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ArcMage
Sep 14, 2007

What is this thread?

Ramrod XTreme
For a lot of us, we had dog or cat expressions around to learn to read just as soon as we had human expressions to learn to read. That is a result of their role as companions to us, and that seems like it'd be part of why it seems so intuitive, it's just another set of smiles and frowns to us.

e: why does this always happen to me :sigh:







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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

MikeJF posted:

I wonder if the understandability of dog expressions to humans is an evolutionary adaption to their role as human companions.

It also reflects that dogs are social animals that have to communicate with eachother.

VVV they're not pack animals. You know what I meant.

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MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Blue Footed Booby posted:

It also reflects that dogs are social animals that have to communicate with eachother.

The idea that cats aren't is a myth.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Cats have subtle body language, dogs are the body language equivalent of shouting into a megaphone. What's not to get?

Chard
Aug 24, 2010





A dapper and healthy bird, enjoying a wire in the sun :yeah:

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Cats have subtle body language, dogs are the body language equivalent of shouting into a megaphone. What's not to get?

(photographs cat that has schizoid rapist facial expression) "My little Woogums is so loving, it's just subtle!"

Anyways here's a dog being bothered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN8mVtK6q1g

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

EmperorFritoBandito posted:

(photographs cat that has schizoid rapist facial expression) "My little Woogums is so loving, it's just subtle!"

Anyways here's a dog being bothered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN8mVtK6q1g

It looks like there's a whole channel of them just using props to screw with that dog.

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


Look how handsome this owl is.

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

Choco1980 posted:

It looks like there's a whole channel of them just using props to screw with that dog.

They are probably assholes, but their dog is cute. :3:

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
If you ask people why they own pets or have kids they'll always give a bunch of reasons like, security, companionship, legacy.

But really it's about having your own tiny idiot to gently caress with.

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Gorilla Salad posted:

But really it's about having your own tiny idiot to gently caress with.

Plenty of people will give you this answer as well. People are assholes!

Foxhound
Sep 5, 2007
Birds outside my window was making a buttload of noise this morning so I shot this short video (through my embarassingly dirty kitchen window). There seems to be a lot of young ones there so I guess they just learned how to fly. They were zooming around outside when they weren't inventing new cellphone signals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a3UvD6V8M

Writer Cath
Apr 1, 2007

Box. Flipped.
Plaster Town Cop

Gorilla Salad posted:

If you ask people why they own pets or have kids they'll always give a bunch of reasons like, security, companionship, legacy.

But really it's about having your own tiny idiot to gently caress with.

I'll have you know, mine is not tiny.



Behold, 135 pounds of stuffed animal mastery!

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Gorilla Salad posted:

If you ask people why they own pets or have kids they'll always give a bunch of reasons like, security, companionship, legacy.

But really it's about having your own tiny idiot to gently caress with.

Frankly loving with my eight year old is the most rewarding part of being a dad.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.

KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

Unleash the tiny kraken. http://i.imgur.com/K8agE9C.webm

a life less
Jul 12, 2009

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Transmogrifier posted:

This is a great shot of Cohen, wow.

Thank you!

One more. Because lolbirthday

ro5s
Dec 27, 2012

A happy little mouse!




Otters chasing a butterfly :kimchi:

More otters

Klaus88
Jan 23, 2011

Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investment
Ante up the cute, it is gonna be a bad day people. :smithicide:

Centripetal Horse
Nov 22, 2009

Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

Cutethulu.

cat_snake
Nov 19, 2014

Good Kitty.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cat-door-install-wasted-video_55dca746e4b0a40aa3ac564e

Inferior
Oct 19, 2012

The Guardian has some fun images for National Dog Day.









The best cats put real effort into not giving a poo poo.

Polaron
Oct 13, 2010

The Oncoming Storm

Klaus88 posted:

Ante up the cute, it is gonna be a bad day people. :smithicide:

Perhaps not the best choice in emotes...

Lord Zedd-Repulsa
Jul 21, 2007

Devour a good book.



Do you or anyone else have more cute octopus, squid, and cuttlefish pics and videos? My wife is having a bad day and adores them.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Klaus88 posted:

Ante up the cute, it is gonna be a bad day people. :smithicide:

What's making today a bad day Klaus?

Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Death is nothing compared to vindication.
Buglord
My cat Charles



If you don't want to smoosh you face into that belly, I don't know what to tell you...

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

COOL CORN posted:

My cat Charles



If you don't want to smoosh you face into that belly, I don't know what to tell you...

That is a pretty smooshable belly:kimchi:

darthbob88
Oct 13, 2011

YOSPOS

drrockso20 posted:

What's making today a bad day Klaus?
You asked for it. A mentally ill, and possibly also gay, black man shot and killed an attractive white news reporter and her cameraman on live TV, for reasons which he stated in a 23-page manifesto were racially motivated, specifically in response to the Charleston church shooting. There's the obvious tragedy of two people being murdered, but arguably worse is the political clusterfuck that will arise, between gun control/"How dare you politicize this tragedy", racism and RaHoWa possibly kicking off in earnest, the mental illness angle, and something bad because He Gay. TFR and D&D are already at each other's throats about this, and it can only get better from there.

For happier content, Boop. Love me!

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

darthbob88 posted:

You asked for it. A mentally ill, and possibly also gay, black man shot and killed an attractive white news reporter and her cameraman on live TV, for reasons which he stated in a 23-page manifesto were racially motivated, specifically in response to the Charleston church shooting. There's the obvious tragedy of two people being murdered, but arguably worse is the political clusterfuck that will arise, between gun control/"How dare you politicize this tragedy", racism and RaHoWa possibly kicking off in earnest, the mental illness angle, and something bad because He Gay. TFR and D&D are already at each other's throats about this, and it can only get better from there.

For happier content, Boop. Love me!

Oh that whole mess, yeah that's going to be ugly

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Forget ocelots, Sterling has something even cuter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8svprEgK4s

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

LivesInGrey posted:

Do you or anyone else have more cute octopus, squid, and cuttlefish pics and videos? My wife is having a bad day and adores them.

I thought this video had a lot of cute footage in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-cxg8mF_Lw

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology



I am having a bad day and this helped a lot

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Thunderfinger
Jan 15, 2011


In my mind, it talks like someone out of the movie Goodfellas.

Birb Katter
Sep 18, 2010

BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
TURNBULL AS PM
LIBERALS WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN A LANDSLIDE


toucan gets 3d beak replacement

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

I cannot handle the whole toucan situation. They look like they have a giant fake beak strapped to their face. I can't do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LxA8vykuO8

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Captain Lavender
Oct 21, 2010

verb the adjective noun

Thunderfinger posted:

In my mind, it talks like someone out of the movie Goodfellas.

You know it's Pesci

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