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Everyone meet âSlappyâ the wild sea lion that has gone viral on TikTok after begging tourists for peanut butter sandwiches đ€Ł
Watch Now: Beloved wild Sea Lion Slappy does her signature bark for a PB sandwich
Check out our list of the BEST memes about our favorite Instagram celebrity Slappy the seal
Wildlife authorities ruin internetâs fun by putting ban on feeding famous sea lion âSlappyâ
- Top comment: Not me risking a class 2 wildlife felony to feed Slappy a peanut butter sandwich đâ ïž
Internet famous sea lion enjoys new meme craze âOutlaw Slappyâ as her admirers continue to offer treats despite the ban from marine wildlife officials
Sad news out of Southern California today as the internet mourns beloved sea lion âSlappyâ, who was put down by authorities after biting a child that was trying to feed her a sandwich.
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Anatomy of a mountain - Italian alps. (4-01-25)
#kermit .jpg#winter#mountains#I'm ill but my boyfriend helped me take a very small hike in the woods
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AlalÄ are being released into the wild?!?
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Turdus cardis [ăŻăăă°ă,Japanese Thrush]
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[ â left ] arteries, from Diderot and dâAlembertâs EncyclopĂ©die, 1751-1772
[ right â ] Saymaluu-Tash national park petroglyphs, Kyrgyzstan
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Petaka and the guanaco Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile Photographed by Claudio Bustos
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Fully obsessed with this lichen covered fence at my sisterâs place in coastal North Carolina
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Omul gathering to spawn in Lake Baikal By: Tony Bomford From: Realms of the Russian Bear 1992
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How to catch a fish in 4 easy steps by Nindiri the jaguar (pics by Nancie Cunningham Casey)
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hi! can i ask what's ur opinion on giving pets away? not necessarily because u can't afford to care for em anymore but maybe incompatibility of personalities or maybe lifestyles. is it wrong to give ur pet for adoption if u know someone who's better suited for keeping a pet, like emotionally?
This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.
Thereâs a lot of rhetoric lately around how itâs evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you donât âneed to.â And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animalâs well-being.
Pets that arenât a good match for your home or pets that arenât really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesnât get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if youâre still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal youâre tired of being stuck with?
Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you wonât always know ahead of time what issues might arise.
âForever homeâ rhetoric is really, really popular and I think itâs very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because itâs so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole âforever homeâ concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you canât keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).
Obviously, I donât support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets theyâll discard immediately, but thereâs so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if itâs just âthey got a pet and didnât know what caring for it would take and didnât want to care for it so they brought it back, how awfulâ like⊠okay, Iâd like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isnât it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and Iâd rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isnât a good fit than keep it anyway!!
If animals being happy and with all their biological, veterinary, and social needs fulfilled is actually the goal, we need to prioritize their welfare over human opinion. Iâd much rather see an animal rehomed responsibly to somewhere it will thrive and be welcomed than see people keep animals they canât/donât want to care for out of guilt or shame.Â
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Gigantic Skull of Prehistoric Sea Monster Found on Englandâs âJurassic Coastâ
The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur find. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.
Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary âAttenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster,â presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.
Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorsetâs âJurassic Coast,â is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) long. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, said in a video call.
Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.
Etches first learned of the fossilâs existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaurâs snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were âquite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete,â Etches said.
After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaurâs precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.
âItâs a miracle we got it out,â he said, âbecause we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m.â
Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found âvery disillusioningâ as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but âover the following days and weeks, it was a case of âŠ, like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in.â
Itâs a âfreak of natureâ that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. âIt died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ⊠so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly.â
Fearsome top predator of the seas
The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.
The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the worldâs most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.
Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that âthe animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space.â
By Issy Ronald.
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