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>>5086258
Adding my teenage lad to the hoard. Say nice things
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>>5092051
>HEROIC australian dog rescues stray kitten from savage drop bear attack - what happens next will…
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>>5092046
Another glorious cat for the cat website 4chan.
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>see picture of a cat
>have yet another embarrassing samefagging meltdown
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>>5092130
Trvke
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>>5092046
Post more!

A thread for otters, wolverines, badgers, martens, grisons, weasels, stoats, tayras, fishers, polecats, ferrets, and ferret-badgers. Post pictures, videos, and stories about these cute, intelligent, and mischievous critters.

Thread theme inspired by:
https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-otter-tshirt-monterey-bay-aquarium-kelce-7272d1970336b02a3a97b4814a54a2f3
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>>5089865
Why does she need to be saved?
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Saw a spotted skunk today. Didn't get a picture because it was very quick, but I saw it for real, I promise.
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>>5072377
>>5073371
Wrong. That would be turtles
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>>5083907
>honey badgers
>ugly
The only thing wrong with honey badgers is that they’re overrated by braindead zoomers (or people with zoomer mentality like Elon Musk)
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>>5092033
Honey badger memes are more of an 00s Internet thing than a Reddit thing

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>Paleontology in the 80s: Dinosaurs were warm blooded, fast, large, cool, and could do stuff like balance on one leg to avoid an enemy's counter attack.
>Paleontology now: Anything that portrays feathered fat dinosaurinos as more threatening than a poodle is muh awesombro fantasy.
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>>5081073
Bottom one looks like it's on its way to the welfare office.
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>>5088323
>>don't move!
>>they can't see you if you don't move!

That was a side effect of the frog DNA but they never actually bothered to explain it.
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>>5080929
I hope a royal poodle will bite you in the ass.
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[ ] Shrinkwrapped
[ ] Outdated bible-influenced scaly dragon portrayal
[ ] Pronated wrists
[ ] Crocodile mouth
[X] Just Like a Real Animal
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>>5087101
Lizards and snakes come in many bright colors but crocodiles and turtles not so much

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Post rare 'mals.
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Giant Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda Maxima) only native to a few remote cave systems in Laos.
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>>5090447
>still as fast a regular huntsman
Fuck no
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>>5090448
>He's still afraid of Hunties
They're big as hell but they're harmless
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>>5090447
He's a big guy
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>>5090412
not rare

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Has animal ever lost its good standing with you after you have gained new knowledge about it? Likewise, has learning something new about an animal ever helped you develop a new appreciation for it?
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>>5092629
humans
crocodiles
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>>5092629
I can't look at komodo dragons the same way after seeing the video of one eating a newborn faun alive.

I've grown to dislike cats less after realizing they are capable of love in their own way. Still don't care for them, though.


Also, Abelisaurids would say the N-word multiple times ever sentence.

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Are you fond of scarabs, /an/?
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>>5092394
calling stag beetles scarabs is technically correct but still kind of strange
if a dude advertised himself as a scarab dealer and his stock was nothing but stags, I would feel duped
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>>5092394
snib snib ;DDD
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>>5092462
bugs are friends, not food
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>>5092462
Who is this dude and what does he has to do with scarabs?
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>>5092634
hes the biggest bug fan of all

I love Barn Owls
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>>5092188
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>>5092191
Their entirely black eyes are evocative of something...
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>>5092190
>>5092188
>>5092191
Very cute

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happy nude deer
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>>5092456
they love randomly kissing the camera
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>>5092455
>oops we forgot how to fold proteins properly and now you have holes in your brain
Thanks RNA
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>>5092403
Indeed, but then necrozoophile hunters (like 15% of hunters, 80% if they are also furfags) would get infected and get outed when researchers try to put the puzzle together.

After the massive cull deer will become better managed instead of being a sick show for hunters, because that's the only reason they didn't go extinct in the US, it is a fucking industry so psychopaths can feel the trill of killing. If deer have to go so be it. Better to be extinct than to exist to entertain killer apes.
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>>5092610
>humans BAD and they probably share my deer fetish i literally cant stop thinking about deer ass
early societies were right to kill the mentally ill
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>>5092612
No Its more like SOME humans bad deer have no business being some fucked up ape toy.

I agree that early societies were right to kill the mentally ill, since many hunters are mentally ill.

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>Dinosaurs dominate terrestrial megafauna
>Rapid climatic disruption occurs
>They persist by contracting into an aerial niche as avian dinosaurs
>Mammals later dominate terrestrial ecosystems
>Climatic disruption occurs again
>They persist by contracting into smaller, specialised niches such as bats and rodents

>Cephalopods then undergo adaptive radiation, filling the vacant macroniches left by mammals

What would this look like, how long would it take, and how large or complex could they become?

Mammals were unable to reach non-avian dinosaur scale due to lower atmospheric oxygen, denser skeletal structures, and the energetic cost of large, metabolically expensive brains. Cephalopods possess extremely high neuronal density and a distributed nervous system, with significant cognitive capacity relative to body size, as well as no bones, so would they struggle even more to reach larger sizes?
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>>5091343
Most likely so. But they'd be at war with crustaceans and insects.
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>>5091696
theyre literally just snails
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>>5090905
You drew a sketch and then made it infinitely shittier
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>>5090905
This is why 16gigs of RAM costs $1000 btw
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>>5090900
Yes.

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reddit crustacean BTFO'd by based nautilus!
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>>5092535
>ok THIS time my forced meme will really take off
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>>5092535
No one is playing along. Your shitty meme will never be a thing
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>>5092535
Hell yeah, soft > hard power

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Animals are so fucking retarded.
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AI cat behavior

real cats have self righting instincts
when falling they reflexively flip right-side up and prepare their legs for landing
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>>5089431
You are indian
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>>5089326
How much did Nadella pay you for this?
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>>5089190
Why would you knead bread that's already baked?
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>>5091375
Thats how you pet it

Post raccs, save pics of raccs, discuss raccs! Here is a critter embiggining for the winter months.
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>>5082530
their absolute greed sickens me deeply
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Wagoogus
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>>5068716
Same, but what does that have to do with the thread?
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>>5092170
I love how it looks like a raccoon's hands have minds of their own.

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Thoughts on monkeys as working animals? Is this modern day slavery? Humans have been working alongside animals since the dawn of civilization and this is a soon-to-be lost art once lab-grown foods become the norm or people call for a change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUUxkP2VsBg
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>>5092366
lab grown, as in made in a vat? that will never be viable, youd have a better time inventing a perpetual motion machine before getting a cell slurry costing less than $16 per nugget compared to $0.64 for a chicken nugget
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>>5092366
buy an ad andrew

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my sonar is good,the buge just ignores me
my sonar is good,the buge just ignores me
my sonar is good,the buge just ignores me
my sonar is good,the buge just ignores…
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>>5089164
retard
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>>5091898
rouge if she real
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>>5091813
Fruit bats are too damn cute, why do they have to be such prolific carriers of rabies? It isn't right.
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>>5092182
Microbats are cuter

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Why do westerners treat dogs like their own children instead of filthy animals?
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>>5091662
Breakfast in bed
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because theyre kind & they luv u very very much :)
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>>5091662
Because Dogs are man's best friend and closer to humans than toxofags or brownoids will EVER be.
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>>5091695
Don't you know about bathing? Lmao
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>>5092257
Kek


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