Yes, these are real.

[Barefoot]

I like dark humour, and it amazes me when people are unable to read a joke without spewing moral lessons. Maybe I did misread the audience. Perhaps I'll stick to the Community activities section of the website, as my last couple of threads haven't gone down too well.

[Stuart DeViva]

This one day at the college where I am at, a baby bat accidentally flew inside
I tried catching it before it got any further in, but it was able to get inside
it was lunch so there were quite a few people around and everyone freaked out,
some random dipshits took turns trying to bat it out of the air with books
one eventually trapped it in a hall way and beat it to death with his book
I took the body and buried it outside under a cherry tree,
it was one of the saddest things Iv ever witnessed it's body was no bigger then a key

Why does it seem our species as a whole cannot empathize with fellow earthlings? We must be just an advanced virus. There is no other explanation.

When I find a spider or lizard or anything, I trap it with a box or something and set it free outside...Not because I want to be a goody good, but rather because I think to myself "Man, I bet that spider is scared as shit seeing something a thousand times it's size. It probably doesn't know where it is so I'll help it out. And if I ever find myself to be a spider, I hope someone would do the same for me. Cuz getting stepped on would fucking suck."

[Barefoot]

D'you know what? Fuck it, I hate bats.

[Arshes Nei]

Why does it seem our species as a whole cannot empathize with fellow earthlings? We must be just an advanced virus. There is no other explanation.

When I find a spider or lizard or anything, I trap it with a box or something and set it free outside...Not because I want to be a goody good, but rather because I think to myself "Man, I bet that spider is scared as shit seeing something a thousand times it's size. It probably doesn't know where it is so I'll help it out. And if I ever find myself to be a spider, I hope someone would do the same for me. Cuz getting stepped on would fucking suck."

Related tangent.

Well I often hear people ask me about hamsters. "Aren't they mean?" No, hamsters are prey animals. In the wild, larger animals come after them to eat them. So understanding that, when you see a hamster sleeping and think "aww cute lemme pet it" then wonder why it nearly bit your finger off. Think about being a small animal constantly hunted after and chased after, trying to sleep...of course it's going to rely on its instincts.

So if you get your kids a hamster folks, know it tends to sleep during most of the day. If you need to wake it up, tap on the cage and let it rouse up before letting little Timmy poke his finger to pet his Binky.

[Slothboy3000]

So! Howabout that Game of Thrones, eh?

[Arshes Nei]

I say we just post bats


http://www.freewebs.com/shamik-das-5.../Cute-bats.bmp


http://www.acuteaday.com/blog/wp-con...ting-fruit.jpg

[Demo]

I don't like spiders

[Slothboy3000]

Visored Bat! Really is like Nosferatu.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd...%2BBat%2B1.jpg

[Star Eater]

Visored Bat! Really is like Nosferatu.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd...%2BBat%2B1.jpg

Holy shit! haha

[yochanan]

Sleepy fruit bat, awwwwww!

[yochanan]

National Geographic on flying foxes!

Moar baby bats awwww

[Shybird]

If flying foxes are a no, what about foxes on stilts?

Pretty maned wolves






Other things that don't seem real:

Coconut crabs

[Dracontes]

Disc-winged bats: yep, those are suction cups on the wings and feet.

Vampire bat running.

and bat-eared foxes if we're going into canids

[Stoat]

You are everything that's wrong with humanity.

Wow, Barefoot, that's awesome! No matter how hard I try, I'm only maybe 15% of what's wrong with humanity.

[velderia]

You almost got me there, as if they look like man-eating bats or something but then I looked up their diet and I was like, "Oh... Figs... Now if only my dad didn't cut down that fig tree in our previous backyard and these would fly over to America somehow and I could bask in their majestic beauty. (Lol)"

[Arshes Nei]

http://dash.ponychan.net/chan/files/...3307875061.jpg

[Psychotime]

Oh wow, I leave the computer and come back to this? CA is still awesome.

[crossmirage]

(^･ω･^)

[Elwell]

I've been waiting for those guys to show up...

[Shorinji_Knight]

I've never understood why so many people hate bats. I learned to call them when I was young (shrill whistle) and they would fly by very close to check it out. I used it to torture my sisters when we played outside in the evenings. Had so much fun. I have loved bats ever since.

[JFierce]

In large areas of the US, white tailed deer are a pest. Over the last several generations, due to elimination of natural predators and suburban sprawl, they have become acclimated to human presence, and populations have exploded, moving from woodlands into semi-rural and suburban areas. They cause property damage and car accidents, and are a major factor in the explosive spread of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease. And yet, efforts to control the deer population continually run into people's emotional opposition to "killing Bambi." It's the flipside of the "kill it because it's scary" attitude.
http://wildlifecontrol.info/deer/pag...tionfacts.aspx

^This. I've known 5 people who got into car accidents from deer. I was almost in one myself if we weren't in a big vehicle that barely dented. But would have gone spinning off into a tree. I could have been dead as we were going rather fast. Then the area I'm in we have literally herds of deer. When I moved here I looked in neighbors yards and there was 13 deer there. At first I was amazed. "Oh wow thats so beautiful". Then I lived here for a bit. The level of lymes disease is at plague levels. My sister got lymes and a blood parasite living here and is awful shape. Then her nurse that comes to visit has lymes, and his wife has lymes and the blood parasite. It's crazy. Even more so that I never got it since I went running through the woods around here with my dogs a lot.


I laugh because you get the reaction as you said like it's Bambii and people get upset. But I laugh because honestly I view Deer as more of a threat than something scary looking but harmless.




(But if a giant bat ended up in my house or was flying around me I'd still freak out. Can't help a fear response)

[Raoul Duke]

I'm fucking glad those Unicorns are extinct. Those motherfuckers are scary. I don't want to be impaled by a majestic rainbow glitter horn made of magic and wonderment.

[Shorinji_Knight]

There are a lot of deer around my house (I live out in the country). I actually had a deer crash into the side of my work truck once. It almost came through the window. That was a nice suprise at three in the morning.

Another time, I saw a deer get hit by a mac truck. Nothing but a cloud of red and little hand sized chunks left steaming on the road.

[Velocity Kendall]

fuck thats awesome




bats are cool because for horrific freaks theyre super adorable

[Elwell]

Louis CK on deer (warning: as NSFW as it gets):


Barefoot, this is how you talk about wishing death on animals and make it funny.

[blogmatix]

Why does it seem our species as a whole cannot empathize with fellow earthlings? We must be just an advanced virus. There is no other explanation.

When I find a spider or lizard or anything, I trap it with a box or something and set it free outside...Not because I want to be a goody good, but rather because I think to myself "Man, I bet that spider is scared as shit seeing something a thousand times it's size. It probably doesn't know where it is so I'll help it out. And if I ever find myself to be a spider, I hope someone would do the same for me. Cuz getting stepped on would fucking suck."

[blogmatix]

(^･ω･^)

Whatever you do, don't feed them after midnight...

[JFierce]

Oh lord Louis hits it spot on.

[Penabled]

D'you know what? Fuck it, I hate bats.

That's okay, I hate ignorant jackwagons.

Maybe next time you should do some research before starting a thread that is likely to go the opposite of what you were hoping for.

[Stuart DeViva]

Ok, this guy is a fucking badass. Nature is sweet.