MoronLessOff: theorellior: Nana's Vibrator: you also get to clean up after a rabbit that craps everywhere, too.

Fun fact: rabbits eat a lot of grass, which is hard to digest. Unlike ruminants, which evolved multiple stomachs and cud-chewing to process grass, rabbits eat their poop, which has partially-digested grass in it, to give it another go through the system.

No, they eat their cecals, which is different from poop.

You know, I spent years in the Arizona desert and I would find these piles of cecal on trails. I never understood why if coyotes or cats would bother to eat berries why they wouldn't digest them completely. Now I understand I was looking at a second time of rabbit droppings. Thank you for letting me know I wasn't crazy. I should have stayed in the Boy Scouts.

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For the young'uns who won't get (new window) the joke.

The classics. I miss them soooo much.

Boomerang runs looney tunes almost every day.

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For the young'uns who won't get (new window) the joke.

The classics. I miss them soooo much.

Boomerang runs looney tunes almost every day.

So does Cartoon Network, followed by an hour of Tom and Jerry.

Having a memory lapse. Perhaps the hive mind of Fark can help me recall the name of a scifi story I read once that involved a team of explorers who crash-land on an alien planet. Because it rains acid or something 24/7, their clothes and other effects quickly rot away, leaving them naked. When the local inhabitants find them, they assume the humans are some kind of animal and plop them in a zoo.

The humans try displaying all kinds of "intelligent" behavior to convince their captors that they are not animals, including writing and speaking. Eventually one of the crew builds a cage out of sticks to house one of the rat-like things running around in their zoo habitat. The aliens spot this and immediately release them, apologizing profusely, since only intelligent creatures have pets.

Seems like something Vonnegut would write...

Well done subby!! Well done!!

bmihura: Why is it that gorillas can be too old to have other gorilla companions? Are gorillas violent to the old ones? I know humans are just the opposite.

Imagine Lex Steel going to town on your brittle hipped 98 year old grandma. Sure she thinks she's enjoying it now but...

Bathia_Mapes: buckler: In an alternate Fark, there's a headline reading "Defenseless rabbit forced into enclosure with huge muscled primate for its amusement. Rabbit craps self in terror as the audience says 'Awwwwwww'".

Gorillas can be surprisingly gentle with animals much smaller than they are.

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Koko holding her kitten.

Her first kitten died and she signed how sad she was that her kitten died. They got her another one and she fell in love again.

Link (pops)

couldn't resist...(not a rickroll but somewhat nsfw)

Bathia_Mapes: buckler: In an alternate Fark, there's a headline reading "Defenseless rabbit forced into enclosure with huge muscled primate for its amusement. Rabbit craps self in terror as the audience says 'Awwwwwww'".

Gorillas can be surprisingly gentle with animals much smaller than they are.

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Koko holding her kitten.

Oh, I know. Koko was devastated by the loss of All Ball. I'm glad they got her a new buddy.

TheShavingofOccam123: Her first kitten

Koko named that cat All Ball.

Somewhere I've seen a video where dumped a box on kittens on Koko, I think to let her pick a replacement for All Ball.

/ Wait, why did she just have kittens, and not cats?
// I don't wanna know

soundguy: Having a memory lapse. Perhaps the hive mind of Fark can help me recall the name of a scifi story I read once that involved a team of explorers who crash-land on an alien planet. Because it rains acid or something 24/7, their clothes and other effects quickly rot away, leaving them naked. When the local inhabitants find them, they assume the humans are some kind of animal and plop them in a zoo.

The humans try displaying all kinds of "intelligent" behavior to convince their captors that they are not animals, including writing and speaking. Eventually one of the crew builds a cage out of sticks to house one of the rat-like things running around in their zoo habitat. The aliens spot this and immediately release them, apologizing profusely, since only intelligent creatures have pets.

Seems like something Vonnegut would write...

I read that but like you cannot remember the the author let alone the title. It was just a short tale in some anthology. I did laugh at the bit where they were weaving baskets like crazy in the attempts to show they were intelligent beings, and their captors thought it was some sort of mating ritual type behaviour and just put the men in the same cage as the women

Nidiot: soundguy: Having a memory lapse. Perhaps the hive mind of Fark can help me recall the name of a scifi story I read once that involved a team of explorers who crash-land on an alien planet. Because it rains acid or something 24/7, their clothes and other effects quickly rot away, leaving them naked. When the local inhabitants find them, they assume the humans are some kind of animal and plop them in a zoo.

The humans try displaying all kinds of "intelligent" behavior to convince their captors that they are not animals, including writing and speaking. Eventually one of the crew builds a cage out of sticks to house one of the rat-like things running around in their zoo habitat. The aliens spot this and immediately release them, apologizing profusely, since only intelligent creatures have pets.

Seems like something Vonnegut would write...

I read that but like you cannot remember the the author let alone the title. It was just a short tale in some anthology. I did laugh at the bit where they were weaving baskets like crazy in the attempts to show they were intelligent beings, and their captors thought it was some sort of mating ritual type behaviour and just put the men in the same cage as the women

Weren't we all, though? Weren't we all?

buckler: Weren't we all, though? Weren't we all?

Oh, sorry...that was about the "losing Art Bell" quote.

jaytkay: Maxor: Luckily for him the judge threw out the lawsuit as baseless since he was obviously not discriminatory against himself. Sadly I'm not sure that you can't consider people racist since different groups of people that honeslty look no different to be not being a member of either group violently hate and kill each other over racism fairly regularly. See "Hutu" and "Tutsi"

You know what kind of people make nonsensical arguments that racism doesn't exists?

/ You probably don't
// Normal people do, though

Jay the point of that antecedent was a somewhat humorous true story about a black person (of African-American descent) through their lawsuit claiming that a person who was literally African-American (ie born in and emigrated from the continent of Africa) was prejudicial and racist against African-Americans. Because I know the guy I know he literally tells people regularly that he is from Algiers, and he has a fairly thick accent. However the case was thrown out in part because it was frivolous and the complainant was simply seeking a payday, and partially because in their ignorant attempt to sound sophisticated they phrased their complaint African-American instead of black, not knowing that the person they were suing was African-American since they didn't know where Algiers was.

In alot of Africa there are numerous different tribes or ethnicity that to most people from Europe or North America would just be considered the same sort of black, but to them the difference is every bit as great as the difference between a Slav and an Englishman.

It doesn't mean that there isn't racism there is but in alot of cases what is called racism isn't.

soundguy: Having a memory lapse. Perhaps the hive mind of Fark can help me recall the name of a scifi story I read once that involved a team of explorers who crash-land on an alien planet. Because it rains acid or something 24/7, their clothes and other effects quickly rot away, leaving them naked. When the local inhabitants find them, they assume the humans are some kind of animal and plop them in a zoo.

The humans try displaying all kinds of "intelligent" behavior to convince their captors that they are not animals, including writing and speaking. Eventually one of the crew builds a cage out of sticks to house one of the rat-like things running around in their zoo habitat. The aliens spot this and immediately release them, apologizing profusely, since only intelligent creatures have pets.

Seems like something Vonnegut would write...

It was called Planet of the Apes
/you're welcome

FloydA: buckler: Bathia_Mapes: buckler: In an alternate Fark, there's a headline reading "Defenseless rabbit forced into enclosure with huge muscled primate for its amusement. Rabbit craps self in terror as the audience says 'Awwwwwww'".

Gorillas can be surprisingly gentle with animals much smaller than they are.

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Koko holding her kitten.

Oh, I know. Koko was devastated by the loss of All Ball. I'm glad they got her a new buddy.


I've reading Fark for too long. At first glance I thought you said that Koko was devastated by the loss of Art Bell!

Koko fits Bell's target demographic.

I'm getting a kick because I went to the zoo yesterday and saw an ape straight up grab a bird and crush it with one hand. Tried to take a picture but the ape dropped it before I could. It just killed that bird for fun.

bmihura: Why is it that gorillas can be too old to have other gorilla companions? Are gorillas violent to the old ones? I know humans are just the opposite.

'just the opposite'? Snerk - Just like humans, I'd say. My answer would be 'occasionally', especially during introduction stages, and it's not just 'old ones'. But it's the old ones who are most likely going to be the loser.

tomWright: I actually hope zoos stop keeping animals at all. There are few animals that do well in captivity, social creatures like apes are not among them. Maybe some fish and small rodents are, for example.

While I agree with the larger cages, all the way up to entire preserves, the opposite is actually true for keeping all but the largest and most social animals if you go by measured lifespans. Protection from predators and medical care is a huge advantage.

I also view zoos as a 'necessary evil' to keep the funding for preservation of said animals coming in.

halB: I'm getting a kick because I went to the zoo yesterday and saw an ape straight up grab a bird and crush it with one hand. Tried to take a picture but the ape dropped it before I could. It just killed that bird for fun.

That's why you give it a disposable 'pet' such as a bunny, not one you'd care to lose. Also, females, especially females that have raised babies, are less likely to kill it.