I wish these niggas were still around
What was the ancestor of the dinosaurs in the Permian?
>>5161924I wonder why some of them developed beaks. I wonder if mammals could develop beaks.
>>5164086>I wonder why some of them developed beaks.Probably as something better suited tor eating tough conifers.>I wonder if mammals could develop beaks.Unnecessary, since plants nowdays are much more diverse, with the vast majority being easier to eat.
>>5163898archosauriformeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosauriformesdinosaur ancestors in permian were pretty much lizard-looking animals into --> half-bipedal lizards into--> bipedal lizards
>>5156661Primeval gave it a pretty kickass portrayal, it even got to fight and defeat a superpredator from the future.
Dogs today edition Prev: >>5140501
I'm currently watching a relatives dog for a few days while shes are on vacation. Shes driving me nuts, I've never had a dog but that one has never been shown any boundaries. When we go out, she will eat absolutely everything and I have to worry constantly that she snaps up something thats bad for her. One second shes sniffing around, before I can act she has snapped something up and swallowed it without me knowing what it is. Also shes really insecure around other dogs and will lash out unpredictably towards some, which is stressful as fuck. ON top of that is constant begging and pestering me, because shes used to getting everything she wants, including food from the table or sleeping in her owners bed. I'm stressed as fuck for other reasons right now and really doing my best to not direct it towards the dog, but after getting barked awake after five hours sleep for the second day I'm slowly losing it. What can I do in the short term, especially so the dog doesn't get stressed due to my own stress as I can't modify her behaviour anyways within a fwe days? Thankfully she will go back tomorrow. Also is this normal, or is the dog screwed up? I know dogs need care and a re acommittement, but her neediness seems exceptional.
>>5165300>>5165310And tahts also part of my problem. The owner keeps that dog in an apartment tahts even smaller than mine and compensates with constant, long walks which I can't do due to time constraints. I think its idiocy to keep a hunting dog like that, but what can I do.
>>5165310Why dont you give it a bite or two of your food and let it sleep in bed with you? Nothing wrong with it as long as the food isn't poisonous.Keep dog on a tighter leash while walking and avoid random shit it may eat.
>>5165332>>5165332>>5165332
>>5165333Its only page 2
Nothing against cats, I just prefer dogs since the affection and love you give them seems to really make a difference in their lives. Like, it actually -means- something to the animal itself.They'll protect you with their lives if you raise them right.With cats, the minute things get inconvenient, they tend to lash out.Even heard of few stories about cats almost immediately feeding off of their dead owner when they got hungry.Yeah I get you need to eat but damn...
>>5164036>I only care about animals if they constantly show unwavering love to meThe ego on this dogga.
>>5164081>i like imagining that an asocial brainlet is superior to me
>A 2015 study published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences by Thomas Colard and colleagues reviewed 63 cases of indoor canine scavenging and found that 24% of dogs began consuming their deceased owners within 24 hours.
>>5164232Way more than 24% dogs are abused, pitbulls, or both so this is actually way lower than expected
>>5164232What's a pet supposed to do? Throw you a funeral?
These things were literally bred to be violent and aggressive. They are literally backstabbing, unpredictable beasts like chimpanzees.So why the fuck are they still legal?
>>5164875Because merrit clifton is a fake expert that makes shit up. That's it.Animals 24-7 is an invalid source for everything. He's the anti-dog version of pitbullinfo (equally dishonest, just in different ways).
>>5164875why does it show more pitbull deaths in 6 years than dogsbite logged in 14?that's 50 pitbull deaths a year not counting the other dogs on the listand huskies are somehow almost double german shepherdsyeah, he literally made the numbers up
>>5164875All dogs have their breaking point I guess.>>5164876>>5164877You offer no source to back up your claims so... yeah, politely disregarded. Thanks. Are you a pitbull owner perchance?>>5164878>why does it show more pitbull deaths in 6 years than dogsbite logged in 14?Probably their research either caught more or the other party missed some. But the aggregate numbers from all the different parties still have meaning and show similar traits.In my community, the local police detachment tracks who owns pitbulls & rotties because they are almost always involved in the drug trade. It's one of the profiling indicators.
>>5164047Hopefully one day they will be wiped off the face of the earth. Or so I hope.>>5164056They should be outlawed (and killed) because they are stupid and ugly.
>>5164869>sketchy looking black peopleand sketchy looking white people?
Moles are really ugly animals, aren't they?
>>5165219Could be worse.
How many users here realize that calling Lissamphibia (modern amphibians) Temnospondyli is the equivalent of calling birds dinosaurs? The consensus is nearly absolute, with the exception of David Marjanovic and Michel Laurin, who theorize that Lepospondyli gave rise to Lissamphibia, but their views are as marginal as Feduccia’s are in the world of ornithology regarding bird evolution.
It is truly fascinating to think that temnospondyls are still alive today.
There is even the hypothesis proposed by Pardo (2017) stating that Lissamphibia is not a monophyletic group, but that all three lineages are temnospondyls, and caecilians would be stereospondyls. The fossil in question is Chinlestegophis jenkinsi.
Do some cats have laser eyes?
>>5161569magic
>>5161569I heard some have taser paws.
>>5161569Yes.
Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores?>you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome>you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter>often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome>if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys)>if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeatBoy am I glad that we're omnivores
Bump
>BumpBut an ad you carnivver
>>5164125Typical herbivore All that grass left you with no nutrients to develop your brain
>>5159567>you need a specific microbiomeAnon just about every animal with a gut requires a bacterial biome to help digest.
>>5159569>>5159618I was thinking about it just the other day, but there isn't a lot that actually eats fallen vegetable matter. It's pretty much just fungi, snails, and worms.Throw a salad on the ground, and it'll just rot.
post your pet like:Cat, Dog, Goldfish, Guinea pig etc and describe about your pet!im posting my catHe is so Sleppy and Cute!He like and love to play and run
>>5164849That's not your pet dumbass.
Your home appears to be a 3rd world shack
Why did nature make these rabies-magnet pests so adorable?
>>5164103>when you find out the raccoons at the park are free and you can just take one home
>>5163787Cats are mutted from human interference.
>>5164274
Happy International Raccoon Appreciation Day! Take some time to appreciate how cute and funny these little guys are.
It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
>>5162900How do you clean sticky shit out of their belly fur?
>>5161557Did you at least give it ivermectin?
>>5162944Grab them and dunk them in warm soapy water repeatedly.
>>5158459Based hedgehog bro.Earlier this year I found a hedgehog in my street during the day, running away from a cat. It was dragging its rear leg behind so I thought it might be broken. Scooped it up, popped it in a box, and took it to a vet (I called ahead and they said they'd do what they could, no charge).I kept the box closed on my way to keep it calm. Opened it on arrival and it smelled awful. Like rotting fish. There was a mass of maggots near the top of its head. Bastards were eating it alive. Vet put it down which was sad, but hopefully it was spared a few days of misery and pain.That image of pulsating maggots and the smell of death stayed with me though.
Try spraying boric acid on their backs. This shit cracks chitin and make bugs dessicate, killing them.
Eating meat is gay.Why do animals eat meat?Are they all fags?
>>5164226any proof?
>>5164192>>5164231I feel my dog a cooked cat that she killed once. She's killed 2 cats so far.
>>5164305*Fed
from troons to furries to more troons and otherkin... It's time for trans-autotrophs. I want to see the children of overbearing leftist mothers refusing to eat in public, telling everyone they are chemosynthetic or some shit
>>5164526meds
no decent human being could think that this is acceptable. Look at all the wasted vertical space. you should be able to stack 8 floors of chickens on top of each other with so much space. this sort of inefficiently is why meat costs so much
>>5164890>this sort of inefficiently is why meat costs so muchNo, it's waht makes meat cheap, you faggot.
>>5164890There's more than enough space, retard. I bet it's much more expensive to build vertically as well.
i have always loved animals, but recently i have been struggling to reconcile eating meat with this position. at the same time, it is incredibly difficult to not eat meat. it seems a cruel punishment for humans to have to eat animals despite the fact that they are so lovely and decorate life so wonderfully. how do you reckon with this and what steps should i take?
>>5161224Allow me to help you in the most frank and honest way I am able.You grow the fuck up and let your balls drop motherfucker!Or to put it another way, accept that you are in fact an omnivore and deal with it. The only true moral path is to treat creatures as well as possible and kill them quickly and humanely. Anything else is pussyfooting around reality and reality always wins. Veganism and vegetarians very often have...issues. not the least of which are mental. Crazy unstable vegans are a meme for a damned good reason. Is it possible and doable? Actually yeah but extremely difficult and cost, time and behaviorally prohibitive. Most cant do it and for good reason.So where does that leave us?Dont be cruel particularly in a needless fashion, yet be aware and accept reality and reality is YOU ARE A PREDATOR AND A KILLER. Going off gris and slaughtering your own animals is not going to be a full time option though take it when you can. Aside from that be conscientious of where you get your meat when you can. But you can't control everything.When you do kill do so swiftly, and without hesitation. Never cause suffering when its unnecessary. Get the dead done and spare any creature unneeded pain.Thats precisely what you do in this situation. You handle it like an adult and move on. We could go on and ponder the lack of perfection in our moral circumstances but we are what we are and the creatures we consume are what they are.In nature fair has nothing to do with anything. And you are a part of nature.So stop being a whiny bitch about it.
>>5163440>a roided up youtuber aka professional shill
>>5163475he's not roided out.you made the retarded claim that all vegans have the builds of children. you then got BTFO with multiple examples refuting that and now you're desperately scrambling and look like the stupid bumbling nigger that you are.
>>5162521> I WILL NOT BRING ABOUT ARCADIA> I WILL NOT BE THE BRIDGE TO THE OVERMAN> I WILL NOT REIFY GOD'S KINGDOM ON EARTH FOR ALL HIS CREATURES> NO YOU CAN'T MAKE ME I WONT I DON'T WANNAOkay...?
>>5163476he's a roided out youtuber who supplement copes and eats for a living
Does /an/ like penguins?
>>5160634they do like to jump from high buildings.
>>5164725i think i can mog him... but i'm not sure about it.
