Otters are in vogue this life cycle
>>5131374lmaohere even.. ..
>>5115309No they should renamed saltwotters
Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their most celebrated researcher?
happy Orangutan Day, friends
I thought it was funny and likes seeing their organs.>Grow up>Feel overwhelming guilt for hurting so many snails >They did nothing wrong, they just wanted to have a good day>Try and be kinder to snails nowPlease try and teach your kids that snails are not bad creatures and just want to have a good day.It sounds dumb but I genuinely feel like such an asshole for how many snails I just let die in slow horrible ways for nothing but my twisted childhood entertainment, only to see them now as something totally wholesome and sweet
I had snails as pets and while I wasn't a good owner I could never eat escargot with the family.>>5143380This, I try not to kill insects at all anymore, not directly anyways or if they resist relocation, I'll toss them outside instead, and if they can't be tossed outside, I let the lights do the job. But when I go outside I do my best to not step on anything, while I still consider it legitimate to fuck up mosquitos, fleas or whatever, I don't even enjoy it beyond finally getting peace or knowing they won't hurt anyone. Nothing should die but yet this is how the world is. I don't get sad over eating or protecting my kin by removing any dangerous invasive bug I find. I do not want to kill ants or spiders, they're cute and try their best to survive just like we do. I remember feeling sadness when I saw all the destroyed worms that got crushed, dried or cut to peices on the pavement after they thought it was fine to cross over. Same for snails, I try to move them, and avoid them, but many I see weeks later crushed by carelessness. To be fair I never liked killing them aside from apathy and convenience, but I was easy to guide towards it. Part of this change is religious for me.
>>5151639Convenient to your post, mine was a crab when I was very small, someone pointed it to me on the beach and as it went towards me I panicked and killed the crab because I hadn't ever seen something like it, I felt extremely guilty later when they were surprised, as if it wasn't necessary and then I learnt I killed it for nothing. That and a spider I was made to spat on by other kids. I felt bad for it. It didn't fall but It must've felt awful for it's air.
I killed ants when I was a kid and feel bad about that. My dad told me his grandma (who was otherwise very nice) used to gather snails eating her garden then smash them against a wall.
>>5153491I like ants, I don't kill them. There's this pest control website in my language that states>ants find it annoying to have boiled water poured over them
op had a psychotic break due to AI overuse
rip to my baby boy
looks like he was healthy and full of love
>>5153711rip lazy boy
rip stock photo dog
When dogs die they turn into photostock images
>>5153711upvoted fellow dogredditor!
Holy fucking shit
To shreds you say?
>>5152745tsk tsk tsk
The coop has fallen. Billions must shred
>>5152745And how is the hen holding up?
What causes a species to evolve so that the females are more aggressive?
>>5153687You are dumb as fuck for this claim.
>>5153722
>>5153722>>5153730Not a claim, it's fact.
>>5153687what if i aint tryna be no daddy to no cubs
Meme fetish question aside, the answer is testosteroneThe only animal on the planet where females are "more aggressive" are hyenas. Even animals where the females are larger like snakes display no observable increase in "aggression".
You're a supergenius mad scientist with practically infinite money and you've just finished researching gene editing and built a machine that can create any animal you want from an input of genes. You want to show off by creating the biggest land animal that can exist before the very laws of physics start taking it personally. The measuring stick will be some mix of volume/height/width/length rather than mass because otherwise you could cheat by just making it extremely dense or a giant flat disc and miss the point of the exercise, which is to create a big ass animal.Some rules:- It does not need to be evolutionarily viable. This means any factors that limited dinosaurs to sauropod sizes are irrelevant. The body plan/composition can be something that's more efficient but wouldn't evolve naturally, and it doesn't need to worry about finding food or getting to fuck. It's going to be cloned and have an infinite source of food in the lab/enclosure. Doesn't matter if it needs to spend 24 hours a day eating something with the caloric density of uranium. As long as it can stay alive until it hits adult size and a bit longer so people can buy overpriced tickets to stare at it, it's allowed.- It can't be cybernetically/surgically modified in any way. Everything about it must be contained in the genome. No replacing bones with some ultra-light ultra-strong bullshittium or replacing the heart/lungs with more efficient machines. But if you can code a way for it to biologically produce bullshittium for the bones in the genome, then it's allowed.- It needs to be able to move around in some way. Speed or method doesn't matter as long as it can change position over time without external input. Could be legs, organic wheels, levitation, whatever, as long as it's genetic. Also keep in mind it has to be able to move on land as per the definition of "land animal" so no sentient planets that move by farting.No your mom jokes please.
>>5153800Your mom is a sentient planet that moves by farting lol
Why did he do it?
>>5153526She did it to find a mate.
>>5153586waow...
>>5153526the demiurge
>>5153526Everyone gives Tiktaalik shit for leaving the water yet no-one gives the arthropods shit for doing it long before the vertebrates did and giving them the idea. I call hypocrisy
>>5153796Arthropods are innocent. They didn't invent taxes.
Why are hamster owners on reddit so mental?
>>5145365Yes he did you heathen. We live in the best of worlds and hamsters are suffering, thus they were created to suffer.
>>5145847A puppy or kitten requires more attention than a hamster.
>>5145866Euthanasia has always been barbaric
>>5153757Even humans get euthanasia now, it's not barbaric. Barbarism is letting creatures suffer for no reason.
>>5153765Pipe down canadian
Genuinely, what the fuck was evolution thinking when it came up with this animal?
>>5153568I thought echidnas were myrmecophagous
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>>5153583They apparently don't travel well. Australia tried giving one to Churchill during WW2 and it dropped dead within a few weeks.
>>5153595Are you sure he didn't just try to feed it beer and cigarettes instead of water and food?
>>5153568monotremes are creatres if extinct today people would question if they were actually real. thankful that these bugger are still around
Are we sure these things and bugs in general aren't actually rogue robots?
>>5153657They are in the original sense of the word, that of being slaves.
>>5153673Slavery implies someone holding ownership thoughit isn't as if the queen's lot is objectively better, totally immobile and shitting out kidsnow there are actual slave taking ants
>>5153697>The queen is dead! We're free!>You aren't free, so much as 'under new management.'
They don't meet the definition of the word.
Just wondering if there's anything that can be done about a herd of coyotes in my suburban neighborhood? Most nights for the last few weeks, I've heard them traveling around and yipping at each other. I think they were homed in some undeveloped land just south of the development I live in, and about a month ago that land started getting bulldozed to make way for a new subdivision of overpriced mcmansions.Now they seem to be moving between that area and a rather small undeveloped area to the north of my place. I've seen them on my lawn while I was out retrieving groceries, I almost hit one on the road in front of my place a few months ago, and last winter I saw them in that (formerly) undeveloped land (now being bulldozed) to the south.They seem to have nearly zero fear of humans -- they're basically living with us year-round anyway and nobody has been doing shit to them.Does Animal Control ever take an interest in gunning these things down? Or is this just one of those "suck it up, buttercup" deals where pets are going to get eaten and occasionally people might get gnawed on late at night?
>>5153532What is this schizo talking about?Catchuds can’t handle the bants and skip straight to conspiracy theories kek
God blesses those who bless coyotes
yotes keep my land free of filthy rabbits which eat everything. we need MORE yotes.
>>5153539Nah, you got it right the first time
>>5153533The anti cat schizo is attracted to these threads like a magnet. I'm certain that he's molested canines before too.
What are your thoughts on this?
>>5153665Hitler planned to make vegetarianism mandatory if he won WW2.
>>5153668>>5153667Yeah, I know. I just don't see any value in that post. Was it supposed to be funny? >highly intelligent men are the natural enemy of the animal rightsAh, it's a retarded bait. Nevermind.
>>5153675Animal rights is a 95-105 IQ position. Animals are property is an 85 IQ position. The 130+ IQ position is that animals are lesser and large swaths of a species are still not worth as much as a typical human life (i’d kill every pitbull rather than a random disabled person - would you?), but they still have some value and enough of a connection to morality that we should afford them dignified and painless treatment when we are able to without diminishing people.
>>5153675>was wiping out nazis for being proto-PETA supposed to be funny?Hitler’s suicide is the peak of dark comedy>how it started: save ze animals ban animal testing kill ze jews>how it ended: hitlers dog dies an agonizing death as a cyanide test subject, hitler then shoots himselflol what a retard
Anon is there a reason why you are having a melty in /an/ thread? Why not go back to /v/ or something.
I saw a snake in my yard today and it’s the day of the snake god
>>5153474is that a rattler
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FRdgzHRu4j8
ITT: Share the last interesting animal trivia that you just learned recently. I just found that when moose(and all cervids by default) lack testosterone due to castration or hormonal imbalance they grow lumpy deformed antlers that never shed.
>>5153237and female lion having hormone imbalance grows mane.
>>5153350>>5153237You think if we capture and castrate deposed male lion they'll let them back into the pride so they don't die of starvation until they're older?
>>5153350So they're just like me growing a beard out of nowhere huh. Fun to know it's similar.
Sea urchins significantly contribute to erosion of the rocks they dwell on, both from scraping at thin algae covers with their hard teeth and from their spines scratching their surroundings. In particularly soft/brittle rock formations like limestone, they often inhabit self-made holes.
>>5153234Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, Anon
