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Love Foxes, Pawst Foxes
Previously on /fox/:
>>4917011
previous: >>4912115
This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answered
Classifieds for finding breeders and products:
>morphmarket.com
>kingsnake.com
>faunaclassifieds.com
>caudata.org
Most forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.
When asking a question, make sure to include these details:
>Type and size of animal
>Enclosure dimensions
>Humidity and temperature
>Type of substrate
>The decor you use
>How often you feed
>The type of food you use
>If your animal is wild caught or captive bred
>How often you handle
>Who you bought the animal from
Other Helpful Resources
www.blackjungleterrariumsupply.com
www.joshsfrogs.com
http://www.reptilesmagazine.com
http://www.anapsid.org
http://www.hylid.clara.co.uk/caer.htm
https://www.americanmadeexotics.com/breeding-ball-pythons-article.html
Who is Jefrey (with one F) and why should you care?
He was found abandoned in some bushes late one night, filthy and covered in fleas back in mid-July 2024. He’s growing up fast, and enjoys car rides, climbing trees, fetching his ball, playgrounds, and capybaras. Some believe him to be a goblin or gremlin. He was named after the Pixies song “Space (I Believe In)”.
Jefrey suffers from severe ear-ectile dysfunction.
Originally posted him here back in July 2024 seeking advice for potential health problems due to his folded ears, some /an/ons wanted more of him, and so now you’re stuck with him.
apologize
And we're taking your ice cream!
![PATCHOULI-3[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/an/1737981058454968s.jpg)
Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.
>Flora of the World
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/
>Plants of the World Online
https://powo.science.kew.org/
>Hardiness zones
https://www.plantmaps.com/
>Plant ID Sites
https://identify.plantnet.org/
https://wildflowersearch.org/
>Pests and Diseases
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/advice-search
https://www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/
>Thousands of Botanical Illustrations
http://www.plantillustrations.org/
>Cacti and Succulents
https://worldofsucculents.com/
https://www.cactiguide.com/
https://www.succulentguide.com/
>Carnivorous plants
https://botany.org/home/resources/carnivorous-plants-insectivorous-plants.html
https://carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides
>Alpine plants
https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/
>Ponds
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-pond
>How to Make a Terrarium
https://terrariumtribe.com/diy-terrarium-guide/
Previously on /plant/
>>4916383
I guess they haven't migrated yet either, the fucking retards, it's the dead of winter too
Speculative evolution is the exploration and imagining of how life might evolve in the future or could have evolved in alternate pasts. It's a multimedia sci-fi genre that harnesses scientific principles to create detailed and plausible hypothetical creatures, ecosystems, and evolutionary histories.
RESOURCES:
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Tutorial
>One-stop shop for relevant background information for starting a project
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/
>Fantastic blog covering all sorts of spec evo topics in-depth
https://specevo.jcink.net/
>The Speculative Evolution forums, full of resources and ongoing projects
RECOMMENDED PROJECTS:
https://pastebin.com/zhBbaNTB
>Link to a PDF of Wayne Barlowe’s “Expedition”, a seminal work of speculative evolution full of incredible paintings and illustrations
https://youtu.be/Rbi8Jgx1CNE [Embed]
>”The Future is Wild”, a CGI documentary following the evolution of life on Earth in the far future
https://pastebin.com/esdFrSEZ
>Dougal Dixon, arguably the father of speculative evolution. These are links to PDF’s of his books “After Man”, “The New Dinosaurs”, and “Man After Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egzZv8tqT_k&list=PL6xPxnYMQpquNuaEffJzjGjMsr6VktCYl&ab_channel=Biblaridion [Embed]
https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/
https://sunriseonilion.wordpress.com/
http://www.cmkosemen.com/snaiad_web/snduterus.html
https://www.deviantart.com/sanrou/gallery/56844005/nau
http://www.planetfuraha.nl/
https://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/lokiworldofrats/home
https://specevo.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=4578&st=15
https://www.deviantart.com/bicyclefrog
https://hardeshur.blogspot.com/p/main-page.html
https://rylmadolisland.blogspot.com/p/main-page.html?zx=bba41f9d602b6b9a
/bun/ General
VideoGaems Edition
Rationally speaking and going by our earth standards and our current understanding of evolutionary anatomy, in order for an animal to have the capabilities of having a civilization of any kind it should have a body that allows it to manipulate it's physical environment around it with hands or at least maybe tentacles, what use would a 4 legged animal or a bird be if it had the same intelligence and sapience as humans but it's body doesn't allow it to manipulate it's world to make tools and stuff?
It seems that the evolution for animals that develop the intelligence and sapience for a civilization, be it primitive or same or more advanced than ours, would have to favor a human like body and nothing else, and if that's the case why wouldn't it also be possible that we could interbreed with each other as we did with neanderthals and denisovans?
You can read more about their interesting predatory habits here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.70148
Why does nobody talk about this? There was a fully oceanic species of gharial that humans pushed to extinction. This plus the arboreal crocodilian in New Caledonia called Mekosuchus really means that we just barely missed out on some sickass crocodiles.
It started weeks ago with just a few mice, I kept catching and throwing them out, but the were coming back, or new ones kept coming. I didn't want to use poison, because when one died it took me days to find while I couldn't stand the smell and I also watched a mouse who ate too little poison dying for hours. they unsurprisingly reproduced and now there's a shitload of small mice running around and droppings everywhere, I suspect that now there's probably almost 20 of mice total and I'm losing my mind. I now finally managed to find and close up the probable openings they used and I'm wondering what to do with them. I'd like to avoid killing them if possible, because the small ones are very trusting and even try to huddle up to me if I sit still (I know they're just vermin and I'm being retarded, but still), but throwing them out at this point is probably a bad death sentence anyway.
I wonder if it's feasible to keep them in a huge cage throughout the winter, but I suspect they'll suffer in captivity and it'd be more humane to kill them. if so, what's the best way to do it to ensure they won't decompose in various nooks?
It's over, the coral reef has fallen
>The tourist's identity has not been released, but according to the South African news outlet IOL, the victim protected his grandchildren when they got out of the vehicle.
>The animal "charged and trampled" the victim on Saturday, according to a news release. Park officials responded to the area to help the tourist's family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/28/tourist-killed-by-elephant-kruger-national-park/77994930007/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTXRUzTf-L0
- Ailuridae (red pandas)
- Canidae (dogs)
- Mephitidae (skunks)
- Mustelidae (otters, badgers, wolverines, ferrets, weasels, minks)
- Odobenidae (walruses)
- Otariidae (eared seals, sea lions)
- Phocidae (earless seals)
- Procyonidae (raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos)
- Ursidae (bears)
TEAM FELIFORMIA:
- Eupleridae (Malagasy mongooses, fossas)
- Felidae (cats)
- Herpestidae (most mongooses)
- Hyaenidae (hyenas, aardwolves)
- Nandiniidae (African palm civets)
- Prionodontidae (linsangs)
- Viverridae (civets, genets, binturongs, oyans)
This looks like a lopsided victory for TEAM CANIFORMIA on every metric: intelligence, predatory ability, strength, variety, cuteness, etc.
Official Thread Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlW_GWuXys
>You are hungover or something
>Steve Kroschel, says the wolverine's intelligence and powerful sense of smell makes it the perfect candidate for daring mountain rescues.
>"Wolverines are so smart that within, I would say, a week, you could train them to do this, to find a human scent," Kroschel said during an interview on CBC Edmonton's Radio Active. "It's just like training dogs. But wolverines are so much more intelligent than a dog."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNgv3opJqoQ
>Despite their nasty reputation, he says wolverines are easily tamed.
"They just really become a companion like no other wild animal that I've ever worked with," Kroschel said. "You can train them to a harness very easily, they love that. And when they're bonded with you, they will follow you around in the mountains like a dog. "And they stay gentle to you, as opposed to wolves, lynx or grizzly or any of the other fur-bearing animals of North America that I work with."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/wolverines-can-be-taught-to-sniff-out-avalanche-survivors-trainer-says-1.3559850
>be born with a barbed prick
>have a one in eight chance of even surviving to adulthood because if dad gets desposed by another male lion the other male lion will kill you to put your momma into estrus
>at the age of 2 get expelled by papa and have to team up Double Dragon style with other male lions just to survive(usual outcome is slowly starving to death)
>much like Double Dragon, you end up fighting your friends for the right to take over a pride and mate
>have to also take over a pride by fighting an established male lion
>IF you win - only get two to three years as the "king" of a pride
>But hey, 3,000 sexual copulations for every one lion cub you make
Is it worth it /an/?
>Leopard Seal tries to feed photographer penguins, despite it having no benefit whatsoever
What the fuck
>Having identified the night parrots by sound, the team moved on to studying threats to the endangered species using camera traps. They found that dingoes were the most present predators in the area—but the large, wild dogs were busy eating feral cats, which the team suspects are the real key predators of night parrots. So dingoes, they suggest, are actually protecting the night parrot population.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-and-elusive-australian-bird-once-thought-extinct-for-100-years-discovered-by-indigenous-rangers-and-scientists-180985143/
Other canids like coyotes and huskies also help keep the outdoor cat population in check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE
Winter of our Hopelessness
Thread that got made to lie down for a German show - >>4911995
The alleged benefits that wolves bring to the ecosystem are mostly manufactured and promoted by NGOs to take money from suckers. Watch his video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Z9_t3zTes
Nobody ever asks "Why wolf?"
>Tiger perceives this as an aggression and attacks
>Turn your back on the tiger
>Tiger perceives this as an opening to attack you
What a retarded species. Is this why they always look to their side?
I won't be original or diverse in my choice. Mostly various moderate-sized Carnosaurs (with a couple exceptions) to give them another chance.
- Allosaurus (all three known species)
- Sinraptor
- Neovenator
- Concavenator
- Metriacantosaurus
- Carcharodonthosaurus
- Saurophaganax (if it exists, if not - than Megalosaurus)
- Yutyrannus (HONORARY "Carnosaur" for the cold climate)
If somebody feeds them french fries they will like them and follow them whenever they see them.
Similarly somebody who scares crows will be hated and attacked.
What will happen if I scream like a maniac and throw food at me, will they love me? Hate me?
Please discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLG_Q8FJda0
Anhingas welcome also.
Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
I''m going tp post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants a puggle to snuggle. Old thread got it's leg caught in a jeffries tube. >>4793406. 300 seconds to post. Good gracious. Who did I piss off or are "we" getting attaced again?
World War Deer Edition
simple as.
Now hear this: no mammal will ever make it to page 10.
That is all.
>WEWEWILWIL
>WEEEEEE WOOOOOOOO
>WOOOOOOOOO WOOOOO
>WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
>Results say soem shit like "No it's a wild animal and does not make a good." And so on and so on
>Videos I see online with people keekping the animals as pets say otherwise
I'm convinced theirs just some kind of scheme going on here. I get that the average person probably can't keep most animals as pets but if you put in the effort there's no reason it shouldn't be possible.
Of course excluding money and ludicrous animals like Gorillas, Chimps and lions.
Orca - 21,000,000,000
Human - 16,340,000,000
Pilot whale - 13,966,000,000
Bottlenose dolphin - 12,700,000,000
Beluga - 10,000,000,000
Sea otter - 10,000,000,000
Western gorilla - 9,100,000,000
Orangutan - 8,900,000,000
Chimpanzee - 7,400,000,000
Asian elephant - 6,775,000,000
Bonobo - 6,250,000,000
Blue whale - 5,000,000,000
Elephant seal - 3,994,000,000
Walrus - 3,929,000,000
Mandrill - 3,102,000,000
Hyacinth macaw - 2,944,000,000
Giraffe - 1,731,000,000
Rhesus macaque - 1,710,000,000
Kea - 1,281,000,000
Snowy owl - 1,270,000,000
Raven - 1,204,000,000
Horse - 1,200,000,000
Harp seal - 1,168,000,000
Sulphur-crested cockatoo - 1,135,000,000
German Shepherd - 885,460,000
Grey parrot - 850,000,000
Beagle - 844,410,000
Greater kudu - 762,570,000
Golden retriever - 627,000,000
Yorkshire Terrier - 572,140,000
Blesbok - 570,670,000
Lion - 545,240,000
Chihuahua - 513,330,000
Striped hyena - 495,280,000
Raccoon - 453,000,000
Emu - 439,000,000
Barn owl - 437,000,000
Domestic pig - 425,000,000
Red fox - 355,010,000
Capybara - 306,500,000
Brown bear - 250,970,000
House cat - 249,830,000
Wild turkey - 105,654,000
Rabbit - 71,450,000
Guinea pig - 43,510,000
Hedgehog - 24,000,000
Mouse - 14,000,000
Honey bee - 170,000
https://x.com/kkopzoo/status/1833126029231292859
Elephants, koalas, and pandas also do this.
> Tusks grow into its brain and kills it.
I'll make you this new one.
>Nearby agricultural irrigation in the 1960s and 1970s caused the water to drop in Devils Hole, resulting in less and less of the shelf remaining submerged.
>The Cappaert family's attorney decried that the Supreme Court had chosen the interests of a fish over people, and a newspaper editor from nearby Pahrump threatened to dump a pesticide into Devils Hole to kill them all.[55] In response to bumper stickers that read "Save the Pupfish" distributed by the Desert Fishes Council, Nye County Commissioner Robert Rudd produced bumper stickers that said "Kill the Pupfish".[56] The Cappaert family sold the ranch in the late 1970s.[55]
>Yeah kill'em! Kill them all!
Why are they like this?
where did this myth come from?
>Hippo
>Rhino
>Polar bear
>Tiger
In the end, it's going to end up as steak on my plate. I don't care if it lives, so I don't care if it feels.
I live somewhere where beef prices have gone up drastically since covid.
We have a very loud minority of animal rights activists trying to abolish factory farming, and if they had their way the prices for locally produced meat would skyrocket.
I sure you hope we get to know each other better. Maybe you'll even take me into your home as a pet.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your fellow Lizards are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.
Lizards are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed Lizards to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even Legless lizards who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a Snake. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your fellow Lizards will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a Lizard is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably Lizard.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
>Doesn't smell, cleans herself like a cat
>Has not pooped or peed outside her mat a single time in the last couple years
>Knows tons of tricks
>Is extremely obedient and will do whatever you say
>Cat-sized, the perfect size for a pet
>Cuddles with you when you lay down
>Makes incredibly cute noises
Post groundhogs.
>European green crabs are small, measuring just four inches across. But since they were first introduced in the 1980s, these spiny crustaceans have become a massive problem, wreaking havoc on coastal ecosystems along the western coast of North America. They destroy eelgrass habitats, feast on juvenile salmon and king crab, and outcompete native crabs. In doing so, these invasive critters also pose a threat to the crabbing and fishing industries, which many coastal communities rely on for income.
>European green crabs are not only detrimental to coastal ecosystems, but they’re also extremely difficult to eradicate. States have spent millions of dollars trying to combat the invaders, without much success.
>Now, biologists have identified a new, furry ally in the fight against European green crabs: sea otters. At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in California, hungry southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) are gobbling up the invasive crabs and keeping their numbers in check, researchers report this month in the journal Biological Invasions.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hungry-sea-otters-are-taking-a-bite-out-of-californias-invasive-crab-problem-new-study-finds-180985749/
Discuss anything aquarium related here, including tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, decor, plants, and issues. Before asking questions in this thread, make sure you give us at least some details when asking a question, such as:
>Tank size (include dimensions, not just volume)
>Unusual Parameters (nitrate, pH, GH, KH)
>Any inhabitants + how long you've had them
>Age of the tank
>Pictures are always helpful
Tank Cycling:
>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/
Stocking and Water Change Calculator:
>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php
>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.php
Articles and Care Guides:
>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/
>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/
>www.aquariumcoop.com/
>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/
Aquatic Plant Database:
>www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/all.php
>www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants
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