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Crows are cool. If you give them treats, they give you treats.

>>2318314
Crows are so smart. I love them.

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Opossums
>nature's garbage can
>eats rattlesnakes
>kills a shitload of ticks
>makes a dumbass face when playing dead
>the way they walk is kinda hilarious
>falls out of trees if they're too fat
I love these chubby derps

>>2318271
Dumbass it's just licking the dressing .

down with the vegan agenda!

I had a cat whose favorite food had to be baby spinach.

She would go nuts when she heard the case open. Pet grass, green tips of romaine, kale, etc. She just loved anything greener than iceburg letuice, which she wouldn't eat.

She was a good kitty.

That's a nice looking doggo.

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>>2315808
a Huskow!

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>>2315808
this is the famous left-wing intellectual husky+pomeranian mix

My main theory about bears is that bears and wolves were once the same animal, a dog.

The dog branched off into 3 different types of dog, eventually: The Wolf, The Bear, and The Dog.

Bears became bigger and stronger because they had to become thicker to protect from bees and because they needed to be able to sleep for a long time. A wolf became very fast and fiersome because it needed to hunt a lot, because they live in bigger families than a bear type of dog once did. The smart type of dog became man's best friend, using what on 4chan we would classify as "jewish" behavior in order to get ahead, smart but cowardly.

This is the core of my theory about bears.

A great quandry I have fallen upon in recent days, is the existence of the Coyote.

I haven't been able to discern which branching path the coyote must have taken in order to become what it is, but I do have one prevailing theory at this juncture: The coyote is much like a mule, which is when a horse mates with a donkey. I believe a coyote could be when a bear mates with a wolf, a wolf mates with a dog, or a dog mates with a bear.

i'm happy you've taken such an interest in animals recently, op. adore your threads.

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>>2316457
How do I get a gf before the end of valentine's day?

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>>2316459
bee urself.

>>2316457
I work at an Every Day Adoption Center at Petsmart. Which is pretty much just like OP's job, but with shelter animals and I'm infinitely more interesting. AMA rebbit.

>>2312851
I love beetles but sadly I've never owned any

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The female of the pair (dorcus alcides). She's real cute but I'm scared to lose her.

>>2312854
They can be hard to get a hold of in the States (and expensive). I'm living in Japan right now, and you can pop down to any local store and get jelly/supplies. It's crazy

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Weirdest tail I have ever seen on a lizard. There are also knob tailed geckos but even those are quite so... prehistoric armor looking as this.

Your mom.

Terror birds
Thylacine
Woolly mammoth
Woolly rhino
Trilobite
Carnotaurus
Megalodon (maybe not actually)
that fucking 10-foot-long millipede thing

Most of them, really. I was a fossil autist as a child so longing for the living thing is ingrained in me.

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To be honest I really just want to know what they taste like. Same goes for dinosaurs in general.

I'll bite
do not get a monkey. Monkeys don't want to live in houses with people. They should stay in the wild where they belong. end of story.

>>2319414
I'm getting am monkey, I'm gonna teach it to hunt with me. We're gonna go on hunting trips.

>>2319406
Step 1: don't get a monkey, dickhead.
The reason you can only find people saying not to is because you shouldn't. It's a bad idea. There's no reason to breed these animals so shitheads like you can buy them and force them to live in a dog crate for their entire lives.

More stuff i forgot to add.
Hes about 4-5.5 inches.
Fatter head
Has a slight jit of orange around the pectoral fins

>>2319126
>Fatter head
fat head minnow.
no, seriously.

>>2319130

this, or maybe bluntnose minnow. Check the first ray of the dorsal fin, if it's shorter than the rest it's a blunt nose.

Also scale crowding on the head (they get smaller and there's more of them) that also means its a bluntnose or fathead.

If it was hotter than 85 in the gestation, then female, colder then male.

>>2319001
show entire plastron (belly)

>>2319019
i'm no expert, but unless baby turtles are not dimorphic but grow different over time...it's a girl. the flat plastron suggests this. male turtles have concave plastrons so they don't fall off the girl when they fuck

>>2318436
I don't know much about chinchillas, but I hope you're not keeping it in that aquarium. Especially not for the last two years. I mean, actually, you really shouldn't be keeping any small animals in a tank. The only ones that can really be kept in tanks are dwarf hamsters and mice.
I would say that it'd probably be best to get her a friend. They're social animals and like most small animals, it's not really possible for them to thrive alone. I don't know much about chinchilla intros, but i'd imagine it would be best to take it very slow. Do a lot of research into introductions and compatible ages/sexes before you try anything.

>>2318736
The tank is actually very big, she had enough room in it to make leaps, but in actuality, its basically her bed. I leave the top open so she can go in and out as she pleases. When i said she has plenty of room, i meant she has the entire house. I dont limit her, when she gets tired or sleepy, she has little domes scattered around the house. But she knows food and water is always in the tank. Its never closed.

>>2318942
I really would advise doing more research if you think a tank is an acceptable habitat for a chinchilla in any context. "big enough to jump" isn't really an acceptable standard for housing an animal.

>>2317623
ribbit, ribbit

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>>2317623
look at how "pure" that dog is. no tainted blood, just purity

>>2317623
Their backs.

>>2317588
Are you sure it bonded to you? It sounds like it doesn't like you.

>>2317629
If I'm sitting on the couch it sits behind my head and "grooms" my hair, and swishes its tail across my neck. I get home from work before my partner, and as soon as this thing hears the garage door the screeching starts, when I let them out of their cage it comes straight to my shoulder. I can get it to step on and put it down, but as soon as I try to walk away it flies straight to either my shoulder or head. My partner says this is bonding/bonded behaviour, and I'd take her word for it. The internet seems to reinforce this as well.

You know how dogs always beeline it to non dog people? I think this is the same thing. It's just the screaming I can't get behind. It basically ignores my partner if i'm around as well. She has it trained but if i'm in the room all bets are off. If I get big and scary it'll run to my partner, but 5 minutes later it's creeping it's way back. It's almost like red light/green light. If I look at her it stops, if I look away it starts creeping again. My partner knows this all pisses me right the fuck off, but I don't want to make her get rid of a bird. On the flipside I don't want to have to train an animal which I believe should not be captive anyway, and that I have no interest in (I have never been a big fan of captive animals, domesticated or otherwise).

>>2317635
Found your problem--you're mentally ill

Why don't you pick the fucking oranges and eat them yourself before they fall off the tree? There are entire countries in Africa that could survive on those oranges and you're worried about having too many of them laying around on the ground rotting? Check your first world privilege and eat your fucking oranges, shitlord.

>>2316735
I do. There are just way too many oranges. and they go bad so fast after hitting the ground that I'm not always there to grab them the second they fall. Also birds and shit are always pecking holes in them making them rot faster. I already have infinite orange juice and still a million oranges on the floor.

pretty sure they'll just get drunk lol

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