Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
Are there species of bears that are less likely to maul you or do you have to raise it from birth? Well besides the sun bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrDsbn1GBY

Bears are the best.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Bears won't necessarily kill you. Unless they think you're a threat. Or are really hungry. Or just feel like it.

An old housemate of mine worked on a black bear sanctuary for a few years. They had a significant problem with bears being too used to people and getting right up close to tourists to take food.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat
The bear starting to hibernate in that hutch of straw was so cute. :3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqio2G_Ra6g&feature=fvwp&NR=1
Here are some deformed baby bears. They're a bit slow, and they like to scratch themselves.

edit: I could watch slow lorises grab things and eat them all day long.

Drifter has a new favorite as of 20:23 on May 19, 2013

Hardwood Floor
Sep 25, 2011

Coconut Indian posted:

Are there species of bears that are less likely to maul you or do you have to raise it from birth? Well besides the sun bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrDsbn1GBY

Bears are the best.

Black bears are less likely to maul you than brown or grizzly bears so there's that...
There's also the sloth bear, which despite having huge claws tends to be very shy and scared of people.


Majestic. :3:

single-mode fiber
Dec 30, 2012

A baby porcupine

the popular kids
Dec 27, 2010

Time for some thrilling heroics.
This happened just after the Chelsea game today :3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDB70d9AUU

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Coconut Indian posted:

Are there species of bears that are less likely to maul you or do you have to raise it from birth? Well besides the sun bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrDsbn1GBY

Bears are the best.

Nope.

Pilli
Jul 3, 2011

Dogs have owners,
cats have staff

Yes to the nope. Koalas can do no wrong, end of discussion. :3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyAwTuHYgDs

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Emily A. Stanton posted:

This happened just after the Chelsea game today :3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDB70d9AUU

This is the most awesome thing I've seen all ever.

Good News Everyone
Apr 30, 2009
Koalas aren't bears.

Man, misconceptions about Australia make me so mad, I just, I want to--
HAVE AT YOU.

Good News Everyone
Apr 30, 2009
RELEASE THE GUINEA PIGS.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Good News Everyone posted:

RELEASE THE GUINEA PIGS.


"I'm a guinea pig."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsRxF6Zjhw

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy

Emily A. Stanton posted:

This happened just after the Chelsea game today :3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDB70d9AUU

Haha, this is amazing. Dat celebration :3:

haakman
May 5, 2011
Never stop posting Capy pictures please. They are the best of all animals.

Buggiezor
Jun 6, 2011

For I am a cat, you see.
Man finds a baby squirrel

:3:

Doctor Doodler
Feb 14, 2012

Julio Lopez
Nov 15, 2006

We don't need no stinking badges
A California surf dog is helping those with special needs:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9291324

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


The potoo, aka a living muppet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM98Vencdwo

moosepoop
Mar 9, 2007

GET SWOLE

Brother Jonathan
Jun 23, 2008

That is the cutest hedgehog I've ever seen. :3:

You could almost treat hypoglycemia with that picture.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

That's amazing. I wonder how he cared for such a young thing.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

davidspackage posted:

That's amazing. I wonder how he cared for such a young thing.

Deeply. :3:

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

haakman posted:

Never stop posting Capy pictures please. They are the best of all animals.

Who would have guessed that giant swamp rodents would be the most endearing of all animals? :3:

Here's a baby capy named Little Bit cuddling up with some baby maras.



She's only a week or two old in that picture and was removed from her litter because she got sick. She ended up getting better and is now doing fine.

Capys are the first biggest rodent and maras are the fourth so as she grows she's going to rapidly outpace them in size.

Here's a size comparison between adults:

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Good News Everyone posted:

RELEASE THE GUINEA PIGS.


An amusing short story about Guinea Pigs!

Pigs is pigs

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Today in my astronomy class, the professor said that all the planets have a personality, and they're all his friends. That's pretty :unsmith: to me.

Also, walking home, I saw a kid walking out of a GameStop. The kid looked at a Wii U in the window and said, "Are we in the future?" :3:

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
I.... what. This thing is a real animal. HOW IS THIS THING A REAL ANIMAL I DEMAND TO KNOW RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

Mother Nature is one amazing deranged genius, that thing is loving gloriously doofy.

Comptroll The Forums
Apr 25, 2007

DON'T HURT MY FEE FEES!

Man, that's like something you'd see in the Flintstones. Like, Fred would squeeze one of those things and it would squawk like a car horn. Then it'd mug to the camera and go "eh, it's a living."

Also, what dog does this not work on?

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Smoking Crow posted:

Today in my astronomy class, the professor said that all the planets have a personality, and they're all his friends. That's pretty :unsmith: to me.

How was Pluto explained?

For content, here's a baby otter: http://otter501.tumblr.com/post/13601522947/meet-the-playful-heroine-of-the-feature-film-otter

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Comptroll The Forums
Apr 25, 2007

DON'T HURT MY FEE FEES!

Source for that gif. That dog sure loves a good rubbin :3:

kinmik
Jul 17, 2011

Dog, what are you doing? Get away from there.
You don't even have thumbs.
Young conducting prodigy. If nothing else, watch the end, it's amazing.
http://www.wimp.com/childbeethoven/

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT
Cat makin' biscuits on a snoring pug's back :3:
http://www.wimp.com/snorescompanion/

E: Daft Punk meets Soul Train
http://www.wimp.com/howdance/

BOOTY-ADE has a new favorite as of 05:34 on May 21, 2013

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Palmersaurus posted:

How was Pluto explained?

We gave Pluto more friends his size to play with.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Smoking Crow posted:

We gave Pluto more friends his size to play with.

Pretty much this - but Neil deGrasse Tyson explains it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXafNz5lL_I

I'd say he fits the "feel good" part, it's just so awesome how enthusiastic and passionate he is about his profession :)

YouSpoonyBard
May 10, 2007
You Killed Anna!

During an interview with a woman who had lost everything because of the recent tornadoes, she finds something very important:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/oklahoma-woman-finds-dog-video-tv-rubble-garcia.html

:unsmith:

Scarf
Jun 24, 2005

On sight
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9298284/kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-donate-1-million-tornado-relief

Kevin Durant is donating $1 million towards relief in Oklahoma following the tornados. OKC Thunder organization is matching his donation as well.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

YouSpoonyBard posted:

During an interview with a woman who had lost everything because of the recent tornadoes, she finds something very important:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/oklahoma-woman-finds-dog-video-tv-rubble-garcia.html

:unsmith:

Jesus. Not a dry eye in the house.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I think that tribbles evolved from capybaras.

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

BattleMaster posted:

I think that tribbles evolved from capybaras.

Pretty close:

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

kinmik
Jul 17, 2011

Dog, what are you doing? Get away from there.
You don't even have thumbs.

Scarf posted:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9298284/kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-donate-1-million-tornado-relief

Kevin Durant is donating $1 million towards relief in Oklahoma following the tornados. OKC Thunder organization is matching his donation as well.

quote:

Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill agreed that there's no immediate need for additional disaster aid. "We'll do what we have to do, but we have a pretty hefty amount of money in the disaster relief fund," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky. "We're not faced with an immediate need for a supplemental," agreed Rep. David Price, D-N.C., top Democrat on the Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee.
I love it when people go above and beyond to help others in need. I remember there was another incident where no further donations were necessary after some natural disaster or something, but I can't recall what.

  • Locked thread