Is it okay if I move species from one part of my state to another somewhat suitable environment behind my home? I live on calciferous grassland that’s also a riparian zone. It tends to catch fire so I want to try and revitalize the land so big aggressive grasses don’t ruin it again. Is it okay to transplant stuff like plants, fungi, and animals?
>>4794493As long as you aren't planning on raiding the nearest nature reserve for plants or something I don't see anything that would speak against it.Oh, and I don't know if you chose that picture at random but please don't try to transplant orchids. Terrestrial orchid species are completely dependent on symbiotic fungal species, and there's a high probability the plant will just start dying off at the new site.
Wtf is the plant in the pic? Looks cool as fuck.
>>4795901It's a Lady's-Tresses Orchid
There a bush walk near my house and there used to be orchids that grew on the sides of the pathThe local council hires idiots who can't recognise orchids, probably don't know even know we have orchids here, and for 3 years they were spraying herbicides on the areaI haven't seen them grow there for the last 4 yearsMeanwhile the fine for digging the orchids up is massive
>>4794493Just don’t go ripping threatened or endangered shit out of healthier ecosystems. You may also want to consider just collecting and planting seeds. That’s how I got coral roots to grow in my yard. Pollinate plant. Come back later. Take some of the seeds. Don’t take all the seeds. That way you can restore a beautiful, healthy habitat without fucking over a different site. Lastly check construction sites and stuff like that. There is nothing wrong with digging up plants that would end up crushed by a dozer blade.
Why so dramatic?
>>4796581Yes, because it’s a scavenger, vultures also wouldn’t mind the smell, hence why I said “most”
>>4796506https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOjmJG73UI
>>4793290my hogger >smells nice>eats pinky mice>never plays dead>handleable I love him
>>4793256He wants to make it VERY CLEAR that he is in fact dead and that you can now leave him alone.
>>4793256How do these strategies work against vultures? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind the foul odours
Most spiders don’t have venom anywhere near potent enough to harm let alone kill a human (and that’s just among the minority of one’s with fangs that can actually penetrate human skin). But that makes me question: why do any of them *do*? Sydney funnels and Brazilian wandering spiders can kill a full grown adult in minutes. This is obviously way overkill for incapacitating prey, but even for defense it’s pretty extreme especially since those species already have pretty big fangs anyway.
>>4797693The lesson was that you shouldn't be afraid of spiders because they can't hurt you.
>>4797812Oh. Lmao. Wonder if that backfired over there.
>>4797812I think I remember hearing about this. Pretty ridiculous since the danger of spiders here is obscenely overblown. A lot of that probably had to do with redbacks though (much more commonly encountered than a funnel web), but from what I understand their bites generally aren't even fatal.
>>4797914They generally aren't fatal even if untreated, I mean.
>>4797812This is a stupid thing to teach kids even if the vast majority of them aren't dangerous.You can still get pretty horrible effects from some spiders. Here in the US, the recluse can cause you to get a massive ugly scar and have to deal with the pain of necrosis. Not to mention the widows that can actually kill people.
"Who's a good dog?" is always asked, but does anyone ask, "Who's a good owner?".
>>4797259only in bizarro world
>>4797219No. Because the answer would be “Not you.” 95 percent of the time and most dog owners aren’t ready to confront that >>4797259Wrong. Very wrong.
>>4797219Usually white people
>>4797627dogs are more high maintenance than children desu
>>4797219My dog things I'm a good boy and that's all that matters.
is there any animal more impression than a beaver in terms of the stuff they can make?NO ants allowed
BOBROBR
>>4795612>NO ants allowed
>>4795919Maybe it's just one female alien assigned to monitor Earth as part of a biological study, and there's a bunch of male aliens trying to get noticed.
>>4795856Aliens are actually fish men who live deep under the ocean so it would make a lot of sense if they're doing it out of evolutionary habit.
>>47978242huGOD
What the hell was his problem?
>>4797538Just woke up and dug it's way out of the sand, then a photographer shoves a camera in his face.
>>4797538I think he voices his grievances pretty clearly in the video, anon.
>>4797538And this is……………………………….?
>>4797758Never seen an hqdefault?
Florida wouldn't be the same without these guys running all over the place
>>4797744Finlayson's squirrel. Nutty lil' niggas
>>4797744Can't upload pics because reasons but I found out what they're called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlayson%27s_squirrel
>>4797751Yup, those're the ones. I just posted >>4797752 after finding it out for myself. Super fucking cute. I hear they're moving further north into my region, Campania, but I haven't seen any.
>>4797733Idk about brown anoles given greens themselves only rafted over a few million years before them but green iguanas would not have colonized the Caribbean nearly as rapidly without man fucking over Cyclura populations
>>4797720Those things are invasive? We have them here and I’m in the middle of nowhere.>>4797771>but green iguanas would not have colonized the Caribbean nearly as rapidlyVery true. We only managed to get our population down a few years back and they’re still fairly common. Wish it would have been the Blue Iguana that was so successful
How can I ensure my cat lives to atleast 20? He's around 8-9 currently and is still very full of piss and vinegar (he's a domestic long hair and is very large and slightly chubby). What kinds of things ensures that a cat will live a very long life? I've heard of cats living until their 30s in rare cases and I would imagine it has to do with a little more than just genetics and luckpic unrel
>>4797584Alright well my problem is that when my cat was maybe 3 years old he got a UTI and almost died and they had no clue how he got it since he was neutered, and the veterinarians scared my mom into buying my cat this special urinary tract health dry food for him which he has been eating ever since. She is very jewed in pretty much every aspect of her life and the food she buys for her pets is no exception, she thinks if they eat absolutely anything other than the food they've been eating their whole lives they will get sick. How do I unjew my mom on the topic of pet food?
>>4797506That’s a good question that’s still widely debated on. Same for dogs. Genetics definitely play a factor as we know certain breeds are just outright unhealthy and can only live so long. But beyond that you’ll get a myriad of answers depending on who you ask
>>4797506You can give him the most expensive food and never let him outside and he'll still get cancer and die. It's a roll of the dice. Just enjoy your time with him and don't take him for granted. It'll end one day.
>>4797563my last cat was an outdoor cat who ate a mix of wet and dry food and she lived until 20, perhaps there are more factors to it.
>>4797563>>4797566I didn't do anything special. I only ever fed him wet canned food. I don't remember the brand, But towards the end I tried expensive sensitive stomach stuff, but he only ever liked the cheap stuff. And I always gave him bits of whatever I was eating. He was pretty health up until the last 9 months.
"Vultures of the sea".Just as misunderstood, just as threatened.
>>4720361I see the family resemblance
this a real animal?/tv/ is my main board
>>4797223fuck off tourist
Stick around, tourist
What's your favorite animal, tourist?
>>4797623I like the elephant.It's really in a sense an ideal for what humanity should be.Smart, intelligent, emotional, to some extent understanding and accepting the futility of life but still grieving when it happens - yet moving on. Elephant groups can only be separated by death or capture, while humans kill each other by the thousands even close relatives.Humans, with all the technical knowledge breed ourselves into degeneracy, stupidity and meaningless eating, shitting, fucking while destroying the planet WITHOUT ANY GOAL other than profit and pleasure.Elephants eat, shit and fuck but they don't destroy the planet.I know elephants aren't fully aware or at least aren't aware like we are.But I wonder If elephants evolved technology first instead of disgusting chimps - would they have built a better world? I believe so.
>>4797662All of that comes down to choice and capability anon. If elephants were capable of doing that and had the smarts to do it they would. Our intelligence is what leads us to have the awareness that we have the *choice* to do those things, only our guilt and shame and any other self imposed morals stops us
Any anteater chads here? What do you feed them? Any special needs?
>>4795616what the fuck
>>4795616you monster
>>4786382Also for balance when the other half of its body is deep in a holeTails are usually very useful
>>4797533I’m about to be deep in your hole but you don’t see me wagging around a tail
>>4795616Ant mandibles posted this image
>>4794868Oh shiiiiit that's a fire collab. When do it drop
>>4797285I’m pretty sure something like that did happen funnily enough
>>4796907It’s a primal kind of realization. He doesn’t yet know what death is but he can still feel a vague sense of impending doom right around the corner and stays silent but alert in hopes of not drawing its attention. Scary stuff.
>>4796918pretty muchnature will be nature
>>4794861SMASHEDLAMMED
Aw he's smiling :D
>>4797240They will never be back
>>4797295Oh...
>>4796900Doesn’t look like it…>>4796934Tragically beautiful…>>4797171Why would it have a mouth that big
>>4797381The better to eat you with my dear
>>4797381That part is somewhat close to reality, but the place where the jaw connection is at the image is different
>>4797496are those real
do tell
Are bloodhounds good police dogs?
>>4796451They can’t and they don’t. Even in staged trials Mals underperform in scent work.>Three boxes>Decoy in one>Mals sniff all three boxes repeatedly before guessing which one the decoy is inIn most “scent” portions they’re just relying on memory from this drill in training and guessing if they can’t figure it out or just smelling the decoy without any ground scenting. They literally have a 1/3 chance of advancing no matter which box they indicate. There is flat out no testing for cold trailing whatsoever due to the time constraints required for it and general lack of need.Bloodhounds are specialized sniffers. A mal is an elite interdiction dog and that is simply prized dramatically over the other in modern police work where you’re almost never chasing a convict into the swamps or untamed wild which is why the use of hounds has predominantly switched to trailing missing children and senile elderly instead of criminals. It also helps they won’t maul a freezing toddler that wandered off. There are still parts of the country that cold trailing is useful for actual police work though. There’s a guy down in Oklahoma that uses coonhounds and horses. He’s got some great stories like when his dogs bayed his shitbag cousin up in a stock pond and he just played dead when they told him to swim to shore.
>>4796451>they can and they areAll images you find of mals following trails are very short and very recent trails. Mals are good at short scentwork, as is every other dog breed, like sniffing drugs or guns or something. Insisting that mals can do what hounds can do because you prefer mals is asinine and retarded. Hounds can follow days old trails. Mals can't. Cope harder.
>>4796105just realized those two are Asianis that lunch
>>4796472There’s been a few repeat threads lately. Could just be a bot.
>>4796105Their certainley the handsomest.
