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Posted wrong pic

Im not saying it is but it could be early fin rot or a swimbladder infection

>>2328437
What should I do?

>>2328412
What bird? Post pics.

>>2328412
>find bird thought to be extinct
>don't take pictures
>don't get credit for rediscovery
>don't get name in birb books and wikipedia articles
>post on 4chan instead

ok. it was probably just a blue jay and your dumb or something

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>>2328413
I didn't have a camera on me since I go hiking around here all the time (so I don't expect anyone to believe me), but it looked exactly like pic related.

I go hiking all the time so when I saw the bird I was curious since I'd never seen anything like it, and there's really only a handful of birds you see.

Came home and went through a list of all NZ birds and I'm 99.99% sure it was this, pic related (called the piopio)

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>>2328391
very nice
good

>>2328390
cute skunk OP

Yeah, I know what you mean, man. I'm the same way.

>>2328221
>>2328223
Do you think they feel pain and other emotions or are there sone other reasons why you are afraid of hurting them?

Why do you SJW's force your opinions

>>2328335
>ask opinions
>why do you force your opinions SJW boogeyman?
/pol/

No. Insects are for eating you dumb vegan spider.

it looks like its growing to me

>>2328178
It's growing, the spines turn golden as it ages. Maybe put it somewhere with more sunlight though, it's growing kinda weirdly.

>>2328178
It's definitely not dead, but it's not doing too hot. A couple of thoughts:

Is it in the right medium? It's important to have soil that's something like 50/50 sand/soil mix or something similar that drains really well. This is important because you should be watering it every two weeks during winter and every week for the rest of the year. I give mine 1/4 cup and it's 2" tall, you'll need to adjust a little bit since yours looks taller. Underwatering would certainly cause it to be droopy at the top - able to be bent, if that's what you mean.

Spines not forming properly could be a variety of things, but it probably is either insufficient light or insufficient fertilizer. Since it looks like you got it recently it probably is the light. So all things considered, working just off of this picture, my recommendation would be to re-pot it into a cactus soil mix and move it to an area with more light.

I'm not an expert, these are just my thoughts from taking care of mine for the past year.

>>2328055
turkeys are literally retarded and just follow the one in front of them while being fixated on the cat

>>2328055
I knew they were demonic.

>>2328057
they want you to underestimate them fool

I've been thinking about volunteering at the shelter to give the dogs basic obedience skills. Maybe it will help some dogs find homes.

Though how do people get into professional dog training? It looks to be a very competitive field. The last puppy school I went to, the trainer would badmouth other local trainers every chance she got just because they don't allow choke chains or slip leads in their classes.

>>2328050
Most of my tricks started with me puppeting his body and him starting doing the action on his own in anticipation. Try literally pulling up his jowls over and over and giving treat.

A nudibranch, no idea about the species though

Dirona albolineata maybe

>>2327967
If this is real then I would call the police ASAP. That kind of behavior is obviously not normal and is very sick.

The husband many have a mental disorder. He could have antisocial personality disorder/schizo disorser (can be extremely dangerous), or even a form of schizophrenia.

>>2327967
Do you know who killed the dog?

https://forgottenwinds.com/2016/07/21/tossing-of-a-dead-dog/

Crotalus Lepidus Klauberi btw

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Classic blue lobster

>>2327853
not until they grow hands

enlightenment is magic, so sure, why not.

they can't even ask a question so, of course not

>>2327509
wow what a super funny and original play pretend thread haha

guess I'll act like dinosaurs aren't extinct and kept as pets now lol

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Shitty raptor owners give raptors a bad name.

>>2327509
>Raptor
>Male
I shiggy diggy.

>>2327306
I don't know of any animals that live in stable polyandry, but chimpanzees are unfaithful slots that breed with every male in the troop.

>>2327306
polyandry is not a great strategy unless a female had an insanely short gestation period and even then polygyny would make more sense because one male can knock up a bunch of females whereas a female can only get knocked up by as many males as there are eggs she releases in a single cycle, and even that would result in intrasexual competition among the males (like knotting in dogs to prevent other dude dogs from getting their genes in the litter)

so in short...polyandry is a rare sight in the animal kingdom and the result is fierce competition, and hierarchies imply some level of cohesion or cooperation...sounds impossible from where i'm standing for what you are describing to exist

>>2327947
>>2327928
Bees do not count?

i've always been fascinated by rabbits
they're not my favorite animal (dogs are) but i've kept them for years and i always tell people they're the closest thing you can get to a tiny house horse, to varying degrees of skepticism
i took my rabbit to a new vet recently and he confirmed my assertion
rabbits are, in fact, tiny house horses

>>2327298
You may find this post interesting: http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/05/most-freaky-of-all-mammals-rabbits.html

How did he confirm that they are horse-like?

>>2327302
that's a cool read. i love any literature about ubiquitous, human enhanced animals

obviously rabbits and horses are quite different physiologically- but their diet, husbandry and behavior are amazingly similar.

in the context of my vet visit, for a weird buggy eye problem, he told me to stop feeding her anything other than cheap cow hay (not even timothy hay) and the reason was basically because way back when some farmers in the midwest? usa figured they had the best hay in the world so they would package it into pellet form to sell all over the continent. horses started getting sick and dying from eating it and it was because it was over processed to the point it would equivalent to humans eating baby food all the time. he figured the same sort of thing is happening to rabbits (eating pellets and processed hay) and so far he's been right, her health problems have all but gone away now that she's eating just super cheap local hay. he could have ordered all sorts of expensive tests and procedures but he just extrapolated from his horse knowledge, which really made me giddy

also, pigeons are one of the smartest animals on the planet