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Piebald Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) killed in Serbia.

It's possible this animal may be a hybrid with a domestic dog. Hybrids between the two species are well-documented, however a similar-looking piebald jackal culled in Israel was DNA tested and found to contain no trace of domestic dog ancestry, suggesting this colour pattern may also occur naturally in the species.

Photo from Six By Six Hunting

#jackal #golden jackal #colour morphs #dead animal #animal death #blood cw

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“An Unforgiving kingdom”

by Shafeeq Mulla (Zambia)

“A leopard known as Olimba carries the carcass of a female vervet monkey with its baby still hanging on for dear life.”

The Nature Conservancy 2022 Photo Contest

#animal death cw

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really neat guy, never seen these little ears like thison such a bold big guy, makes him seem so bashful

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A boy covered in young opossums By: Charles Philip Fox From: The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences 1958

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A reminder for the summer that double or long haired coats do not keep dogs cooler

This post has been debunked many times.

“Studies of thermal imaging show that long-haired and double-coat dogs had lower surface temperatures. That’s because the heat inside the coat cant get out onto the surface and therefore won’t affect the surface temperature.

Rectal temperature was not significant in evaluating differences in surface temperature. Showing that a thermal image wont tell you if a clipped dog is hotter than a unclipped dog. It only shows the difference in the surface temperature.”

Basically, if the surface temperature of your dog is only 24’C, which is nice and cool, but the dog’s rectal temperature is 41’C (normal rectal temp for a dog is somewhere between 37.5-39.0’C), the dog is still going to be experiencing heatstroke and needs to be cool down urgently (and tbh, likely needs a vet visit at that point).

I think this is a great resource, personally. It’s full of actual scientific studies and resources too.

Obviously some common sense is needed when shaving dogs. Examples:

People who show need to consider whether shaving or clipping is going affect showing the dog whilst the growth cycles of the hair complete again. Though, if the risk of heatstroke is severe enough, a missed show may not be the end of the world, but that’s just my opinion!

As with any shorter coats, you need to be a bit more careful about sunburn. Yes you can get pet-specific spf!

Young and elderly dogs do not have the most efficient thermoregulation so if you’re likely to have environmental temperature fluctuations, you might need to make sure they won’t get too chilly with a super short shave. Especially if you’re going to be bringing them inside to an aircon’d house etc. These might be the cases where clipping or shaving some belly fur may be more appropriate, rather than full body clips.

…. And as a side note, ice cubes are fine to give to your dog to down as long as you don’t have a dog that will eat it whole and potentially choke!

It pains me as a vet nurse to see Bernese mountain dogs, olde English sheepdogs, Malamutes (and so many others!) panting horrendously and trying to find any patch of cool tiled floor everyyyyy summer because they aren’t equipt to deal with the temperature.

Other than bulldogs, I think German shepherds, collies, and the mountain dog breeds, are the most common breeds I’ve seen with heat stroke in the summer time.

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Jungle cat (Felis chaus)

Photo © Suru Nair

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Long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata) Sebastopol, California, USA

Photo © ricardo00

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whats ur favorite bird?

anon you have just opened pandora’s box

My favorite particular bird is the Pfeilstorch! This is a piece of taxidermy from the early 1800s currently on display at the University of Rostock in Germany.

In the early 1800s, natural historians and biologists did not know where birds went for the winter. They just disappeared. Some people thought they hibernated like bears, or turned into fish (!!) or flew to the moon (!!)

Cut to 1822 when a this bird was found in Germany. It was still alive, walking around with this spear in its neck. The spear was made from wood that only grows in central Africa. The German biologists determined that the bird had been speared in central Africa and then flew north to Germany. This was how they figured out that birds migrate with the changing seasons.

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An American mink (Neogale vison) in New Albin, Iowa, USA

by Larry Reis

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Just a little grown up baby animal

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Hey you want to see the worst dog in the entire world.

Sharpei French bulldog. Allegedly at the vet for aspiration pneumonia (how'd that happen I wonder)

I like that they have cardboard shoved in his ears. You know, to post the ears. So the dog uh. So it will uh. So it will look better

#animal cruelty

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GOD i love italian breeds so much, this dog really really really looks like fem!goofy, see this little nodule on top?

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THIS is Angie, the best dog i’ve posted so far

she has me burning with inspiration, i never would have dreamed up a natural fur pattern like this

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#that is clearly someone's deviantart oc not a real dog lmao

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unfortunate to call it this early but this dobe wins Best of Tail for me