Nature Is Cool

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fucking nice let's pop this shit

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Apes can't swim.

Due to the difference between body density, bone structure and the like, most apes cannot swim. In fact, they sink like rocks, by and large. Some monkeys can, but the vast majority of the great apes can't even float, let alone swim. it's why most zoo enclosures have moats around outdoor ape areas.

Also, gorillas have a special display they do when it rains. Almost all species do it, and there's not much variation. It's somewhere between excitement and anger, and we have no idea why, exactly, they do it, other then just being annoyed that it's raining.

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gotta go, see you tomorrow guys

>>1788111
so, what the fuck?

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Owls have been observed to murder.

Owls are amazing predators, capable of silent flight, and with night vision that rivals any of their daytime raptor cousins, they are also very intelligent. They make poor pets, but have on numerous occasions exhibited behavior (depending on breed) that ranks just below or equal to parrots and ravens.

They have also been observed to kill other animals, often other birds, and not actively feed on them. For some reason, owls and crows seem to have beef with one another, and have been seen to go out of their way to kill eachother apparently just for the hell of it. Some feel it's a territoriality behavior, or "seeding" their home range to attract scavengers to feed off of, but there's still no 100% agreed on reason why owls will sometimes just kill things simply to kill them.

>>1788035
>Welcome to the wild world of fuckery.
>The world is an amazing, nauseating, hypnotic and repulsive place, and it's time we explored a bit. Post nature at its best, its worst, its strangest or its funniest, just post it up.
>Know something neat? Let's hear it. Have questions? let's hear them. Think of this as a free natural science class led by foul-mouthed assholes who likely need a shave.
>Now, snails. Did you know that they lick things apart? they have a sort of tooth-coated tongue and use that to rasp their food. Snails can also get drunk, but often end up dead from alcohol poising before the high wears off.
>Also, snails are hermaphrodites, and when two meet to mate, they "fight" one another with their penis. Whoever loses gets to be the female.
holy shit why cant autistic kids just make a fucking nature thread without posting a blog

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>>1788196

>>1788035
I really like the idea of a regular "nature" thread.

However nature is a pretty broad term so I think for these threads, the content should concern and be limited only to zoology, biology (marine,micro, ect) and the botanical branches of natural sciences. Physics and chemistry, astrology and the like are all "natural sciences" too, but really, i think these could be localized in their own threads since the content is drastically different. Also i think anthropology shouldn't be included either since it has too many "human/cultural" elements related to it. Perhaps it could limited only to content related specifically to apes or any other, strictly non-human related species.

There's a lot of potential here but we should be clear on what it is we want and don't want.

>>1788042
Any explanation for this one? Or some term for us to google?

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Pretty cool

>>1788212

jet stream?
'member the turtles from Finding Nemo? That's real - the jet stream, not the talking animals.

>>1788097
That "little" bear is fierce as all hell opened wide. Totally kicked the shit (literally) out of the bigger bear.

>>1788226
thats an alligator not a crocodile. crocodiles have pointy snouts

>>1788088
THEY ACTUALLY DO THAT?

>>1788107
I thought Iguanas were reptiles. Live birth?

>>1788376
Chameleon

>>1788376

there are loads of reptiles that have live births, mainly snakes.

>>1788226
Honestly, is that 'gag' really worth it?

>>1788139
It's a flat worm basically shitting out it's innards. It's a tactic some animals use to scare off predators.

Imagine a rapist wanting to rape you, so in defense you bend over and shit your organs out your asshole.

>>1788447
What if the predator's favorite part is the innards?
What if the rapist has a prolapse fetish?

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>>1788207

>>>/b/

If you can't enjoy useless, fascinating information and well written posts, you don't belong here

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>>1788209
Agreed, but i don't think it should be limited just to critters, animal and vegetable. Strange weather or geology shouldn't be excluded...or should it? I don't think a split is needed, but maybe that should be it. Might need to make a OP copypasta for it someday.

>>1788407
they kinda do...they still have eggs, they just don't lay them. Technically they are still egg births, but internal? nature is odd.

Hippos are fucking terrifying.

They look cute, all chubby and a little clumsy, like a pudgy, corgi-like horse with a funny face, right? Yeah, and they can sprint like a horse too, are INSANELY territorial, and their teeth cut like razor blades. They kill loads of people every year, and are omnivores, not herbivores, no matter what people say.

Steve Irwin, the guy who used to kiss deadly snakes and handle shit that could make your skin melt? when asked when he was most truly afraid, he stated the only time was when he was crossing a river in a raft that was filled with hippos.

>>1788663
Don't forget how hippos don't actually know how to swim and instead RUN through the water faster than many critters could swim through it.

>>1788115
why is so cute when different animal species are together but we freak out when a white blonde is surrounded by niggers

>>1788161
So owls are like cats

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>>1788681
Depends on the animal. It's the difference between a baby sitting with a big dog, and a baby sitting with a snapping turtle.

Sharks have sensitive noses. No shit, but they're also apparently erogenous zones.

Shark mating is a tricky subject. It's never been well-recorded, and most shark's savage territoriality makes getting together, even to bone, a risky proposition. However, when they are very well fed, like, say, on a floating whale corpse, their behavior changes.

They become much less aggressive, and start to nuzzle one another. this can continue for quite a while, and appears to actually help trigger heat for a shark female. Judging by how they will nuzzle for a while, then swim off to the lonely places of the ocean seems to imply things, not to mention the nuzzling makes both shark sexes' genitals flush.

So there you go, if you have a furry or monstergirl fetish, shark girl sex comes with the smell of rotting whale, snapping teeth, and lots of nose nuzzling. Likely not a negative to some folks...

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>>1788670
They very technically do swim, but rely on their natural buoyancy more then anything else. It says something that, in the land of shit that can kill you by passing too close to you, hippos are viewed as a real death sentience.

>>1788692
Honestly, yes, but without any changes from domestication. They don't play with their food, however. All business, it seems.

Wild hogs are a plague.

Pigs are neat animals, but they have one nasty habit: most go feral in one generation. Take your average pink farm piggy. Toss him out in the woods, and provided he doesn't die, his kids will have bristles and tusks. One or two more generations, and they will look like something out of deepest africa.

They are strong, territorial, eat EVERYTHING, and breed like rabbits. Wild hogs are a rising problem in many places, especially in the southern USA. They also have a bad habit of driving out or eating other wild game.

Ongoing efforts to cut down their spread are meeting with some success. Unlike many invasive species, they're tasty, so that at least works against them. Oh, and their cannibals as well.

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>>1788219

>>1788107
The instincts are strong with this one

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>>1788736
Better version

>>1788714
Where can I go do this? Out looks rediculously fun! I know this breaks at least 3 Commiefornia gun laws (my home state)
Also
>what round is he using?
I find it hard to believe he's dropping them like that with a .223

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>>1788757
Honest to god, i think it might be .223? my /k/-fu is weak, maybe ask them? As for where, you need to go east. Texas and Florida are best bets. Find someone with a lot of land and a hog problem. Especially if they raise some kind of crop, and make sure it's private property, makes semi and full auto use much more simple.

>>1788764
>afternoon classes

also, fair warning, attached webm is loud

Jumping spiders are smart as hell

If you made everything scale, basically ramping up a jumping spider to human scale, they would be as smart as a primate. They make plans, set up ambushes, and even seem to display what could be emotions. They're even able to plan ahead, plotting out prey's position and rate of movement, observing the forward terrain, and setting up the best ambush.

Some breeds can even pass the mirror test, eventually realizing that it's themselves, not another spider. We started to really evolve into what we are when we figured out how to get food, water, shelter, and not get eaten. Would be interesting to see what would happen to these little guys if they started along the same path.

>>1788681
Sexual competition/possessiveness.

>>1788663
Watch your sentence structure. The way you worded it made it sound like the raft was full of hippos instead of the river.

>>1788792
...i saw that after i posted. I have no excuse, i was tired..

>>1788681
because there is no mixed offspring to ruin society

>>1788433
There are thousands upon thousands of prank videos on Youtube. Idiots do anything to be liked.

>>1788757
It is probably 5.56 or .300 Blackout (Very similar to 5.56, but designed around suppressor use)
Important distinction between 5.56 and .223, while they have the same round dimensions, 5.56 is much higher pressure than .223

5.56 does make a good round for hogs, as the sort of tradeoff for having less mass is that its strength lies in its speed.

>>1788784
>potential tiny sentient spider civilizations
I'm both curious and mortified

>>1788196
>hurr muh cringe I'm too fucking cool for school

stfu faggot

>>1788212
it's some kind of current, like an underwater whirlwind, some anon posted the name a long time ago but I can't remember

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We still don't fully understand how flocking works.

For a very long time, it was assumed flocks of birds had leaders of some kind, some sort of alpha bird that directed actions, if only by being the first to make them. However, ongoing observation and research has shown that the birds respond too quickly and too unified for any kind of communication to be leading their efforts, even if it was very subtle and fast.

Herd behavior is one thing, but schools of fish and flocks of birds often respond like a single unified being. Theories vary, but there are several who think some kind of collective group-mind kicks in when they get above a set concentration. If you've ever been at a huge party or concert when the cops bust in, you've likely felt a version of it. Research is ongoing, especially in the computer networking field. Understanding how, and why, these flocks work could help create more robust and adaptive computer networks.

Say whatever else you like about humanity, we're the shit when it comes to applied understanding.

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>>1788862
social spiders are already a thing, and while not a civilization, they do work together well.

"Social spider" is sort of a blanket term for a wide section of spiders that live together, sometimes in truly/horrifyingly massive colonies. They are generally tiny, and make massed webs to collect food. They work together to collect more dangerous and robust food, and rear children as a community, as much as arachnids raise their young, anyway.

They resemble ants in many ways, but with a stronger "independent" streak. They range all over, from Australia to the USA, and can be a bit of a nuisance, as they eat EVERYTHING they can catch.

On the topic of civilization, most critters that have the potential to rise up are generally limited by either size or lifespan. So if someone finds a way to breed jumping spiders the size of, say, dogs or cats, that live for 30-40 years, we may all be fucked.

>>1788784
got a question for you all

what makes something intelligent? how is intelligence born? I mean you could kind of brush the question in case of primates, dolphins and the like saying they are "higher animal forms" or something like that, but a fucking spider? and why is this one so distinct, out of the thousands of species there are?

is it related to chemicals? to the intrinsic ability of the species to pass genes? are the parents teaching their offspring?

I'm well aware of the ambiguous nature of the question, just throw your thoughts at it

>>1788881
>they are already here

RUN, FOOLS

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>>1788889
Would you believe I got in to this same discussion about two weeks ago while drafting a short story?

The big thing is, where is the "cut off" for intelligence? Tool use, planning, fire, critical thinking, art, at what point does smart tip over to sentience? In the end, it comes down to us. We make the goalposts, so "smart like us" is what we generally look for.

For a rough pocket checklist, you want to look at communication, higher thinking, and self-awareness. If something can communicate with others of its species beyond simple "i wanna smash" or "fuck off" displays, that's a checkbox. If it is (or appears to be) capable of thinking beyond basic survival, to create or improve its situation for reasons beyond maintenance of existence, that's a check. Finally, if it is self-aware, able to look in a mirror and know that what it sees is a reflection, to be able to understand itself as a singular existence that is part of, but also separate from the environment is another check.

However, it's all rather nebulous, and very human-centric. But we're the ones doing the checks, so that'll work for now. More check boxes = more intelligent.

Now here's a crow sledding.

>>1788094
Why is the start of this edited like an ISIS execution video.

>>1788757
Those are shotgun rounds--watch the earth splash around each hog.

>>1788877
>we're the shit when it comes to applied understanding
Aside from intelligence, magic fingers, an upright gait and an immense capacity for heat regulation, there's one other thing we've got going for us:

Ranged combat, notably throwing.
Mantis shrimp kill at a few centimeters, some spitting fish can hit targets three meters away (vertically).
Mankind can throw rocks and pointy sticks, and either will hurt, incapacitate or outright kill prey of various sizes at distances well past ten meters.
Coupled with the ability to track and chase wounded prey, this has probably made primitive man a formidable predator.

>>1788663
Yeah, i think geology could be included too. I guess the overarching theme would be limited to "non-technological planet earth science" is my point.

>>1788881
This is what Armageddon looks like.

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Insect venom can do things other then make you want to jump off a bridge.

Bee venom is very good for arthritis. Some breeds of wasp venom have been seen to help break up blood clots. Many forms of insect-based venom are used in modern medicines, and even the more nasty types of spider venom, such as the necrotizing bite of the Brown Recluse, are being explored as options against growths and tumors that are surgically delicate.

Also, the rule of thumb: if it bites you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. Whip that little bit out at the next animal discussion, show what a smartass you are.

Despite all the cool things stinging insects can do, most (me included) don't get along overly well with them. Things to remember to avoid a confrontation: most flying stingers sleep at night, and don't like cool temperatures. If you find a nest, go out on a cool night and take it down, not the middle of the day, much less running.

You're welcome to use commercial sprays, but one old-fashioned and very effective bug killer is a 2-3 to 1 ratio mix of water and kerosene in a spray bottle. it'll work, but for chrissakes store it in a safe place and don't smoke while you do it!

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>>1789170
Being able to fuck shit up from a safe distance probably had a huge part to play...and maybe explains some of our overall behavior, eh?

>>1789271
Nature is cool, and when most folks think "nature", they think the outdoors. Less tech demo, more nature documentary stock footage. Sounds fantastic to me, I remember vividly watching old nature shows, betting with my dad about which would win, the moose with calf or the wolf pack.
...what? we were poor...

>>1789277
They can cloak massive, massive areas. Google "social spider webs", or even "social spider webs forest" and go to images. Or don't, if you'd like not to shiver right now.

Let's talk snake for just a second.

Anacondas are some of the biggest snakes in the world, and belong to the "grow until something kills them, food permitting" class of animal. Massive and VERY strong, it has been shown, once in a televised event that, while anacondas don't generally hunt human, they will happily eat them if they've recently died, or are just crippled. Not to say they don't hunt people, just less common.

Also, fun fact: during the Spanish conquest of the new world, there was a report of a man losing two porters to a snake nearly 120 feet long. Sounds like bullshit...but the same snake was reported two more times from other, unrelated sources over a period of a few weeks.

To give you an idea of how scary that would be, the shark from Jaws is ~25 feet long.

>>1789314
Thanks for the infodump, anon

>>1788714
god that must be amazingly fun

>>1789336
>Google "social spider webs", or even "social spider webs forest" and go to images. Or don't, if you'd like not to shiver right now

Urgh just looking at the images makes me feel physically ill.

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Whats the point of posting all of this nature stuff when its going to be destroyed by industrialism and pollution?

This is a good thread and I appreciate it anon

>>1788114
a bit related
The other day I was in a shed and saw a black wasp fly into a spider's web, grab said spider, and fly off with it to eat it.

>>1788042
Is this was nemo was in

>>1788467
What kind of fucker croos the river while fishes cross the road?
I hope the driver didn't killed them

>>1789405
What's the point of living if you're going to die?

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>>1789341
>>1789406
very welcome, if you don't learn anything, at least there is neat shit to see.

>>1789358
Remember, whatever else America may have fucked, we still have the freedom to buy a bunch of land, fill it with feral hogs, then gun them down in the dead of night with a four wheeler while listening to alice cooper. If that's not beautiful to you then there's something wrong.

>>1789410
Goddamn nature, man. It was likely going to lay eggs in the spider's body so its larva could eat the thing inside out. See if you can follow it next time you see it, bet you'll see some cool shit.

>>1789405
See, now here we are, i was waiting for you. The way i see it, we should be kind to natural stuff. Why? Is it because we have an obligation? that we're evil sinners and must redeem ourselves to our earthmother? No, not at all. We should be nice because you don't shit where you live. It's pleasant to walk in the woods, exciting to see a bear kill a deer. because of that, we should maintain our parks and such. Ecological egotism, the idea that nature should be preserved so that I have something neat to look at...if being a hippy-dip doesn't grab you, it works.

I'm short on facts this time, so here's a kitten fighting a feral hamster. Draw from it what you will.

>>1789445
>See if you can follow it next time you see it, bet you'll see some cool shit.
I'm sure it would be neat, but it flew off somewhere on the farm place. There's no tracking it.
I guess I've seen those black wasps with what looks like really long stingers laying eggs deep in treebark with them.

>>1788097
Why did he took a shit in the middle of the fight?

>>1788881
We're just lucky that the current oxygen levels cannot sustain giant arthropods anymore, if the planet goes through another green bloom it might, but we'd likely die during it.

Cephalopods are also amazingly intelligent, and likely the only reason they aren't the dominant form of life on the planet is that they are primarily solitary and don't possess language.

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>>1788714
this is real life blood and bacon

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>>1789461
I think this is your pony:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonoidea
some breed of that. Thankfully, the long bit isn't a stinger, just an egg layer. They're nearly harmless to humans...to other bugs they're the embodiment of body horror, laying their eggs inside others to slowly consume them alive.

Gotta love nature!

I don't have much to say for this one. Pigeons are kinda dumb. I mean, sure, they're amazing works of art from an evolutionary stand point, but...not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

My dad worked in a grain silo just like this, back when he was a kid. had to go inside and scrape grain off into the grinder, which involved walking on the quicksand surface of it with a rope around him. Lost his boot into the center grinder once, said it came out in bits no bigger then your thumb. Fun stuff.

>>1788764
>Lisa the Painful music
yiss

>>1789475
lost control due to pain. there's another video of fighting bears where they do the same

>>1788889
that spider just thinks it's a another spider in the mirror, intelligent species can understand it's themselves and explore their bodies in the mirror

>>1789485
that must the most retarded looking animal ever

>>1788881
There is no way I'm clicking on that

>>1789314
An even easier/less toxic wasp killer is water with a small amount of dish soap mixed in. The soap film prevents them from breathing. Splash a nest with a few cups of that and they'll all drop straight down and die.

>>1789475
Ditching training weights because its time to get serious.

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>>1788784
While I won't deny any of that I would add that because they are, well, spider size they have the processing power of a 56k modem. Taking several seconds to plot trajectories or a simple jump.

>>1788323
>>1788088
Fun fact:

Otters actually have a "Lucky Rock". It's one they grow attached to and play with by juggling, carrying it with them wherever they go.

If an otter loses its Lucky rock, it goes into depression.

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>>1789445
>exciting to see nature
Doesn't stop the mass-murdering of near-extinct animals. I mean whatever makes you feel better. I expect possibly just household animals to be the only ones to be around when all the other wild life has been killed off for profit or on life support in nature conserves, just to be moved to zoo's.

At least they won't have to suffer for long and we can admire their once beauty through tablets and computer screens.

>>1788161
>owls are very intelligent
no they aren't

>>1789657
>>>1788161
>>owls are very intelligent
>no they aren't
>aren't
You're not very intelligent

>>1789425
nigger, Nemo was never in that shit, you're thinking of Marlin and Dory, stop being retarded.

>>1789688
literally what

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>>1788035

>>1789715
>Gotta get home!
>Trailer Park Boys is on!

>>1789696
"Aren't" isn't a word you Mongoloid

>>1789725
It's a contraction the words of Are and Not and absolutely is a word you fucking retard.

Ain't is the one that's not a word.

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>>1789495

theresa grate before the grinder, pigeons let themselves be sucked up because they'll just land on the grate walk out and fly back to the top to start eating again.

>>1789725
god damn fucking foreigners
learn the damn language before you speak to me asshole
unless you are a native speaker in which case
just kill yourself you pedantic disgrace

>>1789725
Are Not
Are
Not
Aren't

Are you actually retarded or just pretending?

>>1788454
Well then consider yourself well, and truly, fucked.

>>1789495
This kind of shit is spooky as fuck. They're literally dancing around death. If it catches even an inch of your body you're fucked, no second tries. No way to pull out, can't cut your leg off fast enough and then it just slowly pulls you underneath as it grinds your body, while you're looking up and watching the daylight fade behind a mountain of grain/whatever.

>>1788881
How the fuck are they just hanging like that? The webbing would have to span a dozen meters or so between things, is it actually that strong?

>>1789765
Spider silk is incredibly strong. Tensile strength comparable to steel, about a 5th I think

>>1788219
Is this from the new metroid?

>>1789485
>part hog
>part goat
>part bear
>part dog
>part troll

why is this animal so fucking strange

>>1788899
I was watching a documentary on this topic sort of. They said that the one thing that humans have that, let's say chimps don't, is that humans actively teach others. Most other animals learn by copying, but humans actively try to pass on knowledge. This makes human collective intelligence advance more quickly.

They were showing how some chimps figure out how to use basic tools, but only a small percentage of chimps will try to copy the technology. And the chimps don't have any real interest in teaching each other.

>>1789621
shut up are you serious with that one? post proof pls

>>1789822
Turns out two nukes was enough.

>>1789619
why are they so fucking cute man, they look like some kind of uncivilized amazonian hyperactive tribe members

>>1789170
That reminds me of this article that was discussing the differences between 2d and 3d fighting games, and they said that one of the most important differences was the projectile. The projectile is a thing that can hit the other player but can't be hit back for trade damage, so it allows for "zoning". In a similar way, projectiles may give us the ability to affect animals or limit their advantages over us.

>>1789629
do the world a favor and kill yourself as soon as possible

>>1789630
fuck they're huge

>>1789835
kek

>>1789427
The road is mans domain and should be respected.

>>1788183
I watched this for way too long thinking "damn, there goes another one!"

>>1789837
There are some really cute spiders. I like spiders, they do a great job keeping pests out of your house.

But fuck me, I don't want any of them crawling around on me...

>>1788881
this webm reeks of australia

>>1789715
VERY fast mose runnign at INCREDIBLE hihg speed

>>1788681
would it be cute to see a spider crawling in your cats ear? you're making a false equivalence.

>>1789732
>ain and it

Who's the retard?

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Don't know whether to put this in the nature thread or tech thread.

Bird flapping its wings at the same framerate as the camera, so it looks like it's floating.

>>1788881
something tells me this is popsci

>>1789410
It was probably an iridescent mud dauber. They tend to prey on spiders. Normal mud daubers do too.
>>1788114
I needed to see this after smashing open a mud dauber nest and finding a bunch of pretty garden spiders inside. No doubt paralyzed and filled with larva ready to eat them from the inside out.

>>1789834
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_otter?armpouch=1#Foraging
>Under each foreleg, the sea otter has a loose pouch of skin that extends across the chest. In this pouch (preferentially the left one), the animal stores collected food to bring to the surface. This pouch also holds a rock, unique to the otter, that is used to break open shellfish and clams

Can't find the proof for the second part about the depression but I'm still looking.

>>1789485
hehe what is this beast?

>>1790062
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_serow

>>1790072
that lady in the video is right, very kawaii

>>1788764
It slep time bunner

>>1789621
That sounds like a fucking pokedex entry

>>1788681
Hmmm I didn't see the orangutan fuck the dog and give life to a horrible Cronenberg Orangudog Baby, did you?

>>1788219
Why does this look like a company presenting the Octopus™

>>1790173
Yea, I seen that all the time before, its not as interesting as you might think.

>>1790178
It looks more like an octopus company's ad to sell coconut shells.

>>1788681
Because men ancient tribes who weren't disgusted by their women seeking the men of other tribes failed to pass their genes along, for obvious reasons

>>1788467
why did the fish cross the road?
to get to the other side.

>>1788161
That's unfortunate, I've always wanted an owl as a pet and to have other pets like a cat or bunny but scared that it'll kill it. Have any tips on having an owl pet?

>>1788114
These spiders freak me out

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>>1788161
>just killing shit for the hell of it
They truly are the cats of the sky

>>1789170
Even before man developed hunting tools we were formidable predators. Pack hunters that can simply outlast any prey it chases.

A gazelle getting chased by a cheetah doesn't need to run for a very long time in order to reach safety, as long as it doesn't get caught to begin with. A gazelle getting chased by a human is fucked either way, as it will have to run until it passes out from exhaustion. One of humanity's greatest strengths in this regard is pure stamina.

We may not be the fastest or the strongest, but humans are one of the best endurance runners on the planet, and early man simply outran their prey to death. Must be an excruciating way to die.

>>1788094
leopard gonna look fabulous in his new boots

>>1788161
maybe they just want to eliminate predators that would compete against them for food in their territory?

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>>1789603
Yeah, but that's not any fun at all.

>>1789619
Hey, we used to play Quake on those, and it was alright. However, yes, we're not about to be overrun by spider overlords any time soon, thank god.

>>1789737
I did not know that at all. Older style must have been MUCH less safe, as my dad described a big corkscrew like thing in the center. Still, pigeons are dumb.

>>1789832
Puts a different spin on that whole "education is the future" bullshit you hear on tv, eh? Most depend on the "preprogrammed" stuff that comes with being alive. Us? we have to learn...which makes us weak off the starting block, but can let us do amazing shit.

>>1789879
I am the same. I love spiders and insects and such, yet if one lands on me i tend to smack first and check later. It's the legs.

>>1790433
Ahhhh!
AHHHHHHHHHH!

>>1789765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRkwuAcUd4
Because spiders man
>25 meter long web

>>1788881
>anon, when would you ever need a ZSU-23

>>1788042
>>1788212
>>1788271
>>1788871
Vortex caused by warm and cold water meeting.

>>1789495
this doesn't look very vegan desu

>>1789822
What is it actually called though?

>>1788094
>leopard swims onto land to catch an alligator then drags it back to the water
something is off here

>>1789721
Holy shit the movie is real

>>1790711
yes, it was the jews again

>>>/pol/

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>>1788103
that narration is annoying

>>1790782
jesus christ shut the fuck up faggot, shitting on Sir David Attenborough like that

>>1790782
Heracy.

>>1788467
>>1789427
>Fish wait for the car to pass before crossing the street

smarter than some humans

>>1790782
Stupid fat yank cunt, not enough explosions for you? Dickhead

>>1789725
>British education

>>1788698
The actual narration to this video is one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard

Can someone link it

>>1789759
Nah there's a shoot on the other side where they come out unharmed, killing the birds would mean your grain is ruined

>>1790433
Are the babies eating their mom or what am I looking at here?

>>1790828
The mother is guarding her babies

>>1788663
Oh god i could smell it from here

>>1790433
looks comfy :3

>>1789933
That's awesome. There's also one with a helicopter doing that as well. Funny stuff.

>>1790802
The car wheels are stopping the water from reaching them so they cannot propel themselves.

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The Pinching Cave Spider, or African Cave Spider, or as it is more commonly known, Jesus Christ What The Fuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblypygi

Remember, boys and girls, there is a goddamn reason we are afraid of the dark. It is because the more we stray from our home environment, the weirder shit gets. I love scifi and space opera as much as the next person, but i think it's high time for some kind of movie, game, or book series about exploring the madness of our own planet.

Hell, you wouldn't even have to change much, just make what's already around a little bigger and/or more aggressive. imagine pic related at about 3-4 feet tall.

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This is a stoat, member of the weasel family, distant relation to the ferret.

They are/were often hunted both for sport and the pure white pelts they grow in winter. They can be a bit of an invasive species, and amusingly make alright-ish pets if you raise them from birth.

Also, they are carnivores with a taste for rabbit, and can drop specimens 2-3 times their size.

>>1788714
fwuffy fun..

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>>1790918
>or as it is more commonly known, Jesus Christ What The Fuck

>>1788107
how does it know what to do right after it's born?

>>1790918
>Pinching Cave Spider, or African Cave Spider

You just made those names up, no one calls them that. It's either whip spiders, tailless whip scorpions or amblypygids.

>there is a goddamn reason we are afraid of the dark.
Yes, the reason is that our main sensory organ, the eyes, don't work well in the dark and we can't perceive potential threats easily anymore. It's the fear of the unknown that makes darkness scary.

That's also why you think that harmless little whip spider is scary. If you knew anything about them you'd know they are completely harmless and also very shy and easily scared creatures.

The one in the webm is heavily abused btw. It's missing one of its antenniform legs (the long antenna like thing) with which it feels the environment. That is its primary sensory organ, so it's half blind and scared to death. Also they don't react like that unless you continually threaten them and prevent them from running away, because that is what they always try to do first. The dude in the webm is being a colossal dick to a harmless animal.

>imagine pic related at about 3-4 feet tall
Body length? Still harmless. They stuff that is small compared to their body size and are scared of anything bigger. One with 3ft body would eat stuff that's 1, maybe 2ft long max.

>>1790818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8HfGqfQlU

>>1790981
>t. Pinching Cave Spider fantasizing about eating your cat

>>1790982
we need to kill the chinks so no more sharks gets killed needlessly

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>>1790981
A fair amount of folks call them cave spiders, or even pinching spiders. Is it right? hell no, but is everything we call a bug an actual, true bug?

Yes, they are mostly, if not entirely harmless. They can also be unsettling as hell to the human sensibility, as things often are as they deviate from the human body shape. Also, while i don't like animals being abused and such, this one at least wasn't abused by the fellow making the video. Was found damaged, and you have to admit, it makes for interesting video. People who wouldn't normally give a damn will hopefully get interested...not the worst of outcomes.

As for body size and shape, it was more for dramatic effect. In the same way that many of the dinosaurs in old comics or movies wouldn't have actually eaten people or crushed cities, and big whip spider wouldn't actually be all that dangerous. However, it looks neat, and looks like it could be dangerous, and again, if it makes people interested, all the better.

Do appreciate the info all the same, sorry if it bugged ya.

Here's an apex urban predator. I'll spare commentary, apparently.

>>1788447
actually that's wrong, the worm is vomiting its stomach so it can eat

>>1790802
smarter than deers

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cozy lizard

>>1790982
It's so sexual

>>1789832
well actually there are plenty of animals who teach their young, like the killer whale for example teaches its young how to push seals into the water by flipping the block of ice they're resting on

>>1790743
retard

>>1788714

>that webm

Good riddance, boars are a plague on this planet. Good for food but nothing else.

>>1790982
>you will never have a shark waifu

>>1791034
they're usually only good when they've been castrated, non-castrated boars taste like shit

>>1790782

That is David Attenborough, one of the most badass humans alive.

>>1791023
you're the retard, nothing's off on that webm, jaguar (not leopard) swims onto piece of sand (not land) to catch a caiman (not an alligator) then drags it back to the water because he's a great swimmer and caimans skull/spine is probably crushed by then and he needs ACTUAL land so he can enjoy its prey without being disturbed

>>1791020
so cute yet so deadly and bloodthirsty

>>1791020
I was deer hunting one year, one of those things jumped from branch to branch stalking me from 10 feet away for about half an hour or better.

>>1790990
>Was found damaged
Not sure about damaged but it was definitely not found. That one was imported for the pet trade and the dude in the video is Adrian Kozakiewicz from insecthaus.tv which snatched up a bunch of them from bugzuk just before I could buy some. And this species hasn't been bred yet or imported since so I'm mad jelly.

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>>1791068
well goddamn, i had bad information then. Are they ok "pets"? I can't imagine it's easy to take care of them. Fun fact, apparently this is the thing mad-eye mooney tortures then kills in the harry potter movie. Assumed at the time it was some made-up fantasy critter.

Bears are neat. Black bears are a bit like a skittish dog in temperament, provided you're not trespassing near their den, or near cubs. They also stink like a load of rotten shit in a bin of warm garbage. Brown bears are much more dangerous, and much bigger as a general rule.

No one will ever believe this, but a cousin of mine was close friends with the girlfriend of the grizzlyman, the dude who tried to live among the bears and ended up getting eaten on recording. Apparently there's video, but it doesn't show much. He was also kinda nuts, even at the best of times, and nobody was all that surprised when it happened, horrible as it was.

>>1791024
It's shit like this that makes me afraid of the ocean.

>>1791046
SIR David Attenborough you fucking heathen

>>1791103
The species in the webm (Euphrynichus amanica) is a more advanced species, but something like Damon diadema or Damon medius is pretty easy to care for. They're also much more available and cheap.

They are however strictly nocturnal so to see their very fascinating and complex behaviors (some species are actually social too!) and how they hunt you'll have to install red LEDs above their enclosure (they can't see red light) or deal with the fact that you'll never see your pet.

If you're actually interested in owning one or several of these ask these guys: >>>/an/2432427

Also the one in Harry Potter is actually (more or less) an oversized, badly animated Damon species. I think they also say it has deadly venom, lel

>>1790782
you should be banned from the internet.

>>1791010
I feel like it would be better to drag carcus closer to the water, cut it and either let babies swim or make it do you don't have to run so far

>>1791103
What the hell are you doing outside filming that?
Get inside at the minimum, or grab a gun and shoot that bear or next thing you know that'll be the neighborhood kid getting ate.

>>1788784
I'm three days later, but I would like to add to your post that one of those "emotions" you mention is believed to be curiosity.
I read that biologists thought curiosity was a positive trait that helped them to find preys and actually it's more often beneficial than not. In other words, for such an active hunter that possesses fast travel (for their size), curiosity gives them an edge for the race of the natural selection.
I'm trying to find the article right now, I read it like two years ago I think.

>>1790782
spotted the american

>>1790978
It doesn't. It will wait there until they go pick it up for school, where, with other baby iguanas, it will grow up to be a functional member of reptile society.

>>1791234
its prolly heavy

>>1791269
>iguana

>>1788109
that is adorable

>>1790991
not this worm trust me its a defense mechanism
if you dont see the worm isnt currently in a aggressive stance its in a defensive stance

>>1791343
they brought it up on QI and they literally said that it vomited up it's stomach to eat and then they showed the exact same video as the one that was posted here

>>1790743
got a good chuckled out of that

>>1788083
It is like transforming from cute to predator mode.

>>1788784
this webm makes me happy

>>1791002
I don't know why, but that thing pisses me off so much.

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>>1791016
Following a very hard wired instinct, the Pinecone travels back to the tree it was born in every year in order to mate

>>1791010
>Sea section.webm

>>1790433
so that's a real life zerg hatchery, eh?

>>1790999
That's a weird looking doggo.

>>1788447
best fucking comment of all time

>>1791002
shes prego, as to why she didn't run

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>>1791436

>>1791278
shut up

>>1790982
what the fuck

>>1790918
So this is where they got the idea for Slenderman

>>1791024
So is the shark just curious or does it actually know it can puncture the vessel, to sink it and eat the humans aboard?

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>>1790173
>>Orangudog baby
holy shit my sides mate.

>>1791103
I've always found it ironic how Americans poke fun at Australia for having venomous snakes and spiders. So fucking what lol! Unless you actually live in the rural outback or a really bushy/forested area you will rarely see or encounter them. Go to America and you either get fucking alligators in your pools or bears walking down your street or nice big twister to come wreck your entire town. And don't even get me started on that Brown recluse shit. Seriously guys, it's a lot safer here.

>>1788681
Because animals do it for convenience and fun in rare circumstances where worlds collide, blondes do it because they hate daddy for being too nice or too mean.

>>1791013
SPOOKED

>>1791510
sharks have a ton of sensors on their snout

>>1790989 >>1791036


see
>>1791024
>>Muh sharks aren't dangerous to hoomans

Go climb aboard then, faggots.

>>1791241
/second

Suburb shits are stupid.

Poor deer, fuck bears.

>>1791538
>come to this godforsaken island you totally won't get eaten alive!

nice try dundee

>>1791568
bear had to eat m8, fuck your bambi

>>1791051
LIDF pls go

>>1790784
>>1790788
>>1790816
>>1791046
>>1791229
>>1791265

this is what it looks like when reddit invades a 4chan board. nothing wrong with David Attenborough but you don't need to get down on your knees and deepthroat him like that.

>>1791579
>muh reddit!1

shut up newfag

>>1791538
I'd rather a bear walk down the street than drop onto my head and rip open my skull.
Or have my dog strangled by some gigantic rabbit.
Or fucking poked by some poisonous duck beaver fish.
Australia never ever.

>>1791568
>defending deer
>ever

>>1789715
My brain automatically played 'Running in the 90s'

>>1791016
amror rat very hat cool animale haha :)

>>1790932
well rabbits are clearly retarded

>>1791538
Lol brown recluses are pretty chill. Kill them from time to time in my house. One time I was running some wiring at a local hotel and there were thousands of them lining the walls in the switch closet. Chill guys didn't even move while I was in there.

>>1791626
>I'd rather a bear walk down the street than drop onto my head and rip open my skull.
Made up shit. Koala's sleep 90% of their lives away and when they wake up they just eat friggen leaves. If one fell out of a tree im pretty sure it would die.

>Or have my dog strangled by some gigantic rabbit.
Kangaroo's don't do shit unless you provoke them (the alphamales, or Mothers with Joeys).

>Or fucking poked by some poisonous duck beaver fish.
You will literally never see a Platypus ever, maybe in a zoo, MAYBE.

>>1788097
>square up, nigga

>>1788083
A N G E R Y

>>1791579
kek

>>1790782
nigger

>>1791467
of all time? You must be new to the internet m8

>>1788433
Considering nothing happened, I would say yeah

>>1788083
does anyone have this in gif form by any chance?

>>1791579
"whoa you defended that guy who's done nothing but good for the world you must be reddit"

>>1788130
How do bird bodies handle the drastic change in atmospheric pressure when they dive?

>>1792310
Looks like me when II swim :(

>>1789630
There are not many animals i actively dislike, but Hyenas are among them.
I don't even know why, i mean i like Vultures and i don't dislike other large predators.
Actually thinking about it, the other two animals i hate even more are Wasps and Pigeons.

>>1790826
That's what big Wheat wants you to think, at least.

>>1790932
>>1791640
It's something about their movements. They move back and forth a lot, in a way that just doesn't register as a predator to rabbits. Real interesting shit.
Imagine if there was a creature that ate people and hunted by just casually walking up and shaking your hand. After you extended your arm to its, it pulled you in and ate you. Kinda like that.

>>1792306
There are birds who can talk, there are birds who can babble cute nonsense and then there are these fucker who want to ring the reign of the Dark Lord

>>1791031
>tfw you will never know how comfortable being an owl is.

>>1791527
if it encounters anything that it is unfamiliar with it takes a nibble out of it, when sharks feed it's usually a feeding frenzy

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>>1792385

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>>1792385
It's how intensely serious he looks about his bath...

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>>1792369
That's really weird, and also neat. I wonder if it's similar to how some bugs move, or something? that's just really cool as shit, and I feel i may need to write something to that effect, some kind of angler fish type thing that seems normal and disarming...and then chomp.

and now, a moment of contrast.

>>1788042
Its called a bubble lassos

>>1791278
well are you expecting a cameleon to give lesson, have you seen how slow they are?

>>1788889
I would reason that it is the ability to act contrary to your basic biological needs.

On this path of logic, we can reason that organisms with a repeatable, triggerable responses to threats or the motivations of sleep, sex and hunger are less intelligent that organisms with seemingly individual or unique responses to the same stimuli.

That being said, the trade-off for instinct vs intellect is that organisms with self-defined responses to stimuli must first learn the effectiveness of those responses through learning; where as those with lesser intelligence have those responses hard-wired into their biology.

I'm curious to see how that sits with people.

>>1790288
>why did the fish cross the road?
for the halibut

>>1791024
Maybe we just need to release more great whites in the mediterranean to solve the "migrant" crisis

>>1791568
fuck deer you god damn hippy

>>1791103
God this makes me so hard

>>1789721
Why does no one show this with the original music? It's so much better

>>1792328
There is no drastic change you dumb nigger. Literally going from space to sea level is the same shift in pressure as diving ten meters.

>>1792306
satanic beatbox

>>1792363
>Wasps
>animal
pick one

>>1788061
humans can swim tho

>>1788956
Because the CIA paid for professional filmographers to film and cut those ISIS execution videos on top-of-the-line hardware.

A lot of "ISIS" are actually US special forces. Which is why the US blows a gasket when they get bombed.

>>1788663
>they kinda do...they still have eggs, they just don't lay them. Technically they are still egg births, but internal? nature is odd.
That's how people work

>>1790978
r vs k selection; the chameleon shits out babies and lets them fend for themselves with minimal care. Species like this need their babies to come out of the womb able to fend for themselves.

k selected species rear and look after their young and tend to form pair bonds to ensure steady supply of resources and safety

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Fresh thread: >>1793010

This is rather awesome. Love to see people passionate about the out of doors, even if we don't see eye to eye...or are rabid fucksticks to eachother. Let's keep the disjointed nature show going.

>>1792995
>egg births

Ok, i might be totally wrong here, but if i remember right, they still have actual eggs, as in shells and so forth, they just don't lay them. Human "eggs" can't survive outside, i think lizard ones are more robust? I might well be talking out of my ass, but still, i think that's how it works.

>>1790409
You can easily kill any spider with just your thumb and some pressure. Try pushing down with just one thumb on a kitchen scale and be amazed how much pressure you can put on a tiny area.

>>1792949
>psychedelic sea pussy

>>1792363
Pigeons are super nice to other birds and amazing pilots. I hate people who feed them.

Normal Wasps are harmless if you don't act stupid around them. I mow my lawn and a wasp sits on my forearm chilling. I get a little bit nervous but she just wanted to sit there for a couple seconds. I have never been stung by a wasp and that happens almost every week when i mow the lawn or work in my garden.

I only hate bloodsucking animals like mosquitos or ticks but also aphids they suck the "blood" of plants.

>>1788764
>rabbit

>>1793017
It's all eggs

Some animals have internal eggs
Other animals have external eggs

It's still eggs

We're not undergoing mitosis here.

>>1788433
If his hand got caught and it ripped his arm off; no.

But it didn't so the idiot gets to live another day.

>>1791343
thanks Dr. Worm

>>1788714
This cool. I found it funny just to see it.
Where does this video come from? moar?

>>1790555
FUCKING AWESOME *o*

>>1788754
And still had to subtitle this lol

>>1789518
I fucking love that game
underrated as fuck tho

>>1789933
So all this time the birds have been flapping their wings just to fuck with us.

>>1792975
Niggers can't

>>1788681
Because animals are cute. Niggers aren't.

>>1792983
you're insane

>>1790433
zergrush.webm

>>1789822
>don't know about zoo gang bang

>>1791579
David Attenborough is an arrogant asshole. Massive lefty, speaks about humanity as though it's a disease on the planet. Must be nice to be so famous for your voice that others do all your research for you and then cameramen will sit filming for weeks in leech-infested waters just so that you can drive up and do a 2 minute segment and then leave again to go to the next place that's been organised for you.

>>1793483
go back to your safespace, pest

>>>/pol/

>>1792363
So you're a weird autist then?

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>>1788035
Met this guy like a week ago

>>1789086
Shotguns don't spread that much at close range.
>>1788757
Varmint rounds are absolutely nasty. I have a .243 I built for varmint/pest control, the varmint rounds I load tear coyotes and pigs up.

>>1788784
they're really cute too

>>1788877
Hey everyone! shape of dick...NOW!

>>1792533
Heh

>>1788097
imagine if timmy had a youtube channel

>>1788083
i can b ur angle or ur devil

>>1788757

Might be a large caliber conversion like .458 SOCOM

>>1793014
>Nobody cares about the big horned sheep

>>1789485
saw one of these backpacking around Koyasan, didn't have nearly as much horns though

>>1790978
Unlike humans, most animals aren't completely useless for the first year or two of their life

>>1789495
not renaming it "secret pidgeon club entrance"
captcha was >solid warning

>>1793014
>Doge Intensifies

>>1792949
Turns out the radiation fucked them up more than we originally thought.