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>>2195885
Don't hit them, that's cruel. I use pic related.

>>2195885
Being aggressive towards an aggressive dog will make the aggression worse. Think about it; a dog gets aggressive when it is uncomfortable (in pain, in fear), so to train the animal, you make it uncomfortable (via fear, pain).

Unfortunately, this method of training is often used on breeds known to have stranger and dog aggression (although it's not good for any breed) and, to make matters worse, is also often used to stop aggressive behavior when it actually makes it worse.

So it's no Hitler of dog training, but it's no helpful and really isn't dog training, when many people are misguided into thinking it's the only way to train.

If you can't out-think a Rottweiler, heaven help you. It's not that difficult to control a dog without having a screeching meltdown and flailing at it.

Call animal control I guess.
Is a a stray chicken safe to eat? seems kind of gross.

>>2195117
ask it why it crossed the road.

Throw it over your fence. It'll find someone elses' property to inhabitate.

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>>2195058
Please don't release aquarium fish into large bodies of water. Just flush them instead.

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>>2194871
are they though? why are they amazing? make a case. bitch.

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>>2194871

Erryone lurves otters

<3

Well for one, they are a great conductor on if the ecosystem is healthy.

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>>2192567
I'm rural southeast U.S. so I see pretty much everything in this part of the world.
From bald eagles to barn swallows.
Ruby throated hummingbirds bred like crazy at my place this year. My porch has 20+ all day long at my feeders.

Pic related is one of the coolest things I saw this year. Had a pair successfully breed in my forest.
Its a Mississippi kite.

>>2192567
Canada

House vicinity:
Magpies
Crows
Sparrows
Sea gulls (in summer)
Chickadees
Nuthatches
Robins
Pigeons
Ravens (rare)

Nearest nature spot:
Canadian geese
Mallards
Coots
Goldeneyes (semi rare)
red winged blackbirds
Cedar waxwings (only in fall)
Peregrine falcons have a summer mest in this area
Swallow
I spotted a bufflehead once

There are some more but you have to be really lucky to find them. There are owls, hawks, eagles, I think hummingbirds, in the area.

>>2192567
>1. Sweden
>2. Magpies, hooded crows, jackdaws, fieldfares, blackbirds, house sparrows, great tits, blue tits, wrens, common wood pigeons, common gulls, European herring gulls, white wagtails, robins. During summer, there are slo common starlings. Strangely, there are almost no feral pigeons here at all(although I occationally see one), despite the fact that I live in a fairly high-intensity area.
>3. the same as the above, but also mallards and lots of geese(of various species that I always fail to properly memorise)

>>2189899
Harambe has memes behind him.

Please stop making these threads. The bear absolutely wins, 100% of the time.

This is a completely uneven match, it's like asking "hey guys what wins in a fight, a pitbull or a hippopotamus"

Even though I like bears more, I think the gorilla would win in a fight.

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It had kittens!

>>2186010

Ikko Ikki.

Why are they so docile towards humans?
Are they just incapable of fear?

>>2186035
I dont know. I never thought about that

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>>2178921
Have an actual sapient dinosaur.

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It seems most other similar projects tend to speculate on elevated cleverness evolving in the Paraves clade, and this makes sense: We know some of the most intelligent extant organisms on Earth (outside of the primates) are birds, especially the crows and ravens, and certain parrots. Some of their closest extinct non-avian dinosaur relatives are the Dromaeosaurids and Troodontids, and these animals are popular points of departure for speculative evolutionists. The Maniraptoran clade (of which Dromaeosaurids, Troodontids, modern birds, and Oviraptorosaurs are all a part) has some key attributes that we share: On Earth we have only one data point for human-level intelligence so far, so it seems logical to me to look for other organisms with similar traits when speculating on potential evolution of advanced tool-using intelligence – traits like large brains, high brain to body size ratios, grasping appendages (useful for manipulating the environment), bipedal motion (to keep those grasping appendages unoccupied), living on land (as smart as dolphins are, it would be hard to use fire, smelt metals underwater), and a social structure that puts selective pressure on the ability to out-think and/or cooperate with others of your species.

Personally, I favored the Oviraptorosaurs in part to differentiate my own fiction from the rest. Oviraptorosaurian brain/body ratio may not have been quite as high as that found in the Troodontids, for example, but they do have one additional interesting trait that is similar to our own hominid forebears: probable omnivory. It seems to me that hominid and corvid intelligence may be at least partly linked to social interaction with conspecifics, but also with problem-solving to exploit different food resources. The Dromaeosaurs and Troodontids, it seems, were more likely obligate carnivores and thus would have less evolutionary pressure to develop interesting techniques for obtaining food. That, and I think Oviraptorosaurs look really cool.

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>>2178923
The carpus is the keystone,
or keyBONE.

the non-pronating semi-lunate carpal was more useful for bashing the air with feathers than bashing bones with rocks.

when you look at the ridiculously tiny differences that made all the difference you begin to seriously question Drake's equation. So many things that have to go just right...

what about Iguanodon with its opposable finger and spike? There's a better candidate.

sure

>>2168282
No, only dinosaurs are allowed. Discussion is also limited to whether or not T. rex had feathers and nothing else.

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Is this thing fucking real?

>>2198418
they all do they will just spend less time changing from dead thing to a bunch of loose atoms

>>2198418
a cell

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>>2198418
GIVE ME THE DELEGATES, DOGNALD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKeQseUwvpg

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I'm going to guess wrong board? I'm not clicking those links

>>2198402
Because they do it to dry themselves. Wet dogs will lick the water off each other, like grooming and stuff too

>>2198406
Why are dogs so fucking bro-tier?

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>>2198421
Because we literally made them that way.

like a uromastyx?

>>2198258
I thought those guys were omnivorous and need crickets every so often?

>>2198260
Uromastyx are straight herbivores.
I would say most large monitors, but you don't want something fuckhuge.