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.
>>5166664It's the Mandala Effect
>>5166845I will.
>>5166664I knew about maned wolves for a while but I had never heard of hyraxes at all until a year ago
>>5167275soul
>>5167584Some "mice" are not rodents, either. Marsupial mice are marsupial, not mice.
>>5168686>>5168687>>5168690Fucked up thing is they probably all survived this. They regenerate skin extremely rapidly and most of their body is nearly gelatinous.
>>5168723he's a big fish
i like sunfish and the hate for them is unfounded
>>5168729Hate to be the bearer of bad news but that sunfish is dead as fuck (except the first one, that's AI slop). The bit the sea lion's eating is exactly where all of the sunfish's actually important, and edible, organs are
>>5168617YOU TAKE EVERYTHING THAT SEEMS LIKE FUN
Shoebill thread
>>5162955lmao cute
"In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend to found the Jourdain Society, a rogue league of aristocratic egg collectors who operated outside the law. It was theoretically a charitable society, formed to lobby against the evil influence of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSBP), but it was widely accused of being at the center of a wave of egg theft sweeping the country. The Society held formal gatherings, where tuxedo-clad egg collectors admired antique display cabinets full of rare eggs and competed to produce the rarest specimen. The police regularly raided these meetings, held in swanky hotels across the country, and fully half the members had criminal convictions as late as the 1990s. Again, for egg crimes. But stealing wild eggs is pretty draining (several poachers fell to their deaths, while another was so overcome with egg madness he charged into an osprey reserve with a chainsaw and was arrested trying to saw down trees) and the thieves soon realized there was an easier target: museums. Britain's natural history collections were soon hit by an epidemic of theft."
>you will never be a decadent tophat-wearing egg obsessed maniac Why even live
>>5167739Would be pretty sick.
>>5165324>Egg collecting isn't "illegal"....Yes, yes it is
COMMODORE!
>>5167739Halloween is right around the corner…
Why can't we just domesticate possums? I'm a europoor so I've never seen one in person but watching videos of ones that were raised by humans, they seem so docile and eager to be domesticated, probably more fit for the role than any other "exotic pet" species.
>>5159419Rats/mice had the torture industry (sorry medical/science) has an added incentive for domestication.Possums just have weirdos
Opossum pee kills horses :(
>>5168676why do horses drink 'possum 'ee?
>>5166194this would make good midwestern emo album art
>>5159337>>5161476Actually a few studies show opossums are intelligent. Not dog or raccoon level sure but smarter than cats
Why?What did he think he was doing?
damn bro i guess you're right about this meaningless distinction that doesnt change the character of the actual argument that mattered woe alas i shalt slew myself postpartum lol
>>5168866chegg'd & geg'd
>>5168266Not unless you are a shit ownerPeople keep all manner of big cats as pets already
>>5168894you got btfo’d
>>5168503both grizzlies and kodiaks are brown bears but kodiaks aren't grizzlies
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>>5169603Yeah I just mixed some spirulina powder with tank water and turkey basted it in by the entrance to the tunnel they’re in about an hour or two ago. Haven’t seen anyone come out yet but vegetative protein powder should be exactly what they’re looking for.
Mentally speaking, what is wrong with monster fish owners?>yeah I’m gonna buy a 100g tank and not put a single damn thing it or scape it>I just wanna watch my pet kill stuff>no I don’t care that the fish is ugly as sin because it’s VIOLENT>it’s perfectly okay to have 100 aggro cichlids in this tank! Trust me bro, I’ve been keeping fish for 50 yearsLiterally the trailer park of the fishkeeping hobby. And all of the monster fish guys constantly abuse AI for their “content”. If you’re one of these people you should probs kys asap desu
Chimken Nuggers
>>5169684They are the pitbull owners of the fish world
>>5169758but enough about goldfish
A dog obeys
>>5168613>more consolewarringWould you kindly kill yourself?
Well, this is why cats make bad pets, and are chiefly used as surrogate for child.
>>5168622Pony does what Cowtendon't
>>5168613>implying cats have the brain capacity to question anything
>BLUE SHIRT UGLY RETARD COMING!>HIDE IN BURROWS AT ONCE!!!!
>HE'S GOT A GUN!!!>I REPEAT: HE'S GOT A GUN!
>.223 rips through body. Thank God someone finally shut Terry up!
Dog passed away this morning, it could not have happened at more unfortunate time and place. Me and my mother were taking her to the vet to get lab tests done on her urine.(my mother is too weak to carry her out of the car) The minute she walked in the vet waiting room, she pee’d and collapsed on her side, breathing heavily with her legs jerking. 10-15 minutes later, she was passing away in the operating room with my mother comforting her, telling her it’s okay to not hold on anymore.It happened so fast compared to out past dog, this time the decision for when she was going to go was not ours. She was going blind, her appetite massively decreased in the last few months, her legs were getting weak and she needed arthritis medication. She was a very sick old dog who was holding on for us, and the whole event with her collapsing just when we arrived at the vet was like God intervening. I am thankful for being there to comfort my mother. I am thankful that she was surrounded by love when she left and that I got to say goodbye. I am thankful that if there was any pain, it was short lived. The selfish part of me is also thankful that I have less responsibility.
>>5168570>unfortunate time and placeMeant to say fortunate, I was typing through my phone
>>5168570I still miss my doggo. There's an emptiness and n me that I fear will never mend. I long to be with him
She looks like an absolute sweetheart Sorry for your loss
>>5168571I was angry the whole time I was reading the OP because it didn't make any sense. Sorry about your loss what was her name and was she a good boy?
Lost my guy yesterday, sorry for your loss my friend
I want to bring 2 strays to my house. They're 6 months old, sisters. Any advice on how to potty train them easily? I don't know much about cats other than petting & feeding them.
>>5168083Cats will usually figure it out unless you have other things that happen to look more suitable to shit in than the litterbox, if you aren't planning on keeping them exclusively indoors they might just beg to go out whenever they have to go though.
>>5168083My wife and I brought in a semi-stray kitten and he figured out to shit in the litterbox on his own (he was used to shitting in dirt). Cats figure things out. The most important thing is to socialise them well and make sure you have enough food, water, toys and litterboxes for them that you clean regularly.
>>5168083They sell cat-attracting litter, which presumably has some chemical precursors to urine in it that cats can pick up on and go "oh we piss here," but the material of the litter itself is usually enough for them to understand that that's where they go to the bathroom, because they can dig in it/cover their piss and shit.That said, get bigger boxes than you'd expect, because they WILL reject a box that's too small, and get one more than the number of cats you have so they have options. It may be a good idea to leave a little pee and poop in there when you clean, as well, to reinforce that THE BOX is the spot where that goes, and not "in the general area around the box"\Most cats pick up this shit within about 5 or six weeks of being born, so I wouldn't expect much trouble.
>>5168083Nice citrus tree. Do you leave it outside during the winter?
How many users here realize that calling Lissamphibia (modern amphibians) Temnospondyli is the equivalent of calling birds dinosaurs? The consensus is nearly absolute, with the exception of David Marjanovic and Michel Laurin, who theorize that Lepospondyli gave rise to Lissamphibia, but their views are as marginal as Feduccia’s are in the world of ornithology regarding bird evolution.
>>5168540Here is the development of the postcranial skeleton in temnospondyls from small aquatic larva/juvenile to semi-terrestrial/terrestrial adult, exemplified by Archegosaurus.
>>5168559>I believe it is more plausible that Platyhystrix did not have a tadpole stage.Or perhaps they had a tadpole phase. At the very least, after reading the study of Rainer Schoch and Florian Witzmann, I am increasingly convinced that they underwent metamorphosis, perhaps much like salamanders. The are some different temnospondyl larvae.
>>5165214Yeah I realized previously.Dunno what else to say, really. Makes speculating on their appearances in life difficult I supposed; at least with dinosaurs you can cross birds with crocodilians to get a wider range in reconstruction.
>>5168574Yes, there is, in fact, a huge gap between amphibians, as tetrapod, and lungfish. Furthermore, amphibians, as anamniotes, are very distinct from amniote reptiles. Unfortunately, there are not many proxies for this gap, save for the extant species within Lissamphibia.
>>5167829aren't french people amniotes though?
This is cladogram piece is apparently from the gameplay demo for Planet Zoo 2 held yesterday, how did they fuck it up this badly?
>>5168743keked
>>5168767Gonna be honest ZT2 really wasn't not some deep management sim either, RCT2 is the game for that. It's not difficult to stay green in ZT2 even in the scenario maps, it mostly just takes a long ass time to progress because it was designed for 9 year olds who are easily occupied staring at low poly tigers for 5 hours.
>>5168767Comon bro, their updates on hunting, fighting and breeding is a million times better than any other game of similar scope. Just look at pz2 embarrassing wild reserves with an true ecosystem you can create in PK. The developers deserve praise, I just wish they would allow dinos to acctually make big mest with multiple offspring, like sauropd having 30+ eggs on one nest.
Two Point Museum is the better zoo game.
>>5168786RCT is not a deep management game either lol.
Why did nature make these rabies-magnet pests so adorable?
>>5166900source?
>>5167048
>>5151488>rabiesWhen was the last case of a rabid raccoon in your direct area you fucking moron? I wish faggots/bots like you wouldn't talk at all. All bot posts
>>5165057fluffy ears
>dog gets diagnosed with pyometra >she also has a small ball shaped tumor on her vagina which closed it off and prevents any of the built up fluids caused by the pyometra to leak out>vet says she'd need to see a specialist and it would cost 8k>vet also said my dog is old and her knees are slowly dislocating Should I just euthanize her? Don't want her to die but at the same time I wonder if it's worth getting the surgery just for her to die of old age a year from now, that is if she even survives the surgery.
>>5164040Bit late for that.
>>5163384I know it may sound a bit screwed up, but you did the right thing by putting her down she was old and very sick, any time she had left would've been spent in painyou made sure she didn't have to experience that painyou are a good owner, anon, I'm glad your dog was in the hands of someone responsible and caring
>>5163854Anon can you recommend me a good farmer dog breed, I'm a first time owner so a medium sized easy to handle dog would suffice.
>>5166339We also used to just leave retards like you out in the woods when you were an infant but sadly times change
>>5168538Honestly most dog breeds are pretty good. I'd avoid pitbulls obviously. Cow dog breeds like blue heeler, McNabs, Australian shepards, and border collies are good but mostly higher energy, pyrenees breeds are good but a bit more independent by nature. German Shepards can be amazing dogs too. I'm partial to labs and lab mixes. Worst part about my yellow lab is he is one of the itchy bois and sheds a ton of friggin hair in the garage... I think it'd be neat to have a rat terrier or borzai as well. Mutts are always hard to beat too, and usually can be had cheap. Some of the best and most loyal dogs I ever had were just straight up mutts.
