Does anybody else think that rafting is bullshit? Do they really expect me to believe that iguanas and monkeys were able to survive on a couple floating logs for thousands of miles?
>>5081091The only two of these that don't make any sense are lemurs (there are lemurs fossils on the Indian subcontinent from the time when Madagascar was joined to it) and African monkeys rafting to southeast Asia (why is that necessary when the most basal haplorhines like tarsiers and the closest relatives to primates like colugos are endemic to Asia?).
>>5081199>You know how oftentimes you'll see a pond that was never stocked before suddenly have some fish appear here and there?I'm not saying it's not possible for birds to spread it, but I think it's that fish are more mobile than we think. I've personally witnessed fish moving on land during heavy rains. This isn't them getting washed out, it's them exiting the water on their own volition and moving through the grass. This is most likely how they bypassed the small dam to get into the actual pond upstream.
>>5081396While it's true that many fish are incredibly mobile and can get to crazy places, we find fish in completely isolated lakes up in the mountains, with no streams connecting them that they could swim up. In these cases it's most definitely birds introducing fish to the lakes
>>5081613If they're salmon or trout then they were stocked by humans
>>5081630Fish appear in mountain lakes that aren't stocked
would you give him a hug and sing the song, "my little baby boy, mamas pride and joy, just a small toy listen to my bark goy"?
>>5081835goy?
>>5081835That dog is ugly and dysgenic AF. It should be neutered and its population replaced with superior pointy dogs that dont drool or bark incessantly. t. catGOD
>>5081904^Irony poisoned negro stumps wrote this
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/
>>5073308These things will never replace children, millenial wymin
>>5080609Awww...he thinks he's people...Drunk, angry, Texan people...
>>5074160Some dog breeds are outright smarter than wolves and we don't know shit about how smart or dumb Neanderthals were compared to homo sapiens.
>>5077876thats what im saying, what happened to that caused its face to flatten out and its brow to enlarge to that manner, is this neanderthal or something, i dont know phrenology
>>5075790should have used a tanuki instead
Post animal memesI made pic related after I saw my retarded cat enter the laundry room then scare himself because of it
>>5073831Thank God for Quasimodo! (He's adorable)
>tfw no tannins
>>5074383unc is a gen alpha term afaik.
>>5081898And unc be acting like being 40 on 4chan is a good thing. Sus. Bro hasnt touched grass or ass since the plandemic.
>>5071617>>5071414
So, is it true that the pussy juice of female dolphins can make monkeys orgasm to death?
>>5081862The original post said that a researcher just slapped some dolphin's pussy juice on a monkey's dick and the poor thing orgasmed until his heart stopped.I think it was on Tumblr, so it's probably fake, but man it would be really fucking funny if it wasn'tIf it was real, maybe it would be some kind of stimulant that works like viagra to keep male dolphins as potent as possible during mating, but deadly to any other animal
>>5081866Yeah but you gotta admit it would really fucking funny if it were real
>>5081872Was Mitsy male or female? Also, can you give a tl:dr of what happened?
>>5081876Mitzi was born 1958 and died 1972. Mitzi's "siblings" for the TV series were called Sissy, Pamela and Peter. Peter itself is famously known for being the sex partner of Margaret Howe Lovatt. Margaret's friend John C. Lilly trained the dolphins for Flipper. He might've also been a dolphin fucker.
>>5081876Sorry. Mitsy was a female btw and John C. Lilly was a neuroscientists who was curious why dolphins were "arousing". He also tried to have dolphins speak human language.
"don't talk to me or my daughter ever again" editionFound a juvenile widow in my charcoal chimney. She's still got the gold stripe down her back. I'll have to get her set up with a bigger enclosure soon but I think she's okay in the sling box for now. Also think the middle widow is working on some eggs, it's been a week or so since she ate and she's still looking thicc.
Are there any predatory colony insects that I can keep to eat a colony of mealworms?Ants will easily take over the terrarium completely, and I don't think I can get assassin bugs in my country for whatever reason.
>>5052021Huh, I didn't get scared but the hair on my face moved. Somehow? Didn't know the skin could do that, is it instinct? Thank you for the experience I guess.
Got a pic of a butterfly. These guys are way more skittish and fast than moths.
>>5080097I wonder if these moths grow a little after their emerge from the cocoon? I saw these slightly before seeing butterflies, and the butterflies have the same dark body + head shape.
Bump
Is it weird for 20+ y/o men to have a hamster as a pet?
>>5080448rats are unironically cool pets because they're very smartyou can train rats to do party tricks
>>5080370Just get a fucking hamster if you want, you faggot. Provided you know what you're doing, better for the hamster than being Timmy's first microwave bait
>>5080381*hamsters
>>5080370It give me the ick...
>>5081130All the rat owners I know love them and say they make awesome pets. A few have stopped keeping them as they only live 2 years and they cant handle the incessant loss.
>cellar spider>fucking everywhere outside of cellars
>>5079886only an american from the south/west. we have cellars (or basements) in the northeast
>>5076248I dont like them, lanky freaks.This is a cool spider. And this is my friend, i protect him from the cold, and he protects me from 6 legged beasts
>>5076274Where else would you keep your wine?
What if everywhere is cellar HUH
>>5076248These guys love crawling over me while I'm sleeping. I'd be fine with it but they're so cold to the touch, it freaks me out.
gluttony edition
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxuT3ZClgCA
>>5078913got blood all over her nice chair
>>5081477>>5045858Just noticed that beavers don't use their hands when swimming. They look like reverse ducks.
>>5056316Not that guy but we can't digest raw grass efficiently because our digestive system lacks the enzymes to break down cellulose, which is what grass leaves (yes, they're leaves) and wood are mostly made of. Cattle and other ruminants can eat that shit not because they produce the enzyme (cellulase) but because their chambered stomachs got friggin bacteria, protozoa and fungi that produce it to break the grasses down for them. That's why cannulated cattle are so important (I posted a few videos of them before, much to /an/'s horror; check the archive for the word 'cannulated'/'cannula' or 'fistula'/'fistulated' to watch'em or ask nicely and I'll see if I've still got it somewhere).If cattle are malnourished from a lack of proper bacteria in the stomach and therefore unable to efficiently digest grasses, a farmer can reach into the stomach of a healthy specimen through the cannula, grab some rumen and plant biomass and manually transplant into a malnourished one, giving it the right bacteria etc to process grass properly. Their ability to derive nutrition from grasses is heavily based on fermentation, yes, but here's the kicker: the bacteria etc digest the cellulose into glucose, the fungi, other bacteria and protozoa ferment the glucose into volatile fatty acids (acetate, propionate and butyrate, iirc) which get absorbed through the rumen wall. We can't get nearly as much nutrition from those VFAs as they can because our digestion system and nutritional needs are just fundamentally different. That's why while we can eat bamboo shoots, which are grasses, we get relatively little nutrition from it. We only process about 5% of the possible nutrients cuz they're encased in cellulose.If you're dead set on making grass edible, it's been done but the amount of cellulase necessary is ridiculous for the low amount of nutrition we would get from the results. However, the glucose made from that cellulase+cellulose digestion is currently used to make ethanol biofuel.
Why are all the coolest critters impossible to keep. It's like God is taunting us with his beautiful creations.
>>5081774Because coolness overlaps a lot with what makes an animal hard to keep like size, ferocity, rarity, specific habitat, unique lifestyle, etc
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>>5080882This>>5080937Need to memorise food/water surces + high sociality
New Jotunheim video https://youtu.be/vKfuaPnYKLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDOvO3DAco
>>5080882>>5080937>>5080967not to mention that elephants are so large and perceive the world at such a sped-up timescale that they effectively plan routes as puzzles that need to be solved; what's the best route to take around these known locations in my memory to best feed everybody with the most nutritious sources of food of sufficient variety that everyone stays healthy, and ensure we have access to safe drinking water regularly enough to stay alert, and pass by sufficiently many identifiable areas that the other members of the herd will remember them if I can't lead them there, etc etc. The whole world is a puzzle for them.
>>5081740is there also a possible truth to the theory that due to the quaternary glaciation resources and climatic conditions are unstable enough large animals can't adapt to the rapid changes purely through natural selection and the development of intelligence is a sort of fall-back solution?overall, there's been a fairly aggressive selection for higher intelligence among large vertebrates in the past few million years, and as evidenced by elephants and whales, unlike many other periods in earth's history, not even the most massive animals can escape this general trend
That's an exotic shorthair.There is nothing well read about it, let alone well bred.
>>5081493A treatise on the reading of the foids and wrinkles of the anus
are they fun to keep or is the care routine really a hell? i'm a single NEET and aware of the time and space they require.
>>5081569It really depends on the personality. I've seen some chinchies that are lovely and others that are the most hateful creatures that don't post to /pol/.Care isn't that bad. Space can be a problem, though. And remember: nocturnal. Not really the best pet ever but very cute, soft and potentially pleasant.
>>5081575i heard it can typically take more than a year for them to warm up to somebody, but i guess worst case scenario they're just hostile their whole life? what do you think would be a better alternative? i'm kind of looking into small mammals like this, hamsters and guinea pigs live so short though.
>>5081577I'd almost recommend rats but they live 2-3 years. I've kept 15 over the last 11 years and only just got one to 3 so don't pin your hopes on the longer life. Check out the rat thread OP >>5061960 it has some useful links and feel free to ask questions... we could use the preservation bumpDegus live longer but aren't usually as friendly as rats, it's more like they need more domestication but are getting thereFerrets can be nippy little fuckers when playful, if you're OK with that, they might be worth looking into but can also be aloof. Might be bigger than yours looking for.
>>5081583thanksalso ive never known anything about degus so i think i will look into those, they look cool.
The tiger is singularly the most aesthetic animal in the animal kingdom, arguably the most beautiful thing ever created by nature
yeah that's gonna be a fox from me
>>5022907>look up "rosette" because I'm unfamiliar with the term>Google AI tells me that I'm probably looking for a Fortnite skin, while the first article on the right is exactly what I'm researching.The internet kinda blows now
>>5039102If I came around a corner and saw this, I would definitly shit my pants.
>>5035054>glub glub, the jewsevery time
>>5081234engineered suckage to monopolize your time
T. rexRAWR
>>5080779why doesn't it have trans flag colored feathers? unrealistic
>>5080784Livyatan had larger but it's a whale so it feels unfair to compare a land animal with an aquatic one.
>>5081505that's a big root
>>5081014The amount of root its teeth had was insane
>>5081662Likely even bigger than this in life too, parts of it doesnt preserve well
