Shoebill thread
Almost a year....
Man, or at least early man, is immune to everything that isn't manmade in some capacity, short of a natural death. Change my mind.
>>5100039Wrong
>>5100039ask the aztecs, mayans and incans how immune they were to smallpox
>>5100039They weren't immune to illness, infection or venom/poison
it's said that pigs are smarter than dogs, but how affactionate are they compared to dogs? do they care about you, greet you when you're home, and cuddle with you?
>>5100049Spoilers: they aren’t smarter than dogs. the two species have brains of equal capability, size, and neurological complexity tuned to excel in different sets of tasks. so you expect a straight brain upgrade from a dog but what you get is an animal that is retarded in all new ways just so it can be better at finding hidden food using its snout to destroy things
>>5100049They bond with their owners but it mostly amounts to them following you around all the time. I had a coworker with a potbelly pig and while I enjoyed playing with it he made it sound like keeping a potty trained goat in your house. When no one was home to watch it he had to keep it in his basement so it wouldn't eat the house.
>>5100049Honestly if you want something that follows you around everywhere and is much muchhhh smarter than a dog, just buy a parrot, even a simple green cheek conure completely ratio them, but you have to be prepared for philological damages you could make them endure if you treat them badly
>>5100058>>5100049Some pigs have dog like levels of personality. Out of a group of 10 that I've had for almost 2 years now as breeding stock they each sort of have their own personalities, and a couple are weirdly conscious. The most human forward/social ones are basically like constantly hungry and very strong non biddable dogs. They come up to me for scratches and will happily flop over for belly scratches, some know their name and will run over when called, get excited when I'm around, etc. Super social animals that can be very sensitive even though their pain tolerance is obscenely high. They clearly show empathy for one another and form bonds with each other as a group, and with other non pig animals. Really cool animals that are a pain in the ass to keep because of how smart and tenacious they are. Difficult to keep them inside fences..
Catbros...The dogchads making fun of us were right.
>>5099878Whether or not there exist mind altering parasites that can make sane people crazy just by being near cat shit is objectively and inherently more important than console wars bullshit.
>>5099797>NO NO NO! You're all wrong! ACKSHUALLY ITS JUST THAT SHIZOS HUFF CAT SHITStop. Get treated.
she keeps linking her own threads in the archive like it means something lol
>>5099905if you have to askits too late for you
>>5099643BasedCat parasite frenz increasing my T
>Puma eats 18 chickens in one night>refuses to elaborate>leavessee that face? that's the face of a big cat who has accomplished his biggest dream
I worked at a tractor supply for a while, nearly every week I'd be talking to someone come in to replace their birds because some predator got them. One lady had a bear bust into her coop and ate 29 out of 30 birds, the lone survivor was wedged up in a corner of the roof with half its feathers missing.
>>5097947Yup. Had a mongoose kill 10 pullets overnight. He came back for them the next day, I killed him & 10 more over the following two days. They aint Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: vicious little bastards.
>>5097871big if true
>>5097218the owners of the chickens were honorary arian race hippies
>>5096784>Has anyone seen by chickens? I swear I locked them up before I went inside.>Conspicuously-chicken-shaped-Puma: Nope!
>once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
>>5099940gay ass animal to dream of yourself as if we're being real
>>5099940moths are better
ai slopsters get the rope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5XG5o2CtIWe're gonna be looking back on lipped T. rexes the same way we're looking back on Nanotyrannus being a juvenile T. rex; wondering how the fuck that stupid shit ever became consensus in the first place.
>>5099777>Tyrannosaurus is for tranniesTrips confirm. Theropodlets mogged once again. BVLL anky reigns supreme
>>5098966>source>some guy on JewtubeI will simply believe the opposite.
>>5099851P-schiddy was an egg in his infant mother's ovary when that movie came out. His grandparents saw JP in theaters.he has no idea what america was like in the 1990's because he wasn't alive.
>>5098984Cloaca lips?
>>5099897You haven't seen the recent papers showing that T-Rexes had a juicy pink pussy that they used to drain prey before eating it?
I think Pallas cats are neat
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>>5095865>>5097258you don't scare me, work on it
>>5097278>>5095865
bumpin
What are some interesting applications for animals?
Spiders build webs where there's airflow for insects to fly in. Home energy auditors use spider webs as a first indicator for air leakages and drafts.
>>5098485so thats where pizza is coming from
>>5096962>>5097074>roof chihuahuagood tech. that way the barking isnt too grading to those in the house.
>>5098362england is and was a silly place sometimes, victorian england doubly soI used to live in a tiny village where they trained priests, and it had a 900 year old village church (separate to the priest training place)in that church was a stone that said something likeIN MEMORIAMFATHER JOHN OLDNDEADWHO DIED HERE ON SUNDAY SEPTEBRUARY 43THWHILE LEADING SUNDAY PRAYERSand I always pictured him just nodding off mid sentence in a particularly boring sermon and never waking up>the town was cuddesdon in case you need to fact czech me
Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.Anhingas welcome also.Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
These guys are crazy, haha.
>>5099315theres nothing humans love more than an excuse to hurt or kill something, doesnt matter if its an animal or a human.theres nothing hunters and anglers love more than getting a culling license.and you see the same at protest, as soon as a group of people are given the opportunity to lynch someone for having a different opinion or even just saying the wrong thing they take it with childlike glee.
>>5099429back to redddit
>>5096865
>>5099543jej
Saw those guys last year at the zoo.They flat out looked like Pokeyman with those white dots.
What agricultural animals make the best house pet?
>>5099004Pigs are the only barnyard animals that can be housetrained and bred small enough to live in your home. They would be the best option unless you count herding dogs or barnyard cats as agricultural animals.
>>5099724Rabbits can do this as well.
>>5099724but they have thet weird corkscrew dick
>>5099835You wouldn't want a boar in the house. You'd probably want to castrate if your only option was a male pig, but just like dogs you need to wait or they'll get fucked up joints way too early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb5ZR8tgc6QF
>>5097567Sad mainly because I get worried the animal may be a bit confused during the process, but hopefully it wasn't too alarming for him. Also the fact he had good humans for support made his last days more comfortable. Heck if I get lousy health problems like he did, that's exactly the way I'd like to deal with it.
the last video I saw with him he was looking old
>>5097598Yeah she was posing with the animals naked too, she was a bpd hoe. Still feel bad for the kid and husband though.
>>5098223oh no, the animals must have been so traumatized
>>5097361Why did the Americans bully her to death
>eats small crabs and shrimps>has venom potent enough to kill a horseWho comes up with this shit?
>>5098456its venom is defensive, so it needs it to protect from predators. At some point it evolved mild venom to stop a predator. Then that predator evolved immunity to the venom. Then the octopus evolved stronger venom and the predator evolved immunity to that. This keeps happening until you get some crazy venom that kills anything, and you have some predator that still eats it anyways. that's what happened with newts and garter snakes. Some newts have venom that will easily kill a human but garter snakes are immune and eat them anyways.not sure what preyed on blue rings, it's possible whatever predator caused them to become so venomous is now extinct.
>>5098477>not sure what preyed on blue ringsHorses most likely
>>5099414>Horses most likelyTheyre mostly eaten by horses at night....mostly.
>evolves on a continent with no primates>has venom that is specifically deadly to primatesWhat the fuck is his problem
>>5099616Purely coincidence goyim
>Family visits>Sister brings a bottle of Ibuprofen to the house>Somehow my Labrador finds said pill bottle from her bag>Find my dog with a ripped up pill bottle.>I know my dog so she probably only wanted to chew the rattling toy (pill bottle) but freak out anyway>Have to induce vomiting>She doesn't want to be force fed but I have to do it anyway>0 Emergency vet places I've looked and asked and called but nothing for actual hours>> Have to hold her rough and make her drink>Induce vomiting>Dog vomits fine>Clean vomit>Dog fineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Dogs are such retards. They are an insult to the wolf.
>>5096617your bitch sister laced the pills with peanut butter
>>5096715>>5096724>>5096732>>5096746
>>5096617based retard sister working OP the faggot into a panic