Conquer Club

lol @ baby pigeons...

Chihuahua




Deer (OK not a baby but a youngster that was in my garden)

This thread needs some diversifying.

My brother keeps bees; theyre actually kinda cool when you think of them as a single pet.

Orangutan






--Andy

I wanted to share these two images. They may not be cute in the traditional cuddly sense, but I still find them pretty touching.

Embryonic Bat

Spoiler

1st image: Scott Weatherbee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2nd image: Rodrigo G. Arzate-Mejia, Marina Venero Galanternik, William Munoz and Jennifer McKey

Click image to enlarge.

--Andy

Here's a more classic image of a puppy and kitten hanging out.

AndyDufresne wrote:Orangutan



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Hey, that guy looks like me!! Where did you find him? He must be a long lost relative of mine

Haggis_McMutton wrote:This thread needs some diversifying.

Thank you!


Thanks a keeper.

Johnny Rockets

honeyb.ca

This is often how I look and feel I think.

Chimpanzee










--Andy

Haggis_McMutton wrote:

How did it fit in there?

I think orangutangs look more like humans than chimpanzees does.
I recall there being some controversy a few years ago whether the chimpanzee really was more closely related to us than the orangutang. Apparently the orangutang have more "unique physical traits" in common with humans than chimpanzees have with us. The chimps have a closer match in terms of DNA though, but changes in a species global DNA can occur faster or slower depending on the selection pressure it's environment places on it. So we could have diverged from our last common ancestor with the orangutang after we separated from the chimpanzees and still have more DNA in common with the chimps. If over the last couple of million years the orangutangs adaption to it's environment has required significantly more change in DNA than the chimps adaption to it's environment, we can have a closer match in terms of DNA with the chimps, and still have closer ancestry with the orangutangs. That is something I remember they suggested, something that could explain why we share more unique physical traits that are unlikely to be the result of separate evolution with the orangutang. Another idea is that it has been evolutionary negative for the chimpanzee to keep these traits and that they have been removed due to negative selection, but I find that less likely since many of these traits affect the individual neither negatively or positively.
One might argue that the traits have occurred separately on it's own in both humans and orangutangs and that there's no hereditary connection between the two, but that would be highly unlikely, many of these traits are like I said not likely to affect the individual neither positively nor negatively, and are therefore only present in the population by chance, not selection pressure, so to argue that these unlikely mutations occurred in both species by it's own is not really a valid argument.

I don't think there is much controversy in terms of Chimpanzees and Orangutans.


--Andy

AndyDufresne wrote:I don't think there is much controversy in terms of Chimpanzees and Orangutans.


--Andy

Based on your comment I don't think you know much about it.

AndyDufresne wrote:This is often how I look and feel I think.

Chimpanzee










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You are too cute Andy.

Lemur

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Gillipig wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:I don't think there is much controversy in terms of Chimpanzees and Orangutans.


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Based on your comment I don't think you know much about it.

Totally missed this, since I always miss anything Gili says.

No you are, but what am i? Based on a google search, your sources from 2009 don't seem to be up to snuff with sources from 2012 and 2013, which indicate Chimpanzees and Bonobos.

Pancake Tortoise



--Andy

Pancake:

BMO

Cute baby troll:

I feel like one of these snapshots would make for a good avatar for someone:

Western Swamp Tortoises (Australia)








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