>venom evolves to be extremely lethal to primates specifically
What causes this? What is their problem?
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>venom evolves to be extremely lethal to primates specifically
What causes this? What is their problem?
why even live
Into the trash this outdated dogshit show goes.
The 2 chicks are growing well and are peaceful.
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>not keeping your pomeranian in a bowl
ISHYGDDT
Suspicious situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQq4vZZ54WI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbkWVcwx4U
Inserting large food items into chick's mouth to cause it to choke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqO_R2X4RM8&;
Other common theme is manipulating nests with cuckoo chicks.
The comments under these videos can be creepy, remind me of monkey abuse videos.
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>A certain species of Jellyfish are immortal
>Mantis Shrimps can punch so hard it generates heat as hot as the Sun's surface
Is the sea life superior? Is there a non-sea animal with any powerful ability like these?
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I also really love the "bird-like" movements of the Allosaurus. Amazon and Reddit consultants missed even such a simple detail.
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>>4935686 - old thread
What is this boards favourite arthropods?
I really like the Vietnamese ghost mantis, it looks like the arachnids from Starship Troopers.
I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding information on the subject
I want to draw an archeopteryx and add blotches of color around the background vegetation and while I don't care too much about scientific accuracy since I'm just a guy drawing for fun adding flowers or something like that would be way too jarring imo
a site that lists the flora and fungi of different geological epochs would be greatly appreciated
>Extinction is typically for good. Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton, 12-foot, elephant-like beast walked the Earth, but part of its DNA now operates inside several litters of four-inch, half-ounce mice created by scientists at the Dallas-based Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences. The mice don’t have their characteristic short, gray-brown coat, but rather the long, wavy, woolly hair of the mammoth and the extinct beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it survive Earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of sophisticated gene editing that Colossal’s scientists hope will result in the reappearance of the mammoth itself as early as 2028.
>“The Colossal woolly mouse marks a watershed moment in our de-extinction mission,” said company CEO Ben Lamm in a statement. "By engineering multiple cold-tolerant traits from mammoth evolutionary pathways into a living model species, we've proven our ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create."
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Oysters contain large amounts of animal protein, animal fat, cholesterol, EPA, DHA, Iodine, B12, etc
Oysters aren't sentient as they have no brain and only nerve ganglia
>But I'll get sick of eating them!!
Blend and or freeze dry them and put them in pills and take them as pills
>But that's inconvenient
That inconvenience justifies torturing chickens in factory farms?
>But my chickens come from pasture raised farms where they live happy lives
If they are living Happy lives it's wrong to unnecessarily cut them short by killing them when they're relatively young because they're full sized or their egg production has slowed down. If they're living miserable lives it's wrong to breed them into existence.
>But oysters can hurt other sentient animal and destroy environment etc etc
Get farmed oysters
>and you are not.
they are cute and cuddly
>Significantly larger than T. rex
>While carnivores generally attack you for food, herbivores often attack you for just being in their general vicinity
Imagine a herd of these things, twice the size of bull elephants, with the aggression of hippos. Stomping you to death and biting you to death with either it's beak or thousand sandpaper-like teeth just for happening to accidentally be anywhere near them.
>jaguars
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north america had a very good biodiversity, similar to subsahara africa
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Intense inbreeding, puppy mills, shit eating 3rd worlders failing to properly take care of breeding dogs, etc etc etc.
Some wonderful puppers are now becoming violent, unhealthy meat bags and it sickens me.
Look at the Golden Retriever. They used to be able to live up to 17 years of age. Now you're lucky if you have one that reaches 14. They get cancer more out of any other breed.
Is there anything anyone can do now?
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My domestic cat likes to hunt them for hours. She'll sit near where they're hiding without showing any boredom for hours.
The stray fella will just straight up eat them if he catches them. This has happened severl times.
What do I do about this mouse problem. Is my house cat cruel for hunting/playing but not killing?
I can hear my house cat play hunting now in the background. I can usually catch and release the mouse much faster than she does (she's a bit stupid).
(Regular epic battles between two giant predators are also unlikely.)
>Leopard Seal tries to feed photographer penguins, despite it having no benefit whatsoever
What the fuck
1. She scritches her mat when she wants to be held, which is a lot.
2. She insists on being petted, rocked, and having her forehead kissed until she's decided she's had enough forehead kisses and crawls into her cuddle pouch.
3. She tries very hard to mimic human speech. She can't make the sounds, but with mouth the following words: Mommy, Daddy, Hello, and will make specific sounds to indicate specific things. She's remarkably vocal.
4. She sometimes holds onto my thumb like it's a teddy bear and will even sleep under my hand.
5. She learned to count to 3. We started counting her food prep in stages 1-3. After that she started running in exactly 3 circles around her food dish whenever we asked her to show us the number 3.
6. She points at things with her nose in the manner of a trained bloodhound to indicate what she wants and won't stop pointing until you finally get it.
7. She figured out all these things on her own in her very active attempts to communicate with us. She does many other social things as well. Too many to list. She has at least the intelligence of a 4 year old human child or a very smart dog.
Are most hedgehogs not this smart or are most owners oblivious retards?
>wait a minute...
I came across these kinds of videos when I was very young, and while at first it made me cry I found myself becoming desensitized to the whole thing and now I just accept that some animals are killed for our benefit. I wouldn't go out of my way to mistreat one and I still value a pet I'm responsible for and feel sentimental towards more than a human stranger but yeah, that's the most I got out of this stuff.
Post dogs getting pet
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It kind of sucks, because spring has been my favorite season since I was young, and I don't think there's a scenery as spectacular as what occurs during mid-April where I live. Though honestly I am not a fan of the early spring foliage that occurs during March where we see splotches of colorful buds mixed with empty dormant trees, especially occurring the recent years with warming climate.
picrel was taken in my neighborhood a few years ago and is probably an example of what I consider “spring foliage”
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Dinosaur stumpers will never admit that the superior Crocodilia won
some of the most entertaining vids seen in a long time.
I think the best option for me would be a bird, it's not very difficult to take care of and it's a cute and cool animal (unlike a fish which is boring).
I don't really take care of myself well (although a lot of people don't either), but I think I could take care of a bird and it would be fun. Maybe taking care of birds could become a new hobby instead of spending half the day watching anime, YouTube and posting on 4chan.