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Do you wish that you could go back in time and meet extinct pre-mammalian animals?
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>>5055671
I already have
blood memory
I was there
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>>5055797
Exactly. You understand, my brother.

Something secret steers us. We shall not name it.
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I would go back in time and kill off the little ratshits that evolved into modern mammals, actually.
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>>5055671
oil is mostly plants

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Finally at /a/
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>>5056150
Sir, this is /n/.

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Cats reign supreme again
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qVvLKCG5x00
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>>5055258
Cata are better than dogs but both species mog most species that exist.
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>>5055493
We call them clitlickers.
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>>5056027
toxo

behold facts

orangutans > gorillas > elephants> dogs > wolves > cheetahs > pumas > bears > otters > misc weasels > badgers > seals > sea lions > walruses > deer and elk > lionesses > coyotes > incelephants > pigs and boars > cows > camels > cats > lions (fags) > tigers (for failing to stop hindu overpopulation) > d*lphins and wh*les > chimps
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>>5055377
Good post
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>>5055258
>catfags when a dog doesnt want to get injured fighting prey: ha! coward!
>catfags when a dog takes its prey: NOOOO THE PREY HAS TO BE BETTER BECAUSE I HAVE WORMS IN MY BRAIN
i see you are unfamiliar with how nature works

watch some kruger vids for a day. even lions will run from a cow.

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Fuck is this?
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>>5054814
It appears to be some sort of animal
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>>5054814
tick diddler
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Left
>western conifer seed bug
>harmless
>doesn't even bite
>big and scary but won't really fuck with you
Right
>kissing bug
>aggressive and literally blood sucking
>will bite and shit all over your wounds
>transmits chagas disease
>chagas disease is hard to detect but if you let it go to the chronic phase it literally become uncurable and ruins your fuckign heart and you die 35 years earlier from heart failure
btw both bugs are basically everywhere now
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>>5054856
why does johnny foreigner spend 16 hours a day naming every kind of bug?
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>>5054856
it's a stinkbug stupid, a skinny brown one versus the rarer and more pungent fat green stinkbug

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>mfw a human has food and hasn't shared it with me in the past five seconds
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>>5055665
Cats are cute disgusting parasites. I feed them canned salmon laced with weed, valerian and catnip to make them addicted to visiting me and sleeping in my yard. I have over 40 cats.
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>>5055668
The government doesn't want you to know this, but feral cats are free. You can just take them.
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What? Can't hunt your own food?
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>>5055041
Severe autism just like their Nordic owners
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>>5055693
This is how I felt after getting my red wings

iykyk

Does /an/ like penguins?
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>>5051568
mmm fishy chicken yummy...
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>>4974611
would you have saved them or let nature deal with it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co_hmLenD8
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>>4997367
>>4974611
rippybippy Grape-kun
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Big things are happening right now.
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>>5055908
because biology is pressured to be a "real sience" so it tries to be like physics or mathematics in an extremely uncaring materialistic approach

here's the article
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/august/the-secrets-of-frog-vision-are-finally-being-revealed.html
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>>5054705
Froget about it
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>>5054705
Frogs can somehow not see things that are not there
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>>5054705
frogs can't actually see but they think they can
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>>5055908
Because we don't live in a fairy land where you just have to wave a wand and click your heels together and make a wish to learn something you stupid latinxir. If you want to find out how something works you have to take it apart and look at it. That's just this little fuckin thing called reality, you live in it too.

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What were the Kahama's great strategic errors?
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>>5053923
Being Chuds and not having females around

Once again, incels loose
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>>5053923
>3 females beaten and reintegrated
Never wanted to return to monke more

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Crepuscular Edition

Love Foxes, Pawst Foxes

Previously on /fox/:
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Thassit lads. And sorry I wokn't make a new one, I'm off to hibernate fur a bit. Take care and keep luvin' Foxes.
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>>5055882
Goodbye foxman dane
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How am I supposed to take a dump like this?
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>>5054417
nope, it's real
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>Animal cruelty gif left up for days
Why are mods on this board so fucking useless
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>>5055984
It's not real
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>>5055984
Retard
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>>5054002
>stay over at aunt's
>have bowel problems so spend 30+ min finishing my duties
>cats keep meowing and scratching door asking me wtf happened
They were belligerent very quickly so I assume they did not like that

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/it can be your pet.
Facebook reminded me I uploaded this photo I captured of a Blue Jay 10 years ago.
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The different shades of blue.
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>>5055975
Took some pics of cormorants and pelicans in Galveston
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>>5055982
And some bottlenose dolphins chasing a shrimping boat in Galveston Bay.

why are homesteaders always murdering their non-human family members
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>>5055607
>No attention span zoomer fag scared by words
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>>5055484
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>>5055738
there is a normal emotional distance you keep from livestock
you are not going to treat it as a "pet"

the kind of people who don't make that distinction are the kidn who are found with decomposing human remains in their basement
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>>5055574
Eh, countryside folk have always had different standards compared to the civilized sensibilities. That's just how it is, they don't see anything wrong with killing pets, scamming customers, incest, pedophilia, etc. Morality is the civilized man's invention. When you live close to nature, you're akin to a beast yourself, dog eat dog world, etc.
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>>5055971
Yes they pretend to treat a cow like a family member, then one day killing it, watching the blood gush out from it's sliced open neck is perfectly normal and if you disagree you are a VEGAN LUNATIC.

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I need to know what are the most monogamous birds out there. The ones who cannot live when their partner dies, leaves, etc.
I am thinking of crows, ravens and owls. And swans
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>>5054918
Yeah pigeons are pretty monogamous.
Both them and lovebirds will eventualy find a new mate if theirs die.

Big investment into offspring + well defined breeding seasons are a good recipe for monogamy.
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>nice thread about the behaviour of different avian species
>immediately pivots to jews
what sorts of demons are possessing you people
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>>5055926
None, people just spot attempts at demoralizing sexual posts and associate with people who are obsessed with that stuff notably semitic people. They have a compulsive need to involve bystanders in their fetish. The very notion of romantic love upsets them in all its forms.
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>>5055926
pol brainrot
>>5055944
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>>5055947
Never been on /pol/, don't watch conservative news, just live in proximity to semitic people.

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Have you ever loved a pet so much you considered it family, would do anything (even give your own life) to protect it, and were/would be devastated by it's passing? I have. Several times. Share your experiences.
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Yes. For as long as I can remember, I've had pets. They've been my family, and their loss has pained me deeply. From 1990 to 2005, I lived with a dog and three cats: mother, daughter, and granddaughter. The oldest cat died from a virus in the water. My family has traveled a lot around the world, and at that time, we were in Ecuador. The tap water wasn't drinkable back then, so it had to be boiled. Unfortunately, animals don't understand that, and my cat (a Siamese named Duchess) drank it and died a few days later. I cared for her until her last minute. One day, we went to sleep together, cuddling, and when I woke up, she was dead. I was 10 years old. I'll always remember that. My dog (a German Shepherd named Chispa) died of grief. We were given a female German Shepherd puppy, but some neighbors poisoned her. He became so attached to her that when we found her dead in the yard, along with him, he stopped eating, drinking, and moving, and finally died. It was very painful to see how he didn't fight.
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>>5055779
Sorry about your loss, sounds like the pibble was lucky and had a very nice life with you.
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The daughter of my first cat (Randoll was called Countess) was a lovely cat, one day she went to sleep and didn't wake up and she was in very good physical condition, she was 12 years old, I saw her being born, the first cat, her mother, when she was going to give birth woke me up to let me know that she was going to have the babies and wanted help, I was very young I had to wakeup my mother. The third cat (without a breed she was called Princess) liked to go out a lot, one day she was hit by a car, I don't know why she didn't walk fast, why she stopped, I didn't know what happened, she died instantly, she had babies a few months before dying, I gave them to acquaintances because we had to travel again and there were a lot of babies, we couldn't travel with them.
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I didn't have another pet until 2008. My current cat, Lilith, is 17 years old and has been battling osteoarthritis and hyperthyroidism since 2024. She could die any day now. It hurts so much. I live in fear that one day she won't breathe. She's my motivation to keep going every day, and I'll do what I can when she's no longer with me. But I'm grateful for having her and for the time I still have left with her. After her, I don't think I'll have another pet for a while. But if I have to, I won't say no. I love animals.
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Although the losses hurt a lot, all the good and bad times lived, I wouldn't change them for anything, if there is a heaven, I hope I can see them once more.

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I had to put this bee out of its misery today. It was writhing around and squirming in agony on my deck, it's abdomen was practically separated from itself. Even if I paid him a mercy, I still had to take his life.
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>>5055592
>detect damage, log the location, and move away from it.
Why can't more complex animals do that? It seems like a superior approach to what we do now where serious enough pain can cripple or at least hinder you. If you're running away from a predator and it gets a good hit in, being able to treat it more "logically" and ignore it seems like it would be an advantage over actually "hurting", no?
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>>5055592
>logically, masochistic behavior despite outward signs of emotional distress is definitive proof an animal can suffer.
It only proves the animal can and wants to communicate its experience in a way you'll understand, advanced communication is something observed mostly in very social types of creatures such as dogs, monkeys, rats, many birds, mentally healthy humans, bees
>>5055644
clearly you have never run from a predator
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>>5055644
This is why adrenaline numbs pain
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>>5055624
I had this situation a few years ago, caught a skunk that was 90% covered with ticks.
Couldn't have been in the live trap any longer than 6 hours, but it looked like every breath was a chore.
22lr did the job, but the edge of my property smelled like death and skunk ass for about 3 weeks.
Quadruple bagged that mess and threw away the clothes I was wearing, used a garden flamethrower on the ground to get any ticks that might have fallen off.

Still felt bad about shooting it.
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>>5055741
Oh yeah that's true I guess, but adrenaline only kicks in if you notice a predator and pain can make it harder to keep an eye on your surroundings which makes it easier for a predator to sneak up on you.


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