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The tiger is singularly the most aesthetic animal in the animal kingdom, arguably the most beautiful thing ever created by nature
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yeah that's gonna be a fox from me
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>>5022907
>look up "rosette" because I'm unfamiliar with the term
>Google AI tells me that I'm probably looking for a Fortnite skin, while the first article on the right is exactly what I'm researching.

The internet kinda blows now
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>>5039102
If I came around a corner and saw this, I would definitly shit my pants.
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>>5035054
>glub glub, the jews
every time
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>>5081234
engineered suckage to monopolize your time

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T. rex


RAWR
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>>5080779
why doesn't it have trans flag colored feathers? unrealistic
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>>5080784
Livyatan had larger but it's a whale so it feels unfair to compare a land animal with an aquatic one.
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>>5081505
that's a big root
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>>5081014
The amount of root its teeth had was insane
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>>5081662
Likely even bigger than this in life too, parts of it doesnt preserve well

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>>5081746
>camerman sux
Let’s see you do better. To be fair this looks like it’s being filmed at the absolute limits of a very powerful zoom lens where even the slightest movement can drag the frame.
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>>5081375
Nah he became a successful businessman later.
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>>5081274
Kek they are all laughing at the kid
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new thread
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>>5080884
He just like me :)

> Blocks your path.
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>>5073195
he's a big cat
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>>5079633
uhh big cats don't get to bring friends
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Lions are getting the same treatment Indians are getting except the opposite. Internet revealing how they truly are, seeing so much negativity. Seeing Lions do some based shit only improves the image
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxAPBYtDLY
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>>5073774
>bops you with a shovel

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>Humans hunted Stellar's Sea Cow to extinction in less than three decades!
There were perhaps only 2,000 of them left on earth by the time humans encountered them, and they had likely been on the way out for centuries.
>Well, but humans hunting sea otters spoiled the kelp forests, which was their food source!
They couldn't eat anything but kelp, and because they couldn't dive, they could only eat it if it was within reach of their tiny heads. Kelp being more than a couple feet away would have starved them.
>They were gentle giants!
They were literally inbred retards. Their genetic diversity was painfully low.
These fat fucks would have gone extinct to a light breeze. I refuse to feel guilty when ecologists use them as an example of humanity harming nature.
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>Humans hunted OPs to extinction in less than three decades!
There were perhaps only 2,000 of them left on earth by the time humans encountered them, and they had likely been on the way out for centuries.
>Well, but humans hunting anons spoiled the threads, which was their food source!
They couldn't eat anything but shitposts, and because they couldn't post, they could only post if it was within reach of their tiny heads. Posts being more than a couple feet away would have starved them.
>They were gentle giants!
They were literally inbred retards. Their genetic diversity was painfully low.
These fat fucks would have gone extinct to a light breeze. I refuse to feel guilty when ecologists use them as an example of humanity harming nature.
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>>5072887
Think about all the yummy animals that went extinct before you had a chance to taste them. Flavor combinations lost to the ages...
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>>5073174
marsh
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>>5072792
To justify the people, I will say that the Stellar's Sea Bulls were aggressive and fiercely resisted the hunt, many fishermen were injured and some even lost a leg and became one-legged fishermen with wooden legs!
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>>5078485
>>5077297
THIS

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How true is the advice that you should vaginally finger female cats in heat to simulate mating to calm them down?
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>>5081661
>yes, ai is rape, but good rape.
>no, I have never seen cow ai before
>yes, poking your cat on the tail for 5 seconds to shut it up means you want to have sex with it

average retard vegan
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>>5081532
That cannot be fucking real. I don't think giving a cat heroin will make it love you. Smearing yourself with its waste and it with yours if insane. Milking a male cat is equally nuts. That cat sounds like a nightmare. Chances are it's dead by now. Cats in general are not good pets.
Give me a dog any day.
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>>5081655
>calling everyone she

Yeah, there are a couple people on this site who do that and I don't get it. I guess it's their idea of a real insult. Pretty fucking lame.
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>>5081669
You know how raging homophobes think everything is faggots, and then it turns out they buy man ass nightly?

Well this guy, the she-er, thinks everyone is a tranny, and his crowning achievement is spamming AI generated tranny porn in the /dog/. He apparently has metric tonnes of it, as well as AI generated anatomically correct porn of normal ass dogs.
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>>5081669
>>5081676
Stop replying to yourself dogfucker. It's painfully obvious.

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>Bald Eagles are freedom bombing cats

It's official, c*ts are unAmerican.
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>>5076470
>Pest from the Middle-East that shits up the native biome and spreads disease
Worshipping those sort of things is the most American thing you could do
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>>5078936
Because people are irrational and keep feeding them because "cute" but it only makes them generate more cats to suffer in the streets and die horribly
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>>5076638
This all the way.
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>>5077168
>I feel like

That's not how it works.
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>>5081209
This. It'd be more human to just poison every cat that comes by.

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Pitbulls and Rottweilers make up 77% of all fatal dog bites, despite making up only 6% of the U.S. dog population
Pitbulls are 2.5x more likely to bite in multiple anatomical locations than other breeds.
Pitbulls are responsible for 60% of all injuries and 63% of ocular injuries.
Pitbull terriers are 31% more likely to attack an unknown individual than other breeds
Pitbull terriers are 48% more likely to attack without provocation than other breeds
Pitbull attacks have higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than attacks by other breeds.
During 2005-2017, pit bulls killed one citizen every 16.7 days, totaling up to 284 Americans. Rottweilers killed over 105 people during that time period.
From 2005 to 2017, Rottweiler and Pitbull attacks contributed to 76% of all dog bite deaths.
When comparing 2005-2010 to 2011-2017, Pitbull attack deaths have increased from 58% to 71%. Alternatively, Rottweiler deaths decreased from 14% to 7%.
According to a 13-year data set, pit bulls caused 72% of attacks that killed a person 10-years and older vs. all other dog breeds put together.
From 2005 to 2017, 54% of fatal attacks were inflicted by family dogs. Of that 54%, 64% were done by pit bulls. 52% involved killing a family or household member.
When examining a 13-year data set, 54 fatal attacks included a dog killing its primary owner. Pit bulls were the cause of 63% of these deaths, over 8x more than any other type of dog.
Between 2015 to 2017, only 21% of fatal dog attacks resulted in criminal charges. 75% of these cases involved a pit bull.
It is estimated that by 2021, pit bulls would have mauled 441 Americans to death since 1998 and killed 515 Americans since 1980.
The U.S. Army has banned pit bulls from military housing due to their dangerous nature.
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pittbulls don't even exist, they are just a version of terrier.
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>im totally not mad i only made a thread hating on multiple dog breeds
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>>5072432
I didn't know Labradors could be deadly. I don't think I've ever seen a Labrador be aggressive. Apart from in that YouTube video when Cesar Millan is trying to intimidate a Labrador for some reason.
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>>5080814
The OP is showing you that statistically, shitbulls and more deadly than other dogs. It's not "media histrionics" - it's objective fact.

Post your birbs

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Who would win?
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>>5081207
The heaviest animal wins 99% of the time
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>>5081208
>that outlier genetic freak elephant that weighed 11 tons

>though museumgoers affectionately call him “Henry” or the "Giant of Angola", the towering elephant’s official label is more somber: the Fénykövi Elephant. He’s named after Josef J. Fénykövi, a Hungarian-born engineer-turned-big-game-hunter who first encountered traces of the elephant in 1954. While on a rhinoceros hunt in the remote Cuíto River region of southeastern Angola, he stumbled upon the unbelievably large footprint of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana).

>“Getting out a tape measure, I found it measured an even 3 feet [1 meter] in length – more than a foot larger than the world's record trophy. As I stood up a little chill went through my body. I knew I was looking at the spoor of probably the biggest animal living on the surface of the earth,” Fénykövi wrote in 1956 for an article published by Sports Illustrated.

>Obsessed with the find, Fénykövi returned the following year at the head of a specially organized expedition involving local Indigenous trackers. On November 13, 1955, after days of searching, he and his team finally confronted the near-legendary elephant and shot it dead with over a dozen high-caliber bullets.
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>>5081279
>find cool specimen
>kill it so it cant have more cool descendents
What a fucking nigger, leaving no wonder on the earth for the next generation
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>>5081279
>Hungarians in charge of conservation
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>>5081207
An Elephant would freak out and run away if it came across a 10+ ton T-rex. They are smart enough to recognize a threat. If and when they run away, get get run down and dispatched with minor difficulty.
>Muh 10 ton elephant
Well, most T-rex specimens we have are juveniles, or most likely juveniles. The ones we know are fully grown adults, like Sue tip the scales at 10+ tons. Sub adults are still in the 7-9 ton range. Seems like 10+ tons were an average size of a T-rex. If you're going to use a 1:100 000 specimen for elephants, then the same should be afforded the T-rex. Not impossible that a genetic outlier for a T-rex to be in excess of 15 tons, if not more.
>T-rexes were not that big
Volumetric 3d models. That's the weight you get when you model in every organ, muscle and fat deposits. They were fat, idk what to tell you.
>Their bones would break from walking
Expand your mind, truth is not established just because a shitty paper that is often cited said so. Nobody has ever bothered to challenge it is all. Muscle, sinew, fat and skin also support an animals weight, not just bones. Plenty of large animals alive today brush off falls that should break their bones according to the oft cited paper.
>Why are we here?
Fuck if I know. These threads are an exercise in futility. Retards will argue in bad faith based on which animal they like more.

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Hey /an/,

My mom found these shells on the beach at Cape Kidnappers on the northern island in New Zealand.

There where many to be found on this beach, however they all have these scrape markings on them.

Does anybody know what caused this? And perhaps somebody knows the name of this mollusc?


Thanks in advance :)
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>>5081321
abalone
something is feeding on the inside of the shells, like another snail, for the calcium content
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>>5081321
the "scrapes" are muscle attachment scars. The rough surface gives the muscle a stronger attachment point and because it's covered in muscle it grows less nacre.
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>>5081360
>>5081448
So which one of you has the correct answer?
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>>5081517
It’s all a load abalone

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Recently saw this impressive fungus on an old stump in my yard
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>>5080691
this one's probably a poisonpig or similar species. Sort of a puffball lookalike, but named so even a retard can figure out not to eat it.
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>>5081178
It was a Jack-O-Lantern. It got fucking huge too, in this pic it was just under a foot across, it ended up getting to about 16" before it started to collapse.
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Luv me fungi

Just don't bring up legally questionable ones or the drug sperg will derail the thread
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>>5081178
>Really looks like the former though.
Does it? I thought chicken-of-the-woods was a bracket-type that grew horizontally with many parallel brackets; OP's looks like an enormous chanterelle in shape.
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Yay mushies :3 unfurtunetly i live in a nigger-coded country so there's rarely any mushrooms here. But if i could chose one to grow in my garden it would be a type of morel!

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quick you see a Saola in the wild, what do you do?!
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>>5081488
The word.
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>>5081542
then you would know what a saola is
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>>5081544
Not if they don't tell you what a saola is.
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>>5081391
Incorrect.
One of those sentient creatures said "Look! There's a saola!" Then my response was >>5081363
>what the hell is a saola?
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>>5081253
I would wait to see if it does the jackpot-style turd waterfall like other deer. Then I would laugh if true, and call it a faggot in my head.
Loose butthole having ass gay deer shitting like a pachinko machine.

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>hops by you
>chirps
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>>5080560
The Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus). Unlike the House Sparrow, both sexes look quite similar. No idea on filming location, video probably came from a webm thread here
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>>5080484
>Stay up so late you start hearing birds chirping
Meanwhile this gives you dread
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>>5081345
>realize you're going to fall asleep and wake up at 2 with no energy

Maybe I'm glad my 20s are over
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>>5080447
Could theropod dinosaurs like T. rex have been able to rear up like this too?
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>>5080520
>ech

Travis deserved everything and the world turned its back to him and gave nothing. Dicks out for Travis the chimpanzee 2025
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>>5080457
Everyone who still regularly uses 4chan in 2025 is retarded, or mentally ill.
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>>5080634
i'm pointing out how stupid your point is that just because an animal is capable of violence doesn't mean it's their entire nature
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>>5079771
>alcohol and xannies
the ralphamale combo
GET FUCKED A-LAWGS
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>>5080650
Ralphamale didn't even rip a girl's face off
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>>5080650
SUFFAH BISH


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