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Worst place your animal has gone to uninvited?

The house 4 doors away.

3 Comments
2024/11/21
20:12 UTC

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Is It Okay to "coexist" with spiders?

It’s summer where I live, and I hate mosquitoes so much, so I decided not to get rid of the spiders in the corners of my room. I’m actually sitting right next to them at my desk

So at first, there were only two of them, but now I’m noticing five. Three more showed up on the ceiling

So I was wondering, where could I ask for advice on how to handle this properly? or is this just crazy and I should get rid of them? Like, maybe I’m being ignorant and doing something more dangerous than I thought

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36 Comments
2024/11/21
19:53 UTC

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Worst animal that has ever got into your home uninvited?

A pigeon

98 Comments
2024/11/21
19:25 UTC

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Furret question

Hey everyone, im about to adopt 2 baby furrets and i have some questions for the furret owners, how much time a day do you spend with them, and how do play with them, do you have setups for them to explore ? I like to game a little as well when i get home and im asking these questions because i don’t wanna lack the attention they need, thanks in advance!

8 Comments
2024/11/20
14:24 UTC

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what are the most badass animals

who are the most badass animals? i mean animals that despite being "weak" have survived a thrived through history. Animals that could manage to survive or even sometimes defeat their predators

19 Comments
2024/11/19
19:40 UTC

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Can we talk about the demonization of coyotes when they are basically just wild dogs (lowkey a little rant)

I was on TikTok and came across a video that someone took of two coyotes play fighting and in the comments and video they were like "they are trying to lure your dogs" and "they are fighting over who's going to eat your dogs"(ignoring the fact that according to multiple credible sources coyotes rarely hunt in packs and that luring thing is just a myth bc ppls dogs just perhaps have poor recall and chase coyotes when they are scared and running to their pack) and op was like "don't worry my blue heeler got one this morning".... I'm sorry but I'm more worried about your dog bc if it will do that to a coyote, I can't imagine it wouldn't do it to another dog. I just think these beautiful creatures are so demonized. People forget that these are wild animals doing what they need to do to survive in an ever dwindling environment.

56 Comments
2024/11/19
13:21 UTC

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Would anyone here possibly be able to help id what kind of creature this was?

I live in southeast michigan, earlier tonight (probably about 7pm) i was outside and heard a series of very strange sounds coming from about a block away from me. The first sounded like an owl, this sound lasted probably about 2-3 minutes stopping a few seconds between calls. I tried calling back to it hoping for a response but it went quiet after i did. The next almost sounded like a sliding whistle, this sound was a lot more drawn out and lasted for about 5 minutes, each call was about 3-4s with maybe a 2-3s gap between them. After i heard the second call I got kind of spooked and got out of there, I didnt think to record because truth be told i didnt think about trying to post to reddit I was kinda freaked out. This area has been known for coyotes and some claim to have even seen wolves. Could it be possible this was either of them?

Note: I also did not visibly see anything, only heard the noise from about a block away and I wasnt trying to investigate, but as I walked away i did also think that i heard a trash or compost bin falling over behind me on the opposite side of the street, but when i turned around nothing was there nor knocked over so i discarded it.

5 Comments
2024/11/19
05:49 UTC

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Bones in Aboriginal cemetery, can anyone identify them?

0 Comments
2024/11/19
04:40 UTC

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Have you ever seen a turkey strut and chuff? [OC]

7 Comments
2024/11/18
14:27 UTC

8

What are the 10 fastest *domesticated* animals?

I know greyhounds are the fastest dog breed. Egyptian May for cat. What about including other domesticated animals, such as goat or donkeys?

11 Comments
2024/11/18
02:57 UTC

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TIL that mosquitoes are the #1 killer of all the animals, as of 2022; ten times more than the second place (snakes). It was also interesting that sharks haven’t even made the top 15. Apparently, hippos and elephants are responsible for more deaths than lions. Sorry, sharks.

2 Comments
2024/11/17
23:29 UTC

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Do animals truly "snap"?

Do humans, dogs, cats, pretty much every and any animal, truly "snap" or are we just reverting back to our natural primal instincts without the social conditioning? For example we could "domesticate" a lot of animals but they'll always resort back to their natural instincts. You can't train a dog to not be a dog, a raccoon to not be a raccoon, a human to not be a human, etc. Without the social impact involved, humans would be extremely different. Without the animals social impact, they would be completely different. Do animals (ourselves included) really just "snap" or is it just resorting back to our natural instincts and nature? What exactly IS our natural instincts and nature?

0 Comments
2024/11/17
21:22 UTC

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2024/11/16
07:32 UTC

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What’s the most ruthless predatory animal?

I think jaguars and golden eagles, give me your thoughts

1 Comment
2024/11/16
01:00 UTC

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People People who have exotic pets, what prompted you to do this? How did you get used to living with them?

I mean something like snakes , spider etc.

13 Comments
2024/11/15
20:27 UTC

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