My unit had a pet hedgehog when we did a rotation in Africa, I can confirm they are top tier /k/ritters.
Fun fact: Africans are disgusted by hedgehogs and think of them like rats in the US. All the locals were bewildered that we would play with them and carry them around
i was walking along a paved path, behind a hedgehog going the same way, and he kept turning around and glancing at me, looking annoyed. in the end he walked to the side and just stood there and glared at me, staring daggers, until i walked past him.
i've fricking loved hedgehogs ever since, they are just grumpy motherfrickers that want to chill and be left alone.
like even on the face of it his behaviour was ridiculous. he was using a path meant for humans, yet HE was pissed at ME.
another time i spotted the same hog in a park just close to the path. so I walked up to about 5 meters away from him and just stood there, looking at him. he looked at me and awkwardly shuffled behind the trunk of a tree. So I walked around the tree and stood there and looked at him. he shot me a pained glance and awkwardly shuffled around the tree trunk again, out of sight.
then I left him alone. man that hog ruled. He knew humans weren't dangerous, he lived in a small park in the middle of town. he just didnt particularly like humans and wanted to be left the frick alone.
it really was. he just wanted to be left alone and chill in the park. I walked through that park on the daily so I saw him often. he never took a liking to me.
actually i spotted a lot of animal behavior that I found curious in that park.
one day when I was walking there with my then 5 year old daughter, we spotted a dead pigeon and two other pigeons that were seemingly mourning the dead one. They were walking around it, poking it from time to time to see if it would 'wake up'. so you can imagine that turned into a conversation about death with my little girl.
a flock of ducks and some swans would live there during the sommer months too. but ducks are buttholes.
I remember passing one coming across the trail dragging a snake. He just stopped looked at me for a sec like "Sup?", then just drug it off like he didn't have anymore fricks to give, he just wanted his snake dinner.
They are amazing animals and I love to pick them up. I live next to the woods and they get lost in my garden and I have to call a special animal service which relocates them to safety, but before they show up I like to put them on the beds or table to scare my brothers who don't expect an animal climbing their pillow.
They're actually surprisingly good climbers and probably got in your garden that way. As long as you don't have any large cats or dogs, they'll probably be able to make their own way out once they've finished snuffling around.
I don't think I do. I'm too much of an racist and a nazi to fit there. Also those homosexuals make you sign up there. Frick that. You instead should get a battle buddy. You don't survive out there without one.
11 months ago
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You're alright anon
11 months ago
Anonymous
>You must be super serious and stern at all times!
Go back to PrepHole
No idea, considering these things can go off to a stiff breeze. You'll have to go into an eod suit, somehow keep the animal calm and still (a notoriously skittish and violent small critter) and then calmly and slowly remove the mine. After that you can just toss it. The explosive is weak enough.
Here, unless you manage to get one to trust you enough to get close, they seem terrified and either run or ball up and cower. And if they figure out you can pick them up, try try to bite. Both the ones in the suburbs and the ones in the wilderness.
That isn't to say they are particularly cautious, they keep running onto roads or into yards with dangerous dogs.
The hedgehogs at my place aren't that skittish, we feed them and like to keep them around so they eat the snails and other bugs which attack our garden. They're trustworthy enough to eat out of our hands. The best moment I had was when I was outside, laying in the grass, reading a book, the sun was going down and as I was just about to go inside, a hedgehog walked up to me and just laid down next to me. I stayed for another half an hour and he just didn't care I was around. I like to think that it's the same hedgehog we kept from starving during the winter a year prior to that. It's unlikely but it would still be nice to think the hedgehog remembered me.
>find a long carbon fibre or aluminium rod >wait till the hedge hog is sitting still (lure it with food) >grab the mine and wait for the hedge hog to move
ideally upon being disturbed the hedge hog will run the opposite way, and with the mine held still the impact is minimal
if the grab is to harsh or the hog acts unpredictably its all oger
if hedge hog is lucky it has picked up the PFM-1S "ц"
allegedly meant to deactivate its self after 40 hours
I dont know the specifics of VS-6D liquid explosive, but it would not surprise me to find that it becomes more unstable over time. >plastic is weak enough
if the plastic cracks and springs a leak this might make the munition slightly more safe
>be me >walking around the neighborhood like I own the place >bitches be mirin my swag >little punk ass b***h thinks he owns the communal food bowl >walk right up and tell him to frick off >he spergs out, tries to frick me up >bruh why you be tickling me? >look at him like pic related >little b***h realizes he fricked up and runs off >I enjoy the tithe of my kingdom
Little homosexual ate all the food before I showed up too. I gotta beat his ass next time instead of letting him off easy.
>puts them in a tick jar
I hate that whenever I hear/read jar, I immediately think of The MLP jar. Anyways, what is the tactical advantage of having a tick jar?
Corvus corone cornix, scald crows. They're all over europe, came here from ukraine back in 2005 and never left. Almost killed off the sparrows in many countries. They're keen motherfrickers, very smart and with a long memory, but they're also pests
>Mao imports millions of crows >they kill the sparrows AND eat all the grain >China starves even harder because crows aren't moronic fricking sparrows >China collapses, again >crows become the dominant power in mainland China >the world's a better place
I want to live in that timeline
the bird isnt helping the hedgehog, it knows the prey is defenseless and picks on it mercilesly for hours, trying to wound it, until the hedgehog is too weak to move, then it goes for the kill
birds do not have feelings and are merciless killers prefering weak prey.
the fact that people think the nice bird is helping the hedehog to cross the road is somewhat hilarious
You're fricking moronic, Corvids are as smart as human children or smarter, and they've been observed "helping" various animals (possibly out of boredom) by Birders and naturalists since before the Audubon society was founded. Crows and other corvids have been observed turning over flipped turtles, feeding dogs, etc.
Yes, they do also hunt viciously when they decide to.
>They also "help" other animals by pecking out their eyes.
I fricking said that you moron.
>Don't romanticise nature.
It's a fact you stupid butthole, relating a fact is the opposite of romanticizing something. I'm sorry not every single thing in reality 100% of the time conforms to your edgelord Game of Thrones fantasies.
11 months ago
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>I'm sorry not every single thing in reality 100% of the time conforms to your edgelord Game of Thrones fantasies.
You have to backup claims of corvids being benevolent anon that aren't just rare exceptions over 300 years
11 months ago
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Consider this: humans are by far the most violent species on earth when it comes to violence between members od same species
Good chance he was just fricking with it out of curiosity or for entertainment. Corvids are insanely smart for birds, have the emotional capacity to remember people's faces they like and react as such as well as hold grudges on ones they don't. They're the farthest thing from unfeeling, merciless, killers.
Crows are scavengers and are very smart. It's not going to kill the hog by tapping it on the back. It probably was just curiously messing around with it
If it just wanted to kill the hedgehog why get it away from the cars? Corvids are smart, they know how cars work, they've been observed tricking squirrels into running into traffic and placing nuts on roads so passing cars crack them, hell, some even go specifically to intersections so they can wait for a green light to crack the nut and then eat it safely during a red light.
If it wanted the hedgehog dead why not direct it towards the car?
>If it just wanted to kill the hedgehog why get it away from the cars?
What are the tactical advantages of making your breakfast move under its own power to a safe dining location?
You answered your own question: > Corvids are smart, > they know how cars work
I wouldn't want to eat my breakfast in the middle of traffic, either. I prefer a safe, quiet location where I can take my time and enjoy it without a truck plastering me all over the pavement.
> tl;dr - 11-D Food Chess, survival of the smartest.
>food gets pasted on the road >wait for break in traffic >drag body to side of road or dine in peace if it's a relatively quite road
homie are you intentionally ignoring the part where anon claims they do this to squirrels? Are you saying they trick squirrels into traffic for shits and giggles?
11 months ago
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>If it just wanted to kill the hedgehog why get it away from the cars?
What are the tactical advantages of making your breakfast move under its own power to a safe dining location?
You answered your own question: > Corvids are smart, > they know how cars work
I wouldn't want to eat my breakfast in the middle of traffic, either. I prefer a safe, quiet location where I can take my time and enjoy it without a truck plastering me all over the pavement.
> tl;dr - 11-D Food Chess, survival of the smartest.
>inb4 why drag it at all when you can attack it on the side of the road
One task takes more energy than the other while also exposing the crow to more risk of injury.
So it is less of a hassle to kill the hedgehog than to watch out for traffic? Man, thank your chosen deities for having you be born as a human, since you wouldn't make it out there in the wild as an animal.
0:13 the bird is clearly trying to get the hedgehog to move. It isn't trying to pick it with its beak, but to hurry it along. If it was trying to make a meal out of the hedgehog, it would have just waited for it to get squashed by a car.
>doesn't pick it barehanded >pushes it with a stick like a woman >flexes biceps like it did a great feat
what a pussy. a hedgehog is not a porcupine with detatchable poisonous self penetrating quills, you can manipulate it easy enough, the worst it can do to you is pissing on your hand
Wrong, you just push your fingers under them from the sides when they're curled up into a ball and then lift them up. Always confuses the little frickers when I do that because they can't fully cover anymore
>Are you saying you got 360 no scoped by a snapper?
No, the butthole was crossing the street with his wife, and holding up a buss, several cars and pedestrians, so I got out and tried to force him across, but he fricking matrix snapped at me, then went across the street the other way like a moron.
I was too fast to get bit, but there was nothing else I could do. Tried to grab his tail and drag him but he was psychic.
>have deadly creature known for not letting go even once it's head is cut off near your face >kiss it like a moron >almost lose your mouth
moron deserved much worse.
Hedgehogs got muscles under their entire skin. The very second they thing something's fishy they turn into a ball while the muscles raise the thousands of quills and hold them tight. Basically the hedgehog becomes a living little phalanx.
Then, if something touches it, the entire hedgehog starts making noises and pushes the quills of the touched area in that direction trying to hurt whatever touched it.
My wife used to have an african hedgehog. He was a cute little fella but when he got pissed you were in for bleeding finger tips because the quills are as stiff as sewing needles
>doesn't pick it barehanded >pushes it with a stick like a woman >flexes biceps like it did a great feat
what a pussy. a hedgehog is not a porcupine with detatchable poisonous self penetrating quills, you can manipulate it easy enough, the worst it can do to you is pissing on your hand
all that plus look at that nibba going ham on his kin. you don't want that on your finger
theyre definitely sharper than your average toothpick.
Depends, I've owned some that I could palm no problem while they were in a ball and others that I didn't care to hold all that much because you were constantly getting pricked.
you can literally just grab a hedgehog by the quills, like a spiky ball
unless you have girl hands or squeeze it for some reason it won't pierce your skin. grab it from both sides and the dumbass won't even be able to do anything, lacking leverage in the air
They're not as fragile as a Porcupine's, so it won't break off in your skin with the slightest touch, but if you try to grab them hard, it will hurt you.
If you like excitement, you could try to gently knock it off with a long stick or something. Try to avoid hitting the thicker side. Some adventurous Ukies have been seen clearing these by tossing rocks or branches at them.
From what I understand, that mine's unpredictable as hell because its fuse is basically pumped by the plastic body deforming, and there's no way to tell how close the fuse's "trigger" is to breaking. But it's not particularly strong and the only seriously dangerous bit of shrapnel is the fuse itself. It'll definitely mangle any body parts in close proximity, but it's not that dangerous a couple meters away.
The real nasty part is how it looks like a toy and might suddenly go off after a kid carries it home.
If you like excitement, you could try to gently knock it off with a long stick or something. Try to avoid hitting the thicker side. Some adventurous Ukies have been seen clearing these by tossing rocks or branches at them.
From what I understand, that mine's unpredictable as hell because its fuse is basically pumped by the plastic body deforming, and there's no way to tell how close the fuse's "trigger" is to breaking. But it's not particularly strong and the only seriously dangerous bit of shrapnel is the fuse itself. It'll definitely mangle any body parts in close proximity, but it's not that dangerous a couple meters away.
The real nasty part is how it looks like a toy and might suddenly go off after a kid carries it home.
Hol' up. Yall tellin me that ain't a cute bit of plant cuttings on his back and people ITT aren't memeing about disarming the actual hedgehog
Which, incidentally, Russia has dumped all over Ukraine. And no, Ukraine didn't dump any all over itself; they verifiably destroyed their Soviet-era stockpiles years ago, despite what those lying wienersucker Russians keep spouting on Telegram and Twitter.
If you want real hedgehog pain, Britain's population of them numbered 36.5mn in 1950 and it is currently at less than 900,000 and still falling. A silent genocide.
>If you want real hedgehog pain, Britain's population of them numbered 36.5mn in 1950 and it is currently at less than 900,000 and still falling. A silent genocide.
And entirely down to motorways
>filename
He's not an edgy hedgie, he's a based hedgie. The finger clearly violated the NAP. The hedgehog was entirely within his right to launch a retaliatory McNuke, but showed mercy instead.
I don't understand why people jerk and yank so much when they get bitten by a hedgehog. They eat snails and worms, their teeth are practically hardened gums, not even a 4th grader would feel pain
>implying dumb urban normies even have skin as strong as 3rd graders
Non-meme answer is that it's probably a psychological response more than actual pain. >You see it bite you for the first time >nerves register whatever pain/discomfort is there >brain says bite = bad >brain engages panic response based on knowing you were bit instead of actual pain received
Was once bitten by pic related, because I'd just washed my hands and she didn't recognize the scent. Hog teeth are like a bunch of needles, and deffo feel like it.
they bite with a fair amount of force
I had one clamp onto my finger such that it suspended its entire body
>implying dumb urban normies even have skin as strong as 3rd graders
Non-meme answer is that it's probably a psychological response more than actual pain. >You see it bite you for the first time >nerves register whatever pain/discomfort is there >brain says bite = bad >brain engages panic response based on knowing you were bit instead of actual pain received
yes its mostly the surprise, one does not really expect to get bitten by a hedge hog as most of the time they move very slowly.
rarely do they sprint, jump, climb, and swim.
Pain visualised
the best defense is a good offense
i could defuse this, but
is it not right that this hedgehog remains a deity of war
How are hedgehogs so god damn cute? Is an Ouch-mouse a /k/ approved battle buddy?
My unit had a pet hedgehog when we did a rotation in Africa, I can confirm they are top tier /k/ritters.
Fun fact: Africans are disgusted by hedgehogs and think of them like rats in the US. All the locals were bewildered that we would play with them and carry them around
That's cute. Afaik the pet species is African Pygmy, distinct from the European hedgehog
u bet
hedgehogs do not want war. but they prepare
i was walking along a paved path, behind a hedgehog going the same way, and he kept turning around and glancing at me, looking annoyed. in the end he walked to the side and just stood there and glared at me, staring daggers, until i walked past him.
i've fricking loved hedgehogs ever since, they are just grumpy motherfrickers that want to chill and be left alone.
like even on the face of it his behaviour was ridiculous. he was using a path meant for humans, yet HE was pissed at ME.
another time i spotted the same hog in a park just close to the path. so I walked up to about 5 meters away from him and just stood there, looking at him. he looked at me and awkwardly shuffled behind the trunk of a tree. So I walked around the tree and stood there and looked at him. he shot me a pained glance and awkwardly shuffled around the tree trunk again, out of sight.
then I left him alone. man that hog ruled. He knew humans weren't dangerous, he lived in a small park in the middle of town. he just didnt particularly like humans and wanted to be left the frick alone.
That sounds absolutely adorable, anon
it really was. he just wanted to be left alone and chill in the park. I walked through that park on the daily so I saw him often. he never took a liking to me.
actually i spotted a lot of animal behavior that I found curious in that park.
one day when I was walking there with my then 5 year old daughter, we spotted a dead pigeon and two other pigeons that were seemingly mourning the dead one. They were walking around it, poking it from time to time to see if it would 'wake up'. so you can imagine that turned into a conversation about death with my little girl.
a flock of ducks and some swans would live there during the sommer months too. but ducks are buttholes.
I remember passing one coming across the trail dragging a snake. He just stopped looked at me for a sec like "Sup?", then just drug it off like he didn't have anymore fricks to give, he just wanted his snake dinner.
They are amazing animals and I love to pick them up. I live next to the woods and they get lost in my garden and I have to call a special animal service which relocates them to safety, but before they show up I like to put them on the beds or table to scare my brothers who don't expect an animal climbing their pillow.
>I like to put them on the beds or table to scare my brothers
Based sibling
They're actually surprisingly good climbers and probably got in your garden that way. As long as you don't have any large cats or dogs, they'll probably be able to make their own way out once they've finished snuffling around.
>Is an Ouch-mouse a /k/ approved battle buddy?
This sentence gave me cancer. Kys
How can one have so much disgust toward a hedgehog? I'm guessing you don't have a battle buddy.
I like hedgehogs just fine. You/that guy are an extreme homosexual
Since when sucking a wiener was gay? I think ouch-mouse is a cute name for a hedgehog. And we're different anons.
Go to plebbit, you'll fit in there better
I don't think I do. I'm too much of an racist and a nazi to fit there. Also those homosexuals make you sign up there. Frick that. You instead should get a battle buddy. You don't survive out there without one.
You're alright anon
>You must be super serious and stern at all times!
Go back to PrepHole
I'm surprised this little guy isn't trying to eat the marshmallows
Cute animals
>for every other animal this thing is impervious
>humans can just pick it up with mild discomfort
Hands are op
Not really true
Badgers eat loads of them where I live
>pssshh, nothin personnel, kid
How would you defuse it?
No idea, considering these things can go off to a stiff breeze. You'll have to go into an eod suit, somehow keep the animal calm and still (a notoriously skittish and violent small critter) and then calmly and slowly remove the mine. After that you can just toss it. The explosive is weak enough.
>a notoriously skittish
Hedgehogs here don't give a shit about people and you're at risk of stepping on them
Here, unless you manage to get one to trust you enough to get close, they seem terrified and either run or ball up and cower. And if they figure out you can pick them up, try try to bite. Both the ones in the suburbs and the ones in the wilderness.
That isn't to say they are particularly cautious, they keep running onto roads or into yards with dangerous dogs.
The hedgehogs at my place aren't that skittish, we feed them and like to keep them around so they eat the snails and other bugs which attack our garden. They're trustworthy enough to eat out of our hands. The best moment I had was when I was outside, laying in the grass, reading a book, the sun was going down and as I was just about to go inside, a hedgehog walked up to me and just laid down next to me. I stayed for another half an hour and he just didn't care I was around. I like to think that it's the same hedgehog we kept from starving during the winter a year prior to that. It's unlikely but it would still be nice to think the hedgehog remembered me.
>find a long carbon fibre or aluminium rod
>wait till the hedge hog is sitting still (lure it with food)
>grab the mine and wait for the hedge hog to move
ideally upon being disturbed the hedge hog will run the opposite way, and with the mine held still the impact is minimal
if the grab is to harsh or the hog acts unpredictably its all oger
What are the odds that after decades of the mines rotting in some shitty warehouse the plastic is weak enough that even 1kg of pressure triggers it?
if hedge hog is lucky it has picked up the PFM-1S "ц"
allegedly meant to deactivate its self after 40 hours
I dont know the specifics of VS-6D liquid explosive, but it would not surprise me to find that it becomes more unstable over time.
>plastic is weak enough
if the plastic cracks and springs a leak this might make the munition slightly more safe
Maybe tranq or drug the hedgehog to keep it immobilize?
>falls over
>explodes
Follow me
Set me free
Based hedgie knows no fear.
That's just as violent as Marmot fights.
Why do they keep going for a chokehold, freeze up, and let go? Why do they lack the conviction to grab and hold on until the fight is over?
>Why do they keep going for a chokehold, freeze up, and let go?
They play by a different set of rules.
Because unlike us, they have learned that there are ways to solve disagreements without bloodshed. Frickin' pussies.
The guy got him in a death grip, slammed him around, almost flipped him over...and yet he's the one who ran away anyway. Animal logic man.
i guess it's a case of "i've done everything i could but he's still coming at me"
>be me
>walking around the neighborhood like I own the place
>bitches be mirin my swag
>little punk ass b***h thinks he owns the communal food bowl
>walk right up and tell him to frick off
>he spergs out, tries to frick me up
>bruh why you be tickling me?
>look at him like pic related
>little b***h realizes he fricked up and runs off
>I enjoy the tithe of my kingdom
Little homosexual ate all the food before I showed up too. I gotta beat his ass next time instead of letting him off easy.
Maybe he wounded himself biting into the quills?
it would have been an exhausting endeavor, the guy was probably tapped out
Did he died
There are worse ways to go.
sauce?
Blessed
He went out a hero.
Did it seriously die trying to sniff bearussy?
Just checked the video, hedge lived
>Just checked the video, hedge lived
Best news I have had all day
Thanks Anon, I'm a happier person now
Forgot to add cute hedgehog pic, he's a European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) we took care of at the rehab facility
Imagine waking up to a hedgehog trying to crawl up your ass.
And you motherfrickers thought dragondildoes were the ultimate.
Hedgeplug: hold my beer.
>And you motherfrickers thought dragondildoes were the ultimate
>implying 1 man 1 jar doesn't exist
That wasn’t on purpose
TRUST ME AND WE WILL ESCAPE FROM THE CITYYYY
Bears are honestly amusing. Yeah they can wreck your shit but they can also be super lazy kek.
I hate the smell of spots where black bears layed down. They are so nasty, bugs will be buzzing around the area an hour later
The Ultimate Lifeform
What the frick was his problem?
Some a-hole bear was lying on his favorite spot.
Wow, what was his problem??
Follow your dreams, hedgebraphog bro.
Why do they walk so slow?
Are you expecting them to run at sanic speeds all the time?
>No brother, I no longer wish to merely imagine the smell.
Any reports of a fat, mustached man in the area?
Is this coldsteel the hedgehog's daughter?
Nope, Sonia from the extremely based Tamersverse. I guess she was in that Sonic Underground show too
>even /k/ knows about tamers
Small world
Of course. We need to be tactically prepared just in case Bartleby goes rogue.
There is no amount of preparation to prepare you for Bartleby
Yes, but we can prepare to appease Bartleby and his b***h to potentially be spared
>glockleg incoming
Love hogs. Sucks that they are too angry at each other to eat ticks out of each other.
Don't worry, there's a guy on PrepHole that catches them and removes all the ticks and puts them in a tick jar
>puts them in a tick jar
I hate that whenever I hear/read jar, I immediately think of The MLP jar. Anyways, what is the tactical advantage of having a tick jar?
you can stick your dick in it and get some nice scritches as you cum
>mfw trying to dodge thoughts of Blowfly Girl and the Cum Coconut
Frick, I didn't ask for this
Someone needs to take away that racoon's copy of Dark Souls.
Someone played too many Souls games
He’s shows it off to PrepHole and then I think he feeds the hedgehogs with them
I got this.
Based Corvid bro
Pray tell, what kinda corvid bro is that bros?
Corvus corone cornix, scald crows. They're all over europe, came here from ukraine back in 2005 and never left. Almost killed off the sparrows in many countries. They're keen motherfrickers, very smart and with a long memory, but they're also pests
>Almost killed off the sparrows in many countries.
Imagine if Mao used them for the sparrow hunt.
(we'd probably have People's Republic of Crow by now)
Given how there are a lot of them in Ukraine and sparrows there are doing fine, they will eventually adapt.
>Mao imports millions of crows
>they kill the sparrows AND eat all the grain
>China starves even harder because crows aren't moronic fricking sparrows
>China collapses, again
>crows become the dominant power in mainland China
>the world's a better place
I want to live in that timeline
I'm feeding them of my window in vienna. I don't have a good camera or else I would share pictures.
>Almost killed off the sparrows in many countries.
Please send us some here in America.
Grey crow.
the bird isnt helping the hedgehog, it knows the prey is defenseless and picks on it mercilesly for hours, trying to wound it, until the hedgehog is too weak to move, then it goes for the kill
birds do not have feelings and are merciless killers prefering weak prey.
the fact that people think the nice bird is helping the hedehog to cross the road is somewhat hilarious
>It's a merciless killer
It's just hungry and trying to find food.
You're fricking moronic, Corvids are as smart as human children or smarter, and they've been observed "helping" various animals (possibly out of boredom) by Birders and naturalists since before the Audubon society was founded. Crows and other corvids have been observed turning over flipped turtles, feeding dogs, etc.
Yes, they do also hunt viciously when they decide to.
They also "help" other animals by pecking out their eyes.
Don't romanticise nature.
>They also "help" other animals by pecking out their eyes.
I fricking said that you moron.
>Don't romanticise nature.
It's a fact you stupid butthole, relating a fact is the opposite of romanticizing something. I'm sorry not every single thing in reality 100% of the time conforms to your edgelord Game of Thrones fantasies.
>I'm sorry not every single thing in reality 100% of the time conforms to your edgelord Game of Thrones fantasies.
You have to backup claims of corvids being benevolent anon that aren't just rare exceptions over 300 years
Consider this: humans are by far the most violent species on earth when it comes to violence between members od same species
good, frick them homies
Good chance he was just fricking with it out of curiosity or for entertainment. Corvids are insanely smart for birds, have the emotional capacity to remember people's faces they like and react as such as well as hold grudges on ones they don't. They're the farthest thing from unfeeling, merciless, killers.
Crows are scavengers and are very smart. It's not going to kill the hog by tapping it on the back. It probably was just curiously messing around with it
If it just wanted to kill the hedgehog why get it away from the cars? Corvids are smart, they know how cars work, they've been observed tricking squirrels into running into traffic and placing nuts on roads so passing cars crack them, hell, some even go specifically to intersections so they can wait for a green light to crack the nut and then eat it safely during a red light.
If it wanted the hedgehog dead why not direct it towards the car?
>If it just wanted to kill the hedgehog why get it away from the cars?
What are the tactical advantages of making your breakfast move under its own power to a safe dining location?
You answered your own question:
> Corvids are smart,
> they know how cars work
I wouldn't want to eat my breakfast in the middle of traffic, either. I prefer a safe, quiet location where I can take my time and enjoy it without a truck plastering me all over the pavement.
> tl;dr - 11-D Food Chess, survival of the smartest.
>food gets pasted on the road
>wait for break in traffic
>drag body to side of road or dine in peace if it's a relatively quite road
homie are you intentionally ignoring the part where anon claims they do this to squirrels? Are you saying they trick squirrels into traffic for shits and giggles?
>inb4 why drag it at all when you can attack it on the side of the road
One task takes more energy than the other while also exposing the crow to more risk of injury.
Now you are just being wilfully obtuse
So it is less of a hassle to kill the hedgehog than to watch out for traffic? Man, thank your chosen deities for having you be born as a human, since you wouldn't make it out there in the wild as an animal.
0:13 the bird is clearly trying to get the hedgehog to move. It isn't trying to pick it with its beak, but to hurry it along. If it was trying to make a meal out of the hedgehog, it would have just waited for it to get squashed by a car.
>doesn't pick it barehanded
>pushes it with a stick like a woman
>flexes biceps like it did a great feat
what a pussy. a hedgehog is not a porcupine with detatchable poisonous self penetrating quills, you can manipulate it easy enough, the worst it can do to you is pissing on your hand
Lolno. You need leather gloves to move them. They push and jump against your hands of you try to lift them.
>They push and jump against your hands of you try to lift them.
Rude!
Wrong, you just push your fingers under them from the sides when they're curled up into a ball and then lift them up. Always confuses the little frickers when I do that because they can't fully cover anymore
I carried one that got stuck in the road to the woods behind my home as a kid with my bare hands and it didn't even draw the tiniest bit of blood.
As long as you are gentle and not actively gripping or squeezing it, the spines alone can't hurt you.
I tried to do that with a snapping turtle once. Did you know they can jump 3 feet in the air and spin around mid flight to bite you?
can't believe this fella was based on true facts
snapping turtles are bastards, he didn't want to pay alimoney.
Are you saying you got 360 no scoped by a snapper?
>Are you saying you got 360 no scoped by a snapper?
No, the butthole was crossing the street with his wife, and holding up a buss, several cars and pedestrians, so I got out and tried to force him across, but he fricking matrix snapped at me, then went across the street the other way like a moron.
I was too fast to get bit, but there was nothing else I could do. Tried to grab his tail and drag him but he was psychic.
>have deadly creature known for not letting go even once it's head is cut off near your face
>kiss it like a moron
>almost lose your mouth
moron deserved much worse.
Not just his face, both his hands are in range for a bite.
Yeah I'm surprised it didn't bite a chunk of his face off
That's what I was expecting as well
Wow, you can see the guy's upper lip swell up in slow motion once the turtle comes off it
>putting ANY body part near a snapping turtle
>an angry snapping turtle
what the frick did he expect? based turtle tho
>flexes biceps like it did a great feat
anon how could you misconstrue that as an actual display of pride and strength?
Anon you are a fricking autiste
my man they are notoriously known for being covered in bugs and lice
Hedgehogs got muscles under their entire skin. The very second they thing something's fishy they turn into a ball while the muscles raise the thousands of quills and hold them tight. Basically the hedgehog becomes a living little phalanx.
Then, if something touches it, the entire hedgehog starts making noises and pushes the quills of the touched area in that direction trying to hurt whatever touched it.
My wife used to have an african hedgehog. He was a cute little fella but when he got pissed you were in for bleeding finger tips because the quills are as stiff as sewing needles
all that plus look at that nibba going ham on his kin. you don't want that on your finger
they are about as sharp as toothpicks you can scoop a balled hedgehog from underneath ez
theyre definitely sharper than your average toothpick.
Depends, I've owned some that I could palm no problem while they were in a ball and others that I didn't care to hold all that much because you were constantly getting pricked.
you can literally just grab a hedgehog by the quills, like a spiky ball
unless you have girl hands or squeeze it for some reason it won't pierce your skin. grab it from both sides and the dumbass won't even be able to do anything, lacking leverage in the air
Based anon and frick all the urbanites in the replies. I pick them up all the times and I never got hurt.
What did he mean by this?
>Egg measuring
Huh
It's all coming together now.
the mother of all omelettes
I think it means "comparing dicks"
Balls, but yes.
goated
Listen guys, I want off this space station and get my hedgehog right now. We can come back afterwards, but let's get the little dude first.
>tfw not sure if /k/ or SS13g on /vg/
will a headgehogs quills frick you up like a porcupoines? or do they not get stuck in tour skin and break off?
They're not as fragile as a Porcupine's, so it won't break off in your skin with the slightest touch, but if you try to grab them hard, it will hurt you.
>that type of antipersonnel mine cannot be defused and has to be detonate in situ to clear it
Poor thing's fricked 🙁
If you like excitement, you could try to gently knock it off with a long stick or something. Try to avoid hitting the thicker side. Some adventurous Ukies have been seen clearing these by tossing rocks or branches at them.
From what I understand, that mine's unpredictable as hell because its fuse is basically pumped by the plastic body deforming, and there's no way to tell how close the fuse's "trigger" is to breaking. But it's not particularly strong and the only seriously dangerous bit of shrapnel is the fuse itself. It'll definitely mangle any body parts in close proximity, but it's not that dangerous a couple meters away.
The real nasty part is how it looks like a toy and might suddenly go off after a kid carries it home.
Hol' up. Yall tellin me that ain't a cute bit of plant cuttings on his back and people ITT aren't memeing about disarming the actual hedgehog
its a pfm-1 mine
Oh no
Just toss some rings to the little guy
Which, incidentally, Russia has dumped all over Ukraine. And no, Ukraine didn't dump any all over itself; they verifiably destroyed their Soviet-era stockpiles years ago, despite what those lying wienersucker Russians keep spouting on Telegram and Twitter.
Go back to your slav shitflinging threads and leave this wholesome thread alone.
If you want real hedgehog pain, Britain's population of them numbered 36.5mn in 1950 and it is currently at less than 900,000 and still falling. A silent genocide.
on the plus side, red kites are surging. see those homies every day now.
>If you want real hedgehog pain, Britain's population of them numbered 36.5mn in 1950 and it is currently at less than 900,000 and still falling. A silent genocide.
And entirely down to motorways
HE-HOG-APCS
Who’s worse?
I can finally post it.
May some anon turn it into a sticker or a meme and have fun with it.
Spread the word: The Hedgehog is a mean motherfricker
shoot with shotgun 30 yards
poor little fellah. war sucks hopefully Ukraine wins and ends it soon
>in slav world even hedgehogs run around with kontakt slapped onto it
At first, glancing at this photo I thought it's just some random plant, but then I realized it's a hedgehog with PFM-1 attached.
Frick.
What is the tactical advantage of a HBIED?
This war has made me appreciate beavers, polecats, and now hedgehogs. The old /k/ and PrepHole bond still holds.
>the hedgehog will dry the raisins with the ass in the ass
Time for some Hedgehog KINO
Forgot pic
zasa
this awakens childhood memories I thought were long asleep
I dalje imam prvo izdanje slikovnice.
Dobra sjećanja iz djetinjstva.
Does that hedgehog eat strawberries?
As sad as this is, I can't help but wonder if the quills might survive the initial blast and become shrapnel
>Danger close hedgehog.
And the land mines, they
can shit like grown men.
Anon wtf...
They seem to poop like that big bull frog.
>ywn feel this much relieved after a shit
Christ, just imagine shitting a fifth of your total body
>Clean it up Jannie
I did that last night.
I don't believe you. Pics or it didn't happen.
He ate good
>tfw no 20% bodyweight shits
Bet that would feel hella good
The relief would be great, but I can't help but wonder if your butthole would feel like it's being torn apart
There's a possibility that a fox will try to frick around, and find out really fricking badly.
hedgehog in the fog of war
Danger close?
slavs have gone to far with era
Hedgehog general
What is the danger and why do I need to close the hedgehog?
Could someone survive a bear attack if they were wearing an EOD suit?
What if you had a IED suit?
Only if it's made from ERA
Hog on the front door!
Brave little fella was standing guard to make sure your house stayed safe.
I hope you've got some tasty treats for them.
Leftover cat food sometimes and water. Don't want to make them dependant.
they'll never get through here
>where you looking at?
Bet there's a spider or something that has the cat's attention
>dangle finger in front of snout like it's food
deserved
hedgehog murder
>filename
He's not an edgy hedgie, he's a based hedgie. The finger clearly violated the NAP. The hedgehog was entirely within his right to launch a retaliatory McNuke, but showed mercy instead.
Okay, now explain this.
The smell was polluting his airspace. Yet another example of hedgehogs being merciful.
She violated the NAP.
It smelled cheese and thought it was a tasty treat.
them' chompers are nasty
I don't understand why people jerk and yank so much when they get bitten by a hedgehog. They eat snails and worms, their teeth are practically hardened gums, not even a 4th grader would feel pain
>implying dumb urban normies even have skin as strong as 3rd graders
Non-meme answer is that it's probably a psychological response more than actual pain.
>You see it bite you for the first time
>nerves register whatever pain/discomfort is there
>brain says bite = bad
>brain engages panic response based on knowing you were bit instead of actual pain received
they eat plenty of hard foot and chitinous insects
So cute tbh
>they eat plenty of hard foot
Lol
Was once bitten by pic related, because I'd just washed my hands and she didn't recognize the scent. Hog teeth are like a bunch of needles, and deffo feel like it.
yeah, bersas tend to have a nasty hammer bite
they bite with a fair amount of force
I had one clamp onto my finger such that it suspended its entire body
yes its mostly the surprise, one does not really expect to get bitten by a hedge hog as most of the time they move very slowly.
rarely do they sprint, jump, climb, and swim.
I don't understand what's going on in OP photo
See
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It's a cute hedgehog with a small slavshit mine stuck on it's back