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Beautiful Animals

 
 
vonny
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 02:23 pm
@edgarblythe,
A northern gannet slices into the waters off the island of Noss in Shetland, Scotland. The diving birds can break the water’s surface at 70 miles an hour and have nostrils that seal shut, allowing them to dive to depths up to 50 feet.

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/u/fQYSUbVfts-T7pS2VP2wnKyN8wxywmXtY0-Fwsgxq09UaaybfaeJtJK_nKh-TW_pF238tPWHjMyGTKsVhjyCkPGrDTLDIoJBpJ1Xkcvqic8QbZ4M8vi_wbuEx2x-r_yn2h04skMOqyUpLEPv-gOHbji1b4KAgouneL7SDRAvaE9l-4X0eLyy6Hs5Yk7LEInAkiIgFfBj_OewzijrwdxD/
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hingehead
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 06:14 pm
@edgarblythe,
Ours are brown and slightly less terrifying, they really do look like sticks - it freaks you out when they fly - it's not obvious they have wings until then.

This is what ours look like, fortunately haven't come face to face with one this size.

http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sites/sbs.com.au.topics/files/000220524c-39.jpg
Builder
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 07:12 pm
@hingehead,
Arthropoda are my favourite critters, though I do believe that they're actually alien robotic life forms, given that if you interrupt their cycles, they don't know what to do next.

Imagine dealing with one of these. Over 2 metres (8 feet) long.

https://prettyawfulthings.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/giardino_dei_semplici_mostra_dinosauri_arthropleura_armata.jpg

hingehead
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 10:44 pm
@Builder,
I have a collection of naturalists's essays called "The Sacred Beetle". I remember one in particular where someone watch an arthropod build a nest in a spiral - he moved it half way through and it kept going from exactly where it left off in the new spot, so the cap of the nest sat right next to the capless first half.

The most amazing thing to me as that they evolve with these behaviours hardwired. Wish I understood that.

Here's your picture again with the business end showing.

https://prettyawfulthings.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/giardino_dei_semplici_mostra_dinosauri_arthropleura_armata.jpg
Builder
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 11:02 pm
@hingehead,
Thanks Hinge, for the resize.

The experiment re the program thing is rather easy to prove. Mud wasps keep coming back, long after you've removed their nest, and ants keep heading to their queen long after she's gone. Paper wasps just hang around the nest site. No activity, until they die.

A close-up of the eye structure of any arthropod shows a detailed complex geodesic compilation so unlike anything that's found in any other creature.

Then take a look at their mitts. I'm convinced they are alien beings, and from fossil evidence, we can actually tell when they arrived on this planet, and track their evolution.

These (specific) little critters didn't bring their anuses with them when they evolved to live in the pores of our facial skin, so when they die, they actually explode.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/624_351/images/live/p0/2q/vt/p02qvt3x.jpg
hingehead
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 11:07 pm
@Builder,
That last detail made my day Shocked
roger
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 11:22 pm
@hingehead,
Not mine.
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Builder
 
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Reply Thu 10 Nov, 2016 11:31 pm
@hingehead,
Quote:
That last detail made my day Shocked


It might explain blackheads a bit clearer than Clearasil does. Wink

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Roberta
 
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Reply Fri 11 Nov, 2016 05:43 am
Emperor tamarin (2 months old):

http://a-z-animals.com/media/animals/images/original/emperor_tamarin4.jpg
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 12 Nov, 2016 09:36 pm
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b0168e60f858e970c-500wi

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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 13 Nov, 2016 06:07 pm
Magnifico, bethie. Merci.

Sea stars:

http://www.top13.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Sea-Stars.jpg
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 10:08 am
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/15037274_10154750465484700_4714375970367976947_n.jpg?oh=83b1eaebd7688730ad14379b9a7ffeeb&oe=58C511AB
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 10:41 am
@edgarblythe,
now there's a pair of ears!
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 12:02 pm
bee eaters
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s526x395/14991857_10154747609799700_928389820041267793_n.jpg?oh=0064cd1716ce1227d560e2604805c5a4&oe=58C4434A
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 12:26 pm
@edgarblythe,
one can get hives from eating bees
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 12:38 pm
@farmerman,
Does anyone ever claim to hqve seen a Washington's Sea Eagle??? It was one of 12 "cryptid or extinct" birds that Audubon included in his massive "Birds of America"

Heres a picture of Washington's Eagle done by Audubon , and included in his first "The Elephant" folio. Ornithologists have been searching for this fella since 1826.


    http://americanart.si.edu/images/1994/1994.121_1a.jpg
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perennialloner
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 09:10 pm
emperor penguin chick

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/73/15/5c/73155ca0d9188510d21c085428167679.jpg
roger
 
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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 09:51 pm
@perennialloner,
The only penguins I actually saw were in the Frankfort Zoo. They actually walked exactly like our cartoon Chilly Willy.
vonny
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2016 02:40 pm
@roger,
Red fox in a Romanian forest.

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/u/fQYSUbVfts-T7pS2VP2wnKyN8wxywmXtY0-FwsgxqjPUykOwrCl8rFmbOEMvdMkEbOSH1nVhl_JHcqz3Z3VQ8N8wieSz8j4QwEP-jYBKg4w7QS30QpTRQmuXEn22xwAJgFsGzpzZ-F8n7EtWb7qrT1udGOhMJsd89Aj5S_74CB0UeoPDBU5LX0JspS1lqgm050IiDbLFEpNc4K-fPlus/
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2016 03:10 pm
@vonny,
nice!
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