worst animal friends

https://reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/7nkxnt/going_right_for_the_balls/

A seal eating an octopus pic.twitter.com/jRXNsm1OPG

— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) January 4, 2018

A seal spitting an octopus to grapple and pull down an albatross.

file under: ideas for next mario game

Here it is in case you haven't seen it yet. pic.twitter.com/vnC5RHLt8r

— Stefan Heck (@boring_as_heck) January 6, 2018

Yes! Cat.

looool

ahahaha

The thread of that post is pretty good

I hope that damn squirrel is OK fuck to the cat FUCK TO HIM

— Roqayah Chamseddine (@roqchams) January 6, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWaR1wUwq48

https://i.imgur.com/rzDn6to.gif

a friend at work used to commute home on the interstate, and a flock of Canada geese took off from a pond near the road just as a semi truck was passing by one day. the air vacuum caught the last goose, ripped it from the air, and slammed it to the ground in front of his car. he reluctantly glanced at the front when he arrived home and the only evidence was a goose head-shaped impression on his license plate

https://www.inverse.com/article/40018-australian-birds-light-prey-on-fire

A snake fighting a cat while being eaten by a frog... pic.twitter.com/KShOaRnhU9

— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) January 19, 2018

https://media.giphy.com/media/10Hb3I73xDebfi/giphy.gif

oh my god that frog is tough as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28377717_1617868858309229_4510842887691478610_n.jpg?oh=b5e3633ebf0959094138a431851746f1&oe=5B3B3E3B

everything about that photo is perfect

Alligator lizard fighting back from inside the belly of a King snake pic.twitter.com/HIxqSOwGnp

— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) March 13, 2018

🔥🔥😂

holy shit

i hope they managed to work out their differences and are now friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGludGaPKag

poor hare ;_;

how do they get this footage?

After Bloodbath, The National Zoo’s Naked Mole-Rats Finally Choose Their Queen

Queens sexually repress all the other females in the colony, as well as the males they don’t want to mate with, preventing them from going through puberty.

The new colony transported to the National Zoo this summer was made up of 17 adult mole-rats. There are only 13 adults left. “Yeah, they’ve been fighting and killing each other,” Kearns says. “They have mole-rat wars to determine who’s going to be the queen or who’s going to breed with the queen. We’re hoping things will calm down a little bit now.”

https://i.ibb.co/g3Rbnmj/756feac390c8dcdf7fed24059ff54503.jpg

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/jesus-christ-look-at-him-snake-catchers-horror-callout/news-story/1fec29950d35da1dad546a77455331d6

:(

trypophobia thread

fark

parasites are the alltime nightmare fuel creatures

Yeah, pretty much the only creatures that give me the heeby-jeebies. I imagine that’s pretty baked into our brains though.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/lions-attack-giraffe-in-rare-video-in-kruger-south-africa/
surprise ending

https://gizmodo.com/time-now-for-some-gnarly-photos-of-spiders-eating-other-1832993793

Among the more shocking observations was the spider-on-opossum interaction. Michael Grundler, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan and a co-author of the study, was alerted to the scene when he heard shuffling noises from a pile of leaves.

“We looked over and we saw a large tarantula on top of an opossum,” said Grundler in the press release. “The opossum had already been grasped by the tarantula and was still struggling weakly at that point, but after about 30 seconds it stopped kicking.”

The tarantula was described as being as big as a dinner plate, and the opossum about the size of a softball. It’s considered the first visual documentation of an opossum being preyed upon by a large mygalomorph spider, a group that includes tarantulas.

https://imgur.com/gallery/CG3utaJ

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/07/humpback-whale-sea-lion-mouth-photo/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/asia/wildlife-photographer.html
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/10/16/multimedia/16xp-foxrodent/16xp-foxrodent-jumbo.jpg

But while the image may have granted the marmot its 15 minutes of fame, the rodent did not survive its encounter with the fox, according to the BBC. The museum described the picture as “a powerful frame of both humor and horror” that “captures the drama and intensity of nature.”

came here to post that. i'm the marmot and the fox is my crippling self doubt.

this one is also beautifully sad and funny:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/visit/wpy/2019/large/26.jpg

this is the best video ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/hmWsGpC4cW

— boo (@lollypopthot) October 25, 2019

:D

this is me and my kids

https://theconversation.com/eat-your-heart-out-native-water-rats-have-worked-out-how-to-safely-eat-cane-toads-123986

That’s cool! Way to adapt, water rats.

🐦[this is the best video ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/hmWsGpC4cW🕸
— boo (@lollypopthot) October 25, 2019🕸]🐦

https://youtu.be/wSXs3eA0Xo0

https://hyperallergic.com/542558/station-squabble/
http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/%C2%A9-Sam-Rowley-Wildlife-Photographer-of-the-Year-Winner-720x480.jpg

Fisticuffs 😂 pic.twitter.com/KCJnnad7la

— Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) June 27, 2020

long slappy bois

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/09/20/swarm-bees-kills-63-endangered-penguins-south-africa/8416782002/

:(

Orcas recorded killing and feeding on blue whales in brutal attacks

This research is the first to officially document these killings, including details about how orcas swim inside the mouth of the blue whale to eat its tongue just before it dies.

one day when the tonguing is done
we'll take our leave and go

Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

The bat was observed to follow in a cat-and-mouse chase covering more than 1km, during which the microphone recorded 21 distress calls from the robin. As the pair approached ground level, a final shriek was heard from the robin, followed by 23 minutes of chewing sounds from the bat as it continued to fly at low altitude.