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Re: Animal storieS

Posted: June 16th, 2019, 12:33 am
by ISayMoo

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: June 16th, 2019, 12:27 pm
by katastrofa

Gore-Tex (C) nest

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: June 29th, 2019, 7:46 am
by katastrofa
Hobbits?

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: June 29th, 2019, 8:01 pm
by ISayMoo
Sand Martins, maybe?

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 1st, 2019, 11:22 am
by katastrofa
Kenya, 1950s
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Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 2nd, 2019, 7:32 am
by ISayMoo
Incredible.

Can you spot the leopard? (it's there)

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 2nd, 2019, 8:55 am
by katastrofa
Yeah, I can see his massive arse in the centre... Dude, I can recognise adversarially altered photos - did you forget? Try harder.
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Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 17th, 2019, 4:13 pm
by katastrofa

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 22nd, 2019, 9:58 am
by katastrofa
Find the Munjac deer in the photo (it's been taken in Central London last week).

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 23rd, 2019, 8:21 pm
by katastrofa
Breakups really suck, even if you’re a fish
The scientists started by giving females a chance to express a preference between two males. In a tank partitioned into three compartments, the female fish was put in the middle, and a male was put on either side of her. After seeing, hearing, and — let’s be real — judging them through the mesh partitions, she huddled up close to the one she liked best.
But the scientists didn’t allow all the female fish to stay with their chosen mates. In some cases, the researchers split them up and paired the females with the males they’d rejected. They found that these unfortunately paired fish couples were slower to spawn than the others.
Now, the scientists switched gears. They exposed the female fish to little clay boxes in the tank. Boxes with white lids contained food (one yummy larva, to be exact), while boxes with black lids contained nothing. The fish learned that with some effort, they could suck or push off the lids, and they gradually figured out that a white lid means there’ll be a treat inside.
Here’s the tricky bit: The scientists then introduced a third kind of box, this one with a grey lid. They wanted to see how the female fish would respond to an ambiguous signal — halfway between white and black — and whether the response would correlate with whether the fish had gotten to stay with her chosen mate or had been separated from him and paired with the reject instead.
The researchers hypothesized that females who’d been made optimistic by a positive experience would push off the grey lids, expecting to find food, while females who’d been made pessimistic wouldn’t bother to make the effort.
And that’s exactly what happened. “Females that were assigned their non-preferred partner exhibited pessimistic bias,” the researchers wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, “which indicates a negative affective state.”
And they says that fishes are feminists... or something like that.

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: July 25th, 2019, 10:26 am
by katastrofa


Smokin’
Sexy
Style!!
+1000pts

So much for parental instincts
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Re: Animal storieS

Posted: August 2nd, 2019, 2:29 am
by katastrofa

"... people selling Rhino horn these days in these Asian countries actually cut real medications into the horn product without telling the Asian consumer; then these consumers think their rhino horn “medication” (containing viagra or ibuprofen, etc unbeknownst to them) actually works; further fueling this hideous black market."

Sneaky scum.

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: August 9th, 2019, 6:50 pm
by katastrofa
ImageDog fetus. Cute, looks like a sculpture of a cat made in carnelian agate.

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: August 12th, 2019, 9:34 pm
by ISayMoo

Re: Animal storieS

Posted: August 24th, 2019, 10:15 am
by ISayMoo