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ITT: God-tier documentaries
When do we start?
Snow Monkeys
BBC's planet earth and blue planet
Need help. Cat was sitting on my table, made a little meow noise jumped down and this was there... from under her ass. What is it... please help?
Is that a pooperpillar?
That's what it looks like.
>>2034950
Is your cat an outside cat? Probably picked it up from crawling through the bushes. Then felt it crawling through it's ass hairs and freaked out.
Hey /an/, I'm wondering how rough is too rough to play with your dog?
>>2034055
If it's hurting your dog or training it to be aggressive.
>>2034055
If you notice your dog flinching, trying to escape, or retaliating with bites.
Don't know if it's the right place (there's no gardening board), but maybe some /an/on has greener thumbs than I.
I was given a very large branch of a lovely jasmine shrub from a relative, and I've placed short sections of it (~25cm) in water, hoping they'd send out roots from between the segments so I can later plant them in soil; but (while still alive and green) they don't take out roots, as other segmented plants have for me.
I've very little experience, is there a way to encourage it to grow, like adding certain nutrients...
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They sell root hormones. You dip a cut end into the powder and then let it sit in water or something.
I don't know.
>>2034049
Usually you're supposed to take cuttings in the spring or summer when the plant is actively growing. Sticking the cuttings in as well draining potting mix and keeping it moist is usually enough to get it rooted.
There's a gardening thread on /out/ that may be able to help you more than /an/.
>>2034072
>you're supposed to take cuttings in the spring or summer
It was given to me, and I wouldn't have had the opportunity to take it later this year unfortunately.
So my dumbass had impulse bought two "terrarium kits" from Lowes of bug eating plants. Probably not a wise idea. Comes with a dormant venus fly trap and a pitcher plant each, as well as a baggie of soil and sphagnum moss.
I just want to know what you guys think of this buy and how I can properly care for these little guys, or at least to give me some idea of what to do before I do more research. You guys (at least most of you) are awesome and really know your shit. I am a complete noob for the most part. All I've ever done was plant a few flowers and throw...
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Here's the paper with caregiving instructions. Probably bullshit.
Bottom part
The stuff that comes with
So /an/ how many of you either work in /an/ careers or do wildlife photography or breed? I know we have a fair amount of people that work in research and breeders but I never see any photographers. Anything related to the hobby of animals and nature besides owning a pet.
It's probably because any hobbiest photographer posts on /p/ for feedback. I want to try to get into basic photography of nature and deep space. I have a Nikon D3300 to start with. Just need to learn how to take pictures super good.
>>2033449
/p/ is garbage for feedback or conversation.
>>2033429
I'm a wildlife photographer. I'm on my phone so here is a super low quality version of a picture I took.
>>2033429
Current DVM/MS student working with a swine laboratory and at the local animal shelter.
I got this picture from google, there isn't any blood but the same seems to be happening to my parents' dog and he's also acting somewhat weird, not as happy as he usually is.
I'm worried about it but they don't want to bring him to the vet, could it be anything serious? He's 8 years old
is that his butthole or what? all I'm gonna say is if my dog had that thing ANYWHERE I'd take him to the vet.
he's probably acting weird cause he feels bad
>>2033259
Those are clearly a dog's balls.
>>2033164
>I'm worried about it but they don't want to bring him to the vet
Op, take him to a vet please!
Sup, I found this at my work.
He arrived in a box of cucumbers from Spain.
What specie is this and what should I do with it? Netherlands here
Tarentola mauritanica.
depends, do you want to keep it?
>>2033119
Thanks!
Yes, my co-worker wants to take it home!
Any tips/info?
I know this is probably not the place for this but I've gradually been shifting away from feeding my dog bagged processed pebbles of food to a more wholesome diet. I know most of you don't care about this kind of stuff.
I actually care about my dog and love to know that he's being fed real food with real ingredients that I cook instead of mystery pebbles that supposedly have good ingredients.
For example, I just fed him dried beef jerky with butternutsquash soup drizzled on top and then anchovies on top. Anyone else do this?
>>2032635
Hey fuck you faggot YOU'RE A FAGGOT FUCK YOU FAGGOT
>>2032635
ugh, you're right to get away from kibble but for fucks sake dont feed your dog human food
look into the raw diet.
>>2032635
you're a moron and a hipster, you know nothing of alternative species nutritional needs
Can anyone identify this bird?
Found in the Netherlands
you really don't recognize a goddamn seagull?
>>2032548
Ain't look like no seagull to me, unless you're telling me this is a male/female bird or some shit.
Not even orange beak bruh.
>>2032549
it's a juvenile Larus argentatus.
Lately I've been hearing a pretty big pack of coyotes less than 50 yards away in the woods behind my house.
It's hard to tell how many there are and I can't find on google how large a pack can be. Does anyone know? If I had to guess by their howls, maybe a couple dozen but probably way off.
They never got this close to until a couple years ago, and I'm not sure why. I always thought they only lost their shyness around hiking trails and public parks, but I live in rural Mississippi. I can't imagine there were any more pets, chicken, etc...
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Use any small children on hand as bait and try counting them. Might require several tries.
>>2032370
Normal coyotes (most of the US and Canada) are solitary animals. They don't hunt in packs but a fair number can live in the same general area. These aren't dangerous bar rabies and as far as I now have never killed a human directly.
The eastern coyote, also called tweed wolves or the annoying "coywolf", in the Northeastern US and Canada they are actually hybrids of coyotes, eastern wolves, and domestic dogs. They can form hunting pairs or even small family based packs and grow about twice...
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>>2032370
It's probably not as many as you think. Coyote family groups make a ton of noise, especially when the older ones head out and come back from hunting. Since you're in rural Mississippi, think of it as like when rednecks go to visit relatives--they see cousin Jimmy Joe's truck coming up the drive and all spill out of the trailer, hootin' and a' hollerin'.
The groups are usually a breeding pair, maybe 1 or 2 offspring from the previous year, and the current year's pups. They're not as cohesive or stable as wolf packs and tend to disperse into solo animals when there aren't any pups.
Since they're more noticeable now they may have dug out a den and had pups somewhere behind your house. Or (since I don't know you) maybe you've gotten more observant over the years and are now picking up on things you missed before. Who knows?
It's a nice sound though. I grew up in rural Texas and it always reminds me of summer evenings as a kid.
Could I please get an ID on this vine?
Cymbalaria muralis.
You are a true hero anon
Im not sure of what kind of wine plant is it, just stick that bitch into your pipe and smoke it up
Do dogs really eat their owner after he's dead?
Some do, some don't. If your dog stares at you frequently, it's probably one of the ones that does.
>>2031426
it's only to preserve the owner's soul, so they could be together forever
I work at a shelter, and we got in two pomeranians that were owned by an elderly man before he died. he fell and couldn't get up, and no one came for him so he died
no one found his body until two weeks later, and the dogs were loose in the house with no access to food aside from, well, him.. you can imagine how that went
they got adopted out to a nice family though. we weren't legally obligated to tell them, so we didn't. always felt weird about it.
Hey i want to learn more about prehistoric mammals. Specifically the ones that came after dinosaurs and before human Beings took over the world.It saddens me how little stuff there is on them compared to the dinosaurs.just any documentaries,websites or videos that would teach me a lot about the amazing animals during those times. thank you for your help. Also another small question. i was obsessed with "Walking with Prehistoric beasts" when i was younger and i just recently rewatched it but how accurate is it. because i heard that walking with dinosaurs and other prehistoric...
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>>2030147
walking with prehistoric beasts but a lot of smaller details are incorrect or new evidence has invalidated it like for example Gastornis was most likely a herbivore rather a then carnivore
there isn't much on them because they're extremely boring.
>>2030147
bugguy's right.
the public doesn't have much interest in Cenozoic mammals, so there isn't much out there in the form of videos aimed at adults.
Scientists are the opposite, they're way more interested in mammals than in dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. There's probably 20 times more scientific articles on extinct mammals than there are on any other group of animals.
It doesn't get much more boring than reading scientific papers though. It's like drowning slowly...
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Why are human babies so ugly?
>>2027092
because you think they are
>>2027092
I don't know, but they certainly look nutritious. All soft and fatty.
>>2027104
I'll bet they are, too bad it's illegal.
