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Florida man caught illegally feeding wild alligator resists arrest: "He's a good boy... and he loves bagels."
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Man's long and well documented history of anthropomorphizing and treating wild apex predators like friends and pets.
Are you saying the boy doesn't love bagels?
Here's the bear version.
Apex predators must be so confused by humans. Here's these gangly looking creatures that looks like prey, no claws, no fangs, only forward facing eyes hint at anything different. They act like prey, except when they absolutely don't, and they become the apex predator. And they keep giving out food and trying to get you to stay in their camps.
this is a great concept for a scifi story: humanity is "the ancients" but all the aliens see of us is when we're effectively going on nature hikes.
An alien empire captures a lone human vessel and is about to start doing horrible shit, when suddenly a fucking planet emerges from hyperspace and next thing they know their entire species has been relocated and they're surrounded by a force field.
If you enjoy this sort of story, can I suggest the "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" (HFY) genre? I can definitely recommend The Deathworlders.
It worked once! Now we get to dress them in lil onesies and take em to dog shows!
Got cats to team up. Soon foxes and racoons
my dude, this year my cat trained me to move the shower chair to the opposite side of the shower after i am done showering so he can sit there, soak his testicles on the warm water on the chair and stare down the little "hallway" created by the doorways in my bathroom, and if i open the blinds on the one window he can stare out the window while soaking his testicles. he loves it. he meows until the chair is in the right spot and then meows until the window is open. i can just get warm water on the chair in the right spot when the blinds are open and he'll jump right up. damn orange testicle soaker
cats domesticated us.
i've got one on my lap right now she is so precious but i cannot move or else she will wake up and then she might not let me give her forehead kisses tonight. what then Spacehooks have you considered that?
Cats never got domesticated they just showed up, said well handle the pest problem, and got treated as gods. In fact from what i can tell behavior wise the only difference between an African wild cat and a "domestic" is one let's you pet them when you eat and the other is full food meow!
i moved and i did not get to give her forehead goodnight kisses. i did not get to give her forehead good morning kisses. who is giving my kitten forehead kisses? it was 3 am last night and she started getting up to the business again
I mean, if it's that long of a history then we shouldn't really be seeing it happen by now amirite?
I gave water to a thirsty chuckwalla last weekend. Florida man lives in us all.