Why did pigs become infused with so much, often contradictory symbolism?
>>5064638>During the bronze age it was fairly universal to sacrifice animals to the gods; the meat would then be roasted and eaten by the priests, whatever left over trickling down to the poor. The pig used to be an ideal animal for this sort of thing, but with the advent of irrigation, better crop systems, and more domestic animals (chickens, sheep, goats), things changed. The pig became less appealing, perceived as a dirty lower-class poverty food not fit "unclean" for temple provisions. Furthermore, the pig wasn't as economically useful: it didn't produce a renewable food source like milk, nor an export commodity like wool, so palace governments encouraged the shift to other livestock.Problem is that the palace economies all but disappeared 1700 BC. And while pigs had a somewhat poor reputation, short of specific priesthoods, nobody was banned from consuming pig. Not amongst the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Hittites, the Sumerians, Babylonians or Egyptians.The ones who came up with the ban were the Canaanites, nomads who by definition didn't have palaces, yet alone palace economies.You'll note that pigs aren't typically kept by nomads anywhere, however. They're just not suited to the nomadic lifestyle.And that ban - probably a xenophobic reaction to the Egyptians and the pre-bronze age collapse inhabitants of the levant having pigs - was then kept as the canaanites settled down and became Israel and Judah.Tellingly, the people who then adopted the ban were the also largely nomadic Arabs, while the largely settled Greco-Romans abandoned it.
>>5064678The timeline evidence and the archeology (of pig bones in middens) points to the Semitic prohibition against pork originating in the Kingdom of Judea in the immediate aftermath of the sacking of the Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians. The best theory is that the religious prohibition against pork was designed to help the nobles of Judea pay the increased tithe that Assyria demanded in the aftermath of the insurrection (which Judea had participated in, but largely escaped the consequences of because they were able to spend the time it took Assyria to wreck Israel’s shit gathering a massive bribe they could use to get back on the good side of Sargon II). The way that banning pork would help the landed nobles raise the money they needed is that pork was 60% of the dietary protein in the levant at the time, and banning it increased the demand for mutton and beef, and while pork was kept in the urban areas and fed scraps/refuse/sewage, etc, the sheep and cattle had to be pastured, which contributed to the rents the landed nobility could charge their tenants.And while it took generations for the taboo to take hold across the whole spectrum of society, especially the lower class urbanites, the middle and upper class urbanites did change their diet entirely in basically a decade of the Judean priesthood decrying their Israeli brothers as pork eating heretics who deserved to be sacked by the Assyrians for defying God’s commandment against eating and keeping pigs (coincidentally first recorded in this era), in the archeological record, pork utilization went from 60% of animal protein to like 30% essentially overnight.You can imagine what this change meant economically for the people controlling the pasturages that the sheep and cattle grazed.
>>5065846Any sources?Not in the sense of I don't believe you, but rather in the sense of it sounds pretty believable, and I want to have your sources on hand for the future.
>>5066070I’ll try and dig the primary sources up later, but it was a Religion for Breakfast video that brought this all to my attention initially.
Because they're very human.
It's that time again! Post cats. Ignore schizos who spam not-cats.
>>5065631What does he eat? This type of bleeding happens less if you feed him wet food.
>>5065641I usually leave both out for him, either untamed or marro with a bowl of gocat. He’s got a fountain on a constant flow too and does use it a lot.Thank you for the advice I’ll take away his dry for the meantime hopefully it’ll help him a little
Cats are great foot warmers. She likes mine
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>>5055008CATSNAIL!
What causes eyeliner color patterns to happen in animals?
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>>5064926>>5064936sloppy job Mossad
>>5064926The fact is the "eyeliner look" is the natural state, humans just have to imitate it.
Uhm......
>Castrate your cat!What about the inevitable health issues that will plague it for the rest of his life?>Oh, no worries! Just bring him back to me!>Don't forget your checkbook!>We also take cash and credit cards and offer easy payment plans with low interest!You didn't fall for it, did you?
>>5065984>You also have to cat-proof your house, because your cat will tear into and eat anything it thinks it might be food, on account of constantly being hungry.you are retarded.we have a male cat who came to us neutered and he is extremely polite/well mannered. my mom also bred cats when i was younger and we had a lot of them both spayed/neutered and not. 0 of the neutered/spayed ones were voraciously ripping into every bag of food. several of the unneutered ones did spray/mark in the house though.
>>5065986>Let me guess, you don’t smell a thing?He pisses in his litterboxes, because cats like to bury their waste. Why would he piss anywhere else?
>>5064730This is why pet owners are subhumans.Carve out flesh and tissue for your own enjoyment from a living veing. Cuddle with a fucking pillow. As bad as circumcizers.
>>5065985>SorryDon't be sorry for cleaning up other people's messes.
>>5066100>magic box of pebbles perfectly absorbs all smells left by an animal that roams around the entire houselmao do you think when you cook food that the smell is limited to just the kitchen too?
Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.Anhingas welcome also.Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
>>4979341I was working at a beach when a cormorant, while trying to eat a fish way too big, busted its skull on a post and died. it was sad I called the animal ambulance but it was too late :(
...this particular image of a cow......what words does it bring to mind?
>>5065901THIS
>>5065530"Well done!"
>>5065894>>5065924Oh shit
>>5065894>>5065924>>5065927
>>5066041aw fuck it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_pbzXn3YMdamn zoomers
Thoughts on the secretary Bird?
How to teach a child (10 - 12) who abuses animals that it is a bad thing in a safe, convincing way?
>>5065828Native Americans shouldn't have children, eat meat or own pets.
>>5064825get him a nannydog
>>5064825>and kids are cruel>all people are by nature>they just lose touch with as they get older>start thinking they know right from wrong>thats immoral
>>5064825I have 2 kids. I have a dog and a guinea pig. I've teached my children to always approach the pets with calmness, respect and leave them alone is they don't want to interact. I also thought my dog to respect my children and act calm around them. The guinea pig is a naturally more reserved animal so no issues on that end.Never had a single issue as a parent with pets. My youngest literally shushes people who speak too loudly next to our guinea pig and my dog is incredibly protective of my children.You have to teach kids to respect the animal and make the animal understand they aren't above the children either. Make them understand they are supposed to be friends.If the child continues to misbehave and mistreat the pet even after multiple attempts of you trying to calmly shut the situation down, beat the shit out of that fucking brat and force his nigger ass to understand he's a piece of shit for abusing animals.
>>5066066You don't have children OP.
Call me a retard if you want, but I don’t understand why we couldn’t genetically engineer human-sized praying mantises with at least simian-like intelligence.Is it a lack of technology, willpower, funding, or all of the above?
>>5059527>>5059656I want an elephant-sized dog.
>>5059523Because biology says so, all insects absorb oxygen through the skin, now this process is very inefficient since the oxygen level is too low for any huge bugs.
>>5064585I want a dog-sized elephant
>>5059523Cool idea OP, We could teach one how to play a mean keyboard and have it make snark commentary to celebs on talk shows. Or they could just overthrow humanity and enslave us for use as a food source, so maybe not a good idea.
>>5064585Okay, but it has to be red.
Could a creature really evolve a penis as a combat weapon?And do Elephants actually do this.
>>5061435The serotine bat has a penis too big for penetration, they use it like an extra arm.Maybe someday it'll evolve to catch moths.
>>5061444Checked. Digits confirm reddit are sexually degenerate fags.
>>5061435having a prehensile penis would be kinda cool i guess>>5061790why is bedbugs doing traumatic insemination just a fact of life, but when I do it, I'm branded a heinous criminal?>>5065614stop making me want to fuck (cute/sexy anthropomorphized) bugs
>>5061790There a kind of cave flea where the female penetrates the male with some kind of ovipositor thing and drains the sperm from it but I forgot the name of the species. Researchers trying to seperate the two tore the male in half.
>>5065897>stop making me want to fuck (cute/sexy anthropomorphized) bugsNo.
Dolphins are far more intelligent and interesting than elephants are.
>>5066043they are capable of rape, so that proves they have free will
Intelligence doesn't make animals interesting.
>>5066045? Insects forcefully have sex with each other anon.>>5066051>Vegan feds value ticks just as much as they do dolphins...>>5066043Agreed. Talking about that. Is there a video anywhere of an elephant and dolphin interacting with each other? Seeing each other?That would be interesting.
>>5066055Vegans love intelligent animals. I value aesthetics
>>5066043I'd say it's about equal
Do you think the human body will eventually evolve to a point where it no longer stores fat reserves, because most humans today can get a steady supply of food, and keeping fat doesn't help with anything other slowing your ass down and causing health problems?
How many generations of selective breeding would it take to "pug"ify a population of humans
>>5065111as many as separate red headed snub nosed ashkenazim from their middle eastern ancestors
>>5065111imagine SMASHing AND SLAMing humans
>>5063294no, you can escape death by creating a soft fatty cocoon around yourself
>>5065111Those traits will only take over if we find them attractive.
It's time to admit these are cooler than blue whales
Has anyone ever had sperm whale steaks?
I was disappointed to learn they only have teeth on their lower jaw.
>>5065981Yep, when you specialize in eating giant squid you eventually lose your teeth.Sperm whale need to return to their whale-eating roots in Livyatan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livyatan
>>5064675Cetaceans in general deserve their fame. I suppose the spookiest aspect of sperm whales is how loud and focused their voices are. Greys are really something else, the maximum emotional intelligence combined with the minimum intellect that could go with that on any possible world. They remind me of how ridiculously rare this planet is.
>>5065047Even young ones--toddlers to you and me--are dangerously painfully loud up close. I suppose it takes rather a lot of amplitude to render a mile or so under. Which leads me to questions about their hearing. How would one go about testing that?
take one, post one
Can't believe I have to pay for it twice in a row
There isnt a single good figure of Gigantoraptor. Best thing i had was that big ChapMei one that made grunting sounds.
>>5065472Wark!
>>5065472>>5065389Literally zero evidence for having feathers trooooon anon.Sorry.
>hates pitbulls and openly says that pitbull owners are idiots for having this kind of dog as a petIs she /ourgirl/?
>>5064113People like you are the problem
>>5065919>seething
>>5064599These ugly fucking things are exactly the same and are involved in maulings just as much as the others.Every single one of those three in the image need to be banned and euthanized en masse.
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>>5064257>PIDFLmao.I'm fucking dying.
