Source: tiny-pine-trail
Ring-tailed lemur(Slater Photography)
A female Blanket Octopus might get to about a meter or 2 (3.3 to 6.6 feet) in length, but her first 2 pairs of legs are extra specially long. Attached to them is a huge span of webbing that is normally hidden away.In times of need, this drapery is unfurled, spread out and left to billow in the water. This makes her look far larger and more threatening than she actually is, hopefully scaring off any predators. If it doesn’t seem to be working so well, bits of her blanket can even detach from the rest to act as a decoy.
Blanket Octopus are immune to the stings of the Portuguese Man o’ War. They can rip off a few of their tentacles and wields them like whips. Poisonous, stinging whips.
Holy shit, Mother Nature
Let me tell you about the sad life of a male blanket octopus. The males are just a few centimeters long and don’t get a cool badass blanket. They have a special arm (where the sperm is stored) just for making little blanket octopus babies. When the little guy finds a lady to get jiggy with, what happens is his tentacle penis pretty much just detaches from the dude’s body and climbs into the female. Yup, the tentacle just leaves, no goodbye or anything. With no penis tentacle, the male blanket octopus dies. He never gets to see his 100,000 children.
Moment of silence for all the male blanket octopuses out there.
(via noodle2thedoodle)
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Source: Flickr / diggingupworms
Silverside (by Ellen Cuylaerts)
regent bowerbird
(photos by halex, david woolcock and birdersplayground)
rave bird
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Source: fairy-wren
I have just decided that the pink fairy armadillo is not as cute as the silky anteater. For some reason we always see pictures of the giant anteater, but they aren’t very representative of anteaters in general. Of the 4 species of anteater the giant anteater is the only species that doesn’t have a prehensile tail, and the only species that isn’t at least partially arboreal. Its also significantly less cute than its little cousin.
The pictures are from Google
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Patterns (by Andy Rouse)
Not immediately apparent what this is? That’s because there is no sense of scale. The brown patterns are young King Penguins in creche, whilst the surrounding shapes are Adult King Penguins balancing eggs on their feet. Incredible photo.
