactly the same ways.They solve mazes and do puzzles. They play and can imagine far-off locations; https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/new-study-shows-rats-possess-power-of-imagination-similar-to-humans/ they display meta-cognition, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221011179 being able to think about their thoughts. They feel more empathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39298607/ for one another than we do for them. They engage in self-sacrifice https://www.phillymag.com/news/2011/12/14/rats-compassionate/ for the sake of their friends. On some cognitive tests, they outscore humans. https://hbr.org/2015/01/rats-can-be-smarter-than-people
>>5160531I like rats. I used to help take care of the ones my science teacher owned.
Why are they such worldly creatures?
>>5160829Don't we all?
I was born in the year of the ratGovernment trying to poison me too so I can relate
>>5164368the text should be the same for all 3 realistically>feed dog every day>come back inside dog! you've been laying in the grass for five hours. i need to go to work now.>"No." -dog
