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RFC2324 posted:Because we are wired to see other peoples babies as a potential threat to our own. Other peoples babies consume resources that would benefit our own, and therefor are not to be protected like our own. We aren't wired to actively kill them simple because you don't kill off the herd. This actually isn't true, or at least it's pretty reductive. Primates are naturally inclined to take an interest in and care for infants; we foster, adopt, and assist in caring for other people's kids all the time. We also compete over resources for our young, squabble over hierarchy, and defend paternity. There are a lot of factors that go into how a given adult is going to interact with a given non-adult. I think babies often run up against a sort of hidden-valley effect where a lot of people's standard for human is an adult, and babies seem a little alien an unrelatable. Then you spend time around one and see the person in them and suddenly you're noticing cute babies everywhere.
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Bobby Digital posted:CRABS AREN’T BUGS! Bugs of the sea. Also I use this thread as an example of how content warnings should actually work because of how you handle spider posts. It's not about coddling or censorship, but compromise so all participants can enjoy the thread.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Given how long it takes for animals with disabilities to be adopted I'm not sure I believe this. Depends on the disability. There are people who specifically go deformed or maimed dogs and cats if there's otherwise no extra care involved. Like shelter workers will tell you if you want a cat to get adopted, cut one of its legs off.
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Otteration posted:Ugh., loving ugh. Just to be clear, my comment was shelter workers being a little callous about how quickly people will go for certain kinds of disabled pets because they stand out more. No one was actually hurting or recommending hurting animals. Personally, I think the mentality behind going to a shelter and getting the three-legged cat is very different from specifically breeding debilitating deformities in the hopes that someone will pay a lot of money for a raptor cat.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:This is the traditional way* to call cows in Scandinavia: It does kind of look like a travel ad. Young blonde woman in a white dress with a lovely voice calling the cows in across a misty field. Just needs a 'Visit Norway' to pop up at the end.
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Big trash bird sounds like a sea gull. Makes sense.
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Hungry Computer posted:Best thing is to try and get it to grab onto a small branch or something similar with it's hind feet. I tried with a pencil and it wasn't interested, so I slid an envelope under it instead. Never touch them with your hands. Rabies is rare in bats but they tend to have ticks, plus they don't really like being touched. It's something like 1/1000? They're a reservoir species for it, though, so even a healthy-looking one can still transmit the pathogen. Also raccoons. Touch with your eyes, or one of those padded suits they use to train attack dogs.
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Reminds me of that old indifferent cats in amateur pornography tumblr.
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Every dude the first time they get under a bra.
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Basebf555 posted:Some people have a thing about petting outside/stray animals because they think they're gonna catch a disease or something. As if it's a big deal to just wash your hands before you eat or whatever. The concern is rabies because you can't always tell an animal is infected. Common wisdom was that you didn't pet strange animals, and there is an issue with people coming from places where the disease has been all but eradicated traveling to somewhere where it isn't and getting infected because they got bit by a stray cat or dog.
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Fearless_Decoy posted:1. A young quokka learns that he can give himself chin scritches. I think that's a cow; both genders have horns and it looks small for a bull? Anyway, here's a muppet trying to pass itself off as a real animal. 
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Mu Zeta posted:I see the same raccoon roaming around my backyard every night but when I try to go outside it growls at me. They are so cute at a distance but don't try to touch them. They're a rabies reservoir so really don't try and touch wild raccoons.
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 This is Minion the terrible photography subject. I'm dog sitting her for the weekend, and thought it would be funny if I sent her home pink.
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Hazelnut is a good cat name.
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I've also found that it's impossible to get non-blurry kitten pictures. The trick to all baby pictures is to take a video and then pull stills from that.
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Dick Trauma posted:This whole Twitter thread... solid read, also this. https://twitter.com/tjalamont/status/1185354576498544640
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I feel like this is a dumb question, but is that a deer or a moose? It feels simultaneously too big for one and too small for the other. baby moose? Moose are deer! But I think that's an elk (North American version) which are the largest deer after moose.
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House centipedes freak me the gently caress out, which is unfortunate because they're alpha predators of the house bug world and eat stink bugs, scorpions, bed bugs, and the flying hissing cockroaches.
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Phlegmish posted:Do you have loving scorpions in your house lol They're called Southern Devils and are pretty tiny.  (Added googly-eyes so it'd be cute thread appropriate.) They're not that aggressive, but the stings hurt a lot.
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That's a railbird. Corvid babies are little gremliny things with big beaks. 
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What exxtream to the maxxx soft drink is this advertising me in the back of a comic book?
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Huzzah! posted:https://twitter.com/matsuevogelpark/status/1207853322666835968 Naughty Penguin of the Month: would not wear her festive holiday cape for the parade.
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Serious The Cat Who Went to Heaven vibes here.
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American opossums are cuter than Australia opossums. There, I said it.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:They can be kinda intimidating though, I saw one right outside my patio door last summer just kinda derpin' around, he looked a bit disheveled but he was pretty goddamn big. I tossed out an old banana as appeasement, he wolfed it down in like 2 bites then went on his way, so I think I'm in the clear until at least spring time. They're rabies resistant and eat ticks, so a good buddy to keep around with the occasional banana offering. EoinCannon posted:Brushtails probably, ringtails maybe not Only if by pygmy you mean babies 
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MikeJF posted:Australian ones are possums, not opossums. Totally different species, no relation. The possum most americans are probably familiar with is the Sugar Glider. I didn't know that thing about the names. We shorten opossum to possum all the time, so I just assumed it was the same case in Australia. TofuDiva posted:They eat ticks?!!??? They eat a lot of ticks. 
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Rexie is not a fan of the Floridian cold snap this week. She needs her heated bed, poofy vest, and blankie to stay warm (we did turn on the heat eventually but it doesn't do poo poo unless we crank it way up, it's kind of an afterthought in apartments in this state). Space heaters are the way to go if you've got room to store them.  While looking for that picture I found the one good use for bitcoin mining 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina/status/1228037678165352449 No mention of astronauts and dogs without Leland Melvin. 
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LifeSunDeath posted:"Two types of dogs" The best part of this is the poodle mix in the middle trying to decide if it wants to remain dry and dignified or join the rest of it's water dog brethren in all the splashy fun.
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VanSandman posted:I like the Golden who had to look away or risk relapsing into wetness. I figured that was a senior citizen enjoying the sun while waiting for all the young pups to tire themselves out so she can nap in one of those pools in peace.
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Admiral Funk posted:
Why is Ursa Major not a contender?
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Bored posted:I’m surprised we didn’t see a poop pop out when hamster was surprised. My roommate's giant main coon mix was lovely about self-cleaning and would occasionally need a bath. There was one time when after wrestling him into the tub and getting him scrubbed and rinsed, he managed to wiggle free and head straight for the dirty litterbox to roll. He did not appreciate his second bath.
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Samurai Sanders posted:How big does a wolf have to be before it is considered dire? Dire wolves are believe to be about the same size as modern gray wolves, so that big.
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Phlegmish posted:I just figured out dire wolves actually existed and aren't just a D&D fantasy creature If you go visit the La Brea tar pits they have an entire wall of dire wolf skulls. It's pretty  That's a Tibetan Mastiff, a heard dog bred in/around the Himalayas to fight off wolves, bears, and mother-loving tigers. I used to have a neighbor who had one (in Georgia, US of all places. Just why?) and it famously hosed up a car that was in danger of hitting some kids playing in the street.
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Nanny dog to end all nanny dogs. That hand squeezing/half pet thing is something babies do to encourage milk letdown. Means that tyke is passed out hard.
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Mr. Grumpybones posted:I can’t understand why in cat/bird videos like this why the cat isn’t eating the bird. Or is it that the eating starts at 9m46s? Some cats are just gently caress-all lazy bastards. I have watched a giant cockroach run across the floor, underneath the bulk of our giant, flopped out but otherwise totally awake cat, and out the other side to continue it's merry journey. The catch watched it too until it disappeared under his bulk at which point he lost interest. gently caress-all lazy bastard.
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Milk Stout.
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