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Thoughts on this guy? PETA seems to think he's a psycho but I kinda like him
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>>4929149
Blue boards are full of bots, glowniggers and women. The default setting for all online "discourse" bots is angry retard, because it gets the most replies.
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>>4934082
gb2 /pol/
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>>4934082
>>4929149
>all criticism is trolls and bots
fuck off to reddit or pol retard
>Blue boards are full of bots
because pol isn't 99% bots you retard
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>Poggers is the only creature on the ranch with a soul
Genuinely, what the FUCK does he mean by this?
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He killed himself didn't he?

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ROOO ROOO ROOO RO-*cough* ROOOO ROO *cough* ROOO ROO *sneeze* RO *sneeze* ROOO *grumble*
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>>4934856
Dog superiority in full display.
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>>4934856
Columbo's dog montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivjm13m4voY

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Dealt with a fucking mouse infestation for the past year and it's over now.
What stood out to me was hearing a snap. I immediately went over to look, and the mouse was stuck on just it's ankle. It made convulsions for like 10 seconds and died on the spot through nothing but shock and pain.

A different mouse got snapped clean through the middle of it's belly. It was still wriggling alive for 20 minutes or so, gnawing on it's arm all the while.

Mouse resilience is a strange thing.
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>>4934809
I saw a rat get a trap snap on it's balls, then he ran headfirst into another trap.
Nobody ever believes me though.
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>>4924226
>rabies and countless other diseases
kill them alll
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If I was a 1/100th of the mouse size would it let me run around its burrow shitting my disease ridden shits everywhere?
>youre supposed to be better, youre a human
no
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>>4924235
I once volunteered at a wildlife sanctuary which had a mouse infestation. The staff didn't want me to set up mouse traps 'because we help these animals', so I just put up cage traps, then officially admit the mice I caught to the sanctuary and had them care for them

Post viruses, giant viruses, and acellular life here!
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>>4934379
Viruses are the border between life and non-life. If viruses are alive, then so is RNA. If viruses aren't alive, then neither are bacteria, protozoans, etc. It's like... pseudo-life.
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Is it true that some viruses can "self-assemble" if you just "shake around" their component proteins enough?
And could this be how life appeared on Earth?
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>>4934642
Yeah, they can. I think it works best with the capsid proteins, though.
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>>4934016
love these dudes
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>>4934853
I love dudes

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If you were a cat, what colour would you be? I'd want to be a tortie.
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>>4934354
case in point
OBLIGATE
CARNIVORE
And I don't care 4 billion pizza are eaten by feral cats every year, skill issue for pizza.
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>>4933914
you kind of make sense...
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>>4934376
Look, he's smiling :)
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>>4934668
>obligate carnivore
>note: carni means bread, dairy, and tomato sauce
Cats are not obligate carnivores. They can actually live longer on a properly formulated vegan diet. Most stray cats scavenge for the majority of their diet and will eat anything including starch and cooked vegetables.
>inb4 taurine
Yes and humans are obligate piscivore-frugivores because they need iodine and vitamin C. And yet many people get these nutrients elsewhere.
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>>4934668
I'd eat 4 billion pizzas a year if I could and yes I'm American

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I think dogs are super cool
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>>4933793
love those guys
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>>4933793
Cool it with the felidphobic remarks.
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>>4933912
>my dachshunds be like: my ancestors :)
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Dogs scare me but I like observing them from afar
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>>4933951
They do?

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So I have set up my dog for a vet visit next Friday.
She seems to either have an allergic reaction to the dog peanut butter I give her as a treat, or the dry climate where I live or she has mange and I don't know which for sure.

Her eyelids are balding and receding of fur and her chest and thought are more pink.

For all I know it could be both, so I stopped giving her that specific dog peanut butter that has pumpkin mix in it, but she is leaving a scab where she scratches and has less hair then back of the ears.
Just wondering if you guys suggest not giving her peanut butter is the right move before the vet visit?
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>>4934385
as with most cases, parasites are to blame. do a deworm.

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This thing looks absolutely EVIL
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>>4934009
Secretly?
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>>4933797
I love jumping spiders I always see them around my neighborhood in the summer and they'll stop and look at my dog when it's sniffing around.
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>>4934009
>secretly
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>>4933768
they know. they freeze when they notice you see them.

Hey /an/,

I found a baby bobcat out in the wild and decided to take it in. It seems healthy, but I need some real advice on what to do next.

- **Feeding**: What do I give it? Any brands or types of food that work best?

- **Housing**: What kind of setup do I need? I want to make sure it’s safe but also comfortable.

- **Handling**: Should I interact with it often to help it socialize, or should I leave it alone as much as possible?

- **Release**: How do I prepare it for release back into the wild later?

- **Legal Issues**: What laws should I know about keeping a wild animal like this?

Looking for any tips or resources you can

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Help it develop a taste for human blood
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>>4934180
Just pretend its a normal cat and keep it inside

Maybe walk it on a leash if its too hyper

You can make this more believable by dumbing it down a little with regular cannabis administration and stunting its growth by underfeeding it slightly (go for grain and bean based food). That’s how my dad raised his wolfdog pups and they turned out like husky shaped golden retrievers.
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>>4934180
>found
you can take it anywhere that houses animals and you can call around without legal issues, you "just found it" and it's not on any disease lists like raccoons or bats and its not venomous like a rattlesnake

you can't keep it without a proper license in the state that requires you to

if its a kitten then there's cat mothers milk powder mix and bottles at the pet store

DO NOT USE CAT FOOD THAT IS DRY
this will kill the animal in a few years

do not use cat food that has "binders" and "10% veggie product", it has to be wet cat food that is 98% animal product, and if its a young kitten then AVOID BONE MEAL GROUNDS in any way shape or form, this can cause digestive and growth issues

desu you MUST find an appropriate shelter for the cat and failing that, talk to one that ALREADY HOUSES SUCH A CAT


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>>4934180
AI generated thread that didn't even take into account how posting works on 4chan. Hidden.
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>>4934180
Take It to a wildlife reserve before It ruins your home.

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Will they always be forgotten?
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>>4934648
>welcome, to hadean park
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>>4934588
Didn’t exist.
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>>4934604
You're a useless flat blob and will never die
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>>4934695
So no change whatsoever?

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Talk about and/or post some freaky old-ass paleoart itt. Specifically Antediluvian shit.

>examples: https://youtu.be/JEigGPmYJuo?si=gbaTxlBtbeUuc0bn https://youtu.be/LHszQL-kxfQ?si=4mydjxQQSMnVLjFn

(Pictures are of the Crystal Palace Museum in London)
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>>4931011
More proof dinosaurs NEVER had feathers.
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>>4933003
More clichéd
Media was mostly G-rated and vanilla

nothing wrong with that. It's just not similar to modern media where anything and everything gets published.
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>>4931038
What in the absolute hell.
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>>4934028
Dinosaurs do have feathers. Just look at this one.
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>>4934637
Thats a lil' bitch. Get your eyes checked, boy.

Post seals
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>>4931244
They don't even seem to like each other:

https://vimeo.com/154314167

>On Scotland's Isle of May, Durham University biologist Amy Bishop and her colleagues have been observing a rogue male grey seal with a knack for infanticide (video here, for those who can stomach it). The team suspects the bull has killed over 11 pups in the past two years – but just why is still up for debate.

>Interestingly, it's not just the males who are guilty of this gruesome practice. Just last year, our cameramen witnessed a female Cape fur seal snatching a newborn pup from its mother's clutches, just seconds after birth.
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seals
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>>4931244
>But I do like them.

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Wrangel Island is that last place where mammoths were alive, and they survived up until 4000 years ago. They were roaming around this island while the pyramids in Egypt were being built.

Wow...
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>>4930169
Aren't they like bonobos where they kinda self-domesticated to live around people without too much trouble? At least Asian heffalumps, anyway.
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>>4930206
Not really for either, in India, elephants kill many more people than tigers do. In addition they commonly will tear up crops and eat them for food, biggest problem for elephants is habitat-conflicts like these, in addition to poaching. Working elephants are usually either broken into submission and/or just tamed animals, domestication means being bred over generations to the point of being modified by humans. Taming is just getting a wild animal to not freak out around you. Elephant domestication probably couldn’t even be done now.
>maturity takes decades for males and females
>gestation is very long
>rearing the elephant calf is even longer
>absurd space and food requirements
Whereas something like cattle can be reasonably kept track by one person.

African elephants are about the same and have even learned to be more fearful of men’s voices over women and children (since men are more likely to be poachers), and have even learned the dialects of the tribes who will hunt them and the tribes who don’t. Also when were bonobos ever domesticated by humans? They live in dense jungles very far from human habitation and all great apes are naturally secretive.
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>>4930084
The ones who domesticated elephants were probably farmers. Mammoths were killed off by hunter gatherers who hadn't been pushed to adopting agriculture yet.
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>>4930075
that was debunked
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>>4932486
When?

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Everyone always asks "Where wolf"
Nobody ever asks "Why wolf?"
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what would our world be like if wolves were domesticated?
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>>4933865
About the same
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>>4933865
there would be less cats and more cases of wolf neglect in the world
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>>4933865
The humble husky already exists
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>>4933695
anon pls

What's with those long feathers on the forelimbs of raptors? Why would this winglike structure be present before flying? This never made any sense to me.
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>chewing gum commercial
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>>4934591
>the literally hundreds of times you've been wrong and won't admit it to yourself
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>>4934598
You don’t even know who you’re replying to schizo
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>>4934601
You're not a person
Schizo aren't people


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