>>2451623
>>2451902
What the fuck
>>2451623
Female fox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4-VGC_WXA&t=7m7s
I'm in the UK and I'd like to grow rare and unusual plants as a hobby. In particular I would like to grow salvia divinorum. Since the psychoactive substance act it is illegal to purchase for consumption, but is legal to sell otherwise, as far as I can tell. But I can't find anywhere that I can actually buy a plant. Is it actually illegal to buy the plant for non-consumption purposes? If there is a safe and legal way to grow, then I'd be very interested to know how and where to buy a plant from. Any ideas and advice?
>>2451521
I dont know if it exists anymore but in like 2008 i bought a cutting drom arena ethnobotanicals. It prompty died. Theyre hard as hell to grow, and.ive been growing pot for most of my life. They need constant extreme humidity and indirect sunlight
Did it look healthy when it arrived?
>>2451566
>extreme humidity and indirect sunlight
finding cuttings is the least of your worries
if you don't build a proper greenhouse, you will fail
My dogs were chasing this juvenile wild bird around the yard that's probably trying to learn how to fly and I got it from them before they could hurt it. If I put it back in the back yard I think the dogs will just get it later, so what should I do?
Will it be okay if I release it on the other side of the fence? I don't know anything about birds, but I don't want to let it die.
Twice in the past I've saved juvenile birds from the dogs and they just came back into the yard and got killed later though. I'd really like to know how to prevent this.
Do you know where the nest is? It'll probably just jump out again but I mean how far is the fence to said nest. Chances are no matter what there is still a high chance of it getting eaten. You can out it on the other side of the fence. Hopefully it's not a chainlink. Parents are still probably feeding it so it's important that you or the dogs don't bother it constantly.
Due to skunks in my yard I made it a habit to check around first and make my dogs wait. You could leash the dogs in your own yard or walk them instead. I've had to do that due to one skunk really loves my shed and I'm not about to just grab a skunk.
>>2451481
Thanks.
What's your dog's slave name? Mine is Nemo because it was sort of similar to his original name (nino) and it stuck.
>slave name
wat is this meme
>>2451399
Reddit and memey reference
Snuffles
What does /an/ think about this new dinosaur?
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/corythoraptor-jacobsi-bird-like-dinosaur-china-05109.html
Why is it always China that gets to find the new dinos? They have like a monopoly on fossils over there. It's such a waste.
>>2451345
Yeah its really weird to see that almost all new fossils come from that country.
Maybe they never actively searched for fossils that much and they are just now starting to dig up their own new species since the last few years or so.
I hate china
Its all i know
Of all the great megafauna killed off on Australia, why are people ONLY angsty about stripey coyoteroos?
Did this really deserve its own thread?
>>2451316
Because they are the most recent noticeable extinction and considered a "tragic" case since human persecution ended their species. Of course, Australia's biodiversity was already fucked due to the Aboriginals.
>>2451316
Bcause they can't say "white people did it" about the others.
Apparently he curates the little museum I'm volunteering at now.
What should I ask Bob Bakker, /an/?
Ask him what it was like to star in Jurassic Park
>>2451261
He curates like a dozen museums all over the west.
Who.?
daily reminder that tetrapods aint shit
>that frog in the bottom right
>be Yank
>go to nearest breeder to look at kittens
>test out some Instagram filters on them, find one that responds best to the camera
>drown the others
>go home
>rip its claws out
>never let it out of my one bedroom apartment
>pick up its shit out of a box in the kitchen
why are Americans so cruel?
Why do Americans shart in mart?
>a british batty boy makes another thread about the us
never knew you liked us so much
>>2451141
I just want to know what posseses you mutants to treat animals so cruelly
Why is my dog so odd.
She sits like a person. She has since day one.
She talks(loudly) all the time but never ever barks
She has a ton of rituals.
She has to spin, go out to pee, beg to come back in, wait for the door to open again, spin, then poop while making direct eye contact while waddling across the yard.
She also likes to play and roll around with bunnies.
And she looks perpetually concerned
The most concerned dog
Alright /an/, I'm no microbiologist so I need your help. Does anyone know the life span of protists or other waterborne microorganisms?
I'm in a position were I've collected water samples from a fairly remote location, and I wont be able to get back to my home lab until the 10th. Will the creatures inside of my water samples survive that long? They are outside so any autotrophic organisms will have light and the heat will be the same as their natural environment. The lids of the jars are removed to allow oxygenation of the water, the humidity is always >50% or more, and it's not super hot, so I don't expect evaporation to be drastic.
Will they live? Will I still be able to see interesting shit even after it being removed from the environment for the next three days? Any tips for keeping them alive and well?
1 Don't underestimate the amount of evaporation that takes place
2 The amount of possible aqueous colonizers just floating around is high, you might get algae overgrowth (perhaps not in 10 days, but idk, depends on sample)
3 If taken from habitat, the natural balance might shift and certain species might become outcompeted in a very short amount of time depending on what the conditions of your water are right now
4 It's really anyone's guess, because water can have a shit ton of organisms living in it..
How big are your containers?
Is there "just" water in it, or do you have some soil/rocks/plants in there too?
Was the place you took it from flowing or still water?
I'm no microbiologist either, but I have some basics, so other people with more knowledge will have to chime in on this..
just search for storage of microbial lake samples or something similar. this has some info around 5.6
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resourcesquality/wqmchap5.pdf?ua=1
The actual make up of your sample is going to be vastly different from what it was initially if anything is still living. I know in the teaching lab there is a small tank with mixed protists that they put a small tube in connected to the air outlet to oxygenate it. Research samples would normally be sealed and cooled to 2-6 C to slow down all biological reactions and transported within 12 hours for analysis. If you dont care about contamination you could make a hay infusion. You literally just put water sample in a jar and put some hay trimming and let it sit out of direct sunlight for a week. The hay provides nutrition for bacterial populations and protozoa eat the bacteria etc.
Even if you dont do a hay infusion this sheet mentions that protozoa require oxygen so each day use a plastic pipette to bubble some air in. You could do something like that to ensure sufficient oxygenation if you leave it at room temp.
https://www.carolina.com/teacher-resources/Document/carolina-labsheets-make-a-hay-infusion/tr41608.tr
Maybe you could try splitting your sample and trying a few different storage methods like room temp, and putting one in a small container filled with ice.
changing pH, chemical composition, dying microbes releasing junk and plenty of other things will occur over 3 days
>>2450893
Doesn't hay open up the risk for serious mold contamination though?
I'm not sure what this is, nor have a ever seen one in my area. Is it a type of wasp or what? Either way it was horrifying and met an untimely demise lol
Pic related: finger for scale
>>2450835
some horntail.
probably a pigeon tremex
Why is your hand so moist and what the hell is up with your finger
>>2450835
there is something wrong with your finger holy hell
Can anyone tell me what kind of flower/plant this is?
Passion flower.
>>2450809
does it become Passion fruit
>>2450926
Yes..
My kitten died yesterday and i've been depressed since
I feel like shit knowing i could have saved him from his demise
I can't handle the thought of living without him
I can sense that his sister knows as she has been dormant since
Cheer me up guys with some memes
I can't cope
>>2450769
Why did he die?
>>2450786
I live in an apartment complex
My maid is an asshole who always keeps messing with my stuff so she can leave early
I was pulling an all nighter and she came at 8
Kept telling her to put the cats in my brothers room if she ever opens the balcony
Started snoozing on the couch every half an hour i'd wake up from her noise and check on the cats
She let them out of my brother's room twice while the balcony is wide open
I kept putting them back in my brother's room
I gave up and slept and woke up to my kitten no where to be found
4 hours later i found him laying by the flower pots 8 stories below my balcony
>>2450975
Punch the stupid whore.
I saw a "baby" pigeon that seems to have fallen or wandered out it's nest. It looks like the picture and it's been sitting on the side of an escalator in an underground station for hours not moving from it's place, where the walls on the sides of the escalator have a few holes in the walls where they can nest. I've looked into the hole where it's nest was and there seems to be an adult pigeon there. I've left some oreo crumbs.
Is it going to survive?
>>2450725
Probably, looks like it's almost an adult. You really need to worry about birds when they are either all naked and pink, or messy looking and missing patches of feathers all over.
>>2450749
Alright, I'll see if it's still there tomorrow. It was literally sitting at one of the sides of the escalator towards the end. Nobody seemed to notice itt when they were going down the escalator.
>>2450725
>Is it going to survive?
Who fucking cares - it's basically a rat with wings. Stamp on it.