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Cats are significantly less intelligent than dogs. They are slightly less domesticated and have the tendencies that come with that (more persistent independent action and innate skills that help them in the wild, reminiscent of the ways chimpanzees and orangutans outperform humans on select tasks), but overall, have inferior cognition and a less rich inner world, while dogs are complex social animals with more going on inside their head.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs-when-you-count-neurons-have-a-lot-more-than-cats/
Some dog breeds, such as german shepherds, can have over 800 million cortical neurons, twice as much as the average mid sized mutt.

Therefore, since dogs psychological needs are greater than their suffering is deeper, public policy should prioritize canine well being, while making concessions to a clean society and the natural order and regulating cats as if they are simply less aware of their situation anyways, because they are.

Proposed changes:
Dogs must have at least 1/4 acre to roam around in at any given time
It is illegal to crate a dog except under less than ordinary circumstances
Dogs must be allowed to roam in a fenced in park at least once a week, for at least an hour, if their behavioral tendencies allow it
Spay and neuter must be delayed until sexual maturity for dogs to ensure proper cognitive development
Dogs must be taken to the vet for a physical and psychological wellness check at least one every three months
Cats must be kept indoors
Cats must be spayed and neutered as soon as possible to prevent overpopulation
When roaming cats are third class citizens akin to escaped rabbits
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>>5136536
>their shed fur is less pervasive
Quite the opposite, short furred animals shed more often because the 'lifespan' of the individual follicle is a lot shorter, and so individual hairs drop out more frequently.
Its just slightly less visible because the hairs themselves are shorter.
I also find its harder to brush a cat with short fur since you don't get a grip on as much fur. I just resorted to using my old comb.
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>>5136635
Short cat fur is the opposite of short dog fur. It just falls off your clothes. Long cat fur sticks as badly as short dog fur.
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>>5136536
>Long haired cats smell like shitty piss and ruin your clothes. Short haired cats just smell like basement+attic and their shed fur is less pervasive
I've had cats of all fur lengths and they all smell like nothing. It helps I don't live in a garbage heap though
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Worthless fucking jannies, why is this flame-bait still on my 'log? This kinda shit is why everyone liked it when you got doxxed. Clean this fucking shit up you stupid retard.
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How the fuck is this thread still going?

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Thoughts on the secretary Bird?
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>>4989049
Why would god make such a.... Lewd. Animal

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Waterproof edition

Previous /bg/: >>5017245
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>>5135598
looked like a monkey's arm
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Our technicians use specialized evolutionary tools and are certified by higher powers to do home end-to-end pipeline CLOGGING, and they're on-call 24/7 for you.
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Nagasaki Biopark has a new beaver baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAboyPd1liE
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>>5136731
Looks like 4 kits were born on 18/6 according to insta posts. Along with their 3 siblings born last year, total they have 9 beavers in the lower enclosure.
(while the mom's bachelor brother occupies the middle enclosure alone...)

filename thread fellow /an/ons
ill start
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thinking about the past extinctions and impending future extinctions (some very soon like the 'akikiki) of hawaii's native bird species again
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>>5133447
Misanthropy is so last century.
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>>5133604
Not counting migratory birds/ vagrants
17 Hawaiian honeycreepers
2 thrushes
3 monarch flycatchers
The Hawaiian crow
The Hawaiian hawk
The Hawaiian short eared owl subspecies
The nene goose
2 endemic ducks
The Hawaiian pink legged stilt subspecies
The Hawaiian moorhen subspecies
The Hawaiian coot
Black crowned night herons
The Laysan millerbird

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>>5115250
>some insular darwinian dead end taxon goes poof
Lol, who the fuck cares?
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>>5115512
That exists! The hoatzin from South America has clawed fingers on its wings to climb through trees when it's a baby. Apparently they lose them when they grow up, but I can't find any documentation on how the claws go away, so it's a mystery. They either fall out or shrink I guess.
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>>5136595
dude tons of birds have these. CHICKENS have them.

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Post birds, appreciate birds
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>>5136303
>image limit
Yeah, 150 per thread.
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This year birds have been nesting in the outside bathroom vents behind my work building. This is the first time this has happened since I started working here 10 years ago.
I'm seeing dead baby birds everywhere.
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Saw a big heron fly by over the river on my run this morning. Also saw a Steller's Jay
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hwell make a new thread
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>>5136608
you will wait another 150 days until we reach page 10

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>>5132709
Silkies in shambles!!!
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>>5133088
ok what were they bred for then?
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>>5135812
The modern breed? Same reason as bulldogs: proportions. The original breed? Coursing larger animals, often in large groups to hold down a single game animal for a hunter to be able to shoot.
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>>5135816
makes sense
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hey

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Filling a bunny shaped hole in the catalogue.

>new2bunnies
https://rabbit.org/audiences/for-rabbit-newcomers/
https://www.best4bunny.com/bunny-care/
https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care/
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>videos
https://rentry.org/bunnyvideos
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>>5135059
It is a Haretise
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>>5118753
Spotted this today, which one of you is it?
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>>5135004
I miss Turtle bun
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>somewhere between the darkness and the light
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>page 10

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So, did theropod dinosaurs have reptilian style lips, or did they freeball it with exposed teeth?
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>>5136657
That's the thing for me. You would have to add hippo levels of soft tissue on the bottom jaw in order for it to have lips
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>>5136680
yes, and ONLY the bottom jaw. the overbite is nuts.
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>>5136657
>>5136680
>>5136685
I mean wouldn't lips on the top jaw cover both when the mouth is closed? Partial coverings would also accomplish the moisture retention well enough instead of having to be fully covered too, so that's another viable avenue if facial fleshy coverings were present. Wouldn't have to be optimal.
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>>5136657
this may shock you but the wear marks on teeth don't give a fuck what the restorations you see look like
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>>5136297
>>5136701
They don't actually do that according to Pete Larson.
His claim is that the wear is on opposing sides, on the outer side in the upper jaw and on the inner side in the lower jaw.
He attributes this to rubbing against bones when biting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5XG5o2CtI

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Too Big To Fail Edition

Previously on /fox/:
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Foxpawsting break. Take care, lads.
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Could Pale Foxes be from outer space? Feel free to speculate(and do anything else) in the next /fox/!
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>>5136686
>>5136686

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>we humans are currently at season 4 of Earth's game update after the major server wipeout millions of years ago in game time
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gb2/v/
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There's already a TierZoo thread up

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https://screenrant.com/nbc-surviving-earth-documentary-trailer-exclusive/

Made by Impossible Pictures; the same guys who did the original Walking With Dinosaurs.
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It actually makes me really happy to see a Mesozoic mammal get some focus, even if it's only in the last segment.
Honestly I've sorta preferred to ending segments post-extinction to the main segments in both of these episodes so far. They feel more focused and less meandering. Not to say I didn't enjoy various scenes of the main segments, but that's the problem; they're long segments of not much going on and pre-commercial repeat footage with the good stuff in between, while the ending segments are, as mentioned, more focused and only have one commercial break.
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the cg in the latest episode looked pretty weird...
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>>5136574
Depends on the section.
I thought the stuff in the rain looked very convincing.
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>>5136574
>>5136583
Particularly, the brief shot at 2:26 is great. Looks almost like a practical effect.
https://youtu.be/kNwfAA_Xvwg?t=146
I also like how you can see the rain splash off their skin upon impact.
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>>5129089
Everyday we stray closer to Spinofaarus.

I have a challenge for you today /an/. I challenge you to speculate an animal that evolved to USE lead. Not evolved to mitigate it, but actually use it for something productive biologically.
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>>5136515
a hardy little critter that lives on a moon that regularly travels through the radiation belt of the gas giant it orbits and it consumes lead rich minerals to extrude into a heavy radiation resistant shield.
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>>5136515
shell material for a mollusc
they've used dumber
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>>5136621
Don't Xenophyophores like to accumulate heavy metals in their "shells" ?

Why are ravens associated with the goth movement when black cockatoos exist?
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>>5134917
Hmm... Must be from Bangladesh
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>>5134923
Hmm... Must be from Afghanistan
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>>5134950
But there's so many of them. Doesn't that make them and the Chinese more successful than the other races of the world?
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>>5136141
SQUAWK

Polly want blood

SQUAWK
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>>5125157
Edgar Allen Poe didn't write about a parakeet, now did he?

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>>5136598
rhinos are so fucking cool
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>>5135224
>ass in a sling
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>>5132342
nobody tell them the video is reversed
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>>5137061
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