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unlikely wrote:

^bTXL wrote: Really? Such as...?

well, up until recently this very forum was home to 7 species of Ashley, all extinct. Unless there is some kind of Lock Ness Ashley lurking in the depths....

This is the third time someone has mentioned this name, is this an inside joke or something because I am new and don't understand and LEQ won't reply to my PM.

It is easy to blame mankind for the extinction of many species (let's face it, we're responsible for the vast majority), but there are other reasons too.

Plenty of species that are so limited in spread that they only exist in a very small area. For example, the Devils Hole Pupfish exists in one body of water only. In the whole world. So all it takes is the expansion of a predator population (and therefore an expansion of territory) to put that species under a new predatory risk that it is not prepared to defend against, and it's up shit creek (or devil's hole).

There are other biological factors that can be behind an extinction. Many tropical frogs are under great threat of extinction due to a fungus that clogs the pores of the frog's skin and kills them. No species studied thus far has any resistance to this, so they're all getting merked. Whilst one can't deny that habitat destruction by humans may be aiding the extinction process, these frogs would be fucked either way. Again, human intervention is infact saving these slippery skinned bastards.

There will always be extinction events, where a given environment is changes so greatly and suddenly that the animals within it are incapable of surviving and day off. If the scale is large enough or the species population is localised enough, then this'll mean that the species as a whole is fucked.

So yeah, us humans are bastards, that's no mistake. Poachers and all that jazz should be locked in big arenas and hunted themselves, but to assume that every single aminal ever evolved would be alive if it wasn't for humans or a massive extinction event is wrong, in my opinion.

While we're here, how the fuck have daddy long legs survived? They're a joke.

^bTXL wrote:

unlikely wrote:

^bTXL wrote: Really? Such as...?

well, up until recently this very forum was home to 7 species of Ashley, all extinct. Unless there is some kind of Lock Ness Ashley lurking in the depths....

This is the third time someone has mentioned this name, is this an inside joke or something because I am new and don't understand and LEQ won't reply to my PM.

lol Ashley is a guy who trolls on here and got banned. As such he set up Ashley2 and got banned. He repeated that same ingenious trick another five times and got upto Ashley7. Haven't seen him for a while.

Christ, I should do some work.

kins83 wrote:It is easy to blame mankind for the extinction of many species (let's face it, we're responsible for the vast majority), but there are other reasons too.

Plenty of species that are so limited in spread that they only exist in a very small area. For example, the Devils Hole Pupfish exists in one body of water only. In the whole world. So all it takes is the expansion of a predator population (and therefore an expansion of territory) to put that species under a new predatory risk that it is not prepared to defend against, and it's up shit creek (or devil's hole).

There are other biological factors that can be behind an extinction. Many tropical frogs are under great threat of extinction due to a fungus that clogs the pores of the frog's skin and kills them. No species studied thus far has any resistance to this, so they're all getting merked. Whilst one can't deny that habitat destruction by humans may be aiding the extinction process, these frogs would be fucked either way. Again, human intervention is infact saving these slippery skinned bastards.

There will always be extinction events, where a given environment is changes so greatly and suddenly that the animals within it are incapable of surviving and day off. If the scale is large enough or the species population is localised enough, then this'll mean that the species as a whole is fucked.

So yeah, us humans are bastards, that's no mistake. Poachers and all that jazz should be locked in big arenas and hunted themselves, but to assume that every single aminal ever evolved would be alive if it wasn't for humans or a massive extinction event is wrong, in my opinion.

While we're here, how the fuck have daddy long legs survived? They're a joke.

The larva live underground - so in a huge grassy field they have millions of little places to live. If you have grass in your garden and its going bald in certain areas, blame these guys (unless you have kids or pets).

kins83 wrote:

^bTXL wrote:

unlikely wrote:

^bTXL wrote: Really? Such as...?

well, up until recently this very forum was home to 7 species of Ashley, all extinct. Unless there is some kind of Lock Ness Ashley lurking in the depths....

This is the third time someone has mentioned this name, is this an inside joke or something because I am new and don't understand and LEQ won't reply to my PM.

lol Ashley is a guy who trolls on here and got banned. As such he set up Ashley2 and got banned. He repeated that same ingenious trick another five times and got upto Ashley7. Haven't seen him for a while.

Christ, I should do some work.

Oh shame, maybe they finally got his IP or something.

I'm off sick today. Woke up with a huge headache and didn't feel like going in so put my head against the radiator and mum fooled for it, "my, you do have a temperature".

^bTXL wrote: Really? Such as...?

really how am I supposed to answer that?

This is not an area I profess any expertese in, in is only what I have heard.

we have been around for say 50k years, life has been around for about 4million, excluding mass extinctsion events I think it is fair to assume that many species have come and gone before us, and continue to do so today.

tho I fully agree that we are the main contributing factor to the next mass extiction.

i hope we are the next mass extinction

kins83 wrote:It is easy to blame mankind for the extinction of many species (let's face it, we're responsible for the vast majority), but there are other reasons too.

Plenty of species that are so limited in spread that they only exist in a very small area. For example, the Devils Hole Pupfish exists in one body of water only. In the whole world. So all it takes is the expansion of a predator population (and therefore an expansion of territory) to put that species under a new predatory risk that it is not prepared to defend against, and it's up shit creek (or devil's hole).

There are other biological factors that can be behind an extinction. Many tropical frogs are under great threat of extinction due to a fungus that clogs the pores of the frog's skin and kills them. No species studied thus far has any resistance to this, so they're all getting merked. Whilst one can't deny that habitat destruction by humans may be aiding the extinction process, these frogs would be fucked either way. Again, human intervention is infact saving these slippery skinned bastards.

There will always be extinction events, where a given environment is changes so greatly and suddenly that the animals within it are incapable of surviving and day off. If the scale is large enough or the species population is localised enough, then this'll mean that the species as a whole is fucked.

So yeah, us humans are bastards, that's no mistake. Poachers and all that jazz should be locked in big arenas and hunted themselves, but to assume that every single aminal ever evolved would be alive if it wasn't for humans or a massive extinction event is wrong, in my opinion.

While we're here, how the fuck have daddy long legs survived? They're a joke.

exactly, nicely put. things like the dodo got wiped out because we hunted them, the panda is dying out because it's shit at breeding - so they aren't even slightly comparable cases of extinction

deamonds wrote:i hope we are the next mass extinction

Awww were not all bad...and lord knows we might do something good for the environment one day..(besides dying)

badger wrote:

kins83 wrote:It is easy to blame mankind for the extinction of many species (let's face it, we're responsible for the vast majority), but there are other reasons too.

Plenty of species that are so limited in spread that they only exist in a very small area. For example, the Devils Hole Pupfish exists in one body of water only. In the whole world. So all it takes is the expansion of a predator population (and therefore an expansion of territory) to put that species under a new predatory risk that it is not prepared to defend against, and it's up shit creek (or devil's hole).

There are other biological factors that can be behind an extinction. Many tropical frogs are under great threat of extinction due to a fungus that clogs the pores of the frog's skin and kills them. No species studied thus far has any resistance to this, so they're all getting merked. Whilst one can't deny that habitat destruction by humans may be aiding the extinction process, these frogs would be fucked either way. Again, human intervention is infact saving these slippery skinned bastards.

There will always be extinction events, where a given environment is changes so greatly and suddenly that the animals within it are incapable of surviving and day off. If the scale is large enough or the species population is localised enough, then this'll mean that the species as a whole is fucked.

So yeah, us humans are bastards, that's no mistake. Poachers and all that jazz should be locked in big arenas and hunted themselves, but to assume that every single aminal ever evolved would be alive if it wasn't for humans or a massive extinction event is wrong, in my opinion.

While we're here, how the fuck have daddy long legs survived? They're a joke.

exactly, nicely put. things like the dodo got wiped out because we hunted them, the panda is dying out because it's shit at breeding - so they aren't even slightly comparable cases of extinction

Only shit at breeding when in captivity. Nobody knows why, but if someone locked me in a room and forced me to breed I would feel a bit insecure.

^bTXL wrote:
Only shit at breeding when in captivity. Nobody knows why, but if someone locked me in a room and forced me to breed I would feel a bit insecure.

sounds like a dream to me, put me in a room, with my favourite foods, chuck in some sexy mommas and let us have a good times <. .>
@

If I was a panda, and I was locked up, I'd be pretty happy to see a bit of sweet lady panda ass. Fair enough after a few months, might get a bit bored, but if you're in captivity, rutting has got to be a pretty good way to pass the time (just look at male prisons). It'd be the audience that'd give me troubles.

im sitting like 4 ft away from my monitor flipping through this thread. im freaking out here. showed a group of ppl in my office and they think its fake. just bc its insanely HUGE.

those camel spiders are huge as well. i saw a friends pics from iraq and he had one of a killed one, but still able to tell what it was. thing is UGLY. and tan. ew. i cant stand big creepy bugs.

dont even get started on millipedes and centipedes. fuckin gross!

kins83 wrote:If I was a panda, and I was locked up, I'd be pretty happy to see a bit of sweet lady panda ass. Fair enough after a few months, might get a bit bored, but if you're in captivity, rutting has got to be a pretty good way to pass the time (just look at male prisons). It'd be the audience that'd give me troubles.

all they'd need to do is throw in a dancing pigeon to sweeten the deal and you'd be rutting away like nobodies business

eLBe you know mate, id be fucking fucking fucking

badger wrote:

kins83 wrote:If I was a panda, and I was locked up, I'd be pretty happy to see a bit of sweet lady panda ass. Fair enough after a few months, might get a bit bored, but if you're in captivity, rutting has got to be a pretty good way to pass the time (just look at male prisons). It'd be the audience that'd give me troubles.

all they'd need to do is throw in a dancing pigeon to sweeten the deal and you'd be rutting away like nobodies business

LOL

You've got my number mate. I'm a sucker for that dance. I can't stop thinking about it now...

There must be a gif of that dance, somewhere on the internets...

kins83 wrote: It'd be the audience that'd give me troubles.

I dun know, after a few months it could be good puttin on a show, thro in a few supprises, like doing a handstand whilst goin at it.

deamonds wrote:eLBe you know mate, id be fucking fucking fucking

Unfortunately animals don't have that kind of mentality. Pandas only mate for 3 days every year and this can only be from 30 seconds up to 5 minutes at a time - mutliple times of course to secure fertilisation.

Most Pandas are artificially inseminated anyhow, meaning they get to have sex with a Vet's syringe while they are put to sleep - sounds like a bad case GHB to me. Poor Pandas

eLBe wrote:

kins83 wrote: It'd be the audience that'd give me troubles.

I dun know, after a few months it could be good puttin on a show, thro in a few supprises, like doing a handstand whilst goin at it.

True...but let's think about it...you've been locked up for a while, probably haven't even seen a female panda. Then suddenly, in she comes. You're a species of animal which is infamous for not being able to reproduce, and you don't know what the hell you're doing. Not only that, the future of your entire species rests on you being able to bust a nut, and to add to it all, you've got to do it infront of a bunch of noisy kids all taking photos?

The handstands would be a loooooooooong way off.

^bTXL wrote:

deamonds wrote:eLBe you know mate, id be fucking fucking fucking

they get to have sex with a Vet's syringe while they are put to sleep

Sounds Kinky