Board: /an/
"/an/ - Animals & Nature" is 4chan's imageboard for posting pictures of animals, pets, and nature.
Recent Developments Edition
Previous /fox/: >>4991134 Wasn’t sure if I could post this here but I thought people should know.
Welcome to /plant/, the happy green place on this blue board, where growers, gardeners and horticulturists share their love for things that grow.
Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.
>Flora of the World
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/
>Plants of the World Online
https://powo.science.kew.org/
>Hardiness zones
https://www.plantmaps.com/
>Plant ID Sites
https://identify.plantnet.org/
https://wildflowersearch.org/
>Pests and Diseases
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/advice-search
https://www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/
>Thousands of Botanical Illustrations
http://www.plantillustrations.org/
>Cacti and Succulents
https://worldofsucculents.com/
https://www.cactiguide.com/
https://www.succulentguide.com/
>Carnivorous plants
https://botany.org/home/resources/carnivorous-plants-insectivorous-plants.html
https://carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides
>Alpine plants
https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/
>Ponds
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-pond
>How to Make a Terrarium
https://terrariumtribe.com/diy-terrarium-guide/
Previously on /plant/ >>4998970 Fluffy snow leopard edition. Post big cats, small wildcats, or anything vaguely feline that isn't a domestic cat. >see this apex predator known for killing people when approached?
>lemme get close to him and take a selfie with it What’s the humane thing to do with French bulldogs and other animals that can’t reproduce safely without human intervention.
Do we have a responsibility to keep them alive since we’ve created them, or would the truly humane thing to do is stop breeding them. Do you know anything similar to foopets or world of zoo? Does anyone else think it's retarded when people call pets "slaves"? 99% of pet cats and dogs for example aren't put to any intense labor that can be considered slavery, they eat, sleep, shit and get their required exercise before inevitably passing on, you could argue that they're prisoners if they're locked down to an area but that's about it.
Not talking about actual working animals btw, there's an actual argument there, I mean regular ass pets that do nothing. Why are dogs such pussies? Pea Puffer edition.
Discuss anything aquarium related here, including MD fishtanks, tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, shrimp, decor, plants, duckweed and issues. Before asking questions in this thread, make sure you give us at least some details when asking a question, such as:
>Tank size (include dimensions, not just volume)
>Unusual Parameters (nitrate, pH, GH, KH)
>Any inhabitants + how long you've had them
>Age of the tank
>Pictures are always helpful
Tank Cycling:
>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/
Stocking and Water Change Calculator:
>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php
>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.php
Articles and Care Guides:
>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/
>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/
>www.aquariumcoop.com/
>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/
Aquatic Plant Database:
>www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/all.php
>www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants
previous >>4989102 >getting ready for bed
>hear what sounds like metal getting scratched coming from my back patio
>probably something sniffing around my grill since I made burgers earlier and hadn't cleaned the grates
>turn on the patio light to see what's out there
>only see a massive pink tail finish turning the corner before it vanishes from view
How big can these trashrats get? I live in the southeast USA Any hamster stories /an/? What can wasps do to improve their reputation?
Black-banded snake Edition
previous: >>4980400
This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answered
Classifieds for finding breeders and products:
>morphmarket.com
>kingsnake.com
>faunaclassifieds.com
>caudata.org
Most forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.
When asking a question, make sure to include these details:
>Type and size of animal
>Enclosure dimensions
>Humidity and temperature
>Type of substrate
>The decor you use
>How often you feed
>The type of food you use
>If your animal is wild caught or captive bred
>How often you handle
>Who you bought the animal from
Other Helpful Resources
www.blackjungleterrariumsupply.com
www.joshsfrogs.com
http://www.reptilesmagazine.com
http://www.anapsid.org
http://www.hylid.clara.co.uk/caer.htm
https://www.americanmadeexotics.com/breeding-ball-pythons-article.html They keep drawing it with a mullet, and self-comforting themselves in every comment squeezing through their teeth that it "mOsT LiKeLy" wasn't feathered.
It DEFINITELY wasn't feathered, you, manbabies! Cope with it already, and stop being cringe. How accurate is this in retrospect? SUMMER HAS ARRIVED IN FULL BLAST EDITION
Previous neighers: >>4989038 For me is the Gerberian Shepsky. But i won't get one cause i am agressive with dogs. What kinda massage is this? My folks finally decided to give our third cat who largely lived in the basement away to a family who live by a farm so that she can be happy finally. I really miss her still but she apparently left behind fleas and a week later, we are still dealing with them. Just used flea floggers all over down in the basement. Will this be effective enough? Anyone know how to kill off the fleas completely? They seem to be largely in the basement.
(Picture isn't mine, I'm just using it as a reference for thread) hello
I think this thing is cool
it's big
it's like an elephant horse Where does your pet's name come from? What are some animals with aura? Does anyone have a guide on which animals show up at corpses? Flies, beetles etc. White bros, how do we even compete? Im going tp post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants a puggle to snuggle. Old thread got it's leg caught in a jeffries tube. >>4793406. Sorry I had to take a couple of days off. I was dealing with some stuff.
>900x3 seconds to post boo. I dislike this captcha. It just makes me wait and then start over seriously why are cats such a-holes? Our dog has been rolling on its back a lot lately. I think this is harmless and I give belly rubs. but my dad got mad. He says it's sexual and accused me of fondling the dog's genitals. /an/ please give me reputable sources that prove this behavior is completely normal. >Very similar to viruses
>Smallest genome of any archaean
>No metabolic processes
>Only parasitic archaean known
>Relies on host's ribosomes to replicate
>Studies suggest it's part of a previously neglected clade related to the DPANN archaean group
Is it an archaean or a virus? Where would you draw the line between viruses and cells? We're back.
And we're taking your ice cream!
Expanded Future Edition
Previous Thread >>4943797
WHAT IS SPECULATIVE EVOLUTION?
Speculative evolution is the exploration and imagining of how life might evolve in the future or could have evolved in alternate pasts. It's a multimedia sci-fi genre that harnesses scientific principles to create detailed and plausible hypothetical creatures, ecosystems, and evolutionary histories.
RESOURCES:
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Tutorial
>One-stop shop for relevant background information for starting a project
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/
>Fantastic blog covering all sorts of spec evo topics in-depth
https://specevo.jcink.net/
>The Speculative Evolution forums, full of resources and ongoing projects
RECOMMENDED PROJECTS:
https://pastebin.com/zhBbaNTB
>Link to a PDF of Wayne Barlowe’s “Expedition”, a seminal work of speculative evolution full of incredible paintings and illustrations
https://youtu.be/Rbi8Jgx1CNE [Embed] [Embed]
>”The Future is Wild”, a CGI documentary following the evolution of life on Earth in the far future
https://pastebin.com/esdFrSEZ
>Dougal Dixon, arguably the father of speculative evolution. These are links to PDF’s of his books “After Man”, “The New Dinosaurs”, and “Man After Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egzZv8tqT_k&list=PL6xPxnYMQpquNuaEffJzjGjMsr6VktCYl&ab_channel=Biblaridion [Embed] [Embed]
https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/
https://sunriseonilion.wordpress.com/
http://www.cmkosemen.com/snaiad_web/snduterus.html
https://www.deviantart.com/sanrou/gallery/56844005/nau
http://www.planetfuraha.nl/
https://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/lokiworldofrats/home
https://specevo.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=4578&st=15
https://www.deviantart.com/bicyclefrog
https://hardeshur.blogspot.com/p/main-page.html
https://rylmadolisland.blogspot.com/p/main-page.html?zx=bba41f9d602b6b9a Deer Thread
Nothing bad will happen to your mother if you do not deer ITT.
Better safe than sorry though.
>>4948366 - Previous Fawn What's the deal with these overly colored animals anyway. They not only look like total tryhards, but very garish as well. How about showing some dignity, like European birds, with their nice muted colors.
Please help me find a specific charity or at least one similar to it.
I read a post on the effective altruism subreddit that mentioned a specific charity but I can't find it. I want to donate to them https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/k7r29t/which_charity_or_org_can_save_the_most_animal/
I’m looking for the best place to donate some money, but my research isn’t turning up many good options. I’d like to choose a recipient that can save the highest number of lives for a given sum of money (say $1000). So far the 2 best options I have are rehoming rescued battery hens (~$20 each) or relocating bee hives (~$200 per hive of ~10,000 bees).
I see he deleted his account. He mentioned in the comments the name of the bee charity but not the chicken rehoming charity. Any ideas what that charity might be?
Alternatively is there just a charity which helps herbivorous birds or mammals where I can know my donation is personally making an impact similar to something like PLAN international adopt a child or against malaria foundation and the link they email you showing which nets your donations funded and where they're going in and what stage of production they're in? Is there an animal vegan charity like this which I know my donation will make an individual impact and me donating a couple hundred dollars or like a thousand dollars isn't like voting where individual voting in a presidential election makes no difference? Various wild pollinators are visiting my flowers, but now the shitty honey bee is appearing up more frequently and in larger numbers. How do I drive them away, and ONLY them? Can I spray some individuals and they'll fuck off to tell the rest not to show up? Did you know?
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other. I found this lil guy in my garden. What do?
I don't want to keep it, but after leaving it be it walked all the way to the nearest road and almost got run over (I got it back home for now) >*nose twitches*
>*ears twitch*
How do you respond without sounding mad? WHY?! Why would nature create a being so useless that its very existence is only suffering and is not fit to survive in its own environment? Why is there no rodent/rat general up? Shameful.
Pic related: my boys It was dark outside and I couldn’t tell without being too close, though I suspect it’s a wasp and not a bee. It’s pretty large; how do I safely get rid of it? Or am I better off calling an exterminator for this one? I really like them, please upload pictures of them.
Preferably guinea pigs (please do not upload images of them dead and being eaten)hamsters, sugar gliders
Some of Pedetes capensis...pleawss What do you think of police using K-9 units? ITT: we design new dog breeds
I designed a dog to protect beehives from honey thieves and wild beasts >This behaviour may represent some of the first accounts of a wild predator intentionally using prey, and other items, to directly explore human behaviour
Are Orcas trying to domesticate us? A thread about owls. Post and appreciate these birds. What kind of owls live in your region?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkFXo253SRk
Barred owl live cam. Post bovids (cows, goats and sheep, bison etc)
Pet bovids
Love bovids
If I were to get some land (looking PA, WV or thereabouts) any ranchers on here have tips on starting a small dairy operation? A few cows at most until I'm able or willing to scale up. Are there amy decent grants to help set stuff up or would I need to foot the whole bill?
How to handle all the pets. I know you might not know it all please answer what you do thank you. Special ed dogs stealing shit, pissing, eating toilet paper and stuffed animals and having sex with them. Ate multiple hamsters and one feral kitten. Dog mauls toddlers legs to steal the diaper and same dog pulls carpet out of floor and drywall out of the wall. Excessive aggression, sex and barking even after neutering. Another dog eats cat shit, computer wires, crayons, styrofoam cups, pillows, stuffed animal stuffing, pill boddles, nintendos, trading cards, card board boxes, laundry baskett, chopstix, lanyards, toys, funko pops, big books and folders, animal skeletons, pride flags hanging on the wall, pictures and pricture frames, ziplock bags with drugs into them, shopkins, grass, clothing and socks, plastic bags and almost killed istelf eating a huge wad of plastic bags plus a diaper. Feces smashed into the floor carpet and in the car. Pencils and Cereal boxes excessive sex and growling sex with cat/dog/attempted rape if youre short/pigs/goats ruined big stuff animals with sex piss chewing. Schizophrenic growling at the wall and ceiling. Are my dogs possessed or what is wrong with them. they were all strays/shelters. All clearly special ed dogs. We only have one dog thats normal. We have 11 right now. Only 2 are mine. I dont like that my family hoards pets. For some shitty mobile mmo slop to have some of the best existing dino models at the moment. Sorry for the shitty camera quality, but I found this bird yesterday. I don't see any physical injuries in it and it doesn't struggle while moving, but it also only attempts to run and not fly when I get close to it.
Its also making these weird popping sounds constantly and shitting a lot. Any tips? If you're a man and you don't have this, I pity you https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1lri2c7/man_gets_attacked_by_squirrel/
Sound on Why are girls so obsessed with horses? >oh, were you concentrating on something? buz buz hehe How often do you think about your departed pets? Who is in the wrong here? Cats are taking over the world >ctrl+F
>no hyena thread
why is this? the weasel family, theyre the coolest Why do horses eat baby chickens like free marshmallows? Tell us, friends, what are your thoughts on the Orange People and their superior forms? Don't kill me, anon! I can sing too, please! T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX T REX I miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe >be me, bantamchad
>lost some of my tail feathers but still alpha
>see cute red cochin
>fuck yeah, gonna make some schmedium chicks with her
>approach her confidently
>apply the lessons learned from roostersphere influencers
>she just stares me down
>get scared and spill my scratch
>run away
>later see her go off to the coop with a full-sized rooster
Bantambros....is it just fucking over for us? Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.
Anhingas welcome also.
Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time. One of our cats hasn't turned up yesterday evening as she usually does. Last time it was around the house was at 4 in the afternoon and since then she's gone missing. Does anyone of you have experiences with this?
Countryside, the largest predators are foxes around here. >instantly looks up at you and flees like the wind if you even THINK about feeding them
>somehow stands still like a rock on roads with cars they regularly see coming from miles away and REFUSE to move Thoughts on the secretary Bird? How do we exterminate these motherfuckers? Do we need to import birds that feed on them or something? I'm fucking sick of them. Let's make stupid pictures with stupid captions with this shark Previously on /jg/ >>4979241
Who is Jefrey (with one F)?
He was found abandoned in some bushes filthy and covered in fleas late one night in mid-July 2024. He’s almost all grown up, and enjoys car rides, climbing trees, going to new places, and most of all, his capybara. Some believe him to be a goblin or gremlin. He was named after the Pixies song “Space (I Believe In)”.
Jefrey suffers from severe ear-ectile dysfunction.
Originally posted him here back in July 2024 seeking advice for potential health problems due to his folded ears, some /an/ons wanted more of him, and so now you’re stuck with him. Huge beak, long neck, massive body, expansive wings, big feet...
What's there not to like! *musks*
You made me do it /an/ Now that the dust has settled, who was in the wrong here? Even monkes are fucking disgusted by those fibers/strings on bananas
>but they are le good for you!
NOT EVEN NATURE LIKES THEM Post birds, appreciate birds why does it have to be this way bros Kinda weird how i never heard of a feral/invasive population of these. They can brumate like tegus from what i know What the fuck is their problem? Don't they know that deforestation is a major environmental issue? if animals could talk, what or who will they sound like? Paradox edition
This is the invertebrate general. If you have any questions about invertebrates, want to look into owning one or more, or want to simply discuss them, this is the thread to do so, whether it's
>Tarantulas and other spiders
>Myriapods
>Mollusks
>Crustaceans
>Insects
>Or anything without a backbone
Feel free to post it.
Resources/help and information
>ID/General Info
https://bugguide.net
https://www.keepinginsects.com/
>Tarantulas
https://tomsbigspiders.wordpress.com/beginner-guides/
http://www.theraphosidae.be/en
>Ants
https://www.antwiki.org
>Mantids
http://www.mantisonline.eu/index.php?lan=en
>Phasmids
http://www.phasmatodea.com/
>Triops
https://mytriops.com/ Turns racists into environmentalists with one simple trick >just use positive reinforcement bro
>"My dog likes to maul children. So to stop it, I give him little treats whenever he isn't mauling children!"
I'm still relatively new to pet ownership, only a few months. I have a bit of a pest issue and was at the store and saw several products being sold as "Safe for Pets". Thankfully I'm naturally skeptical so decided to do some research rather than take them at their word. Sure enough a quick Google search revealed stories of people's pets having fucking seizures, getting extremely sick, and even dying from these products. For example pic related has lemongrass oil which is just straight up unambiguously toxic to both dogs and cats. These are to my knowledge the most common pets. So what the fuck are they talking about when they say safe for pets? Pet rocks? I started looking and saw this sort of thing being sold all over the place in several different stores.
What the fuck? How are they getting away with such a label? It's outrageous to me thinking I could've been this close to inadvertently killing my pet and I'm sure it's happened a fucking ton. It's just such an evil thing to do, surely the extra profit from saying "Safe for pets" on something that blatantly isn't can't be that huge to justify the horrible negative press you'd expect from this, but they're still in business so I guess they just don't care.
Anyone wanna explain why this is a thing?
Pic related [Sad happening] One of the last iberian brown bears in Spain had a terrible accident. ausfag here, 25 years I've never left this shithole, and before I die, I want to take a trip to the US and find a lake that has one of these guys, around sunset or rise, loons have to be the most beautiful sounding creature on Earth and I hope I don't die before I get to sit lakeside and hear them across the water >dog could sleep anywhere
>chooses to fall asleep on my lap What's the best trail for a long hike in Hamilton, Ontario? I have I cat everytime I try to hold or pet him he scratch me. It's like it has small knives in each hand. Should I cut my cat's nails off? It ain't much, but it's honest work. Bison boils to death in Yellowstone hot spring in front of tourists
>https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-news/bison-boils-to-death-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-in-front-of-tourists/
people say it's a really peaceful way to go Lol every prehistoric creature was lame as hell the juice from the beehive ginger plant can be used as a natural shampoo & conditioner Does anybody else hate budgies?
>Weird wobbly sounds
>Parrot, but can't talk
>Fight all the time
>Born looking like an aborted fetus
>Pet store always has like twenty of these in stock while one of any other kind of animal
>Retarded, thinks it's reflection is a separate being
>Body breaks down if it can't perch There are two known incidents of gorilla on human violence, both against middle aged women, neither resulting in permanent injury I just found out there are snails that photosynthesize
Technically they eat algae and then integrate them into specialized organs and farm them in these flesh panels for their photosynthates
They are called leaf Why was this bird being like this? Do animals masturbate in the wild? or only in captivity?
Imagine you are born in a place that's not your home. You want to eat. You want to survive. Maybe have children...but then there are these massive, near cosmic-sized creatures that don't just hate you; they your entire kind wiped out because something vaguely about you damaging their trees by living a normal life.
These colossal cosmic creatures are around by the millions, and every second, there's a chance they might see you and kill you on sight, without warning. It's not because you did something because maybe you will do something. They don't even eat you. They stomp on you and go about their day, talking about what type of food they'll have when they get home. No trial. No justice. No attempts at reason. You're just dead.
Ironically, you figured out the best means to fight such a cold, purposeless existence in a meaningless universe:You do nothing. You just sit there, or walk around aimlessly. You don't run if these cosmic entities see you. Why would you? A single one has roughly the same strength as 100,000 of your species. So instead, you just accept death. You might talk to your friends, you might travel to see and understand the world a little more, even if it raises more questions. You know you'll be murdered in cold blood at some point. You've seen so many mashed up carcasses of your own species just laying there as a constant reminder of the fate that awaits you. Yet still, somehow, you still hope. You hope in the face of every. Not in life, but hope that somewhere out there, beyond the furthest planet and the furthest star...lies a reason for why this all happened. Or a little fraction would be fine. Just a nanosecond of significance and meaning in such a tireless and terrifying universe.
This is the life of a lanternfly. This will be you when aliens come. Why is the boomer of all fishes so underrated? Are you ready for the orb? >gives you chronic lyme in a casual outdoors walk
Why do we allow this animal to exist? Do you like guinea pigs /an/? Gotta collect em' all edition
Discuss isopods, post isopods, ask about isopods, breeding and setups. DO NOT POST PILL MILLIPEDES, THEY ARE NOT ISOPODS is it ethical to arm the local raccoon population? also raccoon thread Idea I had for LTT-1445 Ad as a seedworld. The Duckfish is a Modern Cetacean in it's own parvorder Mixoceti which evolved when a Simocetus hybridised with an Aetiocetus 32 million years ago. Eventually became a toothless bottom sifter of Krill and Squid with a toothless Duck-like beak/rostrum, baleen and a rounded melon to echolocate along the bottom of LTT-1445 Ad's shallow seas. Roughly the size of a large Dolphin and with pileated throat and a throat sac convergent with Balaenopterids as well as two phonic lips in one blowhole convergent with Delphinids. Makes shrill high-frequency calls through pushing air from the throat sac through the Phonic Lips out of the blowhole. Its actually really dehumanizing how cats will act all cute and meowy when you have food but then cold and distant when you run out. Beekeeper here. Something is very wrong. It appears that the wasps have convinced my honey bees to take in flies into their hive. The flies keep reproducing and always hang around the hive now. At the same time my honey produce has shrunk severely. wut do?
>pic related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachlorus_ferrugatus
For the love of Mother Nature, these things hate me now - it's in their dna. I've cut their numbers down - sometimes after five waves of them one after the last dead one - sitting on my patio by the hundreds going on three years. we better pray to the lords that this fungus doesn't evolve to affect human beings Since a new Jurassic Park film is coming tomorrow, I wanted to know what are /an/'s opinions on dinosaurs? Cats are love. Cats are angels. Cats are life. The love between a cat and its owner is magical. The love between cats and their kittens is pure joy. Found a sick bunny on the side of the road when out jogging this morning. What would you do in this situation? It was just sitting there, at first i thought it was dead, but it was still breathing. I couldn't see any injuries so i assume it is sick. I didn't want to touch it of course, but i feel bad just leaving it there. I don't own a gun to put an end to its misery. Right now i feel like the only option is shrugging it off as part of nature.
I don't think i have the guts to find a large rock, drag it over there, and kill the bunny with it. And i literally can't think of anything else to do with it. What kind of beetle are they? their eyes look scary when they stare back at you in the dark, all glowy.
it's like staring into the void of the night, and then the night suddenly stares back at you.