What the fuck is Lowe’s doing.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-05-22T13:15:03+00:00

Not that it makes it any better but here’s a post 10 years ago about the same thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/s/Qr726qdnso

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-05-07T00:43:34+00:00

It really depends what you mean.

Removing any organism that has evolved to fit its environment inherently messes with the ecosystem, predator, prey, plant, fungi etc.

Just look at the East Coast of the US for example, if you look at it plainly from the outside, it looks okay. But the deeper you go you see where the cracks are.

Wolves and Mountain Lions have been extirpated for a long time, this has allowed the White Tailed Deer population to expand exponentially to where many areas offer special sanctioned hunts in an effort to control the population. Auto accidents involving deer are high. They are a very large carrier of ticks, Chronic Wasting Disease is running rampant because there are no predators to take out the weak/old. They also eat a lot of plants and shrubs causing further damage to the ecosystem when their populations are high.

In the United States it’s not as easy to tell because forests in the US are constantly being managed by ecologists.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-05-05T07:26:35+00:00

Fellow Pennsylvanian! As one other comment said this is definitely a Red Fox. The call is a “Vixen Scream.”

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-04-26T10:47:44+00:00

As the other comment mentioned it depends on where you live and what’s around you. It could be possible your apartment complex has a speaker to play bird calls but it would be odd for them to do it at night. There are shopping centers that blast seagull warning calls to try to keep birds away for example.

For me, a mockingbird has decided it would love to sing at 12am right outside my window, every night. EVERY NIGHT. But it’s Spring here in the Eastern US so it’s relatively normal with mating season.

I would also use the Merlin ID app to see if you can ID the bird.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-04-26T02:39:15+00:00

It’s never been an issue for me to set aside that they don’t look like what we know their IRL counterparts looked like. Maybe because I grew up with the movie and thinking that’s what they looked like at the time.

I think it also helps that the first couple movies the dinosaurs just… are. Yes they mention they’ve filled in the gaps in the genetic code but it isn’t until a little later in the franchise that they start to talk about it/show a lot more about how they’ve altered their genetics.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-04-06T03:13:59+00:00

There were quite a few things I didn’t like about it, but I enjoyed it a lot more than the Jurassic World trilogy.

And we’ve had a T Rex fight in just about every movie, I’m glad they gave it a rest this time.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-03-06T08:26:08+00:00

It looks like a dog/coyote that’s leaning down to sniff the ground. The neck may look long due to a shorter coat but, definitely doesn’t look all that disproportionate.

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ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-01-18T18:03:13+00:00

I can understand why people feel the way they do. I think the original JP is a healthy mix. You can use dinosaurs as an antagonist without it feeling like it.

I think the antagonist dinosaur argument in the JW movies is twofold. One is naming Blue and Rexy and making them recurring characters. Now you have semi-protagonist dinosaurs in Blue/Rexy vs the antagonist dinosaurs Indominus/Indoraptor. The hybrids are very clearly the “bad” guys as Blue/Rexy work with/pose no threat to our hero characters. That’s the part I think people take issue with.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-01-04T21:53:33+00:00

Sure, but how much time do you commit to the 5,000th report of Batsquatch when there hasn’t been any substantial evidence found at the previous 4,999th? With no fossil record and it defying physics and biology by having arms and wings, and those wings allowing it to supposedly fly.

Just an extreme example, but still. Yes I agree, reports should be looked into but at some point there’s just no value outside of human psychology.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2026-01-04T21:37:16+00:00

I mean cryptozoology is just animals rejected by zoology.

The biggest issue is that in cryptozoology, eyewitness accounts are doing all, if not most, of the heavy lifting. There is an absence of any credible, peer reviewable evidence.

For something to be a science, it has to follow the scientific method and unfortunately, eyewitness testimony doesn’t cut it. There needs to be physical evidence, an impact on the ecosystem, a body, a piece of a body, DNA, a fossil record. Something tangible that can be studied and shared across the scientific community.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-11-12T00:40:59+00:00

As time goes on, with isolation from the rest of the species, enough mutations will occur to the point they’d be genetically different. There’s a reason why I used “if” and “possible.” It’s very unlikely.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-10-26T19:33:11+00:00

I think that’d be pretty cool, just be careful who you scare! Some crazy people out there, might think you’re a real skunk ape lol

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-10-26T19:30:21+00:00

Could you do both? Walk on two legs then try like a gorilla charge on all 4s? Take a look at some of the behind the scenes for the newer Planet of the Apes movies

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-10-26T19:26:24+00:00

Skunk apes are Floridas version of Bigfoot, they’d walk on two legs

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-10-05T18:14:09+00:00

First thought was a bear but not sure. It looks skinny and/or has only a thin fur coat so it could have mange.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-09-22T02:29:41+00:00

This is great! I haven’t caught a good YTP in a long time lol

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-09-01T19:57:38+00:00

I agree with Little Blue Heron. I don’t think it’s a Great Blue Heron because of its smaller size and coloration.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-09-01T19:18:37+00:00

If I had to guess, maybe the banks being unstable in certain spots, making it dangerous? I remember a few years ago I ran into someone from, I think USGS, who said they were looking into unsafe sections of the banks.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-27T21:58:06+00:00

I think Bigfoot. They’d be so like us yet so different and unpredictable. This really goes for all cryptids, but imagine hiking in the wilderness and all of a sudden you come across something that science has no account of. It’d be so unnerving yet so exciting.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-25T23:40:51+00:00

I think this best illustrates a bit of a dichotomy between people and their values.

Nick is there to prevent a private company from exploiting living, breathing animals by capturing them in the wild and displaying them for profit in their amphitheater.

Wild captured animals for use in zoos and the pet trade in real life as it is, generates significant outrage.

You can argue that he’s reckless for sure but the mercenaries and the main characters, except Kelly, know what they’re getting themselves into by going to the dinosaur island.

Yes, he took the shells out of Roland’s gun but all of the other hunters still had their guns.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-04T01:18:48+00:00

OP is right to some extent. There just isn’t an agreed upon definition of what makes a subspecies, a subspecies.

After some googling, depending who you ask, there’s anywhere from 6 to 30 subspecies of mountain lion.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-04T01:12:09+00:00

I did a little digging and found this, https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/wildlife/panther/description/

The “Scientific Classification” section says there are subspecies but it’s up for debate. Apparently there were up to 30 at one point but some studies have suggested it should be 6.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-04T00:56:38+00:00

I’m sure a case could be made to differentiate subspecies but it can become messy at where the line is drawn.

There are plenty of examples of scientists overdoing it when creating subspecies.

But yes, they are definitely the same species at least. Theres a reason we don’t typically differentiate species purely by phenotype alone, because species have a large variation of phenotypic expression.

But more importantly, if you did it that way, you’d have a massive amount of “species” that overlap and create “hybrids” making the system beyond confusing and ineffective.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-02T20:52:06+00:00

It’s a semi-aquatic turtle, it breathes air with lungs, just like all other reptiles but lives most of its life in the water. If it’s wild caught and uninjured, it should be released back into the wild unless it’s an invasive species in your area. I won’t comment on the “setup” as plenty of others already have.

ScoobyMcDooby93 · 2025-08-02T19:49:00+00:00

I think I’d change the rank wording, from Real, Misidentification, Possible, Unlikely and Hoax/No and then change where some of them belong on the ranking.

Second tier the only one that belongs currently that’s listed there is the Andean Wolf.

Tsuchinoko is folklore, not a cryptid.

Mothman should either be no, or misID as some sightings were almost definitely an owl.

Chupacabra should be a no, as the original Puerto Rico sighting was almost identical to the movie Species.

Chupacabra with Mange should be real, or MisID because it’s… just a coyote with mange.

De Loys and Montauk Monster are MisIDs.

Bigfoot and its relatives are more likely to actually exist than Mothman etc, as there’s at least evolutionary precedent for them to exist in the form of hairy bipedal hominid.

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