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Pallas cats look like they should be sitting on a street corner drinking something out of a paper bag and screaming about how aliens put a metal plate in their head. but, you know, in a lovable way
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 05:57 |
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Choco1980 posted:it just dawned on me why pallas' cats are so angry looking. It's the eyes with the round pupils instead of the cat slits. Most of the big or medium felines have round pupils. Pallas just look weird because they're so small and have them. Also Pallas' cats are so angry looking in part because they're so angry. People who work with cats at zoos all apparently agree that Pallas' cats are the biggest, grumpiest arseholes of all of them by far. Maggie Fletcher posted:Kind of like when you first notice goats' pupils are horizontal. MikeJF has a new favorite as of 06:11 on Dec 21, 2014 |
# ? Dec 21, 2014 06:08 |
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Screw you! Racist!
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 06:10 |
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VendaGoat posted:Screw you! Racist! Horse pupils are the same way, but you usually don't notice because their eyes are pretty dark!
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 06:39 |
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Kind of like when you first notice goats' pupils are horizontal. So are horse pupils. Just not as pronounced and harder to see because of the dark coloration. That kinda stunned me when I learned it. Edit: Late to the party.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 06:39 |
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MikeJF posted:Most of the big or medium felines have round pupils. Pallas just look weird because they're so small and have them. I remember years ago (oh Lord, I just checked and it was eleven years ago) there was a series of frontpage articles called Tales from the Zoo. If there are any zookeepers ITT, do you have any tales of wonder to share? As a picture thread this isn't the right place to tell them, but I'd love to be pointed in the right direction. To contribute: TUMMY
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 07:00 |
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Dove from Above posted:To contribute:
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 07:24 |
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Pupilchat: Ferrets (and I think other weasel-types) have pupils that are both slit-style like housecats /and/ horizontal. But again very difficult to notice since the rest of the eye is dark. It's theorized to be a motion-sensing thing; vertical slits are good for back-and-forth motion, while horizontal are good for up-and-down motion. Anyway, cute thread content: ]
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 07:34 |
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quote:I think he knows what his Xmas gift is.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 08:35 |
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I love you all so much.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 08:51 |
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I feel like you'd want to keep that wrapped if you want the cat to keep sleeping on it. I bought my cat a bed once, and he slept in it. I took him directly to the vet.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 09:01 |
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And it turns out Pallas' cats sound exactly like they look
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 09:04 |
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"Audio recordings of a pair of Pallas cats at the Highland Wildlife Park Kingussie, Cairngorms, have revealed that once humans move out of earshot they began chattering and calling to each other." So I take it that a) these Pallas cats have acquired Scottish accents, and b) they're saying something like "It's a' richt, Jimmy, the humans've hosed off for a wee bit"? (apologies for poor rendition of Scottish Pallas cat dialect)
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 09:32 |
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 10:23 |
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It's free real estate.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 10:41 |
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So, my GF is pretty goddamn awesome. For Xmas, she's putting together packages for the local homeless folks - 100 mens, 100 womens. She's probably spent something like $500 on this already. (65 men's packs there, 35 to go!) Toques, gloves, toothbrushes, deodorant, soap, etc.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 11:53 |
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TwystNeko posted:So, my GF is pretty goddamn awesome. For Xmas, she's putting together packages for the local homeless folks - 100 mens, 100 womens. She's probably spent something like $500 on this already. gently caress yeah
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 12:01 |
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Minarch posted:Pallas cats look like they should be sitting on a street corner drinking something out of a paper bag and screaming about how aliens put a metal plate in their head. I want to see them in Rollin' Wild : http://www.youtube.com/user/rollinsafari
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 14:37 |
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Captain Lavender posted:I feel like you'd want to keep that wrapped if you want the cat to keep sleeping on it. I bought my cat a bed once, and he slept in it. I took him directly to the vet. Probably, my cats all have this weird thing where they just love to sleep on paper. We have some old brown packing paper that we can't throw out because the cats all love to play with it, then fall asleep on it. Even with nice soft couches and chairs available, NOPE gotta sleep on that paper.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 15:41 |
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They're Freddy Fazbear, this has taken a dark turn
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 16:03 |
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 17:16 |
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 17:36 |
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This looks like something that was cooked up in an anime lab.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 18:56 |
This has somehow looped around from cute into terrifying
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 19:14 |
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Please don't feed it after midnight!
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 19:14 |
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It's a doll...and there's a bunch of them. somehow they're creepier as dolls than anything else. edit: I'm gonna have nightmares about these coming to life. fizzymercury has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Dec 21, 2014 |
# ? Dec 21, 2014 19:22 |
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u fukkin wot m8
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 19:34 |
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MikeJF posted:Most of the big or medium felines have round pupils. Pallas just look weird because they're so small and have them. As someone commented, you can pet Pallas Cat twice, once with your right hand, and once with your left.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 20:10 |
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Somehow the gospels never mentioned the giant cat at the nativity.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 20:15 |
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Kammat posted:Somehow the gospels never mentioned the giant cat at the nativity. That's God watching over baby Jeebus.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 20:36 |
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IslamoNazi posted:That's God watching over baby Jeebus. Why is God pushing the wise men off the mantle one by one?
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 21:04 |
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FutonForensic posted:Why is God pushing the wise men off the mantle one by one?
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 21:09 |
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wipeout posted:I want to see them in Rollin' Wild : http://www.youtube.com/user/rollinsafari My favorite is the vultures. I don't know why this is so funny, but it is. FutonForensic posted:Why is God pushing the wise men off the mantle one by one? When I was young, the dog grabbed Balthazar and chewed his head off, then chewed the gift out of his hands. His neck was too mangled to glue back on, and we never found the gift, so he spent the remainder of that holiday season holding his head in his hands, offering it to baby Jesus.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 21:53 |
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My sisters cat has anime eyes.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 21:54 |
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Cuniculous posted:
Your sisters cat is on
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 22:28 |
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So you guys like cats? Sloths:
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 22:48 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:My favorite is the vultures. AstroWhale posted:Worst cats ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mAGQAw3Oc
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 22:50 |
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AstroWhale posted:So you guys like cats? Ugh that cat is just too moist, take it away.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 22:52 |
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They said more Pallas cats, not just more Pallas cat by mass
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# ? Dec 22, 2014 01:06 |