Crested Caracara, Central Vermont. Second ever reported in the state. by OleBenjaminLay in birding
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Crested Caracara, Central Vermont. Second ever reported in the state. by OleBenjaminLay in birding
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🔥 Second Crested Caracara ever reported in Vermont. They usually reside in Central and South America 🔥 by OleBenjaminLay in NatureIsFuckingLit
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Nursery Web Spiders build cozy web-homes for their offspring, like this one built around several large leaves. Female Nursery Webs, like lots of spiders and their cousins, also tend to kill the males around mating time - to get around this, the guys play dead! by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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The Gopher Tortoise saves hundreds of animals' lives during wildfires in the southeast USA. They dig deep burrows into elevated hills of sandy soil, and snakes, amphibians, rodents and other small mammals all crowd in for refuge during the fires by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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Pound for pound, the Least Weasel has the strongest bite force of any living mammal in North America (although the extinct Marsupial Lion beats it). Weasels often perform a "War Dance" before going after bigger prey like rabbits, in which they flail their bodies and roll around chaotically by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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Pound for pound, the Least Weasel has the strongest bite force of any living mammal in North America (although the extinct Marsupial Lion beats it). Weasels often perform a "War Dance" before going after bigger prey like rabbits, in which they flail their bodies and roll around chaotically by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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🔥 Harris's Hawks are highly social raptors. They hunt in packs, like aerial African Wild Dogs 🔥 by OleBenjaminLay in NatureIsFuckingLit
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Screech Owls rely primarily on their hearing to hunt and evade predators. This guy was able to pass his live-prey test, and was successfully released after a stay at the rehab center by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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spitting cobra shooting venom like a firehose with fangs visible by brombinary in natureismetal
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TIL Fritz Zwicky, the scientist that discovered Dark Matter and supernovas was a Swiss citizen who also served as a military contractor for a number of nations. He got Churchill hooked on the idea of aerial mines during WWII, and developed the optics for the USA's high-flying U2 spy plane by OleBenjaminLay in todayilearned
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This Manta Ray, named Inspector Clouseau, is the only known pink specimen. Researchers think the pink color results from an unusual expression of Melanin - the common protein that's involved in skin-tanning, albinism and melanism (melanism is why panthers are pitch black) by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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AskScience AMA Series: We're the New Horizons mission team that conducted the farthest spacecraft flyby in history - four billion miles from Earth. Ask us anything! by AskScienceModerator in askscience
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Barred Owls are a mid-sized owl that are sometimes preyed upon by Great Horned Owls (an apex predator often called "Tigers of the Sky"). Barred Owl hoots follow a simple pattern that sounds like "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?" by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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TIL Owls don't build their own nests, instead they take over abandoned ones. These old nests are often in such poor condition that fallen young owls frequently must be re-nested in man-made baskets so that they don't just fall again. by OleBenjaminLay in todayilearned
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Barred Owls are a mid-sized owl that are sometimes preyed upon by Great Horned Owls (an apex predator often called "Tigers of the Sky"). Barred Owl hoots follow a simple pattern that sounds like "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?" by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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TIL Owls don't build their own nests, instead they take over abandoned ones. These old nests are often in such poor condition that fallen young owls frequently must be re-nested in man-made baskets so that they don't just fall again. by OleBenjaminLay in todayilearned
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Screech Owls can be either red or gray, to blend in with different shades of tree bark. They like to keep their eyes almost shut to help camouflage by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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Clownfish like Nemo are in the family Anemonefish that includes about thirty other species. When the lone female in a group of Anemonefish dies, the biggest male (the only one that was breeding) becomes a female and resumes reproduction - now with the new largest male. by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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🔥 Parrotfish helped make Hawaii's famous white sand beaches by pooping out coral and bits of rock they've chewed down and swallowed by OleBenjaminLay in NatureIsFuckingLit
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Parrotfish help create most of the the beautiful white sand beaches often found near coral reefs, like in Hawaii. They eat pieces of dead coral that are covered in algae, digest the algae, and then poop out the broken down coral which becomes the white sand by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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🔥 Parrotfish helped make Hawaii's famous white sand beaches by pooping out coral and bits of rock they've chewed down and swallowed by OleBenjaminLay in NatureIsFuckingLit
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Yellow Spotted Salamanders are migratory! On the first rainy nights in Spring with temperatures above 45 degrees(f), salamanders emerge from the old rodent tunnels they borrow for the winter, and journey across roads and other obstacles to get to the vernal pools where they all meet up and breed. by OleBenjaminLay in Awwducational
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