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Can we have an echinoderm thread please? They are an underrated group
Echinoderms consist of sea urchins, sea lillies, starfish, sea cucumbers, and brittle stars
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Sea star larvae are about as alien as life can get
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>>4676104
Imagine being that right side, completely oblivious to what awaits you.
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>>4665080
Starfish are based

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Growing up for a brief few years in Virginia, my family lived in a house near an artificial retaining pond where ducks and geese would land. When they would land, my sister and I would go out and throw crusty old bread to them. For a few years we were host of a particularly sociable mated pair of mallards who would visit year after year, even though the house was newly-built. My father once or twice lured them through the back door into the kitchen, where we briefly fed them crust before they had filled their feathery bellies and returned to the waterside to roost for the evening. We named them Waddles and Queenie.
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>>4676039
There was a tall steel tower for power transmission lines, may 100ft, built just a little way away from the pond. A pair of ospreys nested on top.
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>>4676043
Found a decapitated goose in the pond across the street on the undeveloped side of the neighborhood, near the thick woods. Birds, mane.
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>>4675998
Based

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Dogs can survive on a natural vegan diet.
Cats can not.

Therefore, for moral reasons, cats need to be sterilized as a species and allowed to die out (on vegan food) and only dogs should remain.
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>>4675407
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>>4675410
this is the result of the original sin and imperialism.
in the garden of heaven before humanity fell and all animals lived in peace and subsisted on sun light
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>>4676439
Kek
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>>4675298
You're right.
>>4675261
You're confusing amoral and immoral.
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>>4675410
Congratulation, OP is baiting but I fear you're sincerely retarded.
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Tell me about Hyenas. Why are they always laughing?
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>>4673642
Pseudopenis
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>>4673642
No one cared who they were until they began to laugh.
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>>4673642
Sneaky ass rat Jews. Laughing because a smile makes you lose your focus, also because nog pack animals, just ask the average London representative about his happiness level when he gets to gang harass some grandma doing groceries.
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>>4673642
They have the stereotypical wide-mouthed smile of an African perfomative drummer
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Why do so many predators have them? What benefit does this specific eye color confer?
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>>4675221
I only know birds, so I can't comment on that (except that I don't believe it)
>>4675262
What are you talking about no ears? Their facial disc is a giant parabolic dish to funnel sounds to their ear canals located behind their eyes. Short-eared and Barn owls hunt almost exclusively by sound.
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>>4674866
I don't know but I'm glad humans don't have yellow eyes, annoying insecure men won't be able to compare themselves to predators like they're always doing.
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why do black cats always have yellow eyes, is it because they are superior?
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Dunno, the hypothesis that they being better for night vision does not make much sense to me, and during day might actually lower contrast due the light that is reflected from the iris. Anyone who has worked with optical systems wants most not optical surfaces to be as little reflective as possible because high reflectivity and scattering lowers signal to noise ratio in detectors and contrast on imaging systems. Maybe it has no significant function, bears and many other predators have dark eyes.
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This goes entirely against the vegan motive of not using animals for experimental or other non ethical reasons

>teehee the vegan slop has all the minerals from meat artificially added so it's the same

It's not just the minerals it's their entire digestive system

Why not be a rabbit owner instead jfc
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>>4672855
>You wouldn't believe how many cats end up at the vet because their owner tried exclusively feeding them this slop.
How many? Citations,please.
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only humans are allowed to be vegan.
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>>4676406
only humans are stupid enough to be vegan
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It is okay as a treat, but a diet solely focused on veganism is similar to a diet mainly focused on Tom Cat kibble, which is mostly 80% wheat and corn with meat byproduct and dye.

The main issue with cats and other obligate Carnivores is the issue of Taurine; which is derived specifically from meat based proteins. Cats need it to survive, denying them this is like denying you electrolytes. It is a painful way to die and I sure hope you are not killing your animals to reinforce your own belief systems.

If you want an animal that doesn't need a regular diet of meat, then might I suggest a hamster, or a bird, a rat or a rabbit?

>but I want my foofy fuzzy cuddle buddy
Consider a sheep/goat

>UGH, those are FARM animals, and I wouldn't go NEAR a rural area because they vote RED.
You could just fuck an immigrant

>SEX? YOU'RE TELLING ME TO HAVE SEX?!?!? I'M AN INDEPDENT WOMAN/TRANSEXUAL MALE! I DONT NEED MEN IN MY LIFE
You can always have a pet rock

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>>4672858
You're a brown-skinned, stupid piece of garbage that has and will never amount to anything, and it's obvious in every word you write

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Just picked 15 bird mites off my belly. I’m in hell
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>The mynas (/ˈmaJnə/; also spelled mynah) are a group of birds in the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Bloody bitch bastard, sir!
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>>4676710
make a bird mite ball to rival tick ball anon
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>>4676894
Well of course it’s the indian birds bringing over pestilence to where I live
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>>4676710
thirdie problems are something else. KWAB
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>>4676710
All of your problems would be solved if you stopped being Asian.

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Roly polies. Pillbugs, even.
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>>4673490
It's not about legality. Some species just don't do well outside of their native environment.
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>>4667853
-ACK!
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I see Roly polies in my bathroom a lot, sometimes I let them outside sometimes I just kill them because it was so constant. But I haven't seen them lately after spraying some raid.
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>>4675966
You should probably solve the humidity problem in your bathroom instead of spraying poison and risking your health.
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Basically my dog eats my cats shit from the litter box but honestly I’m hesitant to stop her because it’s literally a free scooping service.. also my cat hates when there’s poo in there but she’s more ok with pee, also it smells so my dog immediately eliminates the smell

The bad part is that it’s weird af and also it makes me grossed out to touch or hug her after and her mouth may smell for a while

Why do dogs eat shit.. it kinda weird me out she is really weird

Also she does not eat her own shit just my cats
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Your house smells like disgusting catfaggot house and your dog's primitive retard dog brain is worried the stench will attract predators
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>>4675950
Kek
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>>4675297
Why yes, I DO eat literal shit. How could you tell?
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>>4675942
based
Let the ratbeast eat all the cat shit
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jfc what is this i dont even

Why do Calicos mog so hard?

I'll start
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>>4671124
man made horror
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>>4671124
that is fucking satanic
if I met someone who owned one of these I would drop a brick on their head
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>>4671124
>breeders who appreciate:
>eye-catching humpbacked body
>balding head
>skinny body
Just burn the whole population and all the breeders. Rinse it clean.
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>>4672171
Kek
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>>4676325
easily, one of the cats of all time
he's so strange

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Do animals raised in captivity ever upset the odds and thrive in the wild?
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>>4676976
Whenever some hippie released mink from a mink farm they'd thrive just fine, problem was nothing else did because they wiped out everything small enough to hunt, collapsing the local eco system completely.
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>>4676976
>what is a feral dog or cat
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Hasn't seemed to work for me

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Why do they lie?
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>>4673855
>Chihuahua-Pit mix
Now THAT is an abomination I would like to see
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>>4671292
Yep, blue eyes
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lying about pit-bulls just exacerbates the problem, why is everything and everyone so stupid?
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>>4676903
cant be honest about anything without single liberal femcels throwing a tantrum
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Do animals raised in captivity ever upset the odds and completely thrive in the wild?

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Post snails and slugs
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Snel
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>>4676825
A classic

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>They had feathers
>"No they didn't, that's stupid. We haven't found evidence of them having feathers."
>picrel
>"Ok ok but they were short and stumpy feathers, like quills, basically hair.. proto-feathers."
>microraptor fossil
>"Ok ok but that's just a one of a kind example of modern feathers."
>How did they thermoregulate?
>"They sunbathed like a lizard"
They don't want to say it, they will never say it; even when we clone a T-rex and it looks like a retarded ostrich pibble creature, they'll say "Maybe we did it wrong..". These things survived in arctic climates and you expect me to believe they just sunbathed through it?
I don't care that much, but still it's stupid. Jurassic park & godzilla ruined an entire generation of paleontologists.
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Looks like the Crumb album
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>>4674820
Those aren't scales
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>>4674908
I agree with you except on the crocodile armor part, dinosaur scales look nothing like that, they look more like the texture of a basket ball
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>>4676864
you need to be medicated
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>>4676861
>trannies make fuzzy drag queen t-rexes to piss everyone off
The woke reaction is getting worse than the wokes themselves.


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