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>>2320401
echolocation of bats

migratory birds navigating through the earth's magnetic field

lateral lines of fish/amphibians

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>>2320408
that's pretty cool mane

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the mantis shrimp or whatever it's called can see colors we've never seen.

>>2320401

>be born
>eat meat
>die
>eternal void
vs
>be born
>don't eat meat because muh animal feelings
>die
>eternal void
hmmm

Even on /an/ there's bait

What's wrong with you guys?

>>2318153
no. agriculture ruins ecosystems.

>>2322301
I've never heard of these before!

>>2321947
Dogs always adopt anything or can be adopted by anything. Doesn't even matter if the adopter/ee isn't a dog.

>>2321952
But is there a marked difference in behavior between dogs that are directly related, like litter-mates, and dogs that 'adopt' each other?

>>2321962
Probably not, at least not in the same way you or I think of it

That's just a black beetle

>>2320679
bed bugs aren't that big, they're like 0,10 inches

>>2315108

They're chubby and cute

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>>2315108
>Oldest living specie

You have already lost

>>2315108
Tardigrades aren't even extremophiles.
They are only resistant when they are in a dessicated dormant state. They can't actually live in anything but damp moss. There are many other species with much wider ranges of environments they can live in.

>>2322282
no

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Only if you actually have real land and are willing to take care of them after they stop being cute

>>2322282
Don't pigs go "crazy" after a certain age/size and *really* need a lot of land?

Where the fuck do these normies come from treating /an/ like it's instagram or facebook? I swear only /an/ has this problem. I don't know who the fuck told you /an/ was going to caption your shitty picture for you but they were wrong. Go back to r/thirdworldshithole, Jose.

>>2321382
we need more animal rekt threads bro to keep those normies out

>>2321380
Younger one is a normie, older one says get the fuck off our board you normie faggot

my favorite abused animal forced past its breaking point until it actually breaks something and then is shot in the head like trash? hmm let's see

>>2321356
yes, which one?

>>2321356
hurry up and pick anon!

>>2320519
it's extraordinarily painful

this is a problem from animal welfare perspectives
but it's also a problem for slaughterhouses since animals in pain thrash around and break things

also it's not as cheap as a bolt gun

Do they have to inject it into the heart? If so that would be agony. Imagine the size and thickness of a needle that would be needed for a cow, especially when it's squirming and thrashing.

Bolt guns kill instantly.

>>2320519

Because cardiac arrest isn't "instantaneous" and is painful. For welfare reasons you would have to render an animal unconscious before injection.

On top of that you have to use quite a bit, for a dairy cow Iowa vet quotes 120ml (with a saturated solution of 340g/l), across two 60ml syringes into a vein using 14/16 gauge needles.

So whilst it does not have to be injected into the heart, it's painful and to put it simply as >>2320522 said- a bolt gun, or even a simple knife is a cheaper, easier option.

>>2322233
I hate to be that guy but just use a fucking regular bowl and rinse/refill it a few times a day as needed.

>>2322235
I'd rather clean one difficult thing once a week than keep up with something all the time. Just how my mind works I guess. My wife and I did the regular bowl for a while but neither of us had the presence of mind to keep up with filling and cleaning it. The automated bowl lets us just clean it once when we have a day off.

>>2322233
I thought about buying one of those and now I'm glad I didn't. My dog produces so much slobber when she drinks that her bowl gets slimy. I run it through the dishwasher nightly on the hottest setting.

>>2322008
No. Leave her alone. She's still technically recovering from the drugs and anesthesia.
She's still drugged.

Cats don't get dehydrated in a span of a few hours.

even if she was NPO last night for surgery today, if she was eating and drinking normally before then, she's fine.

>>2322017
Ok, thank you anon. I was mostly worried since it's very hot outside today. I'll let her be for a good couple of hours and then check how she's doing. I do hope she calms down in time for her painkillers

>>2322029

If you are worried, ring your vets. We would rather you rang us and even asked what you perhaps think is a silly question to calm your mind than you not contact us at all and something major goes wrong.

ye

Bring it to the vet

>>2321837
>Can you diagnose these lumps with a shitty picture and no other information?
Take your cat to a vet. Why the fuck do you think we can tell you whether or not they're tumors? A veterinarian couldn't even tell just based on looking at it.

>>2321420
Mix it with wet food. I always mix my dogs dry food with a good amount of wet food, mostly because my older dog has no teeth (brachy breed, go figure) and is very picky. I also add dog-friendly tablescraps like shitty cuts of meat on occasion, but if your dog has a sensitive tummy I wouldn't recommend that.

Also... why cheese? I mean, sure it's fine in small quantities, but why's cheese your first option? I don't think it's harmful even in bigger qualities -- recently had an elderly couple bring in a senior pug who was fed exclusively cheese and sausage every day for its entire life because "he just doesn't really like dog food, you know?" It was obese as hell, obviously, but as alive as an 8 y/o pug can be.

You could try adding canned fish as a topper. Not anchovies, because they're high in salt, or tuna or salmon, because of toxic metals, but something like canned herring?

Also, as long as your dog has something of an iron gut, then switching food for each meal shouldn't be an issue. Even then an iron gut isn't required, as long as they're used to a large degree of daily dietary variation. My dogs are rarely fed the same food two meals in a row. They don't even necessarily eat the same brand of food two meals in a row. But then, I rotate between about 15 different foods from different brands and always have a minimum of three on hand.

You'll have a better time just putting out bird feeders and attracting a flock to your yard. Keep up the free food and you will have plenty making regular visits. They can get pretty friendly if you hang out near the feeders and try to handfeed them.

Oh, also you now have sparrows, robins, chickadees, nuthatches, and crows making visits too. Depending on where you live.

they are intelligent birds and most of their behavior is learned
this is a huge issue since when puberty kicks in they get the desire to pair up, and leave with their bond for life, but a bird who is badly socialised will most likely die outside
if you raise it from a very young age it will be sexualy attracted to people and try to romance a person, again putting itself in danger

>>2321328
Ive done that, but Im really interested in the process of a magpie growing up and learning.

>>2321335
Yes, this pairing up sounds like a problem. Does all the corvidae has this behaviour?
I find it improbable that it would be sexually attracted to a person. Magpies can recognize themselves in mirrors, so they must have a sense of self.

Maybe Ill reconsider raising one, I dont want to be cruel or anything. But I wanna be sure that there are objective problems in raising it.