Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

DennisN · Oct 16, 2021

(Off topic)

pinball1970 said:

Red heads verses yellow heads in gang warfare. This gets ugly quickly guys so viewer discretion advised.
(Joke)

Haha, it reminded me a bit of the incredibly funny "printer scene" in the movie Office Space, where they take vengeance on a printer that has been annoying: movie clip.

Drakkith · Oct 16, 2021

My cat, Bart the Beautiful.

BillTre · Oct 22, 2021

Oh Mr. Spider, what did you do?

Bystander · Oct 22, 2021

BillTre said:

Oh ~~Mr.~~ Ms.Spider, what did you do?

BillTre · Oct 22, 2021

Oh ~~Mr.~~ Ms.Spider, what did you do?

I was wondering about this,
but Mr. just sounded better to me for my little murder mystery.

Bystander · Oct 22, 2021

You ever see a father pack his kids lunches?

fresh_42 · Oct 22, 2021

BillTre said:

I was wondering about this,
but Mr. just sounded better to me for my little murder mystery.

But it is Ms. Spider. Mr. Spider is wrapped in that package!

DennisN · Oct 24, 2021

pinball1970 · Oct 25, 2021

When you talk to your dog...

BillTre · Oct 27, 2021

A frogfish, its pelvic and pectoral fins are like little legs:

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strangerep · Oct 27, 2021

BillTre said:

A frogfish, [...]

At last, I've discovered the likely ancestry of my primary school head mistress.

BillTre · Oct 29, 2021

The cute head tilting that dogs do sometimes may be a sign they are trying to make a connection between words and a meaning.
Science mag news article.

“gifted word learner” dogs. Most dogs can’t memorize the names of even two toys, but these talented pups—all border collies—could recall and retrieve at least 10 toys they had been taught the names of. One overachiever named Whisky correctly retrieved 54 out of 59 toys he had learned to identify.

The scientists found that—when asked to retrieve a toy—gifted dogs cocked their heads 43% of them time over dozens of trials, compared with just 2% of the time in typical dogs, they report this week in Animal Cognition. (Although gifted dogs tilted their heads much more often, they were just as likely to retrieve the correct toy regardless of whether they made the motion.) The animals even had a favored side, just like humans favor their left or right hand. This was consistent over months of recordings, regardless of where the owner was standing in relation to the dog. “If a dog was a left tilter, it would stay a left tilter,” Sommese says.All of the border collies in the study were familiar with the words being spoken, he notes, but only the gifted dogs who had correctly attached a meaning to each word consistently exhibited the tilting behavior. That means head tilting isn’t just a sign of familiarity with particular sounds, Sommese argues. If it were, all 40 dogs would be equally likely to do it. The team thinks it could be linked to mental processing—a sign of high attentiveness or concentration in the gifted dogs. The dogs might be cross-referencing the command with their visual memories of the toys, for instance.

BillTre · Nov 2, 2021

This is an embryonic zebrafish labeled with some red colored dye, image collected with a confocal microscope.
What look like eyes are the developing nasal sensory epithelial placodes (homologs to the smell detecting tissue in your nose). The developing eyes are lateral to the nose placodes.
The thing that looks like the mouth will become the mouth. Its an embryonic opening now.
The big lump above the eyes is the developing brain.