apparently, i am reminiscent of a rodent


http://www.bibleexplained.com/epistles-p/Phil/fat-rodent-eating.jpg

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1913/arnhem283sml1yu.jpg

http://www.wga.hu/art/d/domenich/unicorn.jpg

http://www.subreality.com/ailurus/pics/cub02.gif

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Safari-2001/Images/405%20Elephant.jpg

Originally posted by neopryn
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Safari-2001/Images/405%20Elephant.jpg Clear your PM box, plz.

http://www.msu.edu/user/steinbr1/pooh/images/disney/eeyore14.gif

http://www.universeguide.com/Pictures/Tauntaun.jpg

Originally posted by neopryn
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Safari-2001/Images/405%20Elephant.jpg

I see more than one type of animal here.

http://www.letus.org/bmatters/images/giraffe.jpg

http://home.wanadoo.nl/azeroth/COPIED_FROM_MYWEB/images/unitart010.jpg

http://www.moppentap.nl/moppentap/plaatjes/a/198.jpg

Originally posted by ravenguy2000


I see more than one type of animal here. i was going to say "the one most prominently displayed", but i kind of look like the bird too.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc77/gamernick15/frankenberry.gif

<img src=http://www.indianchild.com/images/sk1.JPG>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/fatterd/sitangel.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">

<font color="dab9ea">I don't think I resemble an animal. At least it's not blaringly obvious to me. :/</font>

Originally posted by obscured01
<font color="dab9ea">I don't think I resemble an animal. At least it's not blaringly obvious to me. :/</font>

http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/whales/blue1.gif

Originally posted by alexthestampede


http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/whales/blue1.gif

ROFL.

Originally posted by alexthestampede


http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/whales/blue1.gif

<font color="dab9ea">I am not a whale!</font>

Originally posted by obscured01


<font color="dab9ea">I am not a whale!</font>
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/Images_animals/4053p.jpg

<img src="http://www.resourceinvestor.com/MediaLib/Images/Home/Blog/dog.jpg">

http://home.globalcrossing.net/~brendel/milport.jpg

Originally posted by jczeroman
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/mammal/jaguar/jaguar_06tk.jpg&imgrefurl=http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/mammal/jaguar/jaguar.html&h=600&w=900&sz=130&tbnid=F1-nOoUvYG8J:&tbnh=96&tbnw=145&hl=en&start=38&prev=/ images%3Fq%3Djaguar%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl
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interesting

Originally posted by jczeroman
http://home.globalcrossing.net/~brendel/milport.jpg

I see it. Seriously.

http://design.tdctrade.com/img/voltron.jpg

Angry cat

http://gracedavis.typepad.com/i_am_dr_lauras_worst_nigh/files/Angry_Cat.jpg

Originally posted by chris_bakewell
Angry cat

http://gracedavis.typepad.com/i_am_dr_lauras_worst_nigh/files/Angry_Cat.jpg

:rofl:

http://www.brucemeans.com/around_world_photos_2001/frilled-lizard500.jpg

Originally posted by Mayfuck
<img src="http://www.resourceinvestor.com/MediaLib/Images/Home/Blog/dog.jpg"> lol:rofl:

http://www.forfoxsake.com/images/muppet_animal.jpg

<img src=http://www.alanandsandycarey.com/Domestic/Dogs%20and%20Puppies/images/St%20Bernard,Snow.jpg>

The bonobo because I am more evolved than all you guys.

http://penseesvagabondes.hautetfort.com/images/medium_bonobo_female.jpg

its broken

http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/e/ec/Swans.jpg

http://oboi.babr.ru/photo/2/34/red_panda.jpg

Originally posted by vipbrj
The bonobo because I am more evolved than all you guys.

http://penseesvagabondes.hautetfort.com/images/medium_bonobo_female.jpg
The most sexually promiscuous of primates, eh?

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

The most sexually promiscuous of primates, eh?

Is it really? Haha. I just remember it being more evolved that humans.

Originally posted by Hera


The blue stars really bring out the colour of your cheeks Hera.

<img src=http://forums.netphoria.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=1792721>

Originally posted by vipbrj
Is it really? Haha. I just remember it being more evolved that humans.
Bonobo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo)

The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), sometimes called the Pygmy Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the genus Pan; both members of that genus are technically "chimpanzees", though the term is frequently used to refer only to the other member of the genus, Pan troglodytes, the Common Chimpanzee. To avoid confusion, this article will use "chimpanzee" only to refer to both members of the genus.

Bonobos were discovered in 1928, by American anatomist Harold Coolidge, represented by a skull in the Tervuren museum in Belgium that had been thought to be a juvenile chimpanzee's, though credit for the discovery went to the German Ernst Schwarz, who published the findings in 1929. They are distinguished by an upright gait, a matriarchal and egalitarian culture, and the prominent role of sexual intercourse in their society.

Bonobos diverged from Common Chimpanzees after the last Common Chimpanzee ancestor diverged from its last common ancestor with humans. Since no species other than ourselves have survived from the human line of that branching, Bonobos and Common Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sharing approximately 95% of their DNA with us (the original estimate was 98.5 percent). Bonobos passed the mirror-recognition test for self-awareness in 1994. They communicate through primarily vocal means, although the meanings of their vocalizations are not currently known; however, we do understand some of their natural hand gestures, such as their invitation to play. Two Bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha have been taught a vocabulary of about 400 words which they can type using a special keyboard of lexigrams (geometric symbols), and can respond to spoken sentences. Some, such as philosopher Peter Singer, argue that these results qualify them for the same rights as humans.

Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food (see prostitution). Bonobos are the only non-human apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: tongue kissing, face-to-face vaginal intercourse, oral sex, genital rubbing between females, and "frottage" between males. This happens within the immediate family as well as outside of it. Bonobos do not form permanent relationships with partners.

Bonobos live in a fusion-fission pattern: a tribe of about a hundred will split into small groups during the day while looking for food, and then come back together to sleep. Unlike Common Chimpanzees, who have been known to hunt monkeys, Bonobos are primarily herbivores, although they do eat insects and have been observed occasionally catching small mammals such as squirrels. Their primary food source is fruit.

Bonobos are found only in the Congo River basin (see Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) of central Africa. They are an endangered species, due to both habitat loss and hunting for "bushmeat", the latter activity having waxed dramatically during the current civil war due to the presence of heavily armed militias even in remote "protected" areas such as Salonga National Park. Today, at most several thousand Bonobos remain. This is part of a more general trend of ape extinction, which some denounce, based on their hominid status, as ape genocide.

"More evolved"?

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa



"More evolved"?

are you just trying to correct my grammar?

Could someone tell me what the hell "frottage" is?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frottage

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DG5UE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Originally posted by alisonmonster
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DG5UE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

If he counts as an animal then I'm changing my vote to:

http://vision.york.ac.uk/articles/133/features/images/bunsen.jpeg

Because i look like him and I used to have him for my avatar and I'm cool.

Originally posted by vipbrj
are you just trying to correct my grammar?
No, I want to know how bonobos are supposed to be "more evolved" than humans. (They're less divergent from our last common ancestor than we are, so how do you mean "more evolved"?)

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

No, I want to know how bonobos are supposed to be "more evolved" than humans. (They're less divergent from our last common ancestor than we are, so how do you mean "more evolved"?)

In the tree of life, they forked off after we did; therefore being a more recent species.

Originally posted by ravenguy2000


If he counts as an animal then I'm changing my vote to:

http://vision.york.ac.uk/articles/133/features/images/bunsen.jpeg

Because i look like him and I used to have him for my avatar and I'm cool.

i don't know what Beaker is? He's not human- maybe a retarded one? :think:

Beaker and Bunsen are the best muppets team ever.

Originally posted by ravenguy2000
If he counts as an animal then I'm changing my vote to:

http://vision.york.ac.uk/articles/133/features/images/bunsen.jpeg

Because i look like him and I used to have him for my avatar and I'm cool.
Post a photo of yourself wearing glasses after removing your eyes and we'll talk.

Originally posted by vipbrj
In the tree of life, they forked off after we did; therefore being a more recent species.
"More recent" != "more evolved", surely?

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

"More recent" != "more evolved", surely?

Well the bonobo monkey came out as a later product in the evolutionary process, therefore making it more evolved? I guess it depends on whether you consider the evolutionary process linear throughout time.

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

Post a photo of yourself wearing glasses after removing your eyes and we'll talk.

close enough?

Originally posted by ravenguy2000
close enough?
Too many eyes!

That's just great. People come in here claiming they look like elephants and donkeys and all of this other shit and I post Dr. Bunsen Honeydew who really does look like me except I have eyeballs and you get all nit-picky. Thanks for ruining my life.

Originally posted by vipbrj
Well the bonobo monkey came out as a later product in the evolutionary process, therefore making it more evolved? I guess it depends on whether you consider the evolutionary process linear throughout time.
No, that just makes it a younger species. Why would anyone consider the evolutionary process "linear throughout time"?

Originally posted by ravenguy2000
That's just great. People come in here claiming they look like elephants and donkeys and all of this other shit and I post Dr. Bunsen Honeydew who really does look like me except I have eyeballs and you get all nit-picky. Thanks for ruining my life.

just stick to something simple, like:

http://psychology.stanford.edu/~casey/art/images/armadillo.jpg

Originally posted by ravenguy2000
That's just great. People come in here claiming they look like elephants and donkeys and all of this other shit and I post Dr. Bunsen Honeydew who really does look like me except I have eyeballs and you get all nit-picky. Thanks for ruining my life.
Any time, mano.

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

No, that just makes it a younger species. Why would anyone consider the evolutionary process "linear throughout time"?

There are a couple ways to think of evolution, one is a tree, which normally puts "man" on top (we are better, superior, more evolved that all other species), one is a bush (nothing is really higher than anything else, everything is mixed together and nothing sticks out on top)... I was contradicting the "tree" approach to evolution by saying that there is another species that would be above us in the tree of evolution. You are coming at this from the "bush" perspective (which is the one I agree with).

Originally posted by vipbrj
There are a couple ways to think of evolution, one is a tree, which normally puts "man" on top (we are better, superior, more evolved that all other species), one is a bush (nothing is really higher than anything else, everything is mixed together and nothing sticks out on top)... I was contradicting the "tree" approach to evolution by saying that there is another species that would be above us in the tree of evolution. You are coming at this from the "bush" perspective (which is the one I agree with).
...

That's simplified to the point of absurdity.

What I was getting at was that the age of a species isn't a useful criterion for deciding how "evolved" the species is. Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years but that doesn't make antibiotic-resistant bacteria (which certainly haven't been around for that long) "more evolved".

Originally posted by vipbrj
I was contradicting the "tree" approach to evolution by saying that there is another species that would be above us in the tree of evolution.
BTW, this doesn't contradict "the tree approach", it merely replaces one tree (in which species supremacy is determined by environmental/intellectual/whatever dominance — useful but by no means absolute) with another tree (in which species supremacy is determined by how long the species has been around — irrelevant and pretty much useless, I'd say).

Originally posted by Lucky Day Spa

Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food (see prostitution). Bonobos are the only non-human apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: tongue kissing, face-to-face vaginal intercourse, oral sex, genital rubbing between females, and "frottage" between males. This happens within the immediate family as well as outside of it. Bonobos do not form permanent relationships with partners.
Sounds like Netphoria to me.

i'm still going with frankenberry