Dayum Nature, you scarey!

[danielravennest]

Drop Bears.

 

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[Clara D.]

Finding a camping spot and seeing all the burnt-lighting struck trees made me hope that the weather held out that weekened...

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

‘Certainly life-threatening’: 80-year-old Australian survives 30-minute boat ride with tiger snake

Fisherman Bob Thatcher was a long way from shore when he noticed a one-metre tiger snake was sharing his tiny tinnie

www.theguardian.com

 

[bubblesort]

The fungus loads the cicadas up with psylocibin and amphetamenes, then makes their butts fall off, but doesn't kill them. Then it makes the males exhibit both male and female mating behaviors, to help spread the virus faster.

Also, from the article... some high end restaurants in DC serve cicadas as a delicacy. So if your congress critter starts acting weird, and then their butt falls off, now you know why.

https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/fungus-full-of-psychedelic-drugs-could-cause-indiana-brood-x-cicadas-butts-to-fall-off/article_60c6c146-b4e8-11eb-9046-c32f2959461d.html

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Edit: It seems the tweet got deleted. Here's a video of it on Youtube:

 

[Rose Karuna]

They are returning to the mainland!

Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland for first time in 3,000 years

Seven Tasmanian devils have been born in the wild in mainland Australia, more than 3,000 years after they died out in the country.

www.cnn.com

Kind of cute, even if they are mean little bastards.

 

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[Beebo Brink]

Invasive species, which is bad, but also distressingly cute.

Raccoon dogs may be Britain’s next non-native pest, study finds

Member of fox family is on list of 20 invasive species likely to reach UK shores and destroy wildlife

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

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This is a very cool effect!!! The mechanics of what's happening is really kind of neat IMO.

So, as a rule storms suck up - I like to think of it as "breathing in" - warm and moisture-laden air which is pulled high up into the sky, and they then "exhale" much much cooler air that isn't really that much less humid. This particular storm is starting to become outflow-dominant - a big gush of the cooler air has fallen out of the storm and hit the ground, and is pushing out in front of the storm. As it pushes out, it displaces the still warm-air on the ground right in front of it, making that warm air rise very quickly and the moisture in that warmer air also starts to condense very quickly because of the interaction with the cold air. So you get these rising bright streaks of newly-forming cloud, that basically outline the front "surface" of the bubble of cool air that's pushing forward behind them.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They can also parachute using their scrotums.

 

[Beebo Brink]

'Trash parrots' in Australia have figured out how to open garbage cans (Video)

Social learning has helped cockatoos access trashy feasts.

www.livescience.com

 

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Yeah, I'm not sure I'd let this go on in my house.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd let this go on in my house.

That's a big snek! They'd better keep her well fed!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd let this go on in my house.

It's not biting you need to be worried about from constrictors. Ours are nowhere near that big and we wouldn't introduce them to small children, even the ball pythons who are basically potatoes.

At least he does say she's never left unsupervised with the snake.

 

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It's not biting you need to be worried about from constrictors.

That's because they prepare their prey through asphyxiation. Who said anything about biting?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

That's because they prepare their prey through asphyxiation. Who said anything about biting?

The guy's voice-over where he's going on about how the python has enevr bitten anyone, in contrast to his cat.