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i honesty don’t remember waking up and sending this to my friend, but apparently i did. i vaguely remember being awake and thinking about little crabs before getting pulled back under into sleep, but zero memory of sending these messages.
anyway, did y'all know? did y'all know.
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Finalists of the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
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Dispute by Jacek Stankiewicz from Kraków, Poland: 'I caught this scene while watching birds in the Bialowieza Forest. Young greenfinch was still fed by parents. However, from time to time birds looked like having argument. My friends interpret this scene in two ways: A young naughty kid is arguing with a parent. Or one kid is reporting to the parent that its brother did something wrong: "Look he has broken the glass in the window"'
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'Excuse me sir but I think you're a little too young to be smoking' by Dakota Vaccaro from Victor, United States: 'While I was working deep in the Virginian woods, a family of grey foxes took up residence under the deck of the abandoned cottage next to my work housing. One day while practicing their hunting skills on bits of moss and branches, one of the kits lunged at a small chunk of wood and started rolling around with his prize. Tired after his hunt the kit lounged on his belly still holding the wood in his mouth which gave the strong resemblance of a cigar. I was very envious of the kit at this moment cause who wouldn't want to just lay around all day relaxing'
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The Rainforest Dandy by Delphine Casimir from Brussels, Belgium: 'This picture was taken in the monkey forest in Ubud, Bali. This place is a crazy place where monkeys are king! Sometimes they give a show, sometimes they climb on you to look for fleas or steal the piece of biscuit you are trying to eat'
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Otter Ballerinas by Otter Kwek from Singapore: 'An arabesque smooth coated otter'
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Picture me! Picture me!! by Dikla Gabriely from Yokneam, Israel: 'A brown bear in Finland who definitely did everything to make me pay attention to him and focus on him and not the other bears'
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Boing! by Lara Mathews from Melbourne, Australia: 'Taken at Westerfolds Park, a beautiful and surprisingly wild pocket of land in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, famous for its kangaroo population. The mob was enjoying some morning sunshine when this joey decided to get silly and try his hand at boxing'
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Living the Moment by Kawing Chiu from Staten Island, United States: 'Relax, lay back and enjoy the warm sun... This seal is scratching its face and it is seen lying on the side while his head is supported by his flipper. This image makes the seal like the reclining Buddha statue'
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Enjoy a few more seconds of GPO goodness. I love how slowly and deliberately he moves!
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I present to you: the aforementioned tiger shenanigans.
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This is Amur tiger brothers Luka and Dmitri, who just turned two a few days ago! Two boys and their boomer ball.
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The Mountaineers - Big Horn Sheep on Wilcox Pass (1912) | Carl Rungius
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Baird's tapir Tapirus bairdii
With yellow-headed caracara Daptrius chimachima
Observed by infinitaselva, CC BY-NC
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Eastern black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis michaeli
Observed by ashwinv, CC BY
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Deinotherium from Paris avant les hommes [Paris Before Man] by Pierre Boitard, after Théodore Susemihl
Published posthumously as a novel with updated illustrations in 1861, first published in Musée des Familles – Lectures du Soir, 1836-1837 with art by Susemihl
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6416941b/f179.item
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i can't believe i've witnessed several practicing veterinarians defending extreme brachycephaly by arguing that brachycephalic skulls occur naturally in several species in the wild. yeah debrah the difference is that tarsiers evolved flat faces over millions of years and humans have squished pug skulls in like 200 years. none of its insides have otherwise adapted to that shape it's all crammed in there.
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look how neatly arranged and tidy the tarsier jaws are, that just isn't comparable to a longer snouted animal we have selectively bred to be very short in a fraction of the timespan.
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it’s devastating to me that the bird flu’s main news coverage has resulted from 1. death of charismatic mammals like seals and sea lions 2. impacts on commercial farmers losing mass quantities of poultry. we have lost millions of wild birds in the blink of an eye and nobody seems to care unless it can be correlated to human profit or interest
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Day 24: Parocnus browni
A Pygmy ground sloth from Cuba and Hispaniola of Pleistocene and Holocene, is sleepy on a half fallen palm tree in a dense jungle of Cuba.
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real life society: we need to ban tiktok because china is evil
my ideal society: new species of deer was just discovered in Peru. it is shown on all news channels and the entire population spends the day discussing & reflecting on life's diversity, people are let off work early
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when i was in third grade we were made to give a report about one particular animal and since everyone else picked stuff like lions and elephants and other common stuff i decided to pick something more obscure and chose the capybara. all was well until i began presenting in front of the class and the teacher was pissed off and said "I told you to pick a REAL animal, not a made up one!" i suppose describing it as a labrador-sized guinea pig wasn't a good way to sway her
everytime I look back at the pre internet era and the American Public's general unawareness of animals outside of like the standard ones you see in your backyard, I take a deep breath and give a pair of thanks for Wikipedia
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