The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
If the situation comes up again, this sounds gruesome, but take a brick, place the bird’s head on a flat surface, and crush the skull as quickly as possible. No intact brain means it’s a painless death. Works on all animals small enough to crush the skull like that.
that reminds me of that post that was like “um, you have to let babies cry it out overnight so they learn self sufficiency. don’t let them manipulate you”
babies. don’t have. the mental complexity. to manipulate people
this is a barely-conscious creature that relies on you for every single aspect of survival and you’re applying complex psychology to it like it’s out to get you!!!
I’ve always said this, but the vast, vast majority of people are completely unfit to be parents
a baby: *plays peek-a-boo with me*
me, in horror: this infant is attempting to bamboozle me, in my very own home
Also I may remember this wrong, but psych studies indicate that ignoring/leaving kids on their own when they start crying, or try in other ways to call out for their parents attention is actually harmful to kids, because by having their requests for attention in a stressful situation ignored, they perceive their parents as uninterested in them and their pain and it puts them in a favourable position to develop attachment-related anxieties and similar.
tl;dr children entirely depend on parents and they literally don’t have the cognitive abilities to manipulate them. If you think of kids as tiny manipulators who wanna ruin your life, don’t have kids. It’s THAT simple
I read an anecdote from someone whose African Grey didn’t particularly get along with her Amazon parrot, Paco. One night she was preparing cornish hens for dinner, while the grey hung out with her in the kitchen. He got a closer look at one of the hens, looked his mama dead in the eyes and asked, “Paco?” Then he laughed.
that is one sadistic bird
I am slightly afraid now.
I love birds?
African Grey Parrots are one of the smartest birds, and seems they can be known to play “jokes” or “pranks” on their owners or any visitors.
I was visiting a friend of the family one time and I was just casually watching tv when I thought I heard the water running. I go into the kitchen but everything’s fine. the parrot looks at me and says “gotcha”.
Parrots are awesome.
I have an African Grey named Loki and he lives up to his name.
He likes to scream and mimic the sounds of things falling off the shelf and when we run into the room to see what’s happening he says “The cat did it! Bad Sammy!” and laughs.
Whenever he gets mad at me he flies away from me, but since he can’t fly very well, he always crash lands. And the first thing he says when I go to pick him up, without fail, is always “You need to vacuum,” in a very bitter grumble.
Loki likes to call our cat to him. He’ll sit there for minutes saying “here kitty kitty kitty.” The cat will come, walk up to the bird, get bit and then Loki will laugh as the cat screams and runs away. This goes on for hours.
If it’s late at night and he’s tired, but I’m still up with the lights on, he’ll say “Loki go night night.” It’s starts of in a normal tone and then gets louder and louder until he’s screaming “LOKI GO NIGHT NIGHT!”
If he sees my dad fall asleep, he screams like a little girl to scare my dad awake. And then laughs. He’s kind of perfected that evil laugh.
But the best one was when I brought home the man who has since become my ex for the first time, Loki looked him dead in the eyes and said “I’m going to bite you.” My parrot was the first one to see what a bad person my ex. He was smarter than us all.
African Greys are like the greatest animal on the planet
When I was a kid, we had a rescued african grey called Dodi, and once I was arguing with my mum about my bed time, and the parrot (who had some very foul mouthed previous owners) just shouted at me “for fuck sake go to bed!”
also whenever we hoovered he’d call us “yoooou dusty cunts”
I’m terrified of the ocean but I love what inhabits it
I don’t know what this thing is but it can probably kill you in at least six horrible ways.
It’s a Spanish Dancer!! 😀 It’s a type of sea slug that eats poisonous animals for breakfast and then absorbs their toxic power for itself. Their badass menu includes sea sponges and Portugese Man-O-Wars.
That is most definitely not a Spanish Dancer.
This is a Spanish Dancer:
What OP posted is actually a flatworm. Yes, the same phylum that has fuckkers who like to hang out in human intestines.
That is called a Hancock’s flatworm (Pseudobiceros hancockanus) and it’s indeed toxic as hell, which is exactly why it’s so colorful. They are all hermaphrodites and before each mating they engage in a duel where they try to stab each other with their pointy twin dongers to decide who’s going to give the sperm to who. It’s called penis fencing, and yes, scientists call it that too.
EN GARDE DICKHEAD
No no no.
THIS is a Spanish dancer:
I’m so glad we cleared that up.
Ah right. My taxonomy is rusty sometimes.
Just to be exact, since many people lump the diverse Spanish regions together, this is not a dancer that represents strictly Spain. It is a dancer typical to one region of Spain – Sevillia. But in no way it is the only dancer the Spaniards have. As such it cannot be called a Spanish dancer because that would overlook the dancers in all other regions of Spain.
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