I love hyenas, striped hyenas are my favorites
She can be your hyenangel.
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>>5076176cousin. they're cousins...
Post animal memesI made pic related after I saw my retarded cat enter the laundry room then scare himself because of it
>>5073831Thank God for Quasimodo! (He's adorable)
>tfw no tannins
>>5074383unc is a gen alpha term afaik.
>>5081898And unc be acting like being 40 on 4chan is a good thing. Sus. Bro hasnt touched grass or ass since the plandemic.
>>5071617>>5071414
Post raccs, save pics of raccs, discuss raccs! Here is a critter embiggining for the winter months.
>>5080181>>5080132>>5079974Wonderful critters
>>5073443This was debunked btw
>>5080740Say it ain't so
>>5080902Yes and no, its a misleading headline. Basically, raccoons are adapting to urban conditions, but that doesn't mean they are "domesticated". So no smashed and slammed raccys thankfully.
Round winter critters
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
>>5079129https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskDDjCjNVQ
>>5079727>>5079129I'd like to see a cat do this
>>5066307He looks mean
>>5079727Mustelids have the be the smartest Carnivorans, no?
Post mustelid dripI got this from hot topic and rocked it around this weekend
Giving my good boy his weekly bath. This time in the kitchen sink.
>>5080002Exceptionally cute.
>>5079929Pitbulls won.
>>5080840Pitbulls totally suck.
>>5079477>post bath clarity
>>5081681;)
So, is it true that the pussy juice of female dolphins can make monkeys orgasm to death?
>>5081862The original post said that a researcher just slapped some dolphin's pussy juice on a monkey's dick and the poor thing orgasmed until his heart stopped.I think it was on Tumblr, so it's probably fake, but man it would be really fucking funny if it wasn'tIf it was real, maybe it would be some kind of stimulant that works like viagra to keep male dolphins as potent as possible during mating, but deadly to any other animal
>>5081866Yeah but you gotta admit it would really fucking funny if it were real
>>5081872Was Mitsy male or female? Also, can you give a tl:dr of what happened?
>>5081876Mitzi was born 1958 and died 1972. Mitzi's "siblings" for the TV series were called Sissy, Pamela and Peter. Peter itself is famously known for being the sex partner of Margaret Howe Lovatt. Margaret's friend John C. Lilly trained the dolphins for Flipper. He might've also been a dolphin fucker.
>>5081876Sorry. Mitsy was a female btw and John C. Lilly was a neuroscientists who was curious why dolphins were "arousing". He also tried to have dolphins speak human language.
Favorite cryptids? I'm pretty fond of this guy
>>5070683I appreciate the post, the folklore is ridiculous and it would be great to meet an IRL Slippy from Starfox.
British big cats are my favorite. Some wild animals that no one's really been able to conclusively prove or disprove is much more interesting a phenomenon to me than people arguing about supernatural shit that might as well be pokemon at this point.
>>5080053Moose in Fiordland in New Zealand are also interesting stuff. They got brought for hunting and allegedly all shot but people had numerous observations and tracks of them some of them very recent
>>5070300Orang Pentek and Mapinguari
>>5079611When i heard the name "amoeba bomb" i imagined some kind of microscopic organism that could actually explode like a grenade when coming into contact with some kind of material that could trigger a chemical reaction in its bodyKinda disappointed that's not the case
"don't talk to me or my daughter ever again" editionFound a juvenile widow in my charcoal chimney. She's still got the gold stripe down her back. I'll have to get her set up with a bigger enclosure soon but I think she's okay in the sling box for now. Also think the middle widow is working on some eggs, it's been a week or so since she ate and she's still looking thicc.
Are there any predatory colony insects that I can keep to eat a colony of mealworms?Ants will easily take over the terrarium completely, and I don't think I can get assassin bugs in my country for whatever reason.
>>5052021Huh, I didn't get scared but the hair on my face moved. Somehow? Didn't know the skin could do that, is it instinct? Thank you for the experience I guess.
Got a pic of a butterfly. These guys are way more skittish and fast than moths.
>>5080097I wonder if these moths grow a little after their emerge from the cocoon? I saw these slightly before seeing butterflies, and the butterflies have the same dark body + head shape.
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So you're just out here telling me that T-Rex's had lips? They always just had lips. What's next they spoke with a British accent?
>>5081124same man..same
>>5080758>>5080828>>5080871If we're going by ancestral origins. T.rex would be an Asian-American immigrant.
Dinosaurs are made up lol they're just whale and horse bones
>>5080893For protecting their teeth- only aquatic or semi aquatic creatures can get away without lips eg crocs. Modern dinosaurs don't have lips because they have beaks which are completely different.
>>5081773The theory that giant tyrannosaurs from Asia displaced the Albertasaurines is several years outdated at this point. Gigantism in crown tyrannosaurs evolved in southern Laramidia and the Asian giants are descended from this American radiation and not the other way around.Obviously as with all Laurasian fauna, interchanges happened frequently throughout the ages and there was a point where the lineage of the crown tyrannosaurs could be found in what is now Asia, but the old narrative has been upended with newer evidence.
Is it weird for 20+ y/o men to have a hamster as a pet?
>>5080448rats are unironically cool pets because they're very smartyou can train rats to do party tricks
>>5080370Just get a fucking hamster if you want, you faggot. Provided you know what you're doing, better for the hamster than being Timmy's first microwave bait
>>5080381*hamsters
>>5080370It give me the ick...
>>5081130All the rat owners I know love them and say they make awesome pets. A few have stopped keeping them as they only live 2 years and they cant handle the incessant loss.
>cellar spider>fucking everywhere outside of cellars
>>5079886only an american from the south/west. we have cellars (or basements) in the northeast
>>5076248I dont like them, lanky freaks.This is a cool spider. And this is my friend, i protect him from the cold, and he protects me from 6 legged beasts
>>5076274Where else would you keep your wine?
What if everywhere is cellar HUH
>>5076248These guys love crawling over me while I'm sleeping. I'd be fine with it but they're so cold to the touch, it freaks me out.
Post your favorite art depicting animals
>>5080588kinky
>>5070009>>5070034Asmongold
>>5081797Is this the one that ends with both of them on the train tracks?
Why does nobody ever hype up the Golden Eagle while we hype up apex predator animals like the Tiger?>perfectly stealthy, top speeds can fly around as fast as a bullet, can see and detect prey miles with its telescopic vision and has reflexes while flying that can make it able to swiftly dodge through tons of small openings in impossibly dense forestry at over 100mph. >4 foot tall heavy af behemoth with razor sharp claws that are as big as the average human male dick size>literally hunts and carries away prey as big as wolves and mountain lions
>>5062779>>5062862I have a pet eagle owl and it's way better than golden eagles/bald eagles.Those mfs are the bitchiest little babies ever, they sperg out over food even when trained to trade off. They're way smarter than owls but they use their brain to throw tantrums if they don't get what they want
>>5080439Sounds very familiar
gluttony edition
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxuT3ZClgCA
>>5078913got blood all over her nice chair
>>5081477>>5045858Just noticed that beavers don't use their hands when swimming. They look like reverse ducks.
>>5056316Not that guy but we can't digest raw grass efficiently because our digestive system lacks the enzymes to break down cellulose, which is what grass leaves (yes, they're leaves) and wood are mostly made of. Cattle and other ruminants can eat that shit not because they produce the enzyme (cellulase) but because their chambered stomachs got friggin bacteria, protozoa and fungi that produce it to break the grasses down for them. That's why cannulated cattle are so important (I posted a few videos of them before, much to /an/'s horror; check the archive for the word 'cannulated'/'cannula' or 'fistula'/'fistulated' to watch'em or ask nicely and I'll see if I've still got it somewhere).If cattle are malnourished from a lack of proper bacteria in the stomach and therefore unable to efficiently digest grasses, a farmer can reach into the stomach of a healthy specimen through the cannula, grab some rumen and plant biomass and manually transplant into a malnourished one, giving it the right bacteria etc to process grass properly. Their ability to derive nutrition from grasses is heavily based on fermentation, yes, but here's the kicker: the bacteria etc digest the cellulose into glucose, the fungi, other bacteria and protozoa ferment the glucose into volatile fatty acids (acetate, propionate and butyrate, iirc) which get absorbed through the rumen wall. We can't get nearly as much nutrition from those VFAs as they can because our digestion system and nutritional needs are just fundamentally different. That's why while we can eat bamboo shoots, which are grasses, we get relatively little nutrition from it. We only process about 5% of the possible nutrients cuz they're encased in cellulose.If you're dead set on making grass edible, it's been done but the amount of cellulase necessary is ridiculous for the low amount of nutrition we would get from the results. However, the glucose made from that cellulase+cellulose digestion is currently used to make ethanol biofuel.
Why are all the coolest critters impossible to keep. It's like God is taunting us with his beautiful creations.
>>5081774Because coolness overlaps a lot with what makes an animal hard to keep like size, ferocity, rarity, specific habitat, unique lifestyle, etc
