Mark Foote Posted April 23 Ok, not wild, but beautiful--at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted June 2 What is going on here the cover image ... ain't they all cute and looking similar . Its all still images , wot, no one thought to do any filming and only took images all though it ... yet the 'prime actor' can be filled at the end drinking his coffee ? I mean, its a great story , no doubt under those temperatures , all sorts of behavior changes in animals . And regardless of that, I have seen some pretty amazing animal behavior and interactions myself personally . BUT , if it happened to you , and you took a few pictures of it on your phone , would you FILM any of it ? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted June 2 1 hour ago, Nungali said: What is going on here the cover image ... ain't they all cute and looking similar . Its all still images , wot, no one thought to do any filming and only took images all though it ... yet the 'prime actor' can be filled at the end drinking his coffee ? I mean, its a great story , no doubt under those temperatures , all sorts of behavior changes in animals . And regardless of that, I have seen some pretty amazing animal behavior and interactions myself personally . BUT , if it happened to you , and you took a few pictures of it on your phone , would you FILM any of it ? Not just the animals' behavior changes under those temperatures, it looks like the human physique changes too, and with uncanny speed at that. Once I noticed, I just had to follow all those amazing transformations. At first the man is beardless and has a full head of hair, then at 3:33 he's still beardless but bald as a knee, at 4:13 his hair is back, praise the Lord, at 4:48 it turns black and he's grown a lush black beard in the past 35 seconds, only to shave it off at 5:24, then at 7:14 his beard is back with a vengeance but now it's grey, so at 8:03 he gets rid of it, and by 10:40 it's grown back and it's not grey anymore. I should have been looking at the cats the whole time instead. AI or not, real story or not, cats (with the exception of the poor artificially bred sphinx) are always furry. It's humans that can't seem to decide on the proper level of hirsuteness. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted June 2 " ..... the wind howling like a pack of wolves in full hunt ... " Oh , you unbeliever TM ! How do you know it isn't a household full of different men ... all called Evan ? @ 6:50 the cat facing the fire Are they cardboard cut out cats ? It wont' be long now soon them fake pictures be moving Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted June 2 I only just read the comments to that vid " You left out the best part about him breastfeeding the cubs! " " A rare long tailed Bobcat." " I opened the patio door on a frigid day here in northwestern NJ where it can get brutally cold. The black bear came in and we had a wrestling match. Afterwards we settled down on the couch and anxiously awaited our pizza delivery. " Plus many many more believing and defending it ! Leading to this ; " This is the best video on the internet for SOOO many reasons, especially the comment section. " Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted Sunday at 04:47 PM My cat, who normally exercises her hunting instincts on insects and Amazon delivery people, moved up the evolutionary ladder yesterday and caught a sparrow. She brought it home unbeknown to me, as she also usually does with June bugs because she's afraid someone might take the bug away from her and let it go. Those green metallic things are built like tanks, and even those that have visible dents on their wings from cat teeth fly away nonchalantly if you remove them from further involuntary games with said cat and take them outside. So when she dragged in the sparrow, I wasn't aware of it until the poor thing was dead, whereupon Monkey put it at my feet and declared, with ear-splitting triumphant meowing, that I won't starve today because she brought me a gift of fresh food. I later discovered feathers all over my bedroom and bathroom -- but I wasn't aware of anything going on there, the murder was committed in complete silence and secrecy. Which reminded me that here a popular brainwashing-induced belief is that cats must only be kept indoors in particular because they kill birds and are a threat to the bird population. All kinds of horrifying figures are typically pulled outta someone's/media's ass to confirm it -- one can can kill a million birds, cause the extinction of a whole species, yada yada. But... over the years, I've been noticing there's scarcely a cat in sight in San Diego, feral or otherwise -- months can go by before you encounter one outdoors -- yet the bird population has been declining. Whereas in June I was in Corfu, Greece, and there were cats upon cats everywhere, nobody's cats, somebody's cats, cats hanging out in the restaurants in hopes of a bite from a patron's plate (I myself fed several every day, and saw some other people do likewise.) Yet there were many, many birds. More birds than what we have. Way more. Here's some Corfu cats I encountered. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigSkyDiamond Posted Sunday at 05:45 PM (edited) The day i decided to never own or live with a cat, was the day i was sleeping over with a friend, and opened my eyes to see a bloody dead bird on the pillow next to my head about 3 inches away. actual wildcats in the wild, i adore: cougar in particular. Edited Sunday at 05:56 PM by BigSkyDiamond Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted Sunday at 06:16 PM (edited) 31 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said: The day i decided to never own or live with a cat, was the day i was sleeping over with a friend, and opened my eyes to see a bloody dead bird on the pillow next to my head about 3 inches away. actual wildcats in the wild, i adore: cougar in particular. Unpleasant I'm sure, but not dangerous (despite that Godfather vibe.) Probably wouldn't have been a huge deal for me -- I prefer to not encourage in myself the shrinking violet/pearl clutching conditioning many women have been subjected to. Besides, in a lifetime of living with cats, this was the first bird a cat of mine ever dragged in. (My grandmother's cat from my childhood did catch birds, but she ate them on the spot.) WIth cats, like with everything in life, you gain some, lose some. Edited Sunday at 06:17 PM by Taomeow Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
