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What is the smartest animal?
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>>5166288
Humans
>>5166291
Except for this one
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>>5172565
>The brownoid's mind can't comprehend the idea of living in a trust community free of thievery
Sucks to be you.
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>>5172254
You can just see it in his eyes
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>>5166399
I am ashamed that I ever supported hunting of any kind.
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>>5173067
i still support hunting

total cervid death

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Do you like bats?
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>>5166972
Yes. They’re cute and cool and badass but also fun. I also see them all the time in the morning, my favorite time of day. Large groups of them being associated with insanity just adds to the charm for my crazy ass
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>>5171407
wonderful picture. big tick tock before break of dawn for the nocturnal creature.

they even look like fruit bats
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>>5173009
I live right next to a church with an unironic large belfry and there are very mature walnut trees surrounding our properties. Because of that, there are shittons of bats if I check at the right time of day. I’ve always described their flight pattern as “drunken fighter pilots”. These are the guys that hunt tiny flying bugs, it seems.
If I stand still for a minute or two, they’ll disregard my presence and start swooping low enough that I can actually hear the echolocation clicking. Super cool, I’m not even sure if the rest of my suburb has any bats at all.
Any tips for photographing them well? I’d post pics if I could get them lol
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>>5173011
ah! my take would be that you stand still in one spot and aim at a tree slightly so, that they are visible against the sky.
if you are using phone camera, you can enhance contrast? maybe there is a light source and you put yourself underneath? i only once saw a real bat, when i was living in an appartment surounded by connective bridges. they were actually smaller than i thought and looked extremely cozy cuddled up in one corner. couldnt see their face though. make pics if you can!
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>>5173022
>>5173011
I live in an old East Coast City in an old historic neighbourhood, surrounded by multiple churches and steeples, the oldest of which dates to the 1730s, iinm (and there's a much older, pre-Anglo church dating to the 1670s just a mile down the street, which in a dense city, might as well be another town entirely). I see bats all the time. I even told you guys a story a while ago about my attempts to rescue a bat. They're ugly but I want them to not die.
One of my best friends had a small bat infestation in his daughter's bedroom fireplace a few years ago. Since she never actually used it, bats decided to make it a home.
I might have the pictures he sent me of the bats as they were being captured and relocated if anyone's interested but they just look like a pile of leathery rags.

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I'm disappointed that there's no thread for these retarded little dudes. Sure, they die after two or three years and they are are totally unprepared for domesticated life, but as long as they have a decent sized enclosure and you give them enough enrichment (substrate to dig in, quality food including nits and seeds they get to wear their incisors down opening, and some quality exploration time out of their enclosure) they make good tiny companions. Also, you're saving them from being a toy for some foid or a small child that cannot understand their tiny world.

Hamster fondness feels like something that must be not entirely uncommon here. Of course, maybe I'm wrong and just suck cocks (entirely possible,)

i'd share ham but I can't find photos of my previous hamsters and I don't have space for a good enclosure right now.

Why do you like/dislike hamsters? You will be judged.
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There was a silverfish in my shower this morning, so I threw it in my toilet and drowned it in my piss.
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>>5173003
Terrible execution of that execution. The toilet water diluted your piss to a ludicrous degree. You should have used the piss bottle chamber method.
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why wont the silverfish negotiate a DMZ?

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>>5172825
>catbox is down so I'm going to use litterbox and set the time limit to 1 hour instead of one of the several longer options
I don't buy it, still makes no sense.
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>>5171894
That looks painful
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>>5172839
I think litterbox is having issues too, I pressed the 3 days button
oh well
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Tomatoes are the pizza of vegetables.
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>>5172935
they really are

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>>5172747
The way the cougar just stands there soifacing after the bighorn gets away is an obvious sign that it is AI
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The animals of Africa fear the badger.
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>>5172766
How does such a survival strategy even evolve? a lot of badgers had to get rekt in the process
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>>5172773
They just don't give a fuck, simple as. You don't fuck with the badger.
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>>5172773
what do they have to lose? you either meekly roll over or go down fighting. eventually fighting back worked. and i'm guessing the lions realize it's not worth getting scratched up over what would be an insignificant amount of food. remember: bluffing is everything in the animal kingdom. they don't have hospitals. so if something is acting like it will fuck your shit up, you don't want to be the one to FAFO

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Yo.
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Is that a piss mat?
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>>5172634
It ties the room together.
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>>5172627
I look like this
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>>5172634
It's a dog, idiot
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>>5172627
Your thread reminded me of pete. :(

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How do I make my dog YouTube & TikTok famous?
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>>5171712
>>5171779
Force him to make noises like Kylo here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYbPOjtfpHs
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>>5171712
What breed do you have?
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>>5171712
Make a bunch of click bait YT shorts.
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>>5171712
Get cute gurly aesthetic things and make your dog pose in them. The bigger the eyes and happier the expression the better.
Add some videos of your dog zoomin through fields and fetching their toy.

Algo will pick it up and do the rest, and also review dog food with the dog's face in the thumbnail and keywords like cheap, organic, etc etc
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>>5171740
The funny thing isn't the act of abusing dogs but the bizarre culture that exists around it

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>>5171230
Generic street mutt that every NPC have
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>>5171230
lovely cat OP, give it a pet from me
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what brown in eye
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>>5171267
Your skin is the same color as the poop that comes out of my ass.
Hope this helps!

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implications?
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>>5172780
Yeah, PLASMA, not blood cells. And it's because plasma is just a transportation fluid. It's like saying urine contains your DNA, because of course it does.
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>>5172782
Yes I was implicitly agreeing with you. Red blood cell doesn't mean we get to clone a dinosaur.
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What does it taste like?
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>>5172792
like a strawberry sweet roll
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>>5172533
nothing, half life of dna is isnt that long, even on its most generous scale it wouldve gone through 700 cycles, in which literally zero dna wouldve been left

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I'm only now learning that Lilium flowers are, from what I've read, sudden death to cats
So I have two questions
-Is it really as bad as they say? Like medical emergency level shit?
-ANY OTHER RANDOM HARMLESS SHIT THAT I MAY HAVE IN MY HOUSE THAT MIGHT KILL MY CATS??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium
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>>5170858
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>>5170873
thanks, is it true that the water of the vase can also become toxic?
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>>5170858
I think it's only a problem if that's the only plants you have desu, I have liliies and other cat toxic stuff in my backyard and never had any problems cause they just eat the harmless grass
There's also essential oils if you use them, some of them are terrible for cats
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>>5170879
I would assume so. I saw another poster that said "all parts of the plant" are extremely toxic to cats.

I havent known any cats that died from this though. I have known dogs that died from eating cycad roots.
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thanks for letting me know what flowers to plant in my yard

If you found someone like Tarzan would it be ethical to keep him as a pet? Is he an animal?
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>>5171042
Maybe some did
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>>5169812
ME TARZAN
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>>5169596
>Is he an animal?
No…? As soon as he meets other humans he learns English in like 3 days.
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>>5171827
What are you talking about Tarzan is a solid movie; what didn’t you like about it? Tarzan wrestling the silverback, fighting the leopard, Clayton is a funny and cool villain. Jane is probably the best disney girl bar none. What’s the problem?
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Just found out that if you release wolf spiders into your home, they will eat all of the roaches.
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>>5171447
because I don't have wolf spiders
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>>5171447
Because I'm white and whites as a race will soon be extinct and replaced with inferior whites. (Also, it's really not that bad).
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>>5171245
House centipedes make spiders look like bitches. Also they have much more appetite and just move on when their work is done.
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>>5171245
I like a good spider or two, but generally Wolf spiders fair much better in a garage or unfinished area where prey are more plentiful and my cats won't kill them for sport. If I find them in the house I usually move them there.
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>>5171245
I love those little niggas. I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and nothing we ever tried would stop the roaches for long. You could clean like Howard Hughes and spray the place with eight different poisons, and they'd just move back in from outside a week later.
Then wolf spiders moved into the neighborhood, and the roaches fucking vanished. The spiders are polite little guys, they look cool, don't make webs, and will just chill on the wall and look at you once in a while, and hide the rest of the time.
Wolf spiders are fuckin' awesome.

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Who is Jefrey (with one F)?

He was found abandoned in some bushes filthy and covered in fleas late one night in mid-July 2024. He’s all grown up, and enjoys car rides, climbing trees, going to new places, and most of all, his capybara. Some believe him to be a goblin or gremlin. Jefrey was named after the Pixies song “Space (I Believe In)”.

Jefrey suffers from mild ear-ectile dysfunction.

Originally posted him here back in July 2024 seeking advice for potential health problems due to his folded ears, some /an/ons wanted more of him, and so now you’re stuck with him.

Please be patient, he has autism.
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>>5172664
Oohhhhhh now I remember
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>>5172664
That's good stuff
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>>5170982
lmao
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>>5172666
Super happy jef is back!

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What's his end game?
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>>5165750
eat bug. a lot
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>>5171059
angry little toad fella
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The image that broke /an/
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