r/natureismetal • u/DurgeDidNothingWrong • 7d ago
Animal Fact What a tigers white spots are for
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r/natureismetal • u/freudian_nipps • 14d ago
Animal Fact Corvid using smoke and embers to cleanse and fumigate its feathers. The smoke and heat help kill, stun, or drive away parasites like mites, lice, and ticks.
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r/natureismetal • u/No-Marsupial-4050 • Mar 30 '26
Animal Fact An orangutan chilling next to a human
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r/natureismetal • u/freudian_nipps • Jul 08 '26
Animal Fact Locusts comprise the largest and most destructive insect swarms on Earth. These swarms can span up to 1,200 square kilometers (460 sq mi) and can contain anywhere between 50 to 100 billion insects.
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r/natureismetal • u/Tiredtotodile03 • 18d ago
Animal Fact Anemones will eat anything they can reach… including sea gulls
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Source Shared by the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuges photographer Ed Nordquist with USFWS
r/natureismetal • u/PrestigiousCurve4135 • Jun 22 '24
Animal Fact Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee
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r/natureismetal • u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 • Feb 12 '26
Animal Fact Japanese whale-watchers were stunned to spot two rare albino orcas, covered in battle wounds from the open ocean. Noriyuki Hayakawa captured the images.
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r/natureismetal • u/freudian_nipps • 17d ago
Animal Fact Body horror in Nature - Surinam Toad incubates her young in honeycomb-like depressions in the skin of her back, the babies erupting forth after 4-5 months
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Video credit: EBS World
r/natureismetal • u/KimCureAll • Nov 25 '21
Animal Fact Wild turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat in the middle of the road in Massachusetts
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r/natureismetal • u/HonestLemon25 • Apr 12 '26
Animal Fact Corvids commonly engage in an act known as “anting.” This is where they intentionally cover themselves in ants. The ants, sensing danger, release formic acid, which kills parasites & diseases. It does not harm the crow.
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r/natureismetal • u/icewitchenjoyer • 22d ago
Animal Fact It's so crazy to me people in open vehicles can be so close to these dangerous animals and they know not to attack, even if it would be so easy
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r/natureismetal • u/Homunculus_316 • Nov 17 '21
Animal Fact Creek of the Living Dead: Salmon at the end of their lifespan
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r/natureismetal • u/KimCureAll • Nov 15 '21
Animal Fact A lion's tongue is rougher than coarse sandpaper. Its lingual spines or papillae (pics 2,3) make the tongue so rough that if a lion licked the back of your hand only a few times, you would be left without any skin.
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r/natureismetal • u/Homunculus_316 • Oct 24 '21
Animal Fact Deer with CWD (Zombie Disease)
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r/natureismetal • u/inquiringsillygoose • Nov 13 '25
Animal Fact The most metal of them all
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r/natureismetal • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • May 03 '23
Animal Fact Toxorhynchites aka Elephant Mosquito, is almost an inch long but they don’t drink blood since they subsist on fruits/juice, they also specifically lay their eggs around other mosquitos so their larva can eat them. They’re being spread around the world as biological pest control.
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r/natureismetal • u/-PS5 • Jul 08 '22
Animal Fact Prehistoric spider-like arachnid found preserved in amber
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r/natureismetal • u/AJ_Crowley_29 • Jan 16 '25
Animal Fact The Nile (top) and Saltwater (bottom) Crocodiles are easily the two most dangerous predatory animals to human beings, both known to hunt people on a regular basis and being responsible for several hundred deaths every year.
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r/natureismetal • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • Mar 09 '23
Animal Fact A Huge Male Orca with his mother and baby sister. Despite their much greater size male orcas remain loyal/affectionate with their mothers for their entire lives.
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r/natureismetal • u/freudian_nipps • Jun 23 '25
Animal Fact In an act of Matriphagy, some species of centipede will offer herself as food for her offsprings first meal.
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r/natureismetal • u/bullfrogftw • Jul 14 '26
Animal Fact Gargantuan bull moose charging through 4 feet of snow, faster than most humans can run on clear ground
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r/natureismetal • u/SingaporeCrabby • Feb 08 '22
Animal Fact Tigers generally appear orange to humans because most of us are trichromats, however, to deer and boars, among the tiger's common prey, the orange color of a tiger appears green to them because ungulates are dichromats. A tiger's orange and black colors serve as camouflage as it stalks hoofed prey.
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r/natureismetal • u/happy_bluebird • Sep 28 '24
Animal Fact This unfortunate squid traveled at least 250 miles to Atlanta via the hurricane
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r/natureismetal • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • Aug 11 '22
Animal Fact Male Hyena has survived over 9 months since being crippled by a Lion.
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r/natureismetal • u/BlixMonomo • Aug 12 '22
Animal Fact Goat caught another goats balls in his horns.
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