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Nostradingus
Jul 13, 2009

I need to see fat birbs today.

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Partial Octopus
Feb 4, 2006



Nostradingus posted:

I need to see fat birbs today.



I feel like if that thing tripped it would just roll forever.

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

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



What kind of bird is this? I found one the other day.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

cash crab posted:

What kind of bird is this? I found one the other day.

In the USA they call them Ruby-crowned Kinglets, but I think they have different names elsewhere in the world.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
dog happy

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Nostradingus posted:

I need to see fat birbs today.



http://fat-birds.com/

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWBy6CtkBb4

Disco Salmon
Jun 19, 2004
So, what's the verdict???

I'm biting my nails here waiting to find out this cliffhanger on whether or not Butterscotch has found his forever home....:ohdear:

Chili
Jan 23, 2004

college kids ain't shit


Fun Shoe

Disco Salmon posted:

So, what's the verdict???

I'm biting my nails here waiting to find out this cliffhanger on whether or not Butterscotch has found his forever home....:ohdear:

Saturday.

SlippyFists
Jul 16, 2007

To The Flowers of Time!

I think if you give Butterscotch to someone else and tell them that he needs to be on a diet, he'll never lose all that extra weight. I don't want Butterscotch to be unhealthy and sad :(

Chili
Jan 23, 2004

college kids ain't shit


Fun Shoe

Chili posted:

They're so delightfully plucky. Finn's favorite thing to do is climb all the way up on to my shoulder while I'm standing. I've never seen a kitten do this, it's pretty amazing. We'll try to get a video of it before we bring him back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKmgy0kvks

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME
i hope someone adopts them together

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Sure it's funny now, but wait until they're bigger and their claws are sinking into flesh on the climb up :gibs:.


HEY GAL posted:

i hope someone adopts them together

Agreed :allears:.

Chili
Jan 23, 2004

college kids ain't shit


Fun Shoe
Eh. When we first started fostering litters we always felt that way, but honestly it's probably best in most cases if they get split up. Finn is a really dominant spitfire and he kinda commands a lot of attention. If Rey were on her own she'd open up a lot more. It's happened before when we've been able to return one kitten out of a litter and suddenly the others start shining. They'd honestly be fine either way, they're not that bonded. For the most part Finn just chases Rey around a lot.

nockturne
Aug 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
Fat Blue Wren:



Blue wrens have both adorable and hilarious sex lives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superb_fairywren#Courtship posted:

During the reproductive season, males of this and other fairywren species pluck yellow petals, which contrast with their plumage, and show them to female fairywrens. The petals often form part of a courtship display and are presented to a female in the male fairywren's own or another territory. Males sometimes show petals to females in other territories even outside the breeding season, presumably to promote themselves.[62] Fairywrens are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous: pairs will bond for life,[63] though both males and females will regularly mate with other individuals; a proportion of young will have been fathered by males from outside the group. Young are often raised not by the pair alone, but with other males who also mated with the pair's female assisting.[64]

What they mean by "promiscuous" is this: the male does a big song and dance routine every morning and evening at the periphery of the territory. Both males and females take this as an opportunity to sneak off and have a quickie with adjacent lonely wrens. In every other way they are the epitome of a stable birdy home, with the previous year's clutch often helping out with raising this year's chicks.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

nockturne posted:

What they mean by "promiscuous" is this: the male does a big song and dance routine every morning and evening at the periphery of the territory. Both males and females take this as an opportunity to sneak off and have a quickie with adjacent lonely wrens. In every other way they are the epitome of a stable birdy home, with the previous year's clutch often helping out with raising this year's chicks.

So they're the Duggars of the bird world?

Deep Thoreau
Aug 16, 2008

You could say they like to be..cucked.

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

HogX posted:

You could say they like to be..cucked.

"Could" is the operative word here

Moose King
Nov 5, 2009

In honor of the New Year, look upon Ozymandias' balls, Cute Pictures thread, and despair

Liquid Chicken
Jan 25, 2005

GOOP

Caedus
Sep 11, 2007

It's good to have a sense of scale.



^^

That tickles me because the cat is still and the toddler is motion-blurred. It's usually opposite in this thread :D

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

Nostradingus posted:

I need to see fat birbs today.

My favorite fat bird picture

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Ozz81 posted:

It's the big cat equivalent of your mom licking her thumb and wiping your cheek..."aw mom, GROSS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIelH9-s4k

kinmik
Jul 17, 2011

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

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nostradingus posted:

I need to see fat birbs today.



Wanna rub that fat birb belly :kimchi:

Geolicious
Oct 21, 2003

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Lipstick Apathy

This happens to me every time I try to do cat eye liner, too. Looks better when you're an actual cat, though.

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

dee
doot doot dee
doot doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot


College Slice

What are the odds of his name being Bandit?

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary
Pigeons:

Chili
Jan 23, 2004

college kids ain't shit


Fun Shoe

FishFood
Apr 1, 2012

Now with brine shrimp!
:swoon:

I'm so excited to watch Butterscotch lose pounds and keep floof!

Anoia
Dec 31, 2003

"Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."
Yes! 2016 is already awesome.

a life less
Jul 12, 2009

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

I took a photo similar to this a while ago, but I got a new camera and wanted to recreate it. So, that's why this photo may look familiar to the thread.

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!


As someone with a relative who overfeeds a cat with an eerily similar colour to Butterscotch, thank you. :unsmith:

mcbexx
Jul 4, 2004

British dentistry is
not on trial here!



"Animal ID: 104985"

"He's got a name. And his name is BUTTERSCOTCH!"

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
More fat birbs, please.

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

cash crab posted:

What kind of bird is this? I found one the other day.

My favorite thing about kinglets is how entirely chill and friendly they are. If you spot one in a bush, you can just stick your head right up in there and they'll just be like 'sup, and keep hopping around.

whiteyfats posted:

More fat birbs, please.

The Japanese Long Tailed Tit is criminally cute.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

I don't think that this proves anything...

https://i.imgur.com/mzcVqBn.gifv

McPantserton
Jan 19, 2005

IRONICALLY SWEALTERING

I am so supremely cheered up by this. Butterscotch!!

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Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

I don't know why this makes me as happy as it does.

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