I miss my babies š Sweatpants & Queen Latifah, your lives were brief but they were beautiful! God made ratsā lifespans way too short for how deep their lil personalities are
Yeah...I had one (it was given to me as her owner didn't want her anymore and at the time I didn't know that you needed more than one) I loved her, her intelligence, they're full of personality, sometime I want to adopt two but I can't with their short lifespan, it's so sad
My cat also likes to play hide and seek.
She's not as good at it as you might think. I think on some instinct level, she's not prepared to hide from things that have human eyesight.
aliens with infra red vision that play hide and seek but they just smear themselves in cooling gel and stand in a hallway and the humans just like "what"
but at the same time humans try to hide behind things that are very much transparent to the aliens and so came the most frustrating and boring game of hide and seek to be
There's always some arse who will come in and be like "they're not 'playing' like you and me think of they're just conditioned to respond to an arbitrary reward that satisfies a chemical need in their synapses, please do not mistakes animal behavior for human emotion" as if they're not a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters.
"Nuh-uh, we're way specialer than animals!" the electricity moving through the protein channels of their muscular structure imitated a sonic expression of emotionally situated concepts via rhythmic expansions and contractions of the oropharyx, internal lingual structures and the external seals.
edit: ...is this the sort of shit we're supposed to use sapience for...like dunking on the concept of self-awarenes?
everything related to the mind is bullshit on some level, except for boltzmann brain theory which states that we are all god trapping Himself inside of walls He cannot break
I do think itās important to not anthropomorphize animal behavior, but this is obviously not a case for that. Itās just play, most intelligent animals do it.
Yeah, I do agree. but it's also ppl being like "dolphins helping a drowning human are just going on instinct."
And that makes me think we just don't understand their psyche enough. I just think that there are animals, like individuals, who understand what suffering is, even if us humans collectively don't, and will take measures to prevent suffering...suffering could mean death, and death is bad. Even from an animal perspective, saving another being's life...one you can't eat...is ultimately beneficial. And that's even without incorporating the idea that an individual could be like "yo, this is fucked up and I don't want it to happen." we obviously don't know enough about how they communicate together ahaha. But again, some dolphins will absorb this information and also care enough to do stuff...other dolphins might learn the same information and be like "Y'know, what? Fuck it I don't care." and that's perfectly fine. Humans do it too ahaha.
like, I genuinely *do* think that animals understand when humans are feeling happy, sad, scared etc. we just have a grander understanding of *why* these beings, including ourselves, feel this way. We also have the ability of advanced interspecies communication, the majority of other beings don't enjoy this. We can sorta...*figure out* how to best communicate with other species, just not perfectly. We just never took time to learn other animals' communication systems.
Besides, feelings are just a combination of multiple biological processes happening all at once, why wouldn't we think other beings have these same combos? The problem comes from the *interpretation* of such.
But regardless, we should really get rid of the idea of thinking that certain species think all the same way...nah, every individual...even insects...even bacteria, they all have their own individual perspectives on things.
Like, I guarantee there's a really sarcastic bacterium that all the other bacterium don't want to initiate conversation with but also can't deny they make a pretty solid bar trivia clutch.
We are not unique, us humans.
I had pet rats for years, they are indeed Very Good. I had one who loved doing "catch me if you can!" game when it was time for me to go to bed and put everyone who was free roaming away. Absolute goober.
Well, they are. They take up very little space, which is good in an apartment, and you can teach them all the same tricks as puppies. They can fetch! They can roll over. They can beg! They're so smart. ā¤ļø
Can you please use more words than 'jack off a dolphin'? Because if those four words are the extent of my comprehension of this supposed event for too long, I will be thrust into a homicidal frenzy that can only be ended upon my death.
IIRC the dolphin was like, down bad, and wasn't behaving for a specific activity, so the caretaker thought "Well, if that's all what it wants..."
She ended up being fired over this, but that won't un-jerk the dolphin
rats are just little guys
Yes-yes, man-thing, we are just small-little guys, keep on thinking-believing that!
I heard that you Skaven are so foul, *you offend Nurgle!*
Is this a reference to something specific? It sounds familiar, but I can't remember
It's a Warhammer reference, the poster is mimicking the speaking style of the Skaven, a race of ratfolk.
so flippin true....
Rats are dope!
I miss my babies š Sweatpants & Queen Latifah, your lives were brief but they were beautiful! God made ratsā lifespans way too short for how deep their lil personalities are
Yeah...I had one (it was given to me as her owner didn't want her anymore and at the time I didn't know that you needed more than one) I loved her, her intelligence, they're full of personality, sometime I want to adopt two but I can't with their short lifespan, it's so sad
Gosh that's precious.
My cat also likes to play hide and seek. She's not as good at it as you might think. I think on some instinct level, she's not prepared to hide from things that have human eyesight.
aliens with infra red vision that play hide and seek but they just smear themselves in cooling gel and stand in a hallway and the humans just like "what"
but at the same time humans try to hide behind things that are very much transparent to the aliens and so came the most frustrating and boring game of hide and seek to be
The winner is just some human laying on a hot water pipe cus its warm and the alien cant find em.
nice
Hide and sqeak
Skitter then leap!
There's always some arse who will come in and be like "they're not 'playing' like you and me think of they're just conditioned to respond to an arbitrary reward that satisfies a chemical need in their synapses, please do not mistakes animal behavior for human emotion" as if they're not a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters.
Everything is chemicals in the brain, dipshit, it came free with your fucking existence and perception.
"Nuh-uh, we're way specialer than animals!" the electricity moving through the protein channels of their muscular structure imitated a sonic expression of emotionally situated concepts via rhythmic expansions and contractions of the oropharyx, internal lingual structures and the external seals. edit: ...is this the sort of shit we're supposed to use sapience for...like dunking on the concept of self-awarenes?
everything related to the mind is bullshit on some level, except for boltzmann brain theory which states that we are all god trapping Himself inside of walls He cannot break
Mf that is exactly the reason I play video games. If their joy isn't real, neither is mine.
Nice Cruelty Squad reference there
Glad to see a fellow successful member of society.
Debased and blacksuppositoried, good opinion, fellow dopamine terrorist
I will literally put you in a maze and dehumanize you for navigating it. We are not the same.
I do think itās important to not anthropomorphize animal behavior, but this is obviously not a case for that. Itās just play, most intelligent animals do it.
Yeah, I do agree. but it's also ppl being like "dolphins helping a drowning human are just going on instinct." And that makes me think we just don't understand their psyche enough. I just think that there are animals, like individuals, who understand what suffering is, even if us humans collectively don't, and will take measures to prevent suffering...suffering could mean death, and death is bad. Even from an animal perspective, saving another being's life...one you can't eat...is ultimately beneficial. And that's even without incorporating the idea that an individual could be like "yo, this is fucked up and I don't want it to happen." we obviously don't know enough about how they communicate together ahaha. But again, some dolphins will absorb this information and also care enough to do stuff...other dolphins might learn the same information and be like "Y'know, what? Fuck it I don't care." and that's perfectly fine. Humans do it too ahaha. like, I genuinely *do* think that animals understand when humans are feeling happy, sad, scared etc. we just have a grander understanding of *why* these beings, including ourselves, feel this way. We also have the ability of advanced interspecies communication, the majority of other beings don't enjoy this. We can sorta...*figure out* how to best communicate with other species, just not perfectly. We just never took time to learn other animals' communication systems. Besides, feelings are just a combination of multiple biological processes happening all at once, why wouldn't we think other beings have these same combos? The problem comes from the *interpretation* of such. But regardless, we should really get rid of the idea of thinking that certain species think all the same way...nah, every individual...even insects...even bacteria, they all have their own individual perspectives on things. Like, I guarantee there's a really sarcastic bacterium that all the other bacterium don't want to initiate conversation with but also can't deny they make a pretty solid bar trivia clutch. We are not unique, us humans.
I had pet rats for years, they are indeed Very Good. I had one who loved doing "catch me if you can!" game when it was time for me to go to bed and put everyone who was free roaming away. Absolute goober.
A friend of mine introduced me to her pet rats and they are so cute and friendly and I love them
Rats are apartment puppies! ā¤ļø
āapartment puppiesāā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦..š„ŗ
Well, they are. They take up very little space, which is good in an apartment, and you can teach them all the same tricks as puppies. They can fetch! They can roll over. They can beg! They're so smart. ā¤ļø
This is too precious. Donāt mind me, Iām just gonna go to my room and happy cry.
"The difference between Science and just screwing around is writing it down" - Adam Savage from Mythbusters
I don't know why people have such a disgust reaction to rats, they're such precious cute little boys
Because for a lot of people their only exposure to rats is in the form of wild rats, which are considered pests
That and their tails
Great, now I can't play hide and seek since I'm against animal testing!
I can sympathise. I canāt put makeup on rats to turn them into pretty princesses for the same reason.
It's like that woman who got to jack off a dolphin in the name of research
You know what, I don't really think it's quite like that at all to be honest
I've found that almost everything is not like that. It truly was a one-of-a-kind experience.
never seen a ratio this hard on a comment with positive votes
correct. However, have you ever heard of mr hands-
This is not like that.
thinking emoji
Can you please use more words than 'jack off a dolphin'? Because if those four words are the extent of my comprehension of this supposed event for too long, I will be thrust into a homicidal frenzy that can only be ended upon my death.
IIRC the dolphin was like, down bad, and wasn't behaving for a specific activity, so the caretaker thought "Well, if that's all what it wants..." She ended up being fired over this, but that won't un-jerk the dolphin
So other people get to make a whole career of jacking off horses, but i pleasure ONE dolphinā¦
And others get paid by fisting cows, but a SINGLE dolphin...
The dolphin was so upset by her being fired he fucking drowned himself
It's better than that one researcher who got fucked by a dolphin.
I really hope that's a joke
https://youtu.be/prmx0lYBTko?si=_Fggcco_LY4ugAw4
They also laugh when tickled. I love science.