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>At one point in the earth's history plants were basically the only thing on the planet that would be considered life minus microscopic organisms.
Wrong, you'd be surprised how late plants developed (especially terrestrial plants)

>Do you think it's possible any animals originated from plants?
I can only guess your age, but you really need to watch less cartoons m8. Plants and animals are fundamentally different things on so many biological levels.

Venus Flytraps are also a relatively-recent thing in evolutionary terms - you can read up how they evolved if you want, just get the moronic 'animal' idea out of your head.

>>2261150

Are you some kind of retard?

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It hasn't happened before, but in the future there probably will be plants that develop more animal-like traits. Pic related is the Walking Palm. It doesn't pull it's roots to literally walk around but it can move 20cm along the ground every year. Maybe one day it will adapt to somehow detach it's oldest roots from itself as it lays down new ones and locomote large distances that way, just on a very slow time scale.

Please guys, im not trying to eat these damn things by accident.

Cmon you bastards

>>2261085
that's so blurry i don't even know what i'm looking at. i think they're beetles though, not roaches

this is /an/ if you want to post pictures of your oranges take it to /ck/

>>2260979
that's a crested gecko

Looks like my old cresty. You live in the 757 anon?

>>2260973
>wasting money to amputate a cats leg instead of putting it down

What is wrong with you?

>>2260973
What does it smell like? If it stinks, prolly best to take to vet. It may just be part of the healing process, pus looking stuff formed in some surgery incisions I had, forgot what it was called but it was totally normal and part of the process.

Either way I'd probably call the vet to make sure, maybe book an appointment pending on what they say in the phone call.

>>2260978
its been 5 days and he's already trying to run around and play like normal, he's still starting fights with my bigger cat and jumping on shit, losing the leg didnt change shit about him besides him wanting me to scratch his head more. Im not putting down my cat if I can help it even if I have to go a little light on spending for a month or two

>>2260914
Retards who can't distinguish regular vs. pathological/aggressive social behavior in animals shouldn't have pets.

>>2260914

Purebreed owners get super pretentious about their dogs.

And then on the other side of the spectrum are those owners who think their aggressive dog is "just playing!!!! He's friendly :)"

>>2260849
>>>/pol/

>>2260857
I'd prefer not to read 50 posts about how climate change is a hoax or that it is better to invest on bussiness at every cost, if I'd wanted a single search for Trump's declarations would be enough.
I just legitly ask this question because I'm kinda concerned about this issue. And since /sci/ isn't about Nature Sciences/Conservation I thought this was place to ask.

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>>2260849
"le redpill"
please don't use this cancerous term outside of the frog meme board

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>>2260667

Part of me didn't want to help the bird because I remember seeing in those "help wounded animal threads" that people say those animals such as small birds usually die throughout the night. I still got a towel and a shoebox for it because I felt bad and felt like I should've done something. Thankfully my landlord took it and is gonna see if a vet hospital will take care of it.

Which I honestly don't know if vet hospitals even care to help an animal that small. So maybe it was a wasted trip on his part.

So what should I do next time I encounter a wounded bird?

>>2260667
yo if it has exposed brain put it down.

>>2260677
Free dinner!

>>2260391
none. you could ask which people in power had regard for certain animals.

hitler liked dogs. ancient egyptians worshiped cats.

Im sure there are more examples like that. but full blow tree hugging environmentalists? haha you wish
"power" ultimately comes from the masses, which are homo sapiens. so yeah, fuck everything but homo sapiens.

the only reason politicians nowadays are more friendly towards the environment is because more and more people are realizing that humans actually need the fucking environment to be happy and function

>>2260410
I think you'll find a couple of green dictators in the ex-commie islands like the Seychelles for example. Their entire economy depends on tourism so they need the wildlife to stay the same

>>2260413
>tourism
>animal rights activism
pick one

>>2260300
Most mammals have bladders. Bladders are small to large sacs that contain a certain amount of urine and once the electricity is stretched too much the animal feels pressure and an urge to urinate. Once the animal starts urinating they generally urinate until the pressure has subsided to an almost empty level.

Pardon my Google voice, the word is *elasticity, not electricity.

>>2260302
but you know that feeling when you'd be able to pee but it's not urgent enough where you will go to the toilet.
also known as that moment when you're leaving the house and figure "might as well pee even though I don't need to go but it'll be a while since I reach a toilet" feeling.
would a wild animal just let it go as soon as he felt that possibility of urinating or would he wait until he "has to go"?

>>2260256
I can't empathise, but you have my condolences anon. Reast in peace puppers :(

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When my dog died it was a massive blow. I was already suffering from severe depression but losing him was the last straw. I was catatonic for days, I didn't want to eat or drink.

I'm so sorry this has happened OP. My sincere condolences. Know that you made each others lives better for having met. How did it happen?

I'm really sorry man. When my dog died earlier this year I was destroyed. I loved her so much, I wish I had taken more pictures of her but I never thought about her death. I didn't eat or sleep well and wouldn't talk to anyone for a month. It's hard. Are there any other puppies to survive them?

>>2260049
Loks exotic

>>2260049
My first guess was a woodlose hunter, but those don't have back markings, but it's probably a Anyphaenidae, not sure tough.

>>2260049
That's kind of a weird looking fella

Might be a hacklemesh weaver, Callobius sp but something doesn't look right

Since there's no size reference it might also be one of a bajillion different sheetweb species that I don't have the time or energy to doublecheck right now

>>2259382
Dinos were too big for the ark.

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>>2259382
Mass extinction killed most life on earth, except for the few that were small enough to hide and/or required a lot less food.

Avian dinosaurs were likely the ones that survived because there originally tiny and perhaps could fly, giving them range to search for food without wasting too much energy ion comparison to walking. Thus all modern dinosaurs are birds that have avian traits, even when they traded their ability to fly (like ostriches or penguins)

>>2259413
Here is a reenactment of KT event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bAOhEwIws

You could be a stereotype and use lacta-something in the name.

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>>2258646
>latch onto passing female herbivores (alien cows) and milk their teats for nutrients

also no plant can survive like that, at least make it evolutionary possible

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>tng fanfic about wesley fucking alien plants

>>2258511
I can't tell if you're trying to troll, or just don't know shit about proper husbandry.

Betas require a MINIMUM of 3 gallons, with 5 gallons still being a horribly small tank. A regular ten gallon tank would be much better and easier to do partial water changes and keep the tank at a proper temperature.

They also really aren't that expensive, and the filter you're getting will probably work fine in it. Plants are usually good as well.

Google 'caresheet' for each species and plant you want to put in the tank.

>>2258517
Thanks! I've heard so many conflicting things on betta care, but one more thing /an/on. I live in the tropics and it's pretty warm here, should I still buy a heater?

>>2258526
Not that anon but you should definitely have a thermometer anyway. Set your tank up (preferably 10 gallons like anon said) and let it sit for a couple days, monitor the temperature. If it stays in the favorable range (mid 70's, low 80's iirc in Fahrenheit) then I'd say it's fine, but if your house is air conditioned you probably want a heater anyway because I highly doubt your house is going to be warm enough to maintain a constant temp. Constant temps are important, fish don't like it very much if it's constantly fluctuating all over the place.