Sep 10, 2024
X-ray videos of Japanese eels swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish have revealed how the eels can make a daring escape from being digested
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X-ray videos of Japanese eels swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish have revealed how the eels can make a daring escape from being digested
Every day.Every day I'm subjected to "cute" or "funny" videos of pet birds interacting with cats or dogs or ferrets. For the last time internet people:
These.Are.NOT. Cute.
No matter how trained the animals are or how "friendly" the interactions look to humans-and they frequently are not- anyone who's making these is actively endangering their bird- and possibly also their dog/cat for likes.
Cats and dogs are not only predators, they can easily kill a bird through normal play behaviours as well- one hard smack from a cat can be enough to kill or severely injure something like a budgie or a cockatiel.and I'm not even talking about things like play biting here.
And even the friendliest best trained most passive cat might not be able to resist their natural instinct to chase birds. One slip up is enough.
On top of that cat saliva contains bacteria that are toxic to birds.
Please stop. Don't like these, don't reblog these, and most definitely do not make these.
Sincerely, someone who owns both birds and cats.
Is it okay for rabbits to have loose supervised interaction with cats and (low prey drive) dogs, e.g. they live in the same house and are only able to freely interact when the owner is in the same room? Or should the owner be actively watching the interaction constantly? Is cat saliva as dangerous for rabbits as it is for birds and lizards and that?
gettingvetted here.
Predator and prey animal interactions are not recommended in any way, shape, or form - supervised, unsupervised, low or high prey drive. Cat saliva is just as dangerous for rabbits as it is for birds, lizards, AND humans.
In the mid-Triassic seas, covering what will one day be part of southwestern China, an ichthyosaur flails at the surface desperately trying to deal with an ambitiously large meal.
240 million years later human paleontologists will name their kind Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae, and initially assume that their narrow snout and small peg-like teeth are suited only for a diet of small soft-bodied fish and cephalopods.
In reality they eat a much wider range of prey – including other marine reptiles.
But for a 5m long (16'5") Guizhouichthyosaurus, perhaps this particular catch is a little too much. The unlucky thalattosaur was a rather large example of a Xinpusaurus xingyiensis – nearly matching the ichthyosaur in length at around 4m long (13'2"), although much less bulky – and after biting off the head and tail the predator is still struggling to actually eat the sizeable carcass.
Even with a gravity assist from holding their prize vertically up above the water, swallowing is proving difficult and the Guizhouichthyosaurus can't breathe around it.
They're slowly suffocating.
They'll eventually get it down their gullet, but by then it'll be too late. Weak and dizzy from asphyxiation, they'll soon sink to the sea floor and never resurface, their body settling not very far from where their prey's severed tail fell.
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