Nature Is Cool: Deer, Owls, and Hippies, oh my!

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Pigs can make excellent pets, and also are a blight on the land.

Pigs, especially if reared as such from birth, can make very pleasant pets. They generally have the same activity level of a bulldog, and provided you get a miniature breed, don't require too much work to care for. They can even be trained to use a litterbox!

They will also go feral in a single generation, producing savage, local crop and animal destroying hordes in less then three years, and represent one of the faster rising threats facing vast areas of southern united states areas.

So for god's sake take care of them, if you do raise them.

>call somebody
hello animal police

>>1793010
I hate deer

>>1793035
I give a fuck about that deer. But if a bear comes anywhere near to my house I shoot it!

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>>1793073

>>1793010

>>1793010


Honeybees are fucking cool. Learned up on them last winter and just got a swarm 2 weeks ago.

Have some bee facts.

Queens release a pheromone that suppresses the other female drones from laying eggs. If the queen dies or leaves the hive, drones will eventually start laying eggs. Because they've never been fertilized, all their eggs will grow up to be drones. Without a new queen, the hive is doomed to eventually implode on itself because there will be no more replacement worker bees.

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>>1793084
Oh nice! Gonna try and keep them? If you like, look up "Bee Gums", they have extensive work on them in the old Foxfire books. It's how the oldsters used to raise bees and honey, and even provides info as to what can go wrong, and how to fix it.

More bee facts:

Robbing the hive, done responsibly, does no real harm to the swarm. Because of the above-optimal conditions created by man-made hives and bloom fields, there is more then enough to share.

Different blooms make different flavors. The most common is clover, followed shortly by orange blossom, but almost any flowering plant can be harvested by a swarm, and flavor the honey. Myself, i like honey from near berry brambles.

You can, eventually, gain an immunity to bee venom. Old beekeepers are legendary for this, and it can even help with arthritis and other joint pain.

Also: never swat a bee if you can help it. They bloom a puff of pheromones when they die that will stick to whatever kills them. If another bee sniffs it, it's basically a giant sign that says "kill whatever this is stuck to".

>>1793176

Of course I'm keeping them! There's a lot of lost beekeeping lore. I'm doing the bee thing as a conservation rather than commercial endeavor. I've got the one Warre hive, parts for a second one, and two logs I'm hollowing out for some hands off natural hives.

>Also: never swat a bee if you can help it. They bloom a puff of pheromones when they die that will stick to whatever kills them. If another bee sniffs it, it's basically a giant sign that says "kill whatever this is stuck to".

Squishing bees is inevitable when handling bees, and so is getting stung. Getting stung also paints you with a pheromone target saying "kill whatever this is", but you can puff smoke over the area, or if you don't have a smoker ready, you can smear some honey on it.

Most beekeepers don't bother with that though, they just roll with the bee-punches.

SPEAKING OF BEE PUNCHES: bees resort to stinging as a last resort right? Before they start stinging, aggravated bees will deliberately fly into you to try and freak you out and scare you away.

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>>1793207
That makes me so goddamn happy to hear. It's always good to harken back a bit. Learn some of the things that helped the old timers build this place, and help take care of oneself too. Have designs to build a minor fish farm in a few years, and fast on the way to having a respectable raspberry bramble. It's less a hobby and more practical, i have four kids and an assload of extended family...

I had no clue you could de-pheromone yourself with honey or smoke. Would, say, a cigarette provide enough, or would you need a real bee smoker?

I've observed the bee-ramming thing before, i had no clue it was on purpose to be honest. That's both amazing and slightly adorable.

another bug fact for folks: Dragonflies are about as scary as real dragons to other bugs. A high-def recording of one or several dragonflies in flight can and has been used as a very effective bug repellent.

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>>1793248
>that file name

Okay, I heard a professor of mine say this but I wasn't paying attention so I couldn't remember the name of the animal.

Allegedly there's an animal that, when stressed, will produce so much hormones/will get so freaked out, that it gives itself a heart attack or renal failure and it dies. Anyone heard of this?

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>>1793435
I know possums will give themselves seizures as a defense behavior, the idea being nothing wants to eat something hissing, foaming, and voiding from every hole.

Animal that can get stressed to death...I'm putting my money on a rodent of some kind, but i couldn't guess which.

>>1793248
why

>>1793435
>Allegedly there's an animal that, when stressed, will produce so much hormones/will get so freaked out, that it gives itself a heart attack or renal failure and it dies
that just sounds like small rodents in general. They are prey animals to the point that their bodies aren't built for surviving a predator attack even if they manage to escape.

>>1793468
How else are you suppose to get brain food?

>it's nature babe let it happen

Dumbest bitch excuse I've ever heard, lol. That said I wouldn't fuck with a bear. I'd like to watch the whore torn apart by the bear, imagine her pinned down in the grass, the bear ripping huge strips of flesh out of her throat, I bet she'd be fine with "letting it happen" then, lol.

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>>1793514
Easy Satan, it's still early.

>>1793248
This is /wsg/

>>1793419
Look how fucking fat and ugly those zoo patrons are. Fuck.

>>1793514
Okay, cringelord

>Not shooting the bear for violating the NAP and intruding on your property

>>1793514
edge as sharp as a bear claw

>>1793531
imagine that bitch going jogging alone in the woods when she sees the bear and thanks to fucking Bambi she thinks bear doesn't give a shit so she stops and locks eyes with it then when it starts to approach she runs, the bear charges after her. Imagine the fear pounding in her heart as the bear catches up to her and tears away at her tight sweaty tanktop with its claws, gouging away strips of her soft tender flesh, gouging her shoulder blades and spine, imagine her falling to the ground and trying to crawl away but the bear stops and pins her down with its powerful paws, jaws clamping down on her, her ribs creaking and snapping, blood coursing out of her mouth from her pulverized organs, her shrieks of pain turning to helpless mewls of agony as she lays there, thrashing in futility as the bear rips at her, biting down on her neck, digging out her breasts like cottage cheese, blood flowing, flowing over her clothes, saturating them, darkening them, seeping over the pine needles in a thick syrup, imagine her thinking of her family as the creature bites down on her neck, paralyzing her, leaving her completely helpless as it begins to eat her, slowly, consuming her beautiful body one chunk of flesh at a time, with her only able to stare helplessly as her life slowly leaks away. By the time the bear has bitten into her tender thigh flesh, she has finally died, and once the bear has eaten its fill it will digest her and shit out her remains throughout the wilderness. Bacteria, birds, and maggots will feast on her corpse as well, processing her into dirt and shit, spreading her around until she is part of nature again.

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>>1793514

>>1793549
aaaand I'm hard

>>1793531
sauce?

>>1793531
It is a good pain

not overly concerned about the deer

but what kinda man sets up home near the woods and doesn't have a gun?

that bear will now see that backyard as part of its territory and a good hunting ground, so if he has animals or worse; children - they are now at risk

hippies are stupid

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>>1793010

>>1793608
This 100 percent. Bears gonna bear but don't let it happen in your goddamn backyard. That's just negligent.

>>1793609
>China
Of fucking course

>>1793435
ive heard stories of rabbits getting scared to the point of heart attack before

>>1793248
Birds are the most fucked up animals.

They will straight up kill their own babies if they are fucked up. And other babies will kill other babies.

And then there is the rape.

>>1793010
You guys are mean

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>>1793241
As for the bee ramming thing, it's sometimes the only means of defense some species of bees might have. In Brazil, there is one commonly known as Arapua. It's a tiny stingless bee, and their strategy to get you to leave them alone is to fly into you and get stuck in your hair. They buzz really loud to try and scare you off, but everyone knows they're not actually dangerous.

They also try to stuff themselves in your nose and ears to annoy you away. It's actually pretty funny to watch them go after someone.

Their hives are usually inside structures like trees or even human buildings with cracks in them. They make a tube out, and that's what's in the gif.

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

>>1793025
is all this true?

>>1793074
good point
that bear came into their yard for food
next time that food might not be a deer but their kids or themselves

>>1793465
>>1793435
Sugar gliders? They make great pets, but literally need constant attention or they will die of depression. People who have them normally get a bunch so they won't get too depressed.

>>1793010
Bear's gotta eat. RIP deer eventually

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>>1793785
Yep.

This is what happens, and what needs to be done, once a hog population gets out of control.

They eat everything they can find, tear the dirt to shit, dig up and eat tree roots, eat or kill anything bigger then a mouse in their home range, and generally act like a plague. There's a reason old greek myth features giant, dangerous boar on more then on occasion.

>>1793747
some say he's still climbing those mountains to this very day

>>1793435
rabbits duh

>>1794052
that actually looks really fun

>>1794052
Cue princess mononoke theme.

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gonna dump some, let's see what I can find

>>1793010
Ever since I was little I always rooted for the predators.

Good bear.

>>1794518
Nice fuckin' catch!

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>>1794522
what about this one

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we said geology and meteorology counted yea?

>>1793609
>feeding newborns to satan

>>1793565
Here ya go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UPUhn9hpTU

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>>1794530
Yes, yes we did, holy shit...looks lie a fucking scale model getting destroyed by a powerwasher, that's always so damn cool.

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>>1794544
hold on I got more buddy

>>1794521
Dick move

>>1794566
Nice bait

all I've got for now

>>1794592
I think your dog has autism.

>>1793435
Hamsters and Guinea Pigs and and and....
Actually, my gf's friend once had a pet hamster or something like that. One day she was crying and all that because her hamster had died. How?
They left some door open and the cat attacked the hamster cage. Sucker got startled so hard it got a heart attack.

>>1794052
Hardly nature, just some guy shooting shit. Not some peta faggot who's offended, just not really nature is it.

>>1794052
[muffled mad max music]

>>1794518
>BAUGH MUH GAWD JR

>>1794558
This is great

>>1794554
>>1794552
>>1794550
>>1794547
Glad I don't live in america

>>1793010
That Deer's scream gave me a good chuckle. Am I a bad person?

>>1793435
>>1793465
I dunno about that exactly, but cheetahs are extremely nervous animals, and get so stressed they'll die. Zoos will sometimes give them service dogs to help.

>>1794537
follow your dreams

>>1794845
Y

>>1793037
Those poor trees.

>>1794577
Goddamn. Do you know what this is from?

>>1793176
> Different blooms make different flavors. The most common is clover, followed shortly by orange blossom, but almost any flowering plant can be harvested by a swarm, and flavor the honey. Myself, i like honey from near berry brambles.

I've got some buckwheat honey that's really good. Almost molasses-like.

>>1794922
Yes.

>>1794518
GOT EMMM

>>1793010
>Reacting with dismay to natural predatory behaviour
>You gonna call the police or something
>'Call somebody'
kekked quietly to myself

>>1794967
no anon, but I think you can find something on YT by typing "crow tricks" or "crow intelligence" or something like that

>>1794550
Wtf balls of steel. Why did he just stay there?

>>1794537
A living fleshlight

>>1794922
No

>>1795169
He's under the bridge, the only cover for miles.

>>1793747
follow it, feed it... see where it goes
>inb4 Tekeli-li!

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>>1794506
>not posting the superior version

>>1794521
it turns around like
> I can't believe you've done this

>>1793684
those are doves and that's a woodpecker

>>1794974
>>1795229
50/50. I like this.

>>1795295

careful, mods are pussies

>>1793241

Lost the thread but I found it again.

I'm not sure. A cig would probably work though.

Yeah I've had both deliberate bee ramming and accidental too. When I stand in front of the hive to observe I will constantly be getting bumped into from the back and the front from bees trying to get to the flower bed thats close to them. You can tell when one is pissed off though - their buzzing is much higher pitched. Those are the ones bumping you on purpose.

>Allegedly there's an animal that, when stressed, will produce so much hormones/will get so freaked out, that it gives itself a heart attack or renal failure and it dies. Anyone heard of this?

Fuckin hell, sounds like a horse to me. Horses are surprisingly fragile.

>>1795231
Bridge is a bad place to be for tornado, it will not protect you

>>1796243
I guess it's better than nothing but he's in a fucking car and could just turn around. So yeah, he's retarded.

>>1794845
Most of the country never sees tornadoes at all.

>>1795295
>scrotum ripped open
>otherworldly testicle size revealed
>alligator backs the fuck off

I knew horses had big cocks but goddamn

>>1795294
>It's treason, then.

>>1795572
What snake is that?

>>1796460
That isn't a testicle.

>>1796382
That's becoming less true as time goes by.

>>1797462
*Seal is actualy loading*
....please....stand.....by...
*Seal is loading*

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This is begging for a "you died" fadeout

>>1798055
He shouldn't have drunk from Willy Wonka's chocoriver.

>>1797553
kek my sithes

>>1794558
Sadly, this one is most certainly faked. The camera isn't completely overexposed from the lightning's return stroke, the lightning isn't reflected in the water, lightning doesn't cause water to be thrown into the air, and if this happened they would both likely be dead.

Source: Captain Disillusion
https://youtu.be/zhPRtCW5sRk

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>>1794577
Crows, as well as many other birds, are incredibly smart. Their brains more closely resemble that of mammals than any other class of animal.[spoiler]1[/spoiler] A demonstration of this intelligence can be found in a psychology experiment commonly known as the "marshmallow test," wherein an organism is given the option to either have a small reward immediately or a larger reward later. Crows can even learn to trust some people and factor this into their decision in said experiment.[spoiler]2[/spoiler]


Sources:
1. Evolution of the avian brain and intelligence
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982205014041

2. Familiarity with the experimenter influences the performance of Common ravens (Corvus corax) and Carrion crows (Corvus corone corone) in cognitive tasks
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635713002520
>>1794967
This appears to be from a metatool study. In short, metatool is the use of one tool to create another thar more appropriately fits the needs of the individual (i.e. using a rock to sharpen a stick into a spear, using a rock to shatter flint into arrowheads, etc.)


Source:
Spontaneous Metatool Use
by New Caledonian Crows
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982207017708/

>>1798818
Sorry about the fucked up formatting when transitioning from one topic to the next. Don't know how I overlooked it.

>>1794591
that looks like a jumping spider

>>1798773
What a fucking garbage youtuber. 3 minutes of shitty oh so funny monologue to get into the point of the video.

>>1798773
>implying I'm gonna watch that heap of crap instead of clicking on that webm three more times

nice try autismo

>>1798818
>links too

neat, thanks anon

>>1799480
I agree it does have quite a bit of useless fluff, but he does provide insightful examinations of many viral videos and hoaxes.

>>1798742
this is fake. Those eggs aren't fertilised.

>>1794587
fuckin balls of steel.

>>1803221
*nuts of steel

>>1794518
>RKO OUTA NOWHERE!

>>1794537
>slitherio.webm

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I like foxes

>>1793025
Pigs are horrible pets.
They can weigh up to 150 pounds, they could destroy furniture easily, they eat practically anything, etc. They're dirty animals and aren't meant to be used the way you want them to.
In that webm, the pigs weight will multiply in no time.

http://www.minipiginfo.com/dear-pig-whisperers-blog/what-is-it-really-like-to-have-a-pig-as-a-pet

>>1807405
You don't keep them inside, dumb-ass.

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>>1793035
How do you feel about ducks?

>>1794558
those subtitles are hilarious

>>1795294
GIGA OTTER DRILL

>>1795295
I saw an alley cat at work, limping around with one of his back feet snapped clean, so his foot flopped around all wacky as he limped along. I assumed he was gonna die soon, but a week later I saw the same fucking cat with his wacky foot limp over to some shade, limp in a circle, and settle down with a yawn, like nothing was wrong.