I tried to save a mouse from a glue trap, I found out she was pregant when she has a miscarriage and eat half of her babies, she died a day after due to the stress and exhaustionI'm sorry I should have been better
Such disgusting creatures have no business having such a cool namehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
>hellbender>it's just a moist lizard
sir, that's a crab
>>5158445Stop asking such antisemitic questions.
>>5158016Could he domesticate certain parasites like these ones and make them get rid of insects adjacent to bees that are actual pests, like wasps?
>>5158470In my state old people call them snot otters
How would the world be different if plants evolved for sentience but animals (including humans) didn’t?
>>5157363There's already evidence that plants have some level of intelligence as is. If animals didn't evolve greater intelligence then you'd be looking at things more like jellyfish, sponges and very basic flatworms in the oceans. Life would be very slow and I think it'd be impossible for animals to not evolve higher intelligence eventually. Here's a nice video talking about plant intelligence too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnPnze24emg
>>5157363It seems logical that more complex entities are more sentient. Animals need to navigate and eat via active processes. Plants are much more passive. That said, I don't believe in evolution.
Photosynthesis requires less sentience than spooting prey, I would sayBut if this weren't the case, plants would form some sort of society and communicate while animals would wander around like automatons, maybe domesticated and used by the plants
>>5158988>it's too complex for me to understand it therefore it's not realclassic 80 IQ christkike thought patterns
>>5158988Evolution makes more sense than your religion being 100% correct even though the qumran scrolls, septuagint, masoretic text, oral torah, and new agey translations all show that it is a constantly evolving tradition that rolls folklore, oral history, philosophy, and faith into one tome and the new testament as canonized by the church is blatantly self contradictory
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>>5158730Sovl thanks drawfag ano-Wait a minute why does the phant have a 5th leg?
Silly little poll idea I came up with. Feel free to vote if you want to. Ends in 2 two days>>5158763
>>5158737that's just his trunk
>>5158888Mhmm sure...
These damn cats keep mewling and yowling outside my house
>>5158944Catschizo spam thread
>>5158944Did you ask yourself why are they mewlingGo check on them
Is there such a thing as an /an/ whitepill? It seems everythings getting fucked when it comes to animals and their habitat.
>>5155908I'm not sure anymore that it is endless. It's recursive, so there could be an end.
>>5155847It used to be you could look forward to owning one last little corner of the earth that wouldn't get raped; your nature sanctuary to preserve as you saw fit.Now you will never own land.
>>5155847Animals have been losing ground to humans for millennia.Their extinction is pretty well telegraphed at this point.It’s not something you can fix with only one lifetime.To save them it would take a large scale game changer. Technology can help; but it would also take having the power to use that technology & impose your will >>5155854Correct, rats cockroaches and livestock are thriving
>>5155847There's genuine wins for species focused conservation efforts around the world, as for reforestation. We have stories of two dudes who seperately became one man forest salvators. And we're also finding many new species of marine life as we speak and new habitats, which may later down the line allow for conservation. Things may suck on a lot of level, but not everything does.
>>5155847When modern industrialism collapses, people will go back to just farming amongst the trees as city life becomes fatal. Some shit will go extinct but it will be nature with an additional species instead of just one species and a bunch of concrete and metal boxes. When man rebuilds technology on a smaller, less luxurious scale he will not have as many easily accessible resources and while he may reach the stars he will not be able to upend the earth twice.
What'll live there?
>>5158041me
>>5158041oo speculative evolution now we're talkingi'm convinced by the hypothesis of bats thriving after we're gone. mega bats, flightless bats, etc. felines/felids will probably thrive as well, considering how adaptable they are and how they've BEEN thriving for millions of years. they'll more than likely be apex predators in most ecosystems
>>5158213>possums get big and become dangerousthat's what almost happened in South America after land crocs and sparassodonts became extinct and before carnivorans arrivedthat and large carnivorous armadillos
>>5158578>the hypothesis of bats thriving after we're gone. mega bats, flightless batsgo on
>>5158041Probably highly derived mammal descendants.Since it'll most likely have massive deserts like Pangea did, whatever thrives there will be highly desert adapted.
It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
>>5148302>>5146212>>5121709>>5119179>tik tok click bait.>tick tokI think it was a joke, relax...
>>5158456Can you remove it?
>>5158712As I said in an earlier post, I think I remove all the eggs on the first one, and almost all the eggs on the second, but there were definitely a good dozen or so that I couldn't manage to retrieve.I've been keeping an eye outside to see if I spot this hedgehog again and double check it (and keep it inside for a few days if necessary to remove it all and disinfect it). But I haven't seen it again yet.That being said, more gross news: I rushed to remove the larvas as fast as possible yesterday and put them all in a tick har. Since then the eggs hatched. Now there are hundreds of fly larvas crawling in the jar with live ticks. I'm curious to see if they will start feeding on the ticks.And I'm NEVER opening this jar.
>>5158720Personally, I'd toss that jar into a fire.
>>5158720Pour a glass and take a swig
Is speciesism bad?
>>5156154This choice has a practical reason. Dogs need to eat meat and produce little meat and nothing else so they're expensive to keep as livestock. Cows eat grass and produce a lot of meat, milk and leather, so they're more economically efficient than dogs that's why they were chosen to be livestock
>>5156910>treating species different is speciesismOkay so what if we had to treat every species the same>YOU’RE NOT DISCUSSING IN GOOD FAITH REEEEE
>>5157094when ppl say speciesism, theyre not referring to species that have no sentience (e coli). and tics cause harm and spread disease, self defense exists.like you could argue eradicating tics or mosquitos off the planet via mass sterilization is moral since they dont possess the brains to actually care, all while not technically harming them
>>5157633I’ve seen vegans say they want to make all domestic animals extinct through mass sterilization. I don’t see how this is any more “moral” than when governments were trying to mass sterilize Black people
>>5157633When people say "speciesism", they're saying "i'm mentally disabled, please lock me in a leper colony for the rest of my life".I've seen vegans accused of being ontologically evil psychopaths larping as moral people while lacking the actual underlying framework for morality, and that is an extremely correct take.>>5158913It doesn't make sense because they're evil. They don't have empathy or any real emotions. They just reason that they ought to be good so they construct a legalistic pseudo-morality like a deranged AI from a sci-fi novel.
Moments before disaster
>>5158858not ai btw just a really shitty filter
Are Cats intelligent?
>>5158150No.
>>5158485i love cats so much bros...
I bought my cat one of those puzzle feeders today and she just gripped one of the cups in her mouth and whipped the puzzle around like a lion trying to kill a gazelle until the food fell out. She seems pleased, however.
>>5158744based no nonsense lateral thinker cat
>>5158744Knowing may be half the battle but the other half is violence.
Also /an/ memes thread
>>5158228>The fucking profile pickek
>>5158221his specialty is roofing
>>5158229I miss that trend
>>5158221
People talk about sheep in a negative way but they're surprisingly disobedient
>>5158777Pretty schizophrenic post there, original poster.
So you're telling me there's enough food in the deep ocean to support not only the existence of swarms of colossal squid, but also massive predators like Sperm Whales diving down and eating the colossal squids themselves?You're telling me that every night swarms of colossal squids migrate to the shallow levels of the water to hunt and feast on the day-time marine life that lives there permanently?And they supposedly survive these daily attacks from below long enough to breed and multiply? And they do this continuously, without rest?What the fuck is the ocean? How does any of this make sense?
>>5158276I think they just don't melt anything that they don't see as food.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iFzIMZRsoI
>>5158276we named them the cum whale because we thought their heads were full of whale cum so they quit fucking with us because we'll rename them something worse if they liquify some humans
>>5157889Not to disprove you or anything but even dead zones with random anomalies have surprised researchers as literal/serendipitous hotbeds of lifeI'm not even sure how they get there, as methane vents that stop methaning become graveyards
>>5157582I think this is a misunderstanding. It's comparable to a large ship in decibels. Sound works differently underwater. It's also worth considering however, as ship engines are emitting noises this loud ALL the time, and it really fucks with marine life. When I was a kid I remember going to a race track and they had jet engine cars, and they were so loud that it actually made me throw up. So it's probably similiar to that.
Are these the most successful hunters?
>>5158719by what criteria? define success and its context, failurefor example, a whale might successfully hunt tens or hundreds of thousands of krill with each mouthful, multiplied by a hundred year lifespan or whatever. I don't know what animal has the most babies in its lifespan but it's probably not that dog you posted. If success means being able to kill anything it decides to, and involves taking over nearly the entire planet, then humans would be the most successful predator.
