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HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
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these fellers look just like beavers
>>5172069I for one am a black beaver appreciator
>>5173538I cant help but notice that this beaver is lazier than most other beavers
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I like when I switch to my social media account that I've curated to mostly show me horses and I get greeted with a nice headshot of a pretty horse/pony
hard times have fallen on the horse where they must now take public transit...
>>5174226we need more trottable cities
I'm thinking on making little jars of horse dust for people that are travelling and miss horses. Does that sound like something you would be interested in?
>>5168732For you
You blend it all up and when you're done
>>5168723Just a mild headache
radha radha radha radha radha radha
>>5168617based
>>5173297Big loser
>>5163962
>>5165970>Literally me>literallyinteresting to know that literal orangutans are using the internet as welli think you're the coolest of the great apes
No living descendants of Dickinsonia exist today.
>>5171247It has no inside how are you going to put your dick in it
>>5170652But how do we know this?
>>5170652But i exist
>>5171351life finds a way
>Dick in Sonyawat would she do to it?
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>>5173938Always. All my cats live inside though.
>>5174058Thank you.
>>5173816I yoinked one of my cats as a kitten from my backyard. her mom is still out there (too feral to adopt out, too fucking clever to trap for TNR, the little shit.)they see each other through the window occasionally. there is no spark of recognition between the two, it's just another cat to either of them.What I CAN say is that intact cats having the instinctual desire to fuck and not being able to for whatever reason is fucking torture for them, both male and female. They dont have that when they're snipped.
>>5173702Cats are carnivores that eat a high protein diet. Metabolizing protein is tough on kidneys. Cats have kidneys that last them long enough to parent several litters. 14+ years is far longer than a wild cat would expect to live. For millenia cats had two purposes: control the rodent population and be cute enough for people to tolerate. It is only recently that people have so few other problems that they have lost their goddamn minds about pets. Yes, people have organs that just fail and consistenly. Live long enough and you will have heart issues even if you do everything "right." Our bones also just start deteriorating. We haven't fixed that either. Quit blaming people like we have done something fundamentally wrong for not magically fixing cat biology so they can live to even more unnatual ages. Also, fuck you. People like you are mentally ill.
why some people cant accept the truth?
I have catfag fatigue
>>5173446As expected of catfags.
>>5173433Then take a nap
>>5173611stop ban evading catschizo
Animals that didn't exist until now.How is it possible you've never heard of an animal your whole life until now? It's mandela fuckery.
in my timeline, the animal of canada was the racoon
>>5166664Long, lanky maned wolf legLeg so hot you can fry an egg
>>5166664that's not how the mandela effect works you fucking retard.
>>5173025No, you are a retard
>>5167756Gets more confusing because they all used to grouped under insectovores, then the taxanomists decided they weren't having any of that.
Insects are just robots. I observed their movement. No way those mother fuckers are real
One of my neurobiology profs was a former physics prof and changed to biology because he was obsessed with robots and insect brains. So I guess uhh yeah...
>dog can't walk up and down the stairs without help anymore
>>5173323>>5173326Nah that was harsh, you know it's an unpopular opinion and you're entitled to it. The same way I would splurge on my kid while they're a kid because they'll never be a kid again, I'll spoil my pets because they entered life and ended up in my care, it's unfair to take away the opportunity for them to live their best life because I don't wanna spend the money.
>>5173326Would you rather leave your children some inheritance or just give it all to the medical industrial complex?
>>5173328I can do both. Try and make it sound bad all you want, if me treating my dog's ailments means money goes to people I hate, so be it. I can't treat it otherwise.
>>5173326That happens anyway, you know. Go to any hospice, nobody cares about you after a certain point. My older relatives were even told not to get surgery because they'd be dead within a year. Got the surgery anyway, and dead within a year. Nurses wouldn't even help him walk to the bathroom. We had to do everything.
>>5173322My dog lives with my parents and I'm sure they took her to the vet and spent money on her. She seems fine otherwise, she just sleeps a lot and can't go up stairs and doesn't jump on people anymore
Recently there was a thread where OP talked about a frog sighting that ultimately saved his life. I looked for the thread and it’s gone now.But I’m raising bullfrog tadpoles and made this gif for him and his thread. If you’re out there somewhere, froganon, this one was for you!>also post tadpoles
>>5171203Oh damn I might end up checking that out lol. Just in case any body else sees this and thinks “hey maybe I should get some ‘poles”, one word of caution>tadpoles have an extremely high rate of metabolic activity. The bigger the tadpoles and the more of them you have, the more intense this will be. They eat a LOT and piss/shit a LOT.>They are hilariously weak swimmers and also little brainlets, however, so most common types of filter run a significant risk of injuring or killing them>this means that you’ll want a filter specifically designed to be unable to suck them in and also makes a weak enough current that they can still swim freely>OR you will need to be changing 40%-60% of their water dailyIt’s really not so bad but I definitely want to express that they’re not necessarily super low maintenance. You have to like frogs enough to want to do it well.
>>5171128Giving slow replies so I don’t obnoxious-bump my own thread constantly>What do you plan to do with all those tree frog tadpoles when they grow up?They already did grow up, actually! I got sad with my empty tank after they graduated so I got the bullfrog tadpoles to keep having fun.I have the tree frogs sorted into a couple arboreal enclosures by size so the biggest ones can’t hurt the smallest ones. There’s maybe 20-25 of them total. They eat a lot of fucking crickets lmao
>>5171208Minor update on this noteI got this gentle multifunctional water pump for pretty cheap. I really just intended to use it for water changes but it has a couple decent filter attachments. I’ve found that just letting it run with the shower function pouring into the tank makes the tadpoles really happy. They jump up and seem to play around the water shower. Super cute, I’ll see if I can get a good video of it today.
>eating and pooping at the same timeWhat a freakin’ champion
if God created very small bears, about the size of a housecat, what ecological niche would they ifll?
Red Pandas? Badgers? Wombats?
>>5172545They'd be dumb as bricks, fall out of trees, and eat poisonous eucalyptus leaves.
>>5172545a badger
if God created very large raccoons, about the size of a bear, what ecological niche would they fill?
just a raccoon/skunk
Kek
>>5173354Pandog
Could one of you guys please explain to me WHY wouldn't a predator benefit from a larger field of view? a larger fov would give a larger sight area from which to detect movement and thus have a better chance of catching prey
>>5173242well theres also the fact that vision under water is much shorter than in air, its like 200ft, theres no reason to develop really advanced eyes when you can only see so far, its better to develop other senses than can be used for distance like smell
>>5173242But middle tier terrestrial mammalian predators are also subject to inter and intraguild predation, and almost all of them have forward facing eyes? Isn’t a likelier explanation that aquatic animals have to be aware of threats from below, above, and to the sides (whereas terrestrial predators are more limited to a 2D plane) and thus benefit from a wider field of view? Like terrestrial predators are subject to the same evolutionary pressures (extinction, bigger predators, or shrinking resource pools)
>>5173263Middle tier predators are able to alter their behavior instead to avoid predation, and have other resources to fall back on.Like cats for example invest in hearing (their ears are on a swivel) and are semi-nocturnal. They're also extremely cautious, climb, and small. Their binocular vision evolved because their prey are small rodents/lizards and that requires precision hand-eye coordination.Size is also a big limitation on land. While the Dinosaurs, for example, did have megafauna predators (because their prey was fuckhuge as well), there are almost no large apex predators among mammals comparable to their prey. The biggest land predator on Earth right now is the Polar Bear, and that's arguably an outlier because it is connected to the aquatic ecosystem rather than because it is on land.Underwater, size is only really limited by how much food you can consume. Whales get huge, sharks get huge. On land, size is inherently limited by physics. Dinosaurs can get fuckhuge thanks to their bone structure, mammals are limited because their bones are too heavy, so predators are always mid-size and have different strategies.Just look at Dinosaurs. While many are capable of binocular vision, they never fully went away from horizontal vision. Because they inherently had to hedge their bets, especially during their juvenile phase.
>>5173260do it
>>5173186The "prey have eyes on the side, predators facing forward" is more of a rule of thumb than a true biological lawFor your typical land predator it's important to judge distances so forward facing eyes are important, while for your typical land prey like a grazer having eyes on the side is good so you can look around you even when your head is down grazingBut eyes aren't the only structure predators use to hunt. Sharks use smell and electroreception (many species even close their eyes when they bite to protect them from damage). Dolphins use echolocation which lets them hunt in dark murky waters, etc.
>see a innocent reptile that is both harmless and deathly afraid of humansIS THAT A FUCKING SNAKE OHGODOHGODOHGOD KILL ITTTTTTT >see mammals that are rabies reservoirs like raccoons/stray cats or the neighborhood pitbull being walked on a choke chain (more kills than any reptile in the US does per year BTW)GIMME SOME SNUGGY WUGGIES CUTIESI fucking hate mammals. Reptiles should rule again.
>>5166693>shadman
>>5167056tranny faggot, you and your friends are men
>>5171600Poorly phrased, that's just my usual encounters with them, not that specific instanceI'm deathly vulnerable to bleach but as long as i don't chug it i'll be fine. Bees are similarly situationally dangerous[spoiler]p.s. while they were congratulating themselves on a job well done, one of them asked her and no she wasn't allergic, she just hated bees[/spoiler]
>>5167198keep up the good work, citizen
Who would hate such a cute face?
