Animal Thread

Millions of arachnids in Pakistan escape rising floodwater in trees, Yikes…

An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitos was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods’

click the link for other wildlife pics http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062436/National-Geographic-Photography-Contest-2011-12-outstanding-world-nature-photos.html#ixzz1dzFbv3KD

An amateur cameraman has captured the insane moment a drunk zoo visitor jumped into a monkey enclosure to ‘play with them’, and ended up with severe bite marks after the animals attacked.

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I don’t think I’ve ever been that drunk. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried my best, but… you’ve got to be a special breed to do some dumb shit like that.

How is a animal being hunted to the point of extinction for it’s horn by poachers natural?

I could never wrap my head around why poachers would knowingly hunt an animal to extinction. Especially in the case of Rhinos where their horns can grow back if they are still alive (I think). I guess trying to sneak onto a reserve, figure out correct dosages, tranq, track, and harvest an animal is a lot harder than blowing it away.

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Because they’re fucking morons.

Same reason why the dodo went extinct. You’d think sailors trapped on a deserted island would try to domesticate/ breed an animal to sustain themselves, but nope, they just slaughtered them all to extinction. Shortsighted selfish fools.

If the wiki page is to be believed, animals introduced by humans did far more damage that hunting. Apparently Dodos didn’t even taste good.

Yeah that was also a factor, but they were also being slaughtered by the droves.

dont think we’re talking about animals being introduced to other countries… Simply breed them for consumption within their own habitat if need be.

I want a pet owl for christmas

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I cant embed the video for some reason.

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They’re so beautiful.

Sleeping dormouse, supposedly hibernating through the winter.

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…Thats it, i’m getting an owl, lol.

Owl mimics the appearance of other owls.

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I love the vampire transformation at the end.

Animals that get drunk or high are my heroes. Lemurs are number 1. I always find it crazy that primates love to get trashed and trip out or go wild and stomp some one for no reason.

It’s begun…

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welcome to 500,000 B.C.

indeed

The poor bastard. He set out to head over to his local Gamestop to get his reserved Umvc3, when he realized that going to pick that shit up was gonna be a LOT harder than he anticipated. Word is somebody picked it up for him and dropped it off at his crib after he placed a call.

There’s something thats been bugging my mind for a while now about people who are concearned about other people wearing real fur. If the animal dies naturally of old age, then you take its fur… would people still have a problem with that?

I swear I replied to this with something clever a few days ago, but it obviously didnt post and I cant remember what I said. So I’ll go a bit cheesier.
uh…
Looks that that guy should
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stop monkeying around yyyeeeaaaahhhhh