He turns 100 years old today! There may come a time when will have a RIP sticky so until then let this be a joyous occasion and celebrate!Wish him an happy birthday /an/
>>5130011Like 3x, mostly due to the high volume of venom delivered. The pain comes mostly from algogens. By weight, honey bee venom is actually more toxic (about 1.5 times) than an european hornet's. The asian hornet does not seem to be any more "aggressive" than any other stinging insect (don't attack them, duh). However, they raid bee hives, and everyone knows that beekeepers never miss a good opportunity to kvetch how their poor bees are threatened while fucking up the life of wild pollinators.
>>5125877He doesn’t. You’re just looking for minor issues to shit your pants over because you’re still seething about a tv show four years after its release
>>5130483why did people complain about Prehistoric Planet?
>>5130708Nobody knows
>>5122866I loved his narration of Codex Pajeet II. Shine on you crazy diamond.
Saw there was no bug related thread going on. Post and discuss al thins crawly. Other tiny critters welcome as well.
>>5130184They’re so simple to keep my only advice is don’t overpay for it or the enclosure
>>5130184Jumping spiders are very high IQ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQMOF5c2Z8
Are peacock spiders good pets?
Guys, check out this Pteronarcys inspired by Autechre!
>>5106240In our new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we searched for behavioural signs of pain in house crickets, one of the most widely farmed insects. After applying heat to an antenna, we found that crickets didn’t just reflexively flinch and recover. They nursed the harm, returning again and again to groom the affected site, much as we rub a burned hand.rench philosopher René Descartes considered animals unfeeling biological machines, and for centuries the circle of moral concern barely extended beyond our own species.But the boundaries have steadily crept outward. Recognition that mammals experience pain came first, followed by birds. Fish too, once assumed to lack the necessary brain structures, are now widely accepted as capable of pain-like states.The leap into invertebrates has been greater and more contentious. Their nervous systems bear little resemblance to our own, so arguments from brain anatomy alone don’t carry us far. Instead, we look to behaviour. Does the animal respond to harm in ways that go beyond reflex, ways that are flexible, persistent, and sensitive to context?Over the past decade, testable indicators for pain in non-humans have been developed and are increasingly accepted. These include learning from unpleasant events, trading off harms against rewards, and actively protecting the site of injury. Evidence meeting these criteria helped crabs and lobsters gain legal recognition as sentient under United Kingdom law in 2022.Among insects, the evidence has been accumulating fast. Yet most of this evidence comes from bees. Bumblebees weigh the risk of harm against the richness of a food reward, and groom the site of an injury. Honeybees learn to associate particular smells with harmful stimuli and avoid them.Far less attention has been paid to Orthoptera. That gap matters, because the house cricket is the world’s most widely farmed insect, with more than 370 billion reared annually.
Post crocs
>>5130289Wasn't the 3.8m black caiman individual taken down by a teenage/subadult jaguar from the Amazon tho? I heard this same story from one of the guys over at Jaguarland.If we take in consideration that the jaguar was a subadult and it was from the Amazon population of jaguars, which is smaller mind you, then wouldn't it be possible that one of the largest individuals from the Pantanal population of jaguars, which are absolute units in comparison, like the adult males from the Pantanal region can be as large as medium sized tigers, I believe one of those might be able to take down a fully grown saltwater crocodile in a succesful ambush
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>>5130350>Wasn't the 3.8m black caiman individual taken down by a teenage/subadultNo. They do not specify the age of the jaguar in the paper>I believe one of those might be able to take down a fully grown saltwater crocodile in a succesful ambushThe largest pantanal jaguars would be twice the size of a northern Amazon jaguar at best. A 6 metre saltwater croc would be 4-6 times the size of that caiman. They are way too large
>>5130350cool fanfic, retard
>>5130474Which croc is the witch croc
Does anyone else feel awkward talking to animals when they can't understand or respond?It also feels awkward when they keep staring, like waiting for something for me
lol animals are ez, they just want food or getting scratched, because they're hungry and itchy 24/7, like a zombie
>>5129494I'm going to let you all in on a little secret. Humans can speak to pretty much any animal and most animals understand humans fine. They just don't like or trust you and they have good reason not to. That's why animals so often give you the zoomer stare. It's for the exact same reason that zoomers give it to boomers. They're looking at an enemy.
>>5129494I don't feel weird talking to or when other people talk to animals. I do feel weird when people speak /for/ animals. not as in explaining what they're attempting to convey, but creating dialogue for them. my mother does this a lot when I visit; she'll say things like "oh I missed you so much anon," in kind of a cutesy voice as if she were speaking for the dog when the dog comes up to see me.
>>5129496Talking to yourself is incredibly healthy and therapeutic apparently.
Na, talking to animals is great. Over time they'll pick up a handful of words if you're consistent, and you can communicate simple things to them using your own private language if you condition them that way. It's pretty amazing to negotiate with an alien intelligence, even if that intelligence is peanut sized. The family cat might know words for "come here" and "hurry", but only I know the secret language that means "it's safe to come out" and "it's time to eat ham".
>*ding ding ding* a toast, a toast to the saurians of today. To the Mesozoic (deragotory) "animals" that now exist to produce eggs for us, that shit in the streets like the refuse of our kind (indians) and are eternally cucked and bucked from EVER returning to being competent megafauna or even terrestrially relevant, DOMINANT predators for the remainder of their pathetic evolutionarily cuckolded clitty wearing existence. A toast to 60 million more years of Synapsid bull DOMINANCE as we mog these saurian, scaled and feathered (LMAO) rejects of nature for the remainder of their pitiful, pithy existinces. I hope you enjoyed your 180 years of relavance on this earth after we LET you have the planet. But like they say, you can't keep a good synigga down.
>>5128448South America is inhabited by substantial carnivorous avian species and terrestrial crocodilians.
>>5129428Yeah and basal archosaurs totally had feathers.
>>5129627Feather is fake and gay, it only quill.
>>5129627They did tho
Filling a bunny shaped hole in the catalogue.>new2bunnieshttps://rabbit.org/audiences/for-rabbit-newcomers/https://www.best4bunny.com/bunny-care/https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care/https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page>videoshttps://rentry.org/bunnyvideos
>>5129367Sounds about right>t. don't own a bnuy
>>5129367Depends on your continent. Americans think it's fine, western europeans think it's cruel and you need at minimum two bunnies since they're very social, and eastern europeans dont understand what you do with the food.
>>5129367Sounds good. They're awesome pets. I love mine.
>>5129367Spacing and free roam all sounds great, just keep in mind they're social animals. Also hopefully decent insulation in case you get a thumper.
Is the cottontail rabbit starting to go extinct in Wyoming? I kve in a small rural town in the southeastern area of the state and I barely ever see adult rabbits even at dawn/dusk, and I only saw one baby one at the beginning of April. We have a lot of stray cats in town, unfortunately, and we've had little rain, so I fear they might've deemed this town inhospitable. I want any tips possible for rabbitspotting and to get rare footage of a mama rabbit tending her den. I just can't find them, not near the school, not nesr the park, not even in the airport that's a little outta town.
Post your favorite pheasants, grouses, chickens, peacocks, tragopans, chachalacas, curassows, and other landfowl.
>>5124098beautiful birds
>>5124098https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylQNYUCh1Q
What retarded-looking animals birds are. I love them
>>5124098Make way for the ULTIMATE CHICKENhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtU_ICPuzV8
>>5130136looks like he's holding eggs in his chest
>develop a defense mechanism which repels animals and bugs so they don't eat you>OH SHITI've been thinking about this often. Is it technically an evolutionary victory (for it) if a plant gets farmed for food?
>>5129489I'm surprised they went through the hassle of painting the edges red. Such effort, so detail.
>>5129520I'm just surprised they haven't installed suicide nets.
>>5129259That is delicious, really need to make that again.My recent favorite garlic related recipe is filet mignon + shallots and garlic. You cook the filet mignon, then cook garlic and shallots in butter for awhile, then put douse the filet mignon with the buttery mix for awhile. Its so good.
I fucking love garlic I eat that shit raw
>>5129657same, it smells and tastes great
It is this time of the year to ask once againWhy is it still the best dino documentary for the last 27 years? What causes it to be so unique?
>>5129482>why we bringing the LGBTQ into thisIs this directed at the thread or modern paleontology?
>>5129815kek
>>5129414He literally said "maybe they are feathers... in disguise!"
>>5107623You can't walk with dinosaurs, dinosaurs aren't real. The BBC really are con artists
>>5107623https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTUuWcZQB5s
Moss & Lichen Editionpreviously on /herp/: >>5093568This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answeredClassifieds for finding breeders and products:>morphmarket.com>kingsnake.com>faunaclassifieds.com>caudata.orgMost forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.When asking a question, make sure to include these details:>Type and size of animal>Enclosure dimensionsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What is the desert equivalent of a tokay
I want to get a day gecko but I like to handle my lizards. I have a blue tongued skink and chahuoa gecko both of which tolerate handling.Is it possible to handle a standings day gecko? The guy at the shop who is on morph market said theyre not handleable. Or a day gecko like a giant one?Or is the guy right at the shop and theyre not handleable
>>5130235i never say it could never work but even trying to handle them is risky for their health-they are generally very skittish-they are stupid fast compared to most other geckos so if it gets loose it can get somewhere dangerous to its health like instantly-skin sloughing is a unique day gecko feature that's kind of like a dropped tail but for huge chunks of their body which then need to be monitored and cared for due to infection risk.The only handling I can recommend at all for larger day geckos is letting them climb onto your hand for food. I would never grip/hold them like you can with a skink or new caledonian them unless absolutely necessary for their care (ie, emergency enclosure removals). For smaller ones I really don't recommend any handling because they can just bolt and get into a lethal situation way too quickly. At least the larger ones will have issues wedging themselves into a place you can't get with a human hand.
Any tips on escape proofing a tank? I'm getting a cape house snake soon and all the stories about them have me a little paranoid.
>>5130235get a leopard gecko instead
Post em
>>5119446>>5120095>>5120194>>5120196>>5120197Fat wild animals are much cuter and funnier than fat pets.
>>5119446he's not fat, just big-boned
>>5120095>>5122788all bears are fat
Saw this fat fuck block all the others from leaving.
>>5130110she's not even the biggest cow in the herd
thinking about the past extinctions and impending future extinctions (some very soon like the 'akikiki) of hawaii's native bird species again
>>5115250I hope the ʻIʻiwi makes it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBI%CA%BBiwi
>>5115250notice how the skull of the wojak is happier
>>5128604They’ve started to trial run wolbachia bacteria incompatibility to crash specific southern house mosquito (the main bird vector) populations in Hawaii. The problem is that this gets the most annoying people imaginable to stop yelling at each other to gripe about gmos at the bird conservation agencies every time it’s brought up. The method does not use gmos mind you, it just takes advantage of a naturally existing bacteria turf war that already exists in 90% of insects. This has not stopped the gmo accusations regardless of how many times it’s been corrected.
>>5129926>This has not stopped the gmo accusations regardless of how many times it’s been correctedwhat a bunch of tards
>>5130665because theyre iq voters, theyve been fed headline after headline of MUHSANTO and think anytime someone fucks around with genes its a bad thing without even understanding what and why monsanto did was wrong or why the people are even angry, they just follow the crowd, like women. these people buy food with the gmo free sticker at a 30% markup and think theyre doing something useful
Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.Anhingas welcome also.Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
>>4979341birds are so awesome
Podcaster Joe Rogan has warned that mountain lions are running riot in certain states and eating household pets, demanding politicians do more to address the problem.“One of the things they found out in San Francisco in the Bay Area was when they do shoot these mountain lions, they’ve done an analysis of their diet. It’s 50 percent dogs."“They’re doing nothing to curb the population. And this is the thing is like people go, ‘Oh, it’s OK Let nature do its thing.’ No, it doesn’t do its thing. It kills your dog, OK?” he said.He continued: “Fifty percent of their diet is eating people’s pets. So, they’re hunting people’s pets. That means you are, if you’re a dog lover, you’re allowing a monster to eat your dog because you think that’s the right thing to do and to be kind with nature."“No, you have to hunt them. You have to get them the f*** away from you."Rogan went on to share a story about Hanes being pursued by a mountain lion while out for an evening jog and commented: “That is the consequences of letting monsters live in your neighborhood."The host concluded by suggesting that trophy hunting should be rebranded as “monster control” to attract broader support, signing off by saying: “I love animals, but I am on Team People.”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>5084743Raccoons are harmless
>>5084698>The host concluded by suggesting that trophy hunting should be rebranded as “monster control” to attract broader support,Rogan is so based.
>>5084831Besides the retarded zealotry this tracks. You don't need to be a dog person, I know I'm not, but people who don't at least kinda fw dogs are consistently sketchy, and anyone who doesn't see that there are solid and virtious breeds and stupid pointless and cruelly malformed breeds are below the line of acceptable. Dogs should be made smart, happy and healthy, and where they are not, a bad person is nearby.
>>5130638based and dogpilled
>>5084698this man is a hero for protecting the pet dogs in his area
Keep in mind that nuclear weapons would be useless against them and since they possess human-level intelligence, they will quickly figure out how to sabotage drones, take down power lines/grids, organize well-coordinated attacks, etc.
>>5129437and let me guess, they'll learn advance biological warfare from the internet? watching tiktok reels? just staying on the window of universities? cause they sure aren't gonna be given the education while pretending to be normal birds, nor are they gonna be given access to the secret underground labs where the weaponized straits are worked on
>>5091351 >>5119958 >>5121210 >>5121215 >>5121349 >>5124123 >>5128609 >>5129509All WRONGBirds win easy, Birdemic 1-3 proved this already
>>5129746>it's realhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah347mLDgu4
>>5129784>that bird "CGI"is this intentionally bad?
>>5129746>>5129784welp, that settles it. birds win.
