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[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

A stray dog ​​happened to walk into a store.
It grabbed a stuffed animal.
A struggle ensued between the store employee and the dog.
One person standing nearby stepped forward and bought the stuffed animal for the dog.
The little dog left feeling extremely happy.

[AgFunder @AgFunder]

Renaissance Bioscience has developed a yeast-derived “virus-like particle” system which it claims could dramatically expand the scope of its RNAi-based platform, creating cost-effective biopesticides capable of tackling a far broader range of pests. https://t.co/8953WOj1wD

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Just imagine 🥹

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2009 2025

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

No matter how many times you've watched it, Max the dog playing with his duck friend Fred never fails to make your day

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

I can’t even put words to this, just watch this little dog.

[Ⱥmerican Trucker 🇺🇸 @taylorbilt]

Cutest thing you'll see today on X....

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Awww

[Sherri Unfiltered™ @FFT1776]

Animal shelter security footage captured a scared dog with a large St Bernard.

I had a St Bernard and this is exactly how loving they are❣️

I’d adopt them both!

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Definitely some fast-twitch fibre working hard in this good boi!

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

This border collie is not messing around. Wow!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10

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Border Collies, often cited as the most intelligent of all domestic dogs

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Awww.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

They were studying color... the school principal brought in special glasses that allowed this youngster to see color for the very first time

When a kid that age breaks down and cries in front of his friends, you know it’s a life-changing moment..

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@htsumura @bcboysbball Correction 1960 and 1961.

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@htsumura @bcboysbball Howard, do you have an email I email you something on a former BC HS boys tourney MVP who passed? Brent Watson was a two-time MVP for Magee in 61 and 62.
Link to the obituary: https://t.co/vYczegOgoB
Will be in print in Saturday March 7th Vancouver Sun

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Two years later… He saw her again.

And his reaction says it all.

[Dogs are Family @_Dogs_family]

Best feeling

[Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖 @Brendan_McCord]

TIL the head of economics at Anthropic has < 1k followers on X.

Seems like an important thinker to follow!

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@The_Krantikari Hi Sakshi, I read your report on acrylamide and cancer. Can I send you a bit more info on acrylamide? If so, please give me an email address. Thank you.

[Laughing Legends @LaughingLegend0]

Must be wondering what kind of a special dog is this.