And some breeds (like dobermans) do the stupid little smile when they’re happy, which includes showing their front teeth and usually a lot of wiggling. But I’ve never seen them doing it other than upright position, and I think they tend to squint their eyes too doing that, so whatever is going on the op picture does not look like that. But dogs showing teeth really has multiple meanings, the context and body language tell the rest

I don’t actually know do birds have higher tendency to inbreeding in nature. I know in captivity especially the smaller, more aviary setting kept birds might breed with their siblings and parents if there’s not enough unrelated mates.

And with hand-fed bigger parrots getting bonded to humans in general is like grooming, very simplified. Growing up without proper birding tends to cause all sorts of mental problems already, and they might not have any other person or parrot to seek company from, and at worst people do stuff like stroke their backs which is a sexual signal. So what’s a hormonal teenager gonna do when the strong instinct of gotta find a mate kicks in?

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Hold up. If a bird is bonded to you, and it does it, does it even count as baitin’? Sounds more like it’s trying to mate with its mate.

This is actually one part of why fully hand-rearing baby parrots should not be done. When they don’t perceive themselves as birds and will only bond to humans, they can get extremely frustrated since humans can’t properly answer to their instinctual needs like mating behavior. This then easily leads to plenty of behavioral issues like excessive screaming and aggression towards even the human they’re bonded with. Never seek to become a birds mate, just be friends with them

Weird ritual stuff is also pretty common if you’re autistic. I too have random things that I have to do or something just ain’t right, and I am well aware it doesn’t make any sense. The worst one requires closing my eyes for a moment, which leads to weird side effects like I cannot look at any clocks while driving a car, so I don’t have to do the stupid ritual and crash

I’m self-taught as well, and someone knowing the “proper” way to type could probably have a stroke looking at my hands on the keyboard lmao. But yeah since I don’t need to look at the keys when I’m typing, and I still type pretty fast and without mistakes, who cares? If it works it works, even if it looks insane

I see no problem with farming as long as the animals are kept (and killed) well, since having a safe life, with no parasites and fell fed, and then a quick death, is a lot better than most animals ever get in the wild. There’s absolutely no need to keep and treat them as horridly as we do now for profit, you can just let them graze and be pretty naturally depending of the climate and all that, though in many places you have to have livestock guardian dogs at least with them so they don’t get eaten by the wildlife.

That kangaroo hunting is very comparable to hunting in many places, since a lot of it is done because humans have erased natural predators and their numbers need to be controlled to prevent overpopulation. Killing for sport is not the reason for hunting everything everywhere else, though even trophy hunting can be done relatively ethically, since the locals can use the money to protect the species and the trophy hunters get to cull the ones that would be killed to keep the population healthy anyway.
And reindeer herding has some similarities to that aboriginal style, though the siberian nomad tribes don’t stay in one place but herd the flock around in certain places depending on the time of the year, and the more stationary way is done for example up in Lapland. They release the reindeer in the nature and then herd some of them in one place only on certain times of the year. But on that more stationary way they lasso them and put markings to their ears, so I don’t know would you be okay with that. And a lot of them get eaten by the wolves

I’ll also add that “no white tradition” is a pretty vague assumption, since I do not know what does “white” include to you. For example the traditional way of keeping cows around here was pretty good since you’d keep them for milk foremost, and mostly the excess bulls and old cows only for meat. You’d just let them go graze in the morning and call them back for milking for the night, though they did have to stay inside all winter since it’s so cold here, so maybe that alone would mean it doesn’t count. And we finns weren’t considered white in USA before 1908 so that way of keeping was done by “whites” only for some decades before the modernization took over anyway.
It’s been done in a similar way in many places in Europe (especially the remote mountain areas), with sheep and milk cows at least. But maybe those require more herding than just calling them back, I haven’t looked deeply into it

Most people in “civilized” nations might also have forgot it, but cows for example can be incredibly important in places with bad conditions for growing food. You get two years of bad crop yields and everyone is dying of hunger, unless you have that cow that can eat the grass that still grows, and gives you milk that keeps you and your family alive until you get a better yield

I wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t farm and eat whales, apes, crows, parrots or elephants for example either. Where’s the threshold for what’s intelligent enough not to eat? I don’t know, but it’s not a cuteness factor, I would farm and eat rabbits and I’ve kept pet rabbits and love them. Or I would eat a beloved horse that had to be put down, that’s just the respectful thing to do. Would you require that the random siberian nomad leaves their lifestyle and gives up their culture, just because you’d deem them keeping and eating their reindeer worse than you eating crops that are killing millions of birds, insects and rodents? Considering all animals equal, they’re still killing way less than we are

Though I also wouldn’t eat humans because it increases the risk for prion diseases. Especially the brains should not be eaten

Animal husbandry is not an unique thing to humans only. I think it’s incredibly arrogant to think we’re so above nature we aren’t part of it just like ants, rodents, deer or tigers or whatever are. We should strive for eating as few animal products we can since we’re killing the planet with our over-consumption - and factory farming is a grotesque crime against nature. But some random siberian nomad with their reindeer is living way more sustainably than any vegan that’s sitting on a computer and writing here is.

Farming always requires killing, even if it’s just growing crops. Just controlling the rodent populations alone means either poison or cats. And the bigger the operations, the more you need to kill

I think we should also ban animal agriculture.

I’d ban animal agriculture only in places where the land can be used to grow crops, but not in places where only grass grows and you can’t really produce enough food without animals. This would also focus on banning factory farming, since now many animals are just fed with feed that’s grown elsewhere and transported into places, which allows to sustain massive populations that wouldn’t be possible without it. But mountain range with sheep and goats? Northern nomads with their reindeer? Homesteading with couple pigs and cows? I see no problem as long as those are sustained by the land (and kept lovingly).

I also would absolutely not ban stuff like keeping chickens (except the factory farming situations of course) since having them on your backyard is good - it produces cheap animal protein that doesn’t really require much killing (eggs) and chickens can eat a lot of food waste that would just be tossed

Some sites do those blocks very haphazardly and you can get past just removing couple html-lines, they don’t really care since most people won’t bother to look (or don’t know you can do it). At minimum it might just be “overflow: hidden” added on the top somewhere lmao. It’s a pain to do but if it’s something specific you need only once, might be worth to check

I haven’t seen ferngully so I can’t comment on that, but at it’s basic level the plot of Avatar is so generic and bland you can take any story where a character representing the viewers culture interacts with some native, a more natural setting inhabiting people, and find multiple similarities

Yes it’s less dangerous (not dangerless obviously), in Europe the swat teams tend to be better trained and way less trigger happy than in USA. Had they busted in there they likely would not have shot an elderly woman found inside, whereas in USA that’s more likely to happen. They don’t just go in and start shooting, otherwise we would have “random kids and women accidentally murdered in a police bust” headlines all the time as well

Also what are you going to do with the Evil people? Better have them turn to your side. If they don’t have the option because they’ve been on Evil side then there’s no incentive for them to change, on the contrary. Does this mean criminals get out free? Of course not, it means hiring criminals after their sentence; treating them like people. Not throwing them out of society forever marked as Evil. Some won’t change for sure, but that doesn’t mean we should treat everyone the same and refuse to take what we can rather than have them support more Evil because they’re forever tainted and refused the opportunity to change

I’d argue that as wojacks became more mainstream they have partially evolved to be used as story telling devices as well, but the meme types themselves kinda fractured as the internet grew and evolved. There aren’t that many big chunky categories like “rage faces” or “advice animals” anymore, wojacs and pepes are used in a wide variety of things and also fused with something else

Yeah I like to post these small animal facts just so if someone reads these they also get answers!

My anecdotal evidence is that I raised a couple litters in a stressful environment few years back (we have active dogs so there’s quite the commotion most of the time) and had zero babies eaten, so what I did with the diet likely worked

Insects are good, for example something like dried mealworms is an easy way to add protein that’s pretty natural to them. These days good quality hamsterfoods usually have enough protein already, but you should always check the protein, fiber and fat percentages just to be sure (and the ingredients as well, the foods shouldn’t have colorants at least). The good numbers are around 20% protein and 10% fiber, in fat there’s bigger variance depending on the age and weight etc. but it shouldn’t be over 15%. I haven’t checked what the latest research says though, these numbers and recommendations for diets can change over time

I do it because I’m autistic, hate socks and always walk barefoot at home. If I’m putting on socks it’s so disgusting I put one sock on and then the shoe so tight it kinda overpowers the feeling of the sock, and then do the same to the other foot. That way I minimize the time I have to have just socks on

Or did I just say it wasn’t considered a genocide?

If part of (be it sixth or less) a cultural minority is put into internment camps, such a big portion of one ethnicity to be criminals in any common means is so unlikely it’s clearly a state approved genocide. You denying it to be one is intentionally downplaying to make the issue seem less important and direct the discussion towards something else. I do not care what is the government structure or whatever it prefers to be called if they’re putting minorities into camps. There’s nothing to be defended in that, be it USA, China, or whoever.

Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.

Do you really want to defend holding any percentage of people in an internment camp based on their ethnicity? And this applies to USA too. Holding anyone on an internment camp is bad enough, but because of ethnicity?! That’s not only racism, that’s fast track to genocide if it’s not already happening