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Nat
Man... nature is amazing. Both those last videos are examples of the phenomenal drive instilled in animals to eat and feed their young. Imho this type of behavior is way more entertaining than anything we see on the contrived, commercial media.
Agreed. Had me thinking about the physics involved too. How much extra energy they were exerting. Their body weight versus what they were carrying. How it would impact their trek, and how far they were flying. Wow.
100% agree
- A woman in Indonesia was swallowed whole by a python as she checked on her cornfields last week.
- According to The Washington Post, citing the Jakarta Post, the woman's name was Wa Tiba, and lived on Muna Island off the coast of Sulawesi.
- 100 villagers from Persiapan Lawela searched the area and found a 23 foot-long snake with a very swollen belly. The villagers killed the snake, cut it open, and found Wa inside.
- A woman in Indonesia was swallowed whole by a python as she checked on her cornfields last week.
- According to The Washington Post, citing the Jakarta Post, the woman's name was Wa Tiba, and lived on Muna Island off the coast of Sulawesi.
- 100 villagers from Persiapan Lawela searched the area and found a 23 foot-long snake with a very swollen belly. The villagers killed the snake, cut it open, and found Wa inside.
Damn - just minding her business, and then ...
Beavers chew through 4.5-inch thick tube, disrupting internet service for 900 B.C. customers
Beavers are being blamed for an internet, cellphone and cable TV outage in a remote town in northern B.C.
bc.ctvnews.ca
Terrifying new species of spider discovered in Miami
Scientists report the discovery of the Pine Rockland trapdoor spider in Miami. Spiders of this type can live for decades in the same burrow for their entire life.
Taxonomic revision of the New World members of the trapdoor spider genus Ummidia Thorell (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Halonoproctidae)
This study documents a comprehensive taxonomic treatment of the New World Ummidia species. At the onset of this work the genus comprised 27 species and one subspecies with a cosmopolitan distribution that includes North America, South America, Asia, northern Africa, and Europe; of these species...
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Starving seagulls ATTACK peregrine falcon in skies above East Anglia
Chris Skipper captured the incredible moment a gang of crazed seagulls attacked a peregrine falcon which was carrying a pigeon in the skies above Norwich Cathedral.
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Koala and Hedgehog
Cats are lightning quick.
I know from trying to shadow box my cat and getting my hands ripped.
Tough lesson.
Spider catches mouse.
Ants working together
Octopus hunts crab?
Wolverine vs Elk
More Teamwork
Can you imagine the stench of so much flesh rotting partially submerged in standing water.
Still just nature making sure nothing goes to waste.
B.C. woman attacked by cougar on her own property, airlifted to hospital with serious injuries
A woman has been airlifted to hospital after being attacked by a cougar on her own property, B.C. conservation officers say.
bc.ctvnews.ca
Cougars killed by conservation officers after B.C. woman attacked
Two cougars have been destroyed after a woman was seriously injured in an attack Tuesday morning in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.
bc.ctvnews.ca
'The coolest thing ever': Bear spotted strolling along train tracks near downtown Vancouver
Conservation officers have tranquilized and relocated a black bear that was caught on camera headed toward downtown Vancouver Wednesday afternoon.
bc.ctvnews.ca
The predator becomes the prey
Cats are lightning quick.
I know from trying to shadow box my cat and getting my hands ripped.
Tough lesson.
Agreed. They can carve you up quickly and unexpectedly.