>hurr durr catfaggots
>hurr durr dogfaggots
This cat vs dog bullshit is stupid and childish. Cats and dogs are equal and both have their own pros and cons. Either one is equally capable of love and affection as the other. I don’t think there should be a fight at all.

CAT DAWG
CAAAAT DAWG
Alone in the dark was a little cat dawg

>>4794446
>Cats and dogs are equal
In what sense?

>Both have their pros and cons.
Such as? Cats require less responsibility and resources compared to dogs.

>Either one is equally capable of love and affection as the other.
Dogs are usually more attached to their owners than cats.

>>4794446
This is what happens when jannies keep moving /v/ and /tv/ threads here

>>4794475
Cats require less responsibility, while dogs are more useful for work and hunting game.

>Dogs are usually more attached to their owners than cats.
You have a point. But they are both still capable of showing love and affection.

Still, I believe they are both equal in their pros and cons.

>>4794446
All boards have become /pol/-lite since 2015.
>/an/ = cats vs dogs
>/n/ = bikes vs cars
>/tv/ = my jews vs your jews
>/ck/ = cities vs country
>/mu/ = cities vs country
>/trv/ = cities vs country
>etc.
For all you zoomers that were mindcucked by twitter during puberty: It didn't used to be this way, your manufactured rage is pathetic, you were raised to be shills, you will never be happy.

>>4794519
I agree. I wish this board and other boards can just be happy, and not filled with a bunch of retard autists having useless slap fights with each other.

Cats vs. Dogs isn’t one of the main problems in /an/ though. Whenever someone mentions god, a bunch of retarded atheists start seething. Also vegans and creationism too.

>>4794540
>surely its the retarded atheists
Atheists are less likely to be fat and are more intelligent on average

All christcucks do is gain weight and preach peace from their ass while trying to turn women into murder suspects and corpses for daring to terminate brainless cell clumps. The recent abortion fiasco in the US is proof that there is no such thing as a good christian. Given the opportunity they will also return to biblical executions. There is nothing literally forbidding them.

Christians and zoophiles are two groups that should be instantly banned for spreading their filth

>>4794584
zoophiles also preach love and do evil. maybe they’re both on /an/ because they get along better than you’d expect christians and zoophiles to?

>>4794584
>>4794540
You guys are talking about the issue while actively engaging in it.

>>4794586
Hold on buddy

What if the christians are the zoos? They want to be a protected class no one is allowed to call faggots. They must have something to hide.

>>4794540
>whenever someone mentions the kikestain god
They never JUST mention it they give an entire fucking sermon. The same faggot doing it probably paid for the bible schizo ads.

Catfaggotry is cancer on every board and should be bullied relentlesly

>>4794540
pretty sure you're just a schizo

>>4794584
OP here. There are bad Christians and there are bad Atheists, but there are also good Christians and good Atheists. I can see the point you’re trying to make, but I don’t think all Christians should be targeted. I agree with you on the zoophiles though. Those are some of the most depraved and disgusting “people” on this planet.
>>4794586
I don’t really see how i am actively engaging in any of these issues. I’m just saying that there’s a lot of retards here who get mad over really generic shit.
>>4794590
There’s a lot of bad Christians out there who force their religions onto others and aren’t accepting of new ideas. Then when people yell at them for it they start crying.
I’m a Christian myself and I don’t really “believe” as much as other Christians. I loom around Christianity and science a lot, and I often just pick both.
>>4794608
Listen, just cause I’m mad about a bunch of retards getting mad over really generic shit doesn’t give you the right to call me a schizo. What did I ever do to you? I’m just giving my opinion.

>>4794540
Proving you right LMAO
>>4794584
>>4794586
>>4794590
>>4794608
Pottery
>>4794594
Amen

>>4794519
Concurred, I pick fights sometimes tho because people really get into it. Right now /aq/ general is hilarious. And in only participating in half of it.

The cat v dog stuff is retarded. I understand 1-3 threads about it. But it feels like almost every thread dissolved into cat v dog

>>4794594
Ok

Then your god votes yes for abortion rights every time? Your god voted yes for gay marriage? Your god voted for evolution in schools and opposes teaching children his own lies?

>>4794641
What do you mean by “proving you right”?

>>4794519
You forgot
>/g/ - linux vs windows

>>4794653
This is the crux of the issue

There is no such thing as a fully good christian. If they are a good person, they are a bad christian. if they are a good christian, they are a bad person. their bible states in no uncertain terms that they have a moral and spiritual duty to trample on the rights of others.

when you preach in the name of your god like it or not you are preaching for an evil entity with evil opinions. even if you are too dumb to actually follow your own religion. thankfully, yahweh is not and never has been a real god so he can't actually do shit if you fail to follow him. all you have to do is stop being christian, and you can be a good person.

it's not like yahweh is going to stop or punish you. he can't. he hasn't been able to do shit since a gnostic wizard named joshua or something ascended to heaven and killed him, as a joke.

atheistards mihht be the biggest s hit stirrers on this board at this point and that’s *really* saying something

>>4794653
>ok then your god votes for shit the majority of the world considers unnatural but i don’t because i was indoctrinated to believe is natural?????
only evolution has any merit of those things

>>4794519
>/ck/ = cities vs country
… what?
>/pol/ is when people compare thing and have arguments over which thing is better
That’s been happening since language was invented champ

>>4794584
>noooo just let women slut it up forever
telling that this is your biggest concern

>>4794446
>Cats and dogs are equal
Hmm I wonder who is behind this post

Cat owners have been linked to schizophrenia

>>4794584
hey there anon, Im not gonna argue, Im just going to ask you to study fetal development and seriously ask yourself when you became a human being. Doesnt have to happen fast, you dont need to reply to me, its about getting information and thinking for -yourself-

>>4794585
the people on this board who are most against zoophiles (including me) are often Christian

>>4798790
Not that anon but you cease to become a human the moment you force 12 year olds to birth their rapists baby because your magic book says so.

>>4798793
The book isnt 'magic', its a collection of ancient historical texts - some serious recording of history, some story, some song & poetry, etc..

Baptists (who are the dominant 'Christian' group in the USA) arent even properly Christian at all, American baptists & evangelical mindset is like a couple hundred years old. Literally nothing.
You should try to understand WHY a 12 year old having to have a child could for someone be the lesser of evils, though still a wretched situation.

Will you study embryology and fetology?

>>4798799
>Baptists aren’t Christians
Don’t know why Catholics have to bring babtists up whenever they are trying to dunk on an atheist. I don’t bring the false beliefs of Catholics up when arguing my position just to sound more correct.

>>4798799
Prior to the mid/end of the 2nd trimester a fetus has no functioning human brain. It had autonomic functions without the physical capacity for feeling and thought. It is not a human life except according to schizophrenic spiritual nonsense. Might as well make excising a brain tumor murder in case it developed nociception. And fertilized clumps of cells are DEFINITELY not human lives outside of your dick cutting, lgbtq murdering desert cult.

>>4798922
the only difference is a tumor doesnt have a line in the lieble like “before you metastasized in the cerebrum i knew you”

>>4798922
This nigger doesn’t understand potential. The second the egg it fertilized it will become a human unless there is an error In the pregnancy (an accident) or a human stops the pregnancy (a choice). The choice that was made was to remove the life of a person. Because that fetus no longer has the chance to be a person. By this logic abortion is murder regardless of how ignorant you are of the development of a fetus.
But the life starts the second a new genetic code is created (fertilization) so it’s still murder regardless.

Also would like to say I’m not the guy your arguing with and the christcuck stuff won’t work on me. I just happen to actually understand biology and ethics.

>>4798934
“Potential” is an arbitrary line. An individual sperm cell or ejaculate load could be a child. Dying a virgin is murder.

The fact is a zygote has no thoughts or feelings. None. It is not a person. It is a parasitic vegetative mass until its prefrontal cortex switches on. This is a hard line. A well defined line. An immovable line. Because this is where humanity and all life begins and a fetus goes from a collection of germ cells no different from a puddle of jizz to a fully assembled lifeform that is ready to develop.

>>4798934
How can literally nothing have a chance? There is no person to give the chance to unless you believe in religious horseshit about souls. It’s just tissue without a mind. An early third trimester fetus does provably have a mind. A first trimester fetus is a vaguely hominid shaped blob similar to a partially absorbed twin, at the latest.

>>4798934
By this logic cockblocking your mate at the pub is murder because he could have jizzed up in the bird he was chatting and made a baby but you stopped him.

>>4798940
The same logic - arguing i the name
of “potentially” can lead to pascals wager plus - the state has a moral duty to forcibly convert everyone to christianity because potentially they could go to hell. Which becomes a war if any other state has another religion and they must save people by spreading theirs. Its not oppression, its saving souls and their morals are objectively correct according to them because their religion said so because their religion said so.

This is where the conservatives would gladly take the US. It would be a slippery slope if they didnt so often profess that they consider this a good idea, and the entire islamic world did not already operate on this principle, and the bible did not explicitly demand this.

>>4798939
Life is not about the mind, unless you believe in souls. Life is about a different genetic code. Would you say a male anglerfish if alive? How about an earthworm? Paramecium? If you kill a caterpillar by extension you are killing a butterfly. The only difference between a fetus and these is that it is genetically a individual person.
>>4798940
Like I said, you don’t understand causality. A Grenade is not garenteed to explode. Just like your bud isn’t going to get laid if he hangs out with people like you. But if you pull the pin on a grenade it WILL explode unless stopped or something goes wrong. The fetus IS a baby ublesssomething goes wrong, or a person kills it.

>>4798946
A fetus without the capacity for thoughts and feelings is not a person and clearly isnt guaranteed to be because they miscarry all the time

Anything is assured to be anything because surely nothing will go wrong if you want to believe - but only in your head. In reality it is just tissue. It has no thoughts. It has no feelings. It is not a life. It is below a rat. It is merely human tissue. This is not about maybe butif whatever - it is or is not.

If you were born without a brain you would just be an ugly object.

>>4798949
>>4798941
How much does the IDF pay you moshe??

>>4798950
>it must be the enemy religion that actually agrees with me!
Something without a fully functioning human brain is not a human being. This occurs somewhere towards the end of the second trimester and must be determined by a doctor.

Nothing prior to that point is a human. You’re officially in “pulling out is denying a childs soul a shot at life” territory.

>>4798951
Do you act this retarded for free then?

distribution of offerings to the sea lords as is proper.jpg

>>4798946
The cum in the sock under your bed WILL be a human if you let it meet an egg. What's the difference?

>>4798946
>give an earthworm human dna
>squish it
>first degree murder
weird religion you got there

>>4798953
>>4798956
>>4798957
Samefag
>>4798951
Judism ritualizes abortion, and actually argued in court that they should have a religious exemption to abortion laws

>>4798958
>da jooz
I’m a white atheist, primarily celtic ancestry with a touch of nordic and anglo
6’1” 175lb

>>4798958
More than one person thinks you're braindead, dumbass.
>Judism ritualizes abortion, and actually argued in court that they should have a religious exemption to abortion laws
Jewish W. Better than forcing 12 year olds to give birth.

>>4798961
Well “jews” are so high iq that they have several times more geniuses than whites due to their avaerage IQ (sd0) being 115. But really they’re just european banking families ascribed an arbitrary ethnicity like making up the term “aryan kangz” for everyone like me, so… jew = one kind of smart white person.

>>4798961
>jew = one kind of smart white person.
>smart person is against forced births
Yeah makes sense.

>>4798965
Under rabbinical law the threshhold for allowable abortion is a moving target as medical technology advances. Once we develop artifical wombs, all jews must consent to transplants rather than abortions or adopt the secular “mind = soul” position and stop being jews. And we do have an ethical duty to develop artificial wombs for many other reasons…
>a religion memes jews into becoming pod people
JEJ.

>>4798970
Imagine being insecure enough to larp this hard

Your arguments already belied your low intelligence

>>4798973
Just trying to bring it down to your level bud.

I wasn’t trying to write a dissertation. And i honestly know that i probably couldn’t convince anyone in this thread to convert. But perhaps I could get you to think a little harder. Unfortunately I realized that was impossible so I decided to just have a little fun lol.
Also to cover my ass not trying to come back and say lol I was pretending to be retarded, just wanted to express myself fairly and acutely.

Choose to believe me or no, but I did post proof of physique and nobody else in this thread has so much as posted nose

>>4798975
Is there a joke I missed? What's this larper trying to prove?

>>4798979
He thinks not believing in souls makes you jewish and not the 70%+ of the world that is not christian, and is also a raging pseudo-christian “le poetry and metaphor” homosexual looking for a boyfriend? Definitely a weird way to cope with losing an argument

>>4798989
> He thinks not believing in souls makes you jewish and not the 70%+ of the world that is not christian
Uhh, I’m pretty sure most of the world believes in the existence of souls accounting for Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews

>>4798940
what a vulgar post devoid of any thought or reason

>>4799005
“Potential” is an absurdity. Fortune telling has no place in morals.

>>4794446
sounds like something a dogfaggot would say


Anonymous

ITT: Animals that are universally defended by people who don't live near them, and hated by those that have to live near them

>>4794489
/thread
I love gulls but I dont have to live with them.

>>4794507
My city's airport has a guy whose job is to go up to the landing strips and shoot at the seagulls with his rifle right before the plane lands. Apparently this was controversial here...

>>4794507
I do.
I live inland but when I'm near a coast I love listening to their cries and watching them wheeling through the sky.

>>4794483
Wait, what? Aussies hate ‘roos? For what reason?

>>4794487
That would make me shit bricks but who is living close to these things exactly

>>4794489
I used to live near the beach and I always loved these fuckers, everyone else hated them though

>>4794483
Roos just seem like such smug cunts, perfect Aussie animal

MONKEYS
MONKEYS MONKEYS MONKEYS MONKEYS MONKEYS
I fucking HATE monkeys.
Apes are cool, tho. And whatever Annie's Boobs was from Community was a cool monkey. But I hate the types I grew up around
>>4794489
I deal with seagulls all year round. Never have much of problem with them. They seldom venture even a mile away from the water and I live about a mile and a half from the shore so I don't have to worry about them shitting all over my car out tearing open my garage/rubbish/trash bags, either.

>>4794483
Brown bears in my country. People in some rural areas say they massacre their cows sometimes. They are protected, though.

>>4794489
i live near gulls but enjoy their behaviors

>>4794483
>>4794483
They ruin your crops smash up cars kill dogs and rhinos but we must live with them because american white woman likes they are big.

>>4795068
>gives africans grief
sounds cool to me

>>4795124
crows are basically everywhere and anyone who doesn't like them is a weirdo

>>4795139
They're loud and constantly pecking sticks in the driveway. I stopped braking for crows.

>>4795154
that's fine, I hope their remaining kin track you down and peck sticks in your driveway. You're a (((sociopath))), by the way.

>>4794734
Pests that reproduce that rats, destroy crops, and the more aggressive species attack people and dogs.

>>4795132
Oh no i live near them and i love them

The ranchers who bitch are essentially really lazy pet owners who dont even own a significant portion of US livestock. Its like begging for total cougar death because your free roaming dog got ate. Coincidentally thats an unironic reason people hate coyotes.

>>4795516
Coyotes eat dogs? I assume only small ones

>>4795398
I live near and defend wolves
>BUT THE RANCHERS
Inconsequential welfare queens running organic free range bullshit operations

Land don't vote, but unfortunately the MO of the republican party is sneaking in candidates who run for the people and legislate for the corn fields so some states (wyoming) are being little bitches

>>4794734
Imagine hitting a deer with your car except instead of a deer it is a 6ft bipedal thing made of pure muscle that also hops. I don’t think really anybody but farmers or dickheads like hate hate them though

>>4794483
Most aussies love roos. They aren't a novelty out here where I live, but generally aren't viewed as pests (literally tens of millions of them, but generally don't stray into civilisation).

>>4795154
>MUH MUH STICKS
Monkey spotted, YWNBAH, Bobo.

>>4795068
"American white woman will cry if we hurt them" is the main reason why your people are allowed to exist.

>>4794483
Fuck off, dickhead. Everyone loves kangaroos. Even though I have to drive slower around dusk and dawn so that I don't hit the cunts and they wreck my car or come flying through the windscreen and take my head off.

>>4795590
t. hasn't driven across the nullabor

they will literally kill themselves just to fuck up your car

>>4795539
does anyone like those things though

>>4794483
Is this a discreet /pol/ thread?

Pretty sure only red roos are disliked<br>eastern grey roos are cute

>>4795590
fuck you cunt, those motherfuckers fucked up my both of my last two cars, roos get the rope

>>4795525
Yes and yes. They'll fuck bigger dogs tho.

>>4795971
No. I legitimately detest monkeys. Awful fucking creatures.
I don't want to hurt them or anything, in I'm just glad I no longer live anywhere near any.

>>4794483
Wolves
Wolf rewilding in European countries is always like this
>People that live in the country and actually have to deal with them don't want them back (but also refuse to take adequate measures)
>People that live near or in cities want them back

>>4794489
Iunno I lived on the coast for years and loved the gulls. I miss them now that I live more in-land. Funny fuckers.

>>4796053
My neighbor had a huge female Rottweiler that obliterated a coyote that was probably trying to get some pussy, I think it lived, but I still felt bad for him.

>>4797267
If someone is against wolf reintroduction it's a red flag that they are a shitty person and a total fucking idiot.

Source: been to spain, scotland and wyoming.

They are shitty people and total fucking idiots. Living near wolves would not hurt them, but it would put a halt to their disruptive hobby, ie: letting cats, dogs, sheep, and chickens roam around so much they end up on other peoples property. To add to the shittiness when I stayed with my uncle in spain, someone actually dragged someone elses dog off THEIR property because it killed their chicken ON THE OTHER PERSONS PROPERTY, hung it from a tree, and beat it to death. Average anti-wolf tard killed someone elses pet because their chicken was trespassing.

>>4797288
Damn. Coyotes sound like bitches

>>4797343
When they're alone and faced with basically anything bigger than a fox, they are. Even the fuckhuge eastern coyotes are really skittish.

>>4797313
Yeah I live in Switzerland and it's funny to see
Most farmers use flimsy string fencing which will keep their livestock in but definitely not stop a starving wolf from coming in.
It's also funny how they refuse to use livestock guardian dogs and just hope for the best when they leave their animals alone at night. Switzerland even has an official website to show people where and when there's herds with guard dogs so people hiking can be aware

>>4795068
I like the recent beef between Germany and Botswana over their elephants

>>4795398
faggot ass rancher spotted
>>4795132
I unironically love the cute little foxes that scream like a woman being murdered outside my window at 3 am. They are cute as shit and cause no trouble. Also funny having people over.

>>4795060
Yeah coyotes are complete pests

>>4795684
I'm a fan, although there is something gross about them when they're in a giant ground swarm

>>4795533
>>4798002
I'm not a rancher, just like neither of you live near wolves.

>>4795590
>oi mate cunt fark if i don't use every bit of aussie slang i know then they won't know i'm a fair dinkum aussie battler
Always at least one in every Australian thread


Is there a sexier animal out there? I dont think there is

>>4794266
It's fascinating that this phenomenon is also happening in humans. Certain demographics of women favor feminine men and masculine women over something more traditional. We should really study the reasons why more.

>>4794266
i dont know why but first thing i thought about was tranny when i saw this too

>>4794251
>eviscerates your snake with her razor-sharp claws
m.. mommy....

OP you fucked up<br>check the catalog next time

>>4794372
I've unironically thought horses were sexy since I was little. I rode one as a kid and it rubbed my member real nice and their huge asses are just a lot. I really don't like this fact about myself.

>>4794312
Here's ammunition for your theories: it is a well known principle that men who get into fitness and workout more, start craving heavier, more voluptuous women. I noticed the exact same effect playing out in my own erotic writing. Probably something to do with testosterone levels and how they test lower in average every year they check.

>>4794312
>Certain demographics of women favor feminine men
What demographics? It's not like women are making the first move in relationships and being direct more often now

>>4795057
That’s not real, it’s how /fit/ copes with only being able to score fatties. Most athletic men also have athletic wives.

Fat bitches are for broke and wimpy losers

>>4795156
Bottlenoses are more attractive.

>>4795137
K-pop types, Tumblr types, there's even a matriarchal tribe in Africa called the Wodaabe where women choose the most effeminate men.

>>4795169
i dont agree but as per my post i am unable to elaborate

>>4795196
not exactly how I'd describe them

>>4795266
They literally wear makeup, have long hair, and small chins and jaws.

>>4795389
I do not like this body type. Bitch is shaped like a pear.

>>4795393
I find big thighs attractive but I respect your opinion.

>>4795196
What you’re talking about is mrle accurately boyish good looks, and it probably has to do with finding neotenous features healthy or attractive, I wouldn’t say it’s the new standard or anything like it though

>>4794616
go to e621.net
type into the main page search bar 'etheross horse'
enjoy

>>4795490
my post was the least get help worthy post here imo, including >>4795389

>>4795491
her right arm is hidden behind her back, are you blind?

>>4795492
search up "skirby" and you'll get a lot of pics of her

>>4795820
maybe but you’re still worthy of it

Cats are so much hotter. If you don't think so, you've never seen a cat.

>>4796269
based
also an excellent filter for people that cannot perceive attractiveness beyond "can i fit my dick in it/can it's dick fit in me"

>>4795389
A monkey? You're into monkeys? Pretty low tier really. Lots better to pick from.

>>4796287
>where are we going?
>to the bridal chamber

>>4795626
Theres another booru but it's literally one of the only banned phrases or sites to mention in 4chan lol

>>4799729
plenty of boards have custom banned phrases unique to them (usually out in place by trolling tranny jannies) but it’s funny that there are site wide ones too


>>4794596
This is a baby longtail macaque board

>>4794623
Why did they put that wildcat into a shirt

>>4794596
What the hell are those? Monkey cats?

>>4794735
OKay. This is just getting kinky now.

>>4794735
That is a face of distraught anguish

>>4794834
Kill yourself

>>4794596
For me, its the andean mountain cat

>>4794601
>The first thing a Cambodian sees upon waking up in Hell

>>4794735
>prong collar for THE most docile feline period
Disgusting. Hopefully its only an emergency measure for if a small dog or an african child tries attacking it.

>>4796017
Yeah they cant take any risks
Its kinda sad

>>4796364
One Manul
Two Manul
Three Man...

>>4796364
Holy fuck…
Their numbers are endless…

>>4797107
Damn, Manulmom has the patience of a saint

>>4794596
Manul board
Manul site
Manul planet

>>4794735
Why does this cat remind me of Brendan Fraiser 'Just'?

the manul is the animal you would describe to a crackhead that had broken into your home at 3am, waking you up with a shotgun shoved in your eye socket, yelling
>DESCRIBE ME AN ANIMAL THAT IS NOT A MAN AND NOT A CAT

>>4797944
Nah, thanks, I'll stick to "they look like the cat cartoon cavemen would have"

>>4794596
Cat website
Manul is cat
Therefore manul board

>>4799022
Anime website that had one meme making fun of cats
Then reddit stole said meme after we stopped thinking it was funny
Therefore newfag animal

We like orangutans now. Get with the times tourist.


japanese dog jumping through hoops<br>also, japanese dog thread

>>4794800
What makes the dog japanese aside from his audience? If pic rel was in japan would he be japanese? Is the perquisite civic and not ethnic?

wtf, is that real? how is is floating???

>>4794839
I think it means the breed is from japan

>>4794810
What is this supposed to portray

>>4794839
>What makes the dog japanese aside from his audience?
He hasn’t been eaten yet

fuck face

>>4794800
this makes my penis go boing boing

Anonymous

>>4794800
Wow, he jumped through five hoops!

>>4795585
That unlocked a fucking memory.

>>4794839
people fucking love Japan so much that whenever something comes from or happens in Japan it's always mentioned that it's Japanese
you don't see that shit about vietnam or hungary lemme tell ya ain't no one give a shit about those countries

>>4794839
Japanese dogs don't steal cars like Mexican dogs

The Japanese train their dogs better than stupid idiot fat car slave americans do with their own kids.


Crustaceans

Crabanon

>>4795037
Finally a good thread! Crustaceans are extremely based

Anonymous

>>4795037
Did you know that woodlice are crustaceans?

Now you know.

Crabanon

>>4795193
i searched a bit and yeah! they do!

to keep this thread alive, im gonna ask, what crustacean from your country is your favorite? mine is "Petrolisthes violaceus"

>>4795653
Parasitic copepods... the real aliens

Anonymous

>>4795189
Wheres their big, MEATY, C L A W S ?

>>4795687
its a barnacle specialized to living in the body cavity of starfish

>>4795653
>>4795687
>newfags dont know what dendrogaster is
kek

>>4795783
no but im i am eager to learn, that's why I'm here. fucking insane to me that they're crustaceans..

the duality of crustaceans
>hehe new snib snab fren :DD

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>barnacles are crustaceans
um excuse me what the actual f

>Nice eyes bro, would be a shame if you became blind for your multiple hundred years of lifespan

>>4795803
I like the way they dash off with their arms in front of them
>>4795804
What the fuck is that

>>4795840
>>4795841
what are these guys
why do they look so yummy

>>4795789
they're a specialized type of barnacle that lives in the body cavity of starfish
you dont need many body parts when you spend your entire life inside an animal, so legs, eyes, armor, anything that makes them recognizable as a crustacean is gone.
the only thing that's left is the digestive surface and reproductive organs, they basically get tapeworm-ified
this is seen in a lot of other crustaceans, like sacculina or basically any parasitic copepod
some look like living banana peels, others are barely recognizable as anything other than a blob of flesh
they're only recognizable as crustaceans from their larval stages, the nauplius, which i'm pretty sure all crustaceans have in common

>>4795819
The ocean is no place for slow children.
Hail Moloch :)

>>4795189
Did you know insects are crustaceans?

Now you know.

Crabanon

>>4795865
 They probably cant be kept in tanks due to them being pelagic filter feeders, but what do i know, try it for yourself!
>4796016
as a defense mechanism, spitting water supposedly makes predators go away

Anonymous

>>4796020
>>4795189
Well that kinda makes sense. They do look very similar. Horseshoe crabs, shrimps and ancient guys like the nautilus make it very obvious that crustaceans are ocean bugs, or the OG insects.
Makes me wonder, did the sea spider appear first or did it first appear on land? They're not related, but still.

Crabanon

>>4796063
i had a little aneurysm reading that comparison but let me teach you:
Horseshoe crabs arent related to isopods
Shrimps and isopods are from the subphylum crustacean and nautilus is the name for a genus of cephalopods! and the sea spider is more related to horseshoe crabs alongside spiders, since they all are chelicerata (a subphylum) and about who came first? the fossil record shows that the sea spiders are older than spiders

Anonymous

>>4798614
>he doesnt know
lizardman propaganda got to you

>>4795037
I fucking love vampire crabs bros I need these little guys in my life. Does anyone else own them? Is it worth it? It seems worth it. Is it smart to mix their different colour morphs?

>>4797874
Ah yes, the famous peacock mantis shrimp. Also known as the flaming faggot of the seas. His rainbow colours and fancy eyes tell of a 'tism that cannot be defined in even the most elaborate of self-defined sexualities.

>>4798976
They have really cool weapons and coloring so they make up for it

>>4798968

WOT incoming.

I had them, or still have them.
Bought two of the normal purple ones (Geosesarma dennerle) in 2007. Both died. Bought another pair in 2009. Both died. Bought another pair in 2010. Reproduced like rabbits and i had a large colony until 2018, when i made the mistake of redoing their tank- never change a running system. All males fought for terrirtoy and killed themselves, had only two female that werent pregnant and also died later in 2012 (old age, they die after two years). Bought other two from a store in 2021, one died, bougt another one, both lived for one year, then died. Bought a pair of red ones (Geosesarma hagen) 2022, both turned out to be male, exchanged them to a breeder for four captive bred ones (now Geosesarma tiomanicum)
Asshole breeder told me they were two males two females, i trusted him but i turned out three males one female. on male became violent and killed the two other males. Then i did redo the tank, found the alpha male and the female, which looked still brown (juvenile) but somehow pregnant. I did redesing their tank like this https://www.youtube.com/@IndoorEcos<wbr>ystem/videos guy here does his tanks (watch him, good videos) and now the female is gone, i cant find her, i see the male occasionally but not her. i hope shes still alive and carrying babies.
Important: The death toll as i have shown is catastrophic cause most of them are wild caught. its like russian roulette cause they are treated like shit during import and arrive weak or already dieing. get captive bred ones if possible. i dont get why more people bred them, you dont have to do anything, they are basically land CPO crayfish. And no, never, NEVER mix differend colours because those are not morphs but species. theyll fucking massacre each other.

>>4802302
Ah yes, the elephant circumcising crab. A remarkable specimen.

>>4802302
What does it even need that for? Killing sharks?

>>4802375
I think something went wrong in the oven with this one…


CAT - how to provide the best life for a cat

I would like to gather knowledge from others on some of the big questions:

Wet/dry ratio

Brands, treats, how much variety is enough

Indoor/outdoor

Thoughts on water fountains Vs normal bowls

Neutering/ spaying

How long left alone is okay?

Best end of life care tips

Ways to memorialise to make the pain of losing easier

>>4795170

I shall start with my perspective.
I have had around 9 cats over the last 15 years for varying lengths of time and never paid for any of them. Mostly rescues and the occasional gift.

Currently I am in the U.K. and have a cream coloured 6yo British Shorthair Male with blue eyes, that I brought over from east Asia

>>4795173
Wet/dry ratio
> wet meal every morning and every evening and royal canin indoor dry kibble available at all times through a robotic feeder.

Brands, treats, how much variety is enough
> I try to provide as much variety as possible but his favourite treats are the creamy tube ones by far. So I make sure to get different flavours of that. Together with dreamies occasionally mixed into his kibble, freeze dried chicken breast cubes, whole chicken breast fillet, whole mackerel fillet, whole salmon filet

Indoor/outdoor
>I am strong believer in keeping your cat indoors unless you live in the middle of nowhere and have a safe environment. Statistics would appear to indicate a 3x longer life for indoor cats on average in the U.K.

Toys and play (New category I forgot about)
>I use a chase feather toy at the end of a rod, have a special backpack to take him for walks, he also like playing with little spherical toys but always loses them under furniture

Thoughts on water fountains Vs normal bowls
> have tried many brands of water fountains and they all seem to get dirty filters within a few days. So I have now got a large ceramic bowl for him and change the water inside it once a week.
I tried using bottled water but it would go bad too quickly, the chlorinated tap water seems better.

Neutering/ spaying
> I don’t believe this is medically a good idea having had cats that were both intact and neutered. My current cat is therefore intact

How long left alone is okay?
> I think it really depends on the cat, have had some that could do 4-5 days but my current one can only do a day or two max.

Best end of life care tips
> I don’t know how to deal with this as all of my cats have gone to other homes before this has been a topic for me to deal with. However I would like to educate myself so that when it happens I can deal with it to the best of my ability.

Ways to memorialise to make the pain of losing easier
> I am thinking of having an oil painting done

Let the cat roam the backyard and train it to wear a harness to go on walks. Cats need stimulation mentally and physically. Get a toy to feed the cat.

>>4795170
>wet dry ratio
>>4795295

>brands
Your local butcher

>treats
Dried meat (butcher)

>indoor outdoor
Outdoor
Its not as safe but its worth it for the happines of the cat unless you live in a city

>thoughts
Water fountains are useless unless you have it overflowing with the tap

>neutering/spraying
Dont spray thats poisen
Neuter unless you have an indoor female
Maybe you can get kittens
>how long left alone
Outdoor cats: as long as they have food
Indoor cats: 1 day
>best tips
Outdoor cats dont need a litterbox
Even when i still had one my cats didnt use it
Also if you get them with 8 weeks or younger you can bathe them every week and they will accept bathing as adults
Just use a cat shampoo
Oh and dont get breed cats
Theyre a scam
>ways to make the pain of losing easier
Still didnt figure that out... ):

>>4795176
>chlorinated tap water
Wtf

>>4795834
Based

>>4795170
>Ways to memorialise to make the pain of losing easier
Memorialisation is an individual topic. To make loss easier, regardless of what or who you lose, consider philosophy and literature on this topic. If grief is a serious and debilitating condition beyond what is common, also consider therapy. Also consider that the pain of grief will never entirely go away. It doesn't have to. It's a form of appreciation, and it is longing. And we all experience appreciation and longing in the form of desire from the day we are born. As such, grief is another expression of that, and as we deal with other desires, we can deal with grief.


>>4795410
What the hell is happening there?

>>4795510
Herd of baboons playing on their meat slide.

>>4795510
Polar bears devouring a whale carcass.

>>4795788
>not soigulls.jpg
Missed opportunity.

>>4795908
>bing…. Bing…. Bing…..
>Leviathan class entity spotted on radar

Ah yes, the ‘dump random animal images’ thread

>>4795979
>Honey badger dont C- ACK…
Another crocodilian W

A deer I shot with my bow last season. Showed up on trail cams two weeks later. He’s still alive and we see him every once in a while. I call him Ironsides.

>>4796101

t. that gay guy who made the original badger video

>>4795788
Should draw a feathered wing finger pointing at the lady

>>4795410
how the fuck did they take down an animal that big

>>4796192
Premier alpha animal behavior right here

>>4795439
Why is the goose watching them?

>>4796330
getting aislop vibes from this one

>>4796864
Nah, I saved that one years ago.

>>4796191
kill yourself internet tribalist

I've got a bunch of pics of wild dogs fighting or hunting stuff.

>>4796780
Never mind that, why is abo Slenderman watching them all the way back from that hilltop.

>>4796192
What do you get if you cross a rhonceros and an elephant?

Elephino.

>>4797356
>buy a cow from a us farm
>this funds the brazilian beef industry, not the growing turd world population
shit better starve myself so the human population can grow exponentially and the masses of underfed bugmen can sterilize the planet 2 decades later

meat is totally the problem breed more turdworld bugmen

>>4796065
>>4796068
and this is why bow hunting is retarded

>>4796355
>All the fat manatees
>Getting to feed them slices of yam
>This will never be me
It hurts so much.

>>4797356
Why does PETA make the best propaganda for the polar opposite viewpoints they possess?

>>4797364
trvke
>>4797776
>untamed
>unbothered
>in my element

>>4797727
solid flip, lands on her feet too
9/10

>>4797791
What the hell is this little monster?

>>4796347
>"now we both will surely die", said the frog, with an altogether more final tone than might be expected

>>4797847
Truly a gorillion pity for baby vervet

I wish this thread had more than dead animals, or animals fucking, or animals fucking corpses.

>>4795888
>>4796982
Samefag stop being unfunny

>>4796921
>comeback to thread
>jokingly told there is a slenderman in an image I replied to
>check to see what blob silhouette kinda looks like a slenderman
>HOLY SHIT
>How the fuck did I miss that?

>>4797800
>if only you knew how bad things really were

>>4796921
>abo slenderman
jej
>>4797727
how did they let this happen lmao

>>4797092
>>4796950
>>4796926
They're so funny to me, it's just packs of large dogs that wander the savannah, randomly killing anything they find for food, and generally being dogs.

Nature is so majestic.

>>4798165
They're not random, quite the opposite actually. Their statistical hunting success is due to their selectiveness regarding which targets they commit to.
They also let the young and the old eat first to keep them around for longer. Smart dogs overall.

Bros I fucking love animals. Still regretting not doing a job in the field, I'm sure I would've been a very happy guy.

>>4798220
I think the kind of animal work you’re imagining pretty much pays peanuts unfortunately

>>4795535
What sort of sound would he make if i pinched it with a mouse trap?

>>4796356
No animal that weighs more than 1 ton should be allowed to jump that high

>>4798382
They are for the most part but when theres an entire whale carcass there isn't really much point in killing eachother over it.

>>4795439
what is that figure on the hill

>>4798456
pshh...he's only doing that because he's free.

let's see him try that at SeaWorld® when I'm throwing D cell batteries at his fat ass from the Splash Zone™

me walking through my garden every morning.jpg

>>4796064
Imagine getting stuck like that and all you can do is wait for death.
Poor bastard.

>>4798159
Probably city slickers who petted a dog once and think they're "good with animals".
Same retards who jump into the lion enclosure at the zoo.

>>4796192
Alleged elphant hybrids:
https://www.macroevolution.net/elep<wbr>hant-hybrids.html

>>4797731
Happens with rifles too, dude.

>>4797776
That's a fieldpoint which means it was shot by a real sack of shit would should be beaten to death.

>>4798681
Looks like a pretty good shot. That deer was just tough and lucky.
Lung shot with a proper broadhead usually brings them down very quickly.
And as was said already, these freak survivals happen with rifles too.
You should concentrate on hating those assholes who try for a headshot and take off the lower jaw.

>>4798683
Instinctive reaction from animals

>>4796680
Do you think she wants more cubs?

>>4799071
These freaks' eyes literally burn during the day and regrow at night, by the way.

>>4797761
>You came the the wrong neighborhood motherfucker

>>4796347
I'm imagining the spider managed to bite and venomise it?

>>4797723
the face the chimp is making is such a tortured soul kinda face.

like he knows he shouldnt be doing it but he cant help it.

>>4798682
20 yard layup with a clean pass through. Dropped 50 yards away with froth on both sides. It was wet and lots of leaves so pretty sure he just rolled around enough to seal up the wounds. Deer are just retardedly tough animals.

>>4796065
you track wounded game and kill it, idiot
and yeah it does happen with rifles too

>>4795439
is that fucking slender man on the hill?

>>4795939
reminded me of that one hentai were two one futa is getting fucked in the ass by another futa, the latter comes so hard and so much that the bottom one starts puking cum (from that aforementioned warm sperm injection)

>>4796064
i remember watching something like this as a kid in a documentary and it seriosly made get depressed for like a week because animals dying made me really sad.

>>4797723
is he eating the other monkey?

>>4800877
Another reminder why it would suck to be an insect

>>4800659
man what the fuck i thought it was shit talking but its true.
> Its eyes are able to gather available light more efficiently than the eyes of cats and owls, and are able to do this despite the lack of a reflective layer (tapetum lucidum); instead, each night, a large area of light-sensitive membrane is manufactured within the eyes, and since arachnid eyes do not have irises, it is rapidly destroyed again at dawn.
>sunglasses? ha no, i'll just grow new eyes tomorrow evening

>>4801263
That’s fucking crazy. Spiders come equipped and ready

>>4796950
cant figure out what letters those are supposed to be in your watermarks
got a website?

>>4801305
Not him, but here:
https://jenscullmann.de

>>4797761
holy shit I feel like I shat bricks seeing this one image

>>4796192
Absolutely mogged
ElephantChad took his bitch and took his dignity

>>4800890
I wonder if it popped like a Gusher candy in the crocs mouth

>>4800326
Hey that's as cool irl as ingame

>>4800302
I did. See >>4799989 idiot
>Happens with rifles too
Yup. Frankly it’s why I prefer deer slugs. I can put multiple rounds on target and they thump real good.

>>4800890
This croc is about to have a bad time.

>>4801471
lol
>>4801510
maybe a really painful and spiky gusher

>>4800303
No, it's fucking the Pig. Slender man on the hill isn't involved in the fucking.

>>4800311
[spoiler]Futabu, I think episode 2[/spoiler]

>>4802715
What’s happening here
>>4802730
What the fuck dude

>>4803001
>deer stand user
more like A.T. Field

>>4799543
It doesn't look like that at all

>>4801409
I thought redditors shit gold?

>>4802202
Mandrills would be so cool if it wasn't for their disgusting ass

>>4803640
Agreed. That’s why we should only take pics of them from the waist up

>>4802987
>What’s happening here
just having a little FUN

>>4800318
Yes, chimps regularly hunt monkeys.

>>4803890
Iguana is unstressed, as is their wont.

>>4803890
lol all those lizards saying "NOPE" to each others.

>>4803494
Using birds on this thread is cheat mode. Birds are cool and they know it.

right across the street from my house, an african american teenager is currently trying to instigate a fight with a canada goose, while a second african american teenager is laughing and taking a video of it with his phone

>>4797364
Meat is objectively the problem, it's inefficient everywhere it is practiced.

>>4796864
zoomers think every photo is ai generated these days

>>4803890
Is that a latinx Tyler the creator

>>4804026
I got it, anon.
>>4804555
Go away Schwab.

>>4803892
Hell, they even hunt each other.
>>4803893
>file name
Actually sick…

>>4799533
his face is too cute for those badass scars

>>4797356
Shit like this just makes me angry. The image is legitimately vulgar and offensive. If they were wantin a sympathy response, why did they load it with so much aggression. Wait, it wouldn't be a reflection of thier own mentality would it?

>>4797756
What drives these creatures to this stupid concrete pillar?

>>4803890
Holding a bunch of different creatures together in a group hug is a bit that never gets old kek

>>4805318
because peta are faggots and they'll do anything, no matter how repulsive or shocking to get your attention because any attention is good for them

>>4805318
> If they were wantin a sympathy response, why did they load it with so much aggression
That’s been PETA’s MO for quite some time. Evidently, it’s not very effective

>>4798159
Morons see the funny bison and think shit's a petting zoo


A man in his twenties or thirties with 2 or more cats is a red flag

>>4794741
Dude if someone has a cat you need to get your cat a cat. Everyone needs a friend. Even you

>>4794741
Are you going to explain why or leave your bait undercooked

>>4794785
>undercooked
>implying newtards care about baiting properly
they just throw the entire rod in and it works, no reason to cook up something spicy

I don't care. I'm going to keep loving my cats and you can't do anything about it

Its only a red flag if he has a litterbox

>>4794741
Men who care about men caring about cats are pussies of the worst kind

>>4795244
I've met plenty of men who are incredibly insecure about if things they do or like are masculine and it makes a man really look like a pussy

>>4795244
Fucking based. Extend this to any hobby or interest. I have more respect for the funko pop consoomer soiboys who genuinely care about something than the insecure faggots only concerned with projecting feigned masculinity.

>>4795244
A bitch once said to the warriors, "You can't handle the pussy." And the warrior whispered "I am the pussy."

If you care about your pets and treat them with love while not giving a shit about insecure faggots who want to tailor their entire livelihood to a conjured up standard in their head that doesn't sound like a red flag to me.

>>4795381
It's honestly funny and speaks to the absurdity of our human condition. Some men find it masculine that men care and worry about what other men think is masculine. Masculinity in that realm is essentially submission to an ideal. And that is reflected in the fact that men who subscribe to this often follow other men who go on and on about what is manyl and what isn't, e.g. Andrew Tate. Again, submission, in the hope that someone else will submit to them.

I posit that no man (or, really, human) is free of the desire to fit in. That's not a problem. It's the denial of this impulse and the fetishization of this denial that's ill and if that's masculinity, it's anathema to living an honest life. Personally, I think masculinity is something else. It's not caring about what people think of you either. It's confronting what it's like to be a man in this world, and that will include failure and shame and fear and many other experiences and emotions that are often called unmanly. Defining masculinity in terms like "alpha" etc. is a sign of a dysfunctional society where we only deal with ourselves and others superficially.

>>4798304
If you cannot philsophize at a fast food restaurant, is philosophizing really worth doing?

>>4795657
This. Anyone having an actual passion or interest without caring about made-up, arbitrary concepts of 'masculinity' or 'femininity' is immediately a much more respectable human than someone who thinks owning an animal means you're gay or some dumbass shit.
Those guys need to get out more.

>>4798329
masculinity and femininity are not arbitrary but yes caring about them too much is silly

>>4798359
>men liking physical feats and competition more is totally random

>>4798370
Evolution isn't goal-oriented. It just is. Arbitrary does fit that definition well. It's arbitrary in the sense that male and female behaviors are contingent. Even if you invoke a divine creator, they'd still be arbitrary - arbitrated by that divine creator. And after all, we can readily see that male and female behaviors are tendencies, not hard-coded rules, so still, arbitrary is a better fit than...well, whatever opposite you want to pick.

>>4798370
When the line is so fuzzy as
>for the MOST part men TEND to LEAN more towards being physical than women
It's arbitrary.

Cat owners have been linked to schizophrenia

>>4798376
It isn’t a very fuzzy line at all, it simply must be described in a way that provokes the very least generalization because that’s how science works.

We could rewrite your exact sentence to say “85% of all men report pursuing and enjoying physical activity more than women”.

Not fuzzy, pretty clear, but the semantics science MUST follow in order to pursue hard sciences makes them eminently vulernable to manipulation in the soft sciences by people like you who either have an agenda or who like whining about pedantic semantics because it impressed their friends when they were 16 and they just dont quite understand that they and the people around them arent highschool sophmores anymore.

>>4798438
>science has to be accurate and allow for variation in human behaviour as well as take into account the fact that biological essentialism is a pseudoscience and most every generalisation one can make regarding human behaviours can be put down to socialization
Ftfy.

>>4798442
>it’s a pseudo science!
No is real and it would be politically incorrect to recognize neurological hermaphrodites as disordered and curable

>>4794741
A man at any age with any number of cats is a fucking red flag

>>4798438
Based and correct
>>4798442
>biological essentialism
Propaganda term to disregard any biological fact that doesn’t conveniently align with the narrative shameless ideologues in positions of power push. Might as well just call it sexism/racism/*wrongthink label* instead of beating around the bush with the extra wording

>>4794741
people who diss "cat people" or "dog people" are a red flag

they are the ones who want to play mind games like "the dog or me choose"

>>4798608
>>4798450
Biological essentialism isnt anything close to biological fact, that's why it's a pseudoscience dumbfucks. Nothing thats labelled as biological essentialism has ever been, or will ever be, proven 100% scientific fact.
>n-nuh but what about this study that says women are MORE LIKELY to do this
Tendencies arent what biological essentialism preaches. The retards who preach biological essentialism work in binaries. 'Women ARE this' 'Men ARE that'. That's why it's just nonsense. You would know that if you actually looked up the term instead of reflexively coming in and screaming about lefty propoganda, but what can I expect from rightards?

>>4794741
Why is having cats associated with gays? If anything they would want a big dog so it could fuck them and vice versa. Cat dicks are too small to do anything with.

>>4794741
A man in his twenties or thirties is a red flag.

>>4798722
>ACTUALLY I stamped my wrongthink label on it so it’s not true!
>Das racist so it’s not true!
>Das sexist so it’s not true!
>Das transphobic so it’s not true!
There’s just no arguing with you people - you’re so stuck smelling your own shit and drinking your own kool-aid that the idea of something that your fellow ideological goons established in positions of influence shamelessly push isn’t true is inconceivable to you, they/you know full well they can ruin the livelihoods of anyone who speaks out against them and it shows the most blatant disregard for any kind of intellectual honesty or scientific thought, maybe some of you actually believe the nonsense you parrot but most of you absolutely know that you’re full of shit and just doing and saying whatever to further your agenda, go indoctrinate a preschool class or something because nothing you say has any weight or effect here.

>>4798722
No it is fact but its very individualized

Biological essentialism does not stop at the neat little categories and norms you prefer. It goes all the way down. NOTHING about you was actually your choice. You have no free will. The purpose of your mind is explaining your automatic behaviors to yourself.

Its not that you are a man thus you naturally act like a man
Its that you are yourself and immutably locked in to the patterns that are burned into your body

You fear this because you know it means people can be rewritten… and come out being okay with it.

>>4799208
>Its that you are yourself and immutably locked in to the patterns that are burned into your body
>because you know it means people can be rewritten
So which is it? Can we change or can't we?

What is the socially acceptable animal for a man to own in the 2020s?

>>4799222
You cant change in any way you wouldnt. But someone else can interfere and change you. You simply have no free will.

>>4794741
people who want to live in a place with a bunch of cats around them are mentally ill

>>4799234
none apparently just a 4chan shit pass, tate university degree and caring too much about (((politics))).

>>4794741
 A man in his twenties or thirties using 4chan is a red flag, so you may as well splurge on cats.

Cats are pretty. Cats are nice. Take your chances. Roll the dice.

>past a certain age a man without family can be a bad thing

>>4799654
Basically if you're a man and not married by 30 it's over. It will never happen. Women will avoid you because there must be a reason why no other woman would be with you. Just abandon all hope.

>>4799568
So only teens and 40 year olds can use 4chan?
>>4799899
Or: they’re just promiscuous hedonists that wanna fuck themselves into an early grave. Also plenty of guys that have kids and everything with girlfriends

>>4794741
I inherited 2 cats despite not liking them, didn't want them to go to the shelter. Eventually grew fond of them. Got a gf, she adopted a third from a friend, it was pregnant. Now I have 8 cats, kek. Fucking retarded but I love them all even though caring for them is a pain.

>>4794741
 What is the breed of this cat? I'm in my 30s and could get a few of those.

>>4800437
How many litter boxes do you own?

>>4803214
all it takes is one bad visit to a cat pee soaked house for this to be good practice
>>4800437
why didnt you just rehome the kittens?

If you have one cat you may as well get another one so they can keep each other entertained, a lone cat is very needy

>>4799234
No pets, which begs the question why are they on /an/

>>4798411
Cats scare the demons away, after all

>>4799899
mfw my parents married in their mid 30s and had me 5+ years later

>>4799181
Pornbrained

The biological reality is dogs are awful at sex and it kills them eventually because they are very prone to genital and urinary tract infections. Did you think spay and neuter was to rob you incels of free pussy and dick? No its because intact dogs have a habit of dying 5 years early even if you aren’t a rapist (then they die 10-15 years early).

>>4803294
When I was a kid my friend's female min Pincher had to go to the vet because she got mounted by a way larger dog and got injured in the process lol

>>4803214
Old man here, wtf does swipe right mean?

>>4794824
people who use the term "red flag" are a speculation themselves

>>4803337
it means you're not doing the nasty, sir

>>4803337
Tinder. Swiping right on their profile means you ‘like’ them. Swiping left means you don’t

>>4803247
Pretty much. They get lonely and bored.
>>4803282
Based
>>4803290
That’s quite dangerous anon. Having children at 40 can end badly in a number of ways. Old sperm + dried up eggs are not a good combo. Hope you turned out alright


Imagine being able to eat the floor. How can carnivores ever compete?

>>4795423
I can make you eat the floor, just tell me where you live.

>>4795429
ohnonono herbicucks our response???

>>4795502
>entire herd perishes
>doesn't matter because there are plenty of other herds elsewhere because Haerbichads are sex havers who produce lots of children

>>4795423
>Herbicucks have to spend the entire day grazing to get enough nutrients to just move to another grazing spot
>Carnichads go on one hunt are are well fed for the rest of the day
>SnakeGODS have one meal and they don't have to eat for a whole month

>>4795423
Imagine being able to eat your neighbor.
How can herbivores even compete?

>>4795423
>have to spend 6 hours a day eating just to survive
>have to spend another 8 hours a day eating the food a second time because its so hard to digest
yeah sounds wonderful as opposed to
>let the Herbies do the hard part and then just eat the Herbies


Is it okay if I move species from one part of my state to another somewhat suitable environment behind my home? I live on calciferous grassland that’s also a riparian zone. It tends to catch fire so I want to try and revitalize the land so big aggressive grasses don’t ruin it again. Is it okay to transplant stuff like plants, fungi, and animals?

>>4794493
Yes there's no harm in doing so.

>>4794493
Do whatever you want. There are some native plant-autism faggots who will cry "noooooo that plant grows ten miles away but you can't hecking plant it here" but in reality it doesn't matter. What matters is that you're trying to improve the local ecosystem. Remember that perfect is the enemy of the good.

>>4794538
I’d much rather have natives than garbage invasives. I stopped cutting my lawn and neighbors give me grief because I planted some native grass.

>>4794493
Depends on the species in question but generally I’d wager it’s fine as long as you’re not introducing giga invasives or something

>>4794680
My entire lawn would be "weeds" if my boomer neighbors weren't there. We'll never have our dream lawns, a sad fact we must accept.

>>4794493
As long as you aren't planning on raiding the nearest nature reserve for plants or something I don't see anything that would speak against it.
Oh, and I don't know if you chose that picture at random but please don't try to transplant orchids. Terrestrial orchid species are completely dependent on symbiotic fungal species, and there's a high probability the plant will just start dying off at the new site.

Wtf is the plant in the pic? Looks cool as fuck.

There a bush walk near my house and there used to be orchids that grew on the sides of the path
The local council hires idiots who can't recognise orchids, probably don't know even know we have orchids here, and for 3 years they were spraying herbicides on the area
I haven't seen them grow there for the last 4 years
Meanwhile the fine for digging the orchids up is massive

>>4794493
Just don’t go ripping threatened or endangered shit out of healthier ecosystems. You may also want to consider just collecting and planting seeds. That’s how I got coral roots to grow in my yard. Pollinate plant. Come back later. Take some of the seeds. Don’t take all the seeds. That way you can restore a beautiful, healthy habitat without fucking over a different site. Lastly check construction sites and stuff like that. There is nothing wrong with digging up plants that would end up crushed by a dozer blade.


is there any animal more impression than a beaver in terms of the stuff they can make?

NO ants allowed

>>4795612
humans
termites
ants
birds
spiders

>>4795623
>Humans
Humans don't build shit, they only destroy and pollute.

>>4795623
is there no obscure builder animal out there... these are all things a 5 year old would know except for maybe termites

>>4795623
>birds
It is surprising how impressive structures those little fuckers can create.

>>4795612
>more impression
very good saar

>>4795612
Termite mounds were the tallest structures in sub-saharan Africa for centuries if not millennia.

>>4795631
male pufferfish build crop circles because it makes female pufferfish horny

>>4795612
Gator nests are bigger and better

>>4795737
Damn... they've got it so easy

>>4795737
What if aliens are the same way?

>>4795856
There are female aliens constantly watching earth for crop circles?

>>4795919
It's like their version of graffiti.

>>4795919
Maybe it's just one female alien assigned to monitor Earth as part of a biological study, and there's a bunch of male aliens trying to get noticed.

>>4795856
Aliens are actually fish men who live deep under the ocean so it would make a lot of sense if they're doing it out of evolutionary habit.


What are the odds that the Blue Whale is the largest naimal in Earth's entire history?

I'd personally put them pretty low.
I think out of hand we can dismiss the idea that there was ever a land animal that weighed over 200 tons, but the ocean holds many secrets.
Whether any of the incomplete ichthyosaurs we know from only sections of jawbones were as big as the blue whale is, they do prove that VERY large bony animals can fairly secret to our fossil hunters.
And that's only within the areas of Earth that we can search for fossils. All fossils hidden under the ocean bed or the ice caps of Antarctica (probably a majority of fossils on Earth) are complete secrets to modern man.
Not to mention animals who would not usually fossilized. If there existed a 500 ton Precambrian ocean worm, chances are we'd never get a fossil of it, at least not one big enough to prove the total size of the beast

>>4795778
theres not going to be any fossils on the bottom of the ocean, boneworms are one of the key factors in destroying the ability to have fossils down there

>>4795778
kneel
although there were probably mosasaurs and shit way bigger than either of these things here

>>4795778
0%, actually 0%
However, dolphin fuckers and whale lovers are so pervasive and incorrigibly retarded that they will bend the laws of space and time to keep the blue as the biggest animal. We could find a 5 meter long thigh bone from a titanosaur, a 50cm shark tooth, a 10 meter jawbone, doesn't matter, they will still argue the blue is biggest in one way shape or form
>Blue whales are heavier
>Blue whales have bigger tounges
>Blue whales have bigger hearts

It's no arguing with stupid. Like the latest ichtyotitan. We have a fossil of a 25m individual, even with evidence of it not being fully grown. Yet, when you google it you find articles that gloss over the still growing part, or that the jawbone from the aust colossus was 30-50% bigger and likewise showed signs of not being fully grown.

So now we have a 35-40m animal, yet the Dolphin vagina photo collectors when pressed with this information will spew something to the effect of
>Well, ichtyosaurs were more slender animals so it was lighter, Blue is still bigger.
Willfully ignoring the fact that we're comparing the biggest known blue, an exant species with substansive measurements made by whalers. Yet we're then to believe that any sauropod or ichtyosaur remain we find belonged to a 1:10 000 specimen?
Fucking blows my mind how retarded cetacian fanboys are, if the Aust Colossus actually were ~35 meters, then probability would strongly suggest that the larger members of the species were well in excess of 40 meters. Outweighing a blue by dozens if not hundreds of tons.

>>4796078
Yeah and most of that length is their paper thin neck and tail. Mass wise even sauropods can't compete.

>>4797644
It's the objective truth, just because >>4797573 is a whiney moron who can't accept that doesn't make it any less true. Mass is what we use to determine the biggest animals, because if that weren't the case, that would mean that siphonophores are actually the biggest animals ever. Dumbass.

>>4796078
Lovely fan fiction. Now try again with animals that actually existed KEK.

>>4797648
>>4797658
>Jere you can see the mammalchud in its natural habitat
>seething over lizards and
Not our fault there’s ichthyosaurs longer, heavier, and cooler than your scaleless fish with tits

>>4797669
Yeah, sure man. Have fun on the fringe lizard boy.

I look forward to when we finally discover Icthyosaur skeletons that undeniably match the blue whale, rather than being fragmentary enough to be denied

>>4796078
>69,000 kg
A little over a third of a blue whale's size. Whales have no knees, they are physically incapable of kneeling to inferior lifeforms.

>>4797738
That mass estimate has been reduced down, substantially.

>>4796078
>it's another "newly discovered world's largest sauropod" known only from one leg bone that actually turns out to belong to a known species

>>4797869
Another huh? could you tell us what the previous ones were?

>>4797860
Fangorn is estimated at 120-180 tons. If we accept it as a species and compare it to an average 25-26m 100-110 ton blue, what then?
>Uhhh Bluewhales are 33 meters 200 tons
29~ meters 180 tons actually. Beyond that. Comparing the largest ever recorded blue to an estimate of a random specimen with sizes often given for minimum or average estimates, dont you whale fellaters feel any shame? Comparing the biggest ever individual to what by overwhelming probability is an average specimen, and it's median or below size calcs at that.

Truly pathetic.

>>4797671
Cope dolphin fucker, Blues are half the size that degenerates like you like to cite, ~26m ~100 tons, yet you shamelessly compare the biggest blue ever, picked from a sample size of untold thousands and compare it with the low end estimates of a single individual from fossils.

(the following always gets them good)
Oh, and Megs hunted and ate big whales, and would have done the same with a blue. Cope and seethe salty bitch lol.

>>4797974
I searced fangorn and all the results are about an ent.
Assuming that there are specimens substantially larger than fossils is just making shit up, either we go off real remains or we don’t rank at all. Why should I take the maximum estimated weight from a range of 60 tons as the average of the species anyway? The largest dinosaurs were still smaller than big blues, and most sauropods aren’t even close to the fin whale. The well known ones like diplodocus barely even beat out mammoths and lose to paraceratherium.
We also have seen live blue whales longer than the largest properly measured specimens, with weight estimates for them going over 200 tons, but you don’t see whalebros sperging out about it.
Length is irrelevant to size unless you want to get BTFO by the lion’ mane and the bootlace worm.
>>4797975
Megaloshit is extinct, cope fishtard.

>>4797983
Fangorn is the name they gave Bruh. (bruhathkayosaurus)

As for the sauropods, how many fossils of argentinosaurus do we have? Of sauroposeidon? of any large titanosaur? The answer is scant few. The estimates we have would by probability's sake be of average individuals, and from those average individuals the estimates given are always conservative.
When you compare those with an average blue, the size discrepancy between a titanosaur and a bluewhale dissapears.
Take the Argentinosaurus, a more accepted but smalle species than the larger Bruhathkayosaurus and Maraapunisaurus.
The Argentinosaurus is pegged at 80 tons ~30 meters long, now compare that with an average female bluewhale which is ~25 meters ~100 tons. We don't even know if the sauropods exhibited Sexual Dimorphism, it is possible that we base our estimates of an average male or female member of the species that was the smaller of the two sexes.

As for whalefuckers sperging out about it, well they would the moment another species clearly appeared to be bigger. If the new ichtyotitan gains popular attention, with the normies accepting a 37m 200 ton animal that was still growing as a real animal, then whalefuckers will immediately begin sperging out about all the uncomfirmed sightings of biggers blues.

It does not matter, it becomes immediately apparent when you compare average blues to the conservative estimates for exctinct megafauna that it cannot hold the throne for biggest animal ever, the margins are not big enough.

Also, gottem, works every time.

>>4797999
>bruhathkayosaurus
Saars do not redeem the whale blody bastard bitch, no you cannot see my type fossil. What’s next, A. fragilimus was totally 60 metres guise?
>those average individuals
Citation needed
>the estimates given are always conservative
Citation needed, and you keep taking the high end as the average
>The Argentinosaurus is pegged at 80 tons
Less than half the biggest measured blue whale but trust me dude they totally left off a 0 we can’t let the whales win! You even took the high end estimate and still fall over 100t short.
Largest blue whale estimates are still much larger than largest shasta extimates. If you want to pretend the upper range estimates are the average of the species, then you have to deal with the upper range of blue whale estimates which are over 270 tons. I’d trust any whale estimates more than I trust ichthyosaurs or titanosaurs, at least we have more than a handful of bones to go on.

>>4798008
Yep, this is a dolphin fucker alright, completely disregards the core of my argument and drones on about how blue whales are all as big as the biggest one ever measured.

>SARS
Oh yeah, Bruh lived on the island that would later become India. You think I am especially attaced to Bruh? You're the whale fandrone my guy, don't you have dolphin genetalia media to share in your telegram group?

>citation needed
You don't need a study to understand that when we find a single individual, sheer probability dictates that it was almost certainly of average size and not a 1:10 000 big individual. Though, makes sense that you're a redditor as well, you should keep that shit hidden.

>You keep taking the high end as the average"
Reading comprehention again. The estimates are not for the species as a whole, it is for that specific individual based on uncertainties due to how complete or incomplete the fossil remains are.
When a estimate is given, say 40-60 tons, that just means that based on different scaling factors, such as comparing it to more complete but related species.

>Upper range of blue whales estimates which are over 270 tons
Holy, as I said in my original post, whalefuckers will never accept that whales are not the biggest, they will cope till their dying breath. Blues are an exant species, we have hunted untold thousands of them, yet they still think that we do not have a grasp of their size. Would you accept a shark fan's upper estimate for great whites of 14 meters because some fisherman said it was bigger than his boat as well? Actually irredeemably retarded.

(He won't read my comment before responding lol)

>>4798013
33m is the longest length in the International Whaling Commision database and the maximum weight estimate PUBLISHED for a blue whale that length is over 270t.
>The estimates are not for the species as a whole
You are taking the MAXIMUM size estimate of a specimen and declaring it the AVERAGE size for the species. Size ranges are not just based on using multiple different scaling methods, they occur with every scaling method due to uncertainty and the fragmentary nature of the remains. It’s worse with dinosaurs because they have to compare fragmentary remains to slightly less fragmentary remains based on slightly less fragmentary remains etc.
The minimum for the 33m whale is still over 250t, but I will keep taking the highest humber as long as you do.
Dinosauria as a whole can be disregarded as contenders for largest animal ever. They are all mogged by whales.

>>4798019
The 180 ton blue was actually weighed, the 270 ton estimate is just that, an estimate, or cope. This is an exant creature, if we have actual numbers we use those.
>You are taking the MAXIMUM size estimates
When? where? I have used no maximum estimates anywhere. Argentinosaurus being 80 tons is not the max estimate, it is the conservative/middle estimate. 75-88 tons.
For fangorn i used the entire range.
For Ichtyotitan i likewise used the middle estimate for the Aust colossus, for the Ichtyotitan itself I used the 25 meter estimate which is not the max estimate.

Do tell when when I used the max estimate copebro.

And I will continue to drive this home, the 33 meter blue was not weighed, it does not have a weight. It's an exant species, we do not know what it weighed. Beyond that, if you even bothered to read the wikipedia article you skimmed before replying to me, you would have read that the 33 meter blue's measurement was suspect, it was probably 30,5 meters. Hence why we should operate with the individual that was actually confirmed to be real, which was just shy of 30 meters long.

>>4798027
Oh so when you use dinosaur estimates it’s fine but when I use whale estimates it’s cope? Even the largest measured blue whale still had to be partly estimated due to blood loss when cutting it up to weigh. There is always uncertainty with these things.
> the 33 meter blue's measurement was suspect, it was probably 30,5 meters. Hence why we should operate with the individual that was actually confirmed to be real
Exactly, so the biggest argentinosaurus was at most 80t, not even close to a blue whale. If you want to pretend it got thrice that big, I’m bringing the 33m whale back.

>>4797573
Sounds like someone’s mad. Come back when your new biggest animal ever isn’t a single thigh bone or a piece of a jaw

>>4798037
>But when I use whale estimates it's cope
Yes, yes it is. Do you know why? Because unlike fossils, the blue whale is a living breathing animals we have studied in the flesh. that's why I used the word exant.
>At most 80t
No you knuckledragger, 80t is the mean estimate of an individual that by extreme probability represented an average member of the species. I also never said that Argentinosaurus was bigger than a blue, I tried to draw your attention to the fact that the discrepency between a blue and the arg is not as big as you think. Average Arg = 80t Average Blue 90-110t. You don't get to compare the biggest ever recorded blue to fossils of a singular member of a species and proclaim with certainty that the blue was bigger, that's retarded. But I expected retardation from whalelovers.

>>4798040
>Heh, if your fossil isn't 95% complete or above you don't get to speculate

No, Singular pieces of fossil can be identified by what sort of bone it was, the related species can be inferred and then compared to. Such as with the new Ichtyotitan, the jaw bone in question has been identified to belong to the Shastasauridae family. That means you can compare with relative accuracy with more complete specimens of that family.

And yes, I hate trannies, furfaggots and whale fellaters.

>>4798054
>You don't get to compare the biggest ever recorded blue to fossils of a singular member of a species and proclaim with certainty that the blue was bigger
Actually yes I do, because as you said
>we should operate with the individual that was actually confirmed to be real
You boxed yourself in with that one. If you want to wildly speculate on dinosaurs thrice that big then I will wildly speculate with the largest numbers suggested for the blue whale. Find me something bigger than 270t mr contrarian.

>>4798057
Do you not understand the difference between a fossil and a real animal? How is this so difficult for you? We have actual real, alive, breathing, shitting whales to draw actual measured and confirmed data from. From that dataset we know that Blue whales grow to be about 30m long and roughly 180-190 tons in weight. That is not the same as speculating based partial fossil evidence, you get a range of size estimates when you do that, and for the 30th time, you get the estimate of that singular individual, not the species as a whole. (You do realize that there existed multiple members of a fossil species right?)
How can you be this obtuse? Soon you will be claiming to be mearly pretending, I can sense it.

I can find you something bigger, the upper estimates for the aust colossus specimen of the ichthyotitan is 341 tonnes, that's without accounting for the fossil showing signs of still growing at the time of death.
Again, that's 37,5 meters long, 341 tonnes in weight. Even if you go by upper estimates, the blue is beat. I didn't even want to go there, I thought appealing to reason would be enough, that understanding that a fossil by sheer probability are never the max size of a species, that even established prehistoric giants could rival a blue in size. But Like I said in my first post, whalefuckers are so neutron star dense that reason is beyond them.

this little nigga's probably the type to cream his pants with every new "BIGGER THAN A BLUE WHALE!!!" Sci.News "article" that comes out once every other week with ridiculously overinflated estimates kekk. You're the exact reason they make these articles my man, spergs like you make sure that clicks are had, subscriptions are bought, and ads are viewed.

>>4798067
There is a range of size estimates for large whales, the heaviest weighed is not the longest confirmed nor the longest reported specimen both of which drag the numbers up by scaling, and as I already said the heaviest weighed whale still involves speculation due to blood loss cutting it up. The numbers are definitely better than any dinosaur, but they aren’t necessarily perfect. Average weights in antarctica are well over 100t, only the pygmy subspecies is close to titanosaurs in size. If you want to keep fantasising about them getting bigger then I’ll keep that 33m whale on hand.
Given how recent a discovery ichthyotitan is I expect to see it getting downsized in the coming years like every other meme extinct sea monster, see perucetus/leedsichthys/several pliosaurs/megalodon etc. This happens every year because big animals make the news and people like making the news.
There are no published size estimates for the aust specimen. The only published sizes for ichthyotitan are below the blue whale.

Unrelated but what flavour of thirdworlder are you? The ESL is painfully obvious.

>>4798077
>heh, you like prehistoric giants? what a goim
Whatever you say, at least I don't have 20gb of dolphin porn in my mega folder.

>>4798078
The loss of blood is not as big of a mystery as you make it out to be, you can calculate the amount of blood a x meter long blue should have and arrive at an answer that is going to be correct within the tonne.

As for the aust specimen, currently it is accepted that it belongs to the same or closly related species, seperated by 14 million years I think it was. Considering the ecological niche both animals would have filled and that they were found in what would have then been the same seas, that seems reasonable.
While only ichthyotitan has been described, that does not mean the aust colossus is treated as a non species, rather we are waiting to see if it to be recognized as its own species or as a member of ichthyotitan.
Either way, the jaw bone from the aust colossus is 30-50% bigger than an animal that is described as being 25 meters in length, if it ends up being 30% or 50% bigger, both would suggest an animal much larger than a blue whale.

>>4798097
The percentage of blood lost is what’s being estimated. This leads to a range of around 20 tons.
The aust specimen has not been properly described and published, when it is it’s probably getting shrunk as with the other examples. Try again when it’s passed peer review.

>>4798100
Then it is 180 tons +/- ton tonnes then.

As for the Aust, there is not a lot to shrink if the lilstock monster/ichthytitan stays the same, they are comparing the same bone, the jawbone to scale it, and ichthytitan is caled off the way more complete shastasaurus as it has been determined to be in the same family.
In which case, there won't be much shrinking possible.
What we have for the Aust estimate is this:
>Pretty complete and accurate size estimates of Shastasaurus. (21m ~80 tons)
>Remains of lilstock determined to be of the shastasauridae family.
>Previously found fossil from the Asut cliffs determined to be a jaw bone from an Ichthyosaur determined to be so similar to the lilstock monster as to possibly be the same species, but is 14 million years apart.
>Scaling up from Shastasaurus, the Lilstock monster is estiated at 26 meters in length. It is given the name Ichthyotitan.
(We are here)
>Aust Colossus is determined to be its own species related to Shatasaurus/Ichthyotitan or to be an Ichthyotitan. It is somewhere from 30-50% bigger than the Ichthyosaur found in lilstock.

There is no place for it to shrink, since it is all based off the Shastasaurus and we got pretty complete fossils of that one. So no, there won't be any big revisions here.

>>4798118
See you next year when it’s been shrunk.

>largest Cambrian animals were radiodont filter feeders

>largest Jurassic animals were osteichthyes filter feeders

>largest quarternary animals are cetacean filter feeders

>virtually all the marine animals in the running for largest animal ever were filter feeders

>only large macropredatory exceptions to this lived in the oligocene and only got so big because they hyperspecialized to feed on the aforementioned giant filter feeders, some of which still outsized them

>except for these squid eating ichthyosaurs man

>these ones were totally different

>>4798139
You do realize we know jack shit about the ecologies of oceans 3-2-100 million years ago right?

Good posts everyone. Solid laughs and entertainment all around

The problem with these debates (living vs extinct animal size) will always be that we have a vastly larger sample size for living and only know the extinct from a few (generally fragmentary) specimens. The possibility is always there that the newest Ichthyosaur/Plaeowhale/Sauropod (I’m more hesitant on sauropods - not sure they can support such enormous weights) species is in fact as large as of larger than Blue Whales, but we may never have enough specimens to actually know, so that answer to “largest animal in history” will probably remain Blue Whale for the foreseeable future

>>4798056
>No, Singular pieces of fossil can be identified by what sort of bone it was, the related species can be inferred and then compared to
Nobody said otherwise dipshit
>Such as with the new Ichtyotitan, the jaw bone in question has been identified to belong to the Shastasauridae family. That means you can compare with relative accuracy with more complete specimens of that family.
Except different shastasaurids have wildly different proportions. Look at shonisaurus vs besanosaurus. The same goes for bruhathkayosaurus. You care far too much about this

>>4798118
>There is no place for it to shrink, since it is all based off the Shastasaurus and we got pretty complete fossils of that one. So no, there won't be any big revisions here
There is plenty of room for it to shrink because it might not be so similar to Shastasaurus in the first place. Maybe it was proportioned more like Shonisaurus and was way bigger than we thought. Either way it is so fragmentary we won’t know until more material is found, so whatever autistic rage you hold against a fucking animal will have to wait

>>4798426
Yes, thats why you get a range of size estimates you moron.

>>4798441
>Uhhh I spam in dolphin sex threads, why do you hate me?

Fuck you, I can't give more of a shit about blue whales, it is you autists I despise.

>>4797973
Too young to remember Ultrasaurus, huh?

>>4798652
Which means there’s room for it to shrink Einstein
>>4798653
>I can't give more of a shit about blue whales
That means you care as much as possible retard, you mean less of a shit. The fact half the thread is you seething uncontrollably would suggest you care a whole lot

>>4797738
>bröther, may I have some fish? I am very scanty on fish bröther and my bulk will not otherwise survive the cooling seas

This was a great thread my fucking sides.<br>I can tell that there are two people in this thread who are yet to enjoy a human female vagina.

>>4798676
Dolphin pussy is better anyway, why would I want to try something inferior?

>>4798676
Is it because they're gay or because they're virgins?

>>4798688
They’re gay for each other but separated by thousands of miles

>>4798679
I hate whalefuckers so goddamn much it's unreal.

>>4798665
jej
>>4798676
i like that you specify human

>>4796078
theres no way something like that existed

there had to be some giga sea monster in the cretaceous period that mustve mogged the blue whale


>>4795427
they have a penchant for tendies

>>4795654
tardbros… i thought we were invincible???

>>4795654
Imagine being multicellular and dying to a single unicellular organism.

>>4795658
Fuckers eat human brains, what hope do tards have?

>>4795427
Tardigrades are extremely closely related to arthropods. They can be considered as sort of the ancestors of them, alongside velvet worms (which are equally as cute as tardis in my opinion). They've been around since the cambrian, and they're so successful that their body plan hasn't changed much for those 500 million years or so.

>>4795658
Tardigrades can only survive for a century at most, while other animals like nematodes and rotifers have been revived after dozens of millennia. Tardigrades are also susceptible to diseases, toxins, or anything that can break through their skin.

They're a major downgrade compared to their cousins

>>4796809
HOW DARE YOU SPEAK SUCH HEINOUS LIES! WARF TO SECURITY, TAKE LIEUTENANT ANON OFF THE BRIDGE AND TO THE BRIG

God damnit, I'm a dogtor, not a sci-fi nerd. What the hell are you people on about?

convince me they aren't von neumann probes

>>4795638
>>4797106
Why must they be such cutie patooties?

>>4796858
Nothing else explains why they can survive extreme conditions but not being eaten by a snail!

>>4796811
I want these plush were do I get them?

>>4795427
what would be the damage wrought if you had one of these in your bloodstream?

>>4795427
each of their muscles are single cells.
overall their body consists of only around 1000 cells.

>>4795654
WORM OF WORMS
CRUSH PARASITISM

>>4797885
Okay, I'm sorry if this looks like shilling, but this site is fucking amazing.


>>4795791
A hadrosaur, to be specific. You can tell from the duck bill.

>>4795805
Probably not, but he did have feathers.
Some dinosaurs had the developments needed to survive the KT events. Since those guys evolved into birds, we call them avian dinosaurs.

>>4795791
YOU CAN'T EVOLVE OUT OF A CLADE

I always imagined dinosaurs to be vicious roaring beasts but now that I think of it nothing prevents them from being cute and cuddly. My whole life was a lie.

>>4795791
>this is a dinosaur
how does that make you feel?

>>4795889
tyrannosaurus rex (species) actually didn’t have feathers

>>4795791
dinosaurs were the dominant life form on earth for 200 million years and came in all shapes and forms

>>4795805
No, but ankylosaurs may have chirped.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-laryn<wbr>x-fossil-dinosaur-capable-bird-like<wbr>.html

>>4795972
As far as I understand, we currently think they did.
Would be nice if the diagram you posted was not for ants.

>>4795972
They keep flopping back on forth on the trex feather thing
>>4796014
Wouldnt it be fucked up if it could repeat a human voice like some birds can? And the started screaming for helpnin the dense jungle at night while brustling through the bushes towards you?

>>4796177
>They keep flopping back on forth on the trex feather thing
nobody has ever published a paper saying t. rex had feathers.

not once.

at least 15 paleontologists have published papers saying it didn't have feathers.
This isn't flopping back and forth, this is the public making shit up and you believing it instead of reading what scientists have said.

>>4796750
>goose
Princess and Mr. Snuggles won't touch him. They saw what happened to Tinkerbell.