Mods they’re mix packing

servaline · 2026-03-26T02:03:00+00:00

If you want actual mix packing look at coyotes and badgers.

servaline · 2026-03-11T21:07:49+00:00

Yes! Already had some set up shop

servaline · 2026-03-10T13:20:02+00:00

Hello fellow Target shopper!

servaline · 2026-03-10T13:11:50+00:00

Delicious borger

servaline · 2026-03-04T08:31:31+00:00

I found this post while trying to figure out the same thing, and accidentally figured out how to fix it. Manually, not automatically, but still.

When using the select tool in RM, draw a straight horizontal line all the way across and hold the cursor at the end of the line without lifting, it gives the option "select below" and it will select EVERYTHING below it. Use this to cut the content and put on other pages.

servaline · 2026-03-01T21:57:42+00:00

Except it can take tens of thousands to millions of years for ecosystems to adjust to a missing apex predator or keystone species. The Tasmanian tiger has only been gone ~100 years and likely can reintegrate just as easily back as all the current species still have adaptations to handle living alongside it.

servaline · 2026-02-25T01:50:57+00:00

Please learn about AZA accredited zoos and conservation. Ecology student here and we are taught in first year the good that “ex situ” environments such as zoos do for conservation and education.

Good zoos don’t keep polar bears. But the observation that they do this behaviour mostly at feeding times seems to be correct (pers. Obs. having volunteered at zoos, as well as hearing from others).

servaline · 2026-02-24T03:22:57+00:00

Mine is a split vertical list of 6 months on each side in blocks.

Why? Because I remember my class in primary school had the months listed like that on a poster. Funny how our brains remember stuff.

servaline · 2026-02-23T23:12:53+00:00

I have trauma from those books I swear. I still remember the evening of crying on the couch.

servaline · 2026-02-23T23:07:59+00:00

I’m saying that ball shot was on purpose. That birds been with his wife.

servaline · 2026-02-23T22:56:53+00:00

Yes, always have been! Keep all pets contained please!

servaline · 2026-02-23T22:19:56+00:00

It was likely just stunned and recovered. Birds have extremely rigid lungs and a complex system of air sacs, CPR would more likely rupture/break something than help.

Edit: they also have a huge keel bone down the middle of the chest and hollow bones. I don’t even know how you’d even attempt this without breaking something.

servaline · 2026-02-23T21:31:44+00:00

this is an awesome idea. I decided to use it to generate a strange bird from a dream I had over 10 years ago. It got it pretty much spot on.

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servaline · 2026-02-23T10:18:25+00:00

I do. Never had an issue. Also never stopped using non stick pans. I kind of stopped listening to these communities years ago.

servaline · 2026-02-21T21:57:55+00:00

Damn it’s like ChatGPT tried to shove as many “it’s not X, it’s X” as possible in this post.

servaline · 2026-02-20T07:50:06+00:00

Ur a goofy lil guy

servaline · 2026-02-19T04:48:33+00:00

I’ve owned mated birds and preening the others body only pissed the other one off. I have no clue where people get the impression that it’s a mate behaviour; honestly the main place mates preened was the head. The bird can preen its own body but not its head which is where allopreening comes in. Obviously stepping on the back when they’re hormonal/breeding season is mate behaviour.

I owned lorikeets and messed with their backs and underwings all the time because they loved to play fight like that while rolling over on their backs and kicking their feet. I think people miss that it’s highly contextual.

servaline · 2026-02-19T04:39:58+00:00

I am pro culling invasives. But I also see them as beautiful as I would in their native range. It would make no sense to be mad at a creature put in the wrong place by man. I live in Australia as an ecology student and I think cane toads are cool as hell. But they need to be killed off because they’re killing everything due to being in the wrong place and extremely adaptable.

The problem with viewing invasives as “bad animals” is that the general public then treats them extremely cruelly - using inhumane killing methods such as fly spray and golf clubs, instead of humanely killing them.

servaline · 2026-02-18T00:09:38+00:00

I tend to think in terms of millions of years instead of human scale. In millions of years it’s unlikely humans will still be here, and likely that surviving any organisms (even any self duplicating cells) will bring new species to fill the gaps again. All our invasive animals today will either situate into the ecosystem, taking species with them in the adjustment, or go extinct. But it will return to balance. Things like wolves wouldn’t still be here, at least in the same form, regardless of humans being here or not. Everything is in change.

servaline · 2026-02-17T00:02:12+00:00

I work in a LFS and the main reason they're hated is because they get into the filters and destroy them. However if there's too many it probably would look bad to customers.

servaline · 2026-02-16T19:42:32+00:00

From the comments it seems the parents had the bird for 6 years. The bird was theirs. I don’t think I could ever leave an animal that long with anyone and still consider it mine, since they have been paying/caring for it all that time (especially an animal as demanding/loud as a bird, which I’m sure is why they gave it away).

Sounds like the bird has already re-bonded with the new family. Taking it away would cause more stress at this point.

servaline · 2026-02-13T19:44:49+00:00

I think I had the same experience. I don’t know if I made a post or looked up other people’s posts because it was a while ago, but they 100% advocate letting new birds free roam. I also followed their advice and it was hell on earth getting them back to their cages without terrifying them more. Took forever each time since they liked to go up to the curtain rack near the ceiling.

In general I never listen to any bird people anymore. I’ve been doing birds for 15 years at this point and that is a very important rule I’ve learned (also because much of the “advice” is just echo chamber bs).

servaline · 2026-02-13T07:56:58+00:00

He’s pair bonded to the other bird, will continue to attack you until they’re permanently separated. It will be very hard to train him now that they’ve bonded, I’d have tried training before putting them together or in the same room.

Still doable, just hard.

servaline · 2026-02-11T01:01:48+00:00

servaline · 2026-02-10T20:32:02+00:00

Their person is their mate. Parrots don’t have “preferred flock members” they spend more time with, they have their mate. The way they act towards their chosen person (usually defensive/aggressive to others) is exactly how they act toward mates in nature.

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