• @MataVatnik
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    637 months ago

    Fun fact, baby bunnies are so high stress they can die from little baby heart attacks if they are too stressed.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      517 months ago

      That high stress could include smelling urine of a predator.

      Imagine just dying because you smell cat urine.

      • @CADmonkey
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        137 months ago

        Because of a roommate I had around 2006-2007, I don’t have to try very hard to imagine.

  • @[email protected]
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    547 months ago

    Haha, I never considered that perspective I envy may cats often, but they do freak out at the smallest thing, like one cat is terrified of trash bags, but only when they are empty.

    • @FooBarrington
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      717 months ago

      Makes sense to me. Why do empty trash bags exist? Nobody wants an empty trash bag, so everyone fills them up all the time. Why not sell them pre-filled? It just doesn’t make sense.

        • @FooBarrington
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          You have no concrete proof. If there ever was proof, it’s certainly not on the table. Oh, and somebody seems to have barfed on it.

  • Damaskox
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    177 months ago

    Meanwhile -

    I’ve heard that the birds don’t sing songs to us but rather either tempt mates for reproduction or warn other same-sex birds to come too close or else!

    • @[email protected]
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      407 months ago

      That fact that anyone would even think that they’re singing “for us” is disturbing. It’s so deeply stupid.

      • Damaskox
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        27 months ago

        I could assume that many people think X being here (just) for us 🤔

        But you have a point.

        • @hakunawazo
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          67 months ago

          I agree. When there’s no threat to us, it’s easy to become self-centered.
          A walk in the woods isn’t so nice when you’re at the bottom of the food chain.

    • QuinceDaPence
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      127 months ago

      With the exception of mockingbirds. Who do it to be jackasses.

      I had one in my yard that copied the sound of a tool once, I walked away and then heard it going and of course I’m thinking “how the hell did that turn on?”. Of course I go to check and it’s off and was just a mocking bird. It then proceded to make that noise for the rest of the day.

  • @Sylvartas
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    137 months ago

    TIL Tarkov players are rabbits

  • @shalafi
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    107 months ago

    “All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

  • @someguy3
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    97 months ago

    You know all those animals that have huge litters? If the population is stable, guess how many survive to reproduce.