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*AWAWA's in your general direction*
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>>5050596
https://furscience.com/research-findings/demographics/1-2-ethnicity/
We can extrapolate from this quite easily.

83.2% of furries are white.

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_Survey

Around 13~15% of furries identify as zoophiles.

Therefore if we combine the two statistics, zoophiles are predominantly white and this is from anonymous self-reporting.
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>>5056345
Typical confidence of a midwit moron
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>>5056345
>get btfo
>in two threads >>5056241
>repeat yourself
Like we cant scroll up? Off yourself rabbi.

Every time you try this another nazi is born
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>>5056345
75% of sneeds are chucks and 25% identify as cucks. Clearly, 100% of chucks are cucks. Sneed.

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A thread about owls. Post and appreciate these birds. What kind of owls live in your region?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkFXo253SRk

Barred owl live cam.
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>>5041141
I think it’s the big eyes and the mystique of being nocturnal that gave them the rep of being wise
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There's a regional park I hike at and there's a tree with an owl that was perched awake on it during the daytime. Was it retarded/dying?
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*inhales*

N
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>>5054133
Depends on the species. Some are active during the day. Could also be a young owl, they tend to be active during the day as they figure out how to be, well, an owl.

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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.
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butthurt anglers kill a bunch of kormorant each year because they eat a lot of stocked fish
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Shoebill thread
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>>4992253
POV you converted to Hinduism and reincarnated as a proto-marsupial in the Cretaceous period
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>>4997679
>I have seen things you people wouldn't believe...
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When did you learn bees, rabbits and ants are worthless habitat destroying invasive species that need to be exterminated? The world is a lie.
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>>5056284
The only animals that should be exterminated are mosquitos and roaches
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>>5056285
Thanks, its a great image kek. Also mb I should clarify

It's fire/soldier ants and honey bees specifically, not all bee and ant apecies.

Good paper on honey bees destroyinf native bee and polinator populations (theres more too, not just this. Please dig.)
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3939

With fire ants you can literally just google fire ant invasive species and there will be so much that pops up its kind of a meme.
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>>5056290
Glad to see you at least already know rabbits are invasive tho. Humans are also an invasive species that have caused most modern extinctions and they gotta go too
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>>5056290
It's actually a screengrab from an instagram video. Reels are kinda gay, but whatever, you can find some fun pics to share occasionally.

Oh yeah, Invasive species are definitely bad.
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>>5056284
This post brought to you by Monsanto

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>be me, bantamchad
>lost some of my tail feathers but still alpha
>see cute red cochin
>fuck yeah, gonna make some schmedium chicks with her
>approach her confidently
>apply the lessons learned from roostersphere influencers
>she just stares me down
>get scared and spill my scratch
>run away
>later see her go off to the coop with a full-sized rooster
Bantambros....is it just fucking over for us?
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>>5002454
Put some sugarless monster energy drink in the mix while you're at it.
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Anyone recognize the breed? I have mostly barred rocks but idk what this one is.
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>>5055454
Cheers big ears
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>>5055288
Thanks, but I think the problem is solved with the solar fans to better circulate air in the coop, small holes drilled by the nesting boxes for improved air flow, and the iced bricks as recommended itt
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>>5020414
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>>5055454
Cute floppy chicken

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I'm sorry but wolves are simply the coolest thing of all time.
Name something cooler than a wolf I dare you.
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>>5055871
YJK
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>>5055715
Two wolves
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>>5055715
A ninja
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>>5055719
/thread
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>>5055715

The situation begins with a while ago when I was about to wash clothes, I heard meows in the plants in my yard. I searched and after a while I found three newborn kittens (they literally still have the umbilical cord)

I took them out and put them in a box to bring them home. Leaving them outside wasn't even a good idea. It rains a lot where I live, and I don't want any insects to harm them in the yard

The problem starts with the fact that I don't have any cat milk. I had some for my other cats at one point, but I honestly can't remember where I left it. Is there any way to make them some milk that they can drink without hurting their stomach?
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>>5056231
do you know if they were abandoned? their mom could've just been out looking for food.
you probably just kidnapped three kittens from their mother and you can't even take care of them.
bugs and rain isn't going to kill a cat
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>>5056233
Bro, when it's rainy season here the streets literally flood. I tried to wait to see if his mother came back but I couldn't find her

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How'd he do it?

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>>5054341
they're not though
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>>5054394
You're not?
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>>5054256
both sides are bad and in the wrong
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>>5054394
That's actually a deadly explosive

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Denounce barking at the mailman
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Get rid of pitbulls first
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>>5055967
denounce satan, you ankle biter
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Denounce licking your own anus and then trying to lick me and then getting mad when I don't want to be licked by someone who licks their own anus
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>anti-dog schizo melty
When will xhe learn?
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>>5055964
cute pibble

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pig, japan
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>>5055178
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>>5055474
Probably. I've had them for over a year at this point. In that time I've had 5 slaughtered for meat, and there are 26 babies running around causing mayhem. 2 more sows still need to give birth, so that could easily go up to over 40.
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>>5055177
Kore wa Piggu-chan desu.
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he was later raped by south east asian immigrants
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>>5055327
>Z

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Weird Money Edition

Previous Thread >>4983981

WHAT IS SPECULATIVE EVOLUTION?
Speculative evolution is the exploration and imagining of how life might evolve in the future or could have evolved in alternate pasts. It's a multimedia sci-fi genre that harnesses scientific principles to create detailed and plausible hypothetical creatures, ecosystems, and evolutionary histories.

RESOURCES:
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Tutorial
>One-stop shop for relevant background information for starting a project

http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/
>Fantastic blog covering all sorts of spec evo topics in-depth

https://specevo.jcink.net/

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>>5055410
it def still counts, given how life develops on the planet, & "magic" being a lifeform
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>>5055446
I guess, though even if if is, it's definitely on the lighter side, compared to something like say Alien Biospheres which works from a starting point onwards and then sees where it ends up

too much magic to explain away issues in Kaimere even if it doesn't quite work like traditional magic, and again it is focused around reaching a certain point in time
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>>5055410
he's admitted several times that he views it just as a setting for his dnd campaign and fantasy novels.
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I have this vague notion bouncing around my head of lifeforms that are made out of plasma, constructed from patterns in the oscillations and fields in a plasma, rather than chemistry. They could have evolved in stars, but I'm imagining them as appearing in the early universe, when all of space was filled with plasma. If they evolved to sapience they could construct arcs to survive in during the period between recombination, when the temperature of the universe lowered to the point all the plasma went away, and the birth of the first stars, which they could then move into. This early period of the universe only lasted 370,000 years, which normally wouldn't be long enough to evolve sapience, but this is high-energy plasma we're talking about, with particles moving and interacting very quickly. I could imagine the fundamental processes underpinning their life happening so quickly, that they undergo a full generation in a matter of seconds, which would allow enough generations to pass in 370k years for them to reach sapience.
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>>5056082
incredibly implausible, obviously, but highly kino. I've had somewhat similar musings about emergent generalized intelligence appearing in the conductive rock structures of a planet powered by the lightning storms of its atmosphere, as by technicality something like that could exist, but it would be insanely unlikely and we would hardly be able to notice anyway unless it somehow obtained a method of interfering with the outside world at a sufficient rate.

Paleoschizobros…
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hurrrr durrrr da bawds got da big feets dat means dey scawy dinmosores mommy

just shut up already. birds will never be scary. they're just bobble head retards. in 300+ years redditwaries have killed a grand total of an elderly man and a 12 year old australian girl. they arent scary you arent doctor grant get over it.
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>>5056014
big ass argentavis would probably scare me if it was still around. flamingos creep me out tho
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>>5056014
who are you quoting?
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>>5056014
your concept of scary is heavily distorted by human centric hollywood tier concepts
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>>5055990
what are they? look like dinosaurs with feathers

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Do you wish that you could go back in time and meet extinct pre-mammalian animals?
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>>5055671
I already have
blood memory
I was there
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>>5055797
Exactly. You understand, my brother.

Something secret steers us. We shall not name it.
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I would go back in time and kill off the little ratshits that evolved into modern mammals, actually.
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>>5055671
oil is mostly plants


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