My autism compells me to plant this tree in my yard. Anyone else being Ginko rn?
>>5118192>difficult to keep alive>a tree that is naturally resistant to pests and disease>a tree that withstands pollution from urban environments>a tree that is highly drought resistant when established/mature>a tree that is okay with a wide range of soil PH and salinity>a tree you can reduce to a stump and it will grow back>a tree species that survived nearly 300 million yearsAre you fucking drowning your trees or something Anon??
>>5123914How come it's almost extinct in the wild then?
>>5123947Because it's from Asia, Asians value the wood for light furniture and bowls and game boards and the nuts for magic peepee pills or whatever so it's been domesticated to fuck and back and the few wild populations still around are only in remote areas away from most people. Similar reasons why there are so few wild (rather: feral) populations of bos taurus IE common cattle. Might as well claim that cows are extinct for how much sense it makes to claim that ginkgo are.
>>5123914The answer to your question is in his second sentence. Native plant fags aren't above blatantly lying to serve their agenda. Ginkgo is one of the most benign trees you can have. It is literally incapable of being invasive. There are no known instances of ginkgo reproducing and spreading in a wild environment.>>5123947Because the megafauna that ate and spread its seeds went extinct. Same thing with kentucky coffee trees, osage orange, and avocados, which were restricted in range and on the verge of extinction until humans started cultivating them.
>>5119828They smell fine to me
>good morning sir please do the needful and give me the peanut good sir
>>5121500You only get more during the winter, or if there's a noticable decrease in pigeon activity near my house.
>>5121502Ah, makes sense
found some peanuts buried in my flower pot, so I guess these are perpetrators
>>5121485Baited
>>5121481Crow threads are liked; just the wrong board for it. Just come post over here. We'll gladly take you.
They're all full of pitbulls no one wants. They even have to lie and have to label them "Terrier Mix" or "Lab Mix" just so adopters don't nope out. How will shelters survive when they're 99% wild animals that need to be drugged to function like normal dogs?
>>5123380Log off
The raped:>>5123387
>>5123380>its not a shitbull its a mcconnel terrier-bull pitdog totally different breed recognized by two kennel clubs including my backyard and some guy in a trailer park>actually pitbull ONLY means UKC certified american pit bull terrier so those are all mixed breed. why dont you stupid conservative hicks try LOGIC on for size? smart people are logically obligated to share my ideology. its the deed not the breed.
>>5123034Yeah, I figured that out pretty quick. I'm currently in the bathroom of a restaurant for my wife and kid to have Mother's Day lunch at, btw, and my son already ogled about a dozen dogs on the walk from the Sunday services here.Luckily, I talked with my brother the night I posted >>5122955/>>5122958 and he said that wealthier areas have practically no pitbulls, which does seem to be true. The nearest shelter to my house has one and I live in a fairly well-to-do 'hood. The others there are much older dogs, though, given up because someone moved out of the country or whatever. He lives in a wealthy suburb so I checked one in his area and he's absolutely right. All purebreds, though, except a handful of mixes. We have our eye on one Australian shepherd mix given up by the owner of a small hobby ranch farther out. No idea why a ranch would need a herding dog. Can they guard? Cattle and horses are too big to have any real predators in my area. Biggest predator common here are coyotes. Bears are transient and don't stick around and the most recent mountain lion sighting was 1873 lolThis is probably the safest area for barns and stables.
>>5122614What does this have to do with anything remotely political?
She separated from a man in the forest to gather deer horns. Bear got to her and mauled her to deathRIP
>>5118828>Polack die kek
>>5118828 kek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_or_bear
>>5123094They kind of did in many places. Why do you think there aren't grizzy bears in California anymore?
>>5119095>Little Bear x Anne Frank
>>5118870Black bears are much more likely to wander into urban areas
What is /an/'s favourite nature documentary? For me it's Attenborough's "The Life of X" collection. I've rewatched it recently, and the thing I like about it the most is that it puts more emphasis on life's diversity and how various creatures are adapted to their environment, rather then to try to show a story or a pretty picture, which is what most documentaries do.
>>5105231Anything about the deep sea
Leni Riefenstahl's underwater nature documentary
The Last Trapper
>>5105231The Blue Planet series
>>5105231any good plant documentaries?
Does /an/ like penguins?
Rockhoppers are so notoriously territorial and cute..
Round fuzzy ball too.
I hate the fact that orcas are the apex marine predators of today. Such a boring and lame creature, they are oversized dolphins with panda patches and hunts in pods like pussies. Why? I thought everything in nature was perfect but killer whales as the top ocean predator does not feels right. Not so long ago there were giant mega-toothed sharks and macroraptorial sperm whales with ugly, monstruous heads in our oceans. We were supposed to still have this, but we're stuck with panda dolphins that perform circus tricks instead (literal CLOWNS).
>>5122217I love how these two animals actually lived at the same time and actively beefed with each other. None of this pussy "niche-partitioning" crap.
>>5123510>Somebody explain how we know the wear marks are from chewing on reptile bones and not ammonite shellsWhy is it assumed to have been from ammonite shells until and unless definitively proven otherwise?
>>5123985More conservative "tame" ideas are automatically considered the default until proven otherwise. It's like how when sauropods were first discovered, it was assumed they were semiaquatic because no land animals today reached such sizes and we believed an African Elephant was the biological limit. Or how Jack Horner claimed T. rex was a scavenger because the idea of a superpredator many times larger than a polar bear was too extraordinary to believe. Or when Quetzalcoatlus was discovered and it was thought to be flightless because surely Argentavis already represented the physical limit of how big an animal could get while retaining flight. Even though these are all old antiquated lines of thought we ridicule today, people ironically go on to do the same thing with newer discoveries. It's not even a scientific type of thinking. It's literally just people making up their own headcanon based on vibes and passing it off as fact.
>>5124065except jack horner claimed t. rex was a scavenger based on nothing more than contrarianism
>>5124138Except he did make arguments for it which have a striking parallel with the current octopus shit.>There is no way T. rex was an active predator. It can’t run fast and its arms are too small to hold prey, there is no modern animal like that. Its powerful bite was probably for eating carrion it didn’t have to chase after. I know this sounds more lame than your awesomebro fantasy, but real life isn’t always exciting, sorry.>There is no way Nanaimoteuthis was an active predator. No macropredatory cephalopod exists today, even giant squid only hunt small fish. It’s powerful beak was probably for crushing the shells of ammonites that can’t fight back. I know this sounds more lame than your awesomebro fantasy, but real life isn’t always exciting, sorry.
Shoebill thread
>>4963638would they make good pets? I heard they're surprisingly docile
>>4963638the shoebill is an impressive bird
>>4969457>>HandsomeNo, dude
>>4963638Friends.
Happy Weddell Wednesday
>>5108091They are cousins with beats btw
>>5110467There used to be a graying tower, alone on the seaYou became the light on the dark side of me
>>5123314I meant bears
>>5116358did I just watch a walrus masturbate?
Fuck yeah
>>5092948>>4991555>>5120861Clone technology soon?
>>5121560Yes please.
>>5044584>>5047272https://people.com/giraffe-grabs-2-year-old-girl-from-truck-during-wildlife-tour-drops-into-moms-arms-video-8659088Aww it almost ate the baby.
>>4991417what did the giraffids that originated in Asia look like?
>causes another pandemic nothing personal, ape
An outbreak isn't the same thing as an epidemic or a pandemic
>>5122397why are the boring looking rodents the most problematic?
>>5122741Boring-looking humans can also be some of the most fearsome.
>>5122397They appear to be a Satanic driver, after all
>>5122397Hantavirus is a nothingburger
Can some hunterfag or something tell me what these are? Allegedly it's supposed to be either adult fox + juvenile fox or adult fox + adult wolf. Yes I've looked up what the respective tracks look like, no it didn't help. I don't claim to be smart.
>>5123784What are the prints on?
>>5124079James' Arwing, from the new Star Fox. The obvious interpretation is that it's James and Fox's prints, but some anon said the bigger one is Wolf's print, which got me curious about what they actually are, or if they're even accurate in the first place.
Here is a better question: why aren't we?
>>5119395At first I thought that was his dorsal fin but it turns out it's his...
It's cool I guess but it's not really worth the effort of swimming out to some open water to do it. Pissing in the air while floating on a body of water is purely a special occasion thing.
>>5120018to get rid of excess water
>>5119395do they drink their own pee?
>>5123394>>5119606yes
>It's a shame no animals are as big as the dinosaurs today :(>The blue whale is bigger than the largest dinosaurs, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!>It's a shame there are no marine reptiles alive today :(>Yellow bellied sea snakes can spend their whole lives at sea, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!
>>5118664people do take the dinosaurs we have today for granted, which is especially insane considering how unique and specialized they are, and their extravagant variety.
>>5123716people love cassowaries though
>fliers like pterodactycls have wingspans that couldn't support their weight.nobody tell him about the big metal birds living in metal caves at the airport
>>5118655>muh blue whaleWhen people say animals, they typically mean animals and not fish.
>>5123917not the same thing at all
Deep sea creatures are harmless. The only aspects of the ocean rational to be afraid of are: drowning/storms, sharks, and venomous jellyfish/conches/whatever, which are all shallow water concerns anyways.People piss their pants at images of ugly deep sea fish because they're ignorant and don't know they're almost all a foot or less in length; you could crush them with your bare hands. Take the infamous Bigfin squids for example: their body from mantle tip to arms is a foot or so in length. How could one possibly hurt you? Its tentacles are wire thin and its beak is probably less than an inch wide.The ONLY deep sea creature I could fathom being a rational concern is the Humboldt squid, but even then it has no confirmed kills and you could easily stab it to death with a dive knife if you have no other choice.
>>5116522>He linked the fire
>>5116905has never ever harmed a human
>>5122712has never ever left a witness*
>>5122950people would probably notice if lots of divers went missing without explanation...
>>5116435people are just irrationally spooked by the appearance of anglerfish, viperfish, dragonfish, etc
