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Frogs are not the most aggressive predators, but they're patient hunters that will make relentless attempts at snatching prey from above the water, which often leads to success. Frogs primarily hunt insects, yet will sometimes consume slugs, worms, and even spiders. They use their long, sticky tongues to latch onto prey before digesting it. 🐸
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Persian leopards are the largest extant cat in west Asia, sometimes attaining a body mass of 90 kg. They live in rugged mountains, usually not higher than 3000 metres above sea level.
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Persecution is the main threat that Persian leopards face in the Middle East, either against themselves or their main prey such as bezoar goat, urial sheep or different deer species. The main reason for direct persecution of leopards is their occasional engagement in conflict with the rural people they live alongside.
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Damselflies are generally smaller, more delicate, and fly weakly in comparison with dragonflies. Their colours can be beautiful and vivid!
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At just over a centimetre in diameter, Garden eels may be small compared to other species of eels, but what they lack in size they make up for in muscle. They use their strong, muscular tails to dig into the sandy seafloor then secrete a slimy mucus which acts like cement to keep its burrow from caving in. They spend the majority of their lives partially embedded in the sea floor, hiding fully in their holes when they see a predator. There can be hundreds of thousands of eels in just one colony.
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In the sunlit desert of Zion National Park, these dedicated globe mallow bees ensure the survival of both the blooming flowers and their future generation. 🐝🌸
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Within just 15 minutes of a dung drop, over 4,000 dung beetles could turn up, ready to get to work. This natural clean-up crew plays a crucial role in the savanna, keeping the ecosystem healthy and preventing the plains from being covered in waste.
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A black rhino roaming free across the Kenyan plains! A powerful symbol of hope and a glimpse of what’s possible when we fight to protect the wild.💕
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Mother and calf humpback whales swimming among the icebergs in Greenland. 🐋❄️
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Rise and shine, it’s fishing time! 🎣🦦 These North American river otters use their long, sensitive whiskers to detect prey and can even close their nostrils while diving to keep water out.
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The Happy Songs of Three Beautiful Girls at Elephant Nature Park
Their joyful melodies and radiant expressions reflect the true happiness of elephants living in freedom.
This is the sound of contentment, the harmony of a life filled with care, love, and peace.
Let their songs speak to your heart—the language of joy from three beautiful souls.💖
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Common loon chick being fed
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Banff National Park, Canada 🇨🇦
A glacier carved valley where Moraine Lake shimmers bright blue beneath the towering Ten Peaks. Fed by ancient ice and rich in rock flour, its color changes with the sun. Trails like Larch Valley wind through alpine forests, golden larches, and quiet meadows. A place of wild beauty and calm! ?🌲⛰
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Bengal tigers are solitary animals, and they do not live in tight groups like other species do. Early on, tiger cubs form bonds with their mothers and rely heavily on them for food, protection, and teaching. This only lasts around 2 years however.
Once the cubs have grown to around 2-3 years old, they start to become independent. They'll eventually begin to leave their mother's territory, starting in small periods of time and finishing once they decide not to return. This is part of their development, as they need to establish their own spaces to survive.
Even stranger, some tigers may reunite with their mothers during mating season after they have sexually matured. Yet, despite once living and surviving together, both the children and the mother will not form any kind of bond and may not even tolerate each other's presence. 🐅🐯
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Curious Adélie penguin 👁👁
🇦🇶 Cape Hallett
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The Highland breed of cattle has a long and distinguished ancestry, not only in its homeland of western Scotland, but also in many far-flung parts of the world. It is one of the oldest registered breeds of cattle in the world and one of Britain's oldest, most distinctive and best-known breeds. With a long, thick, flowing coat of rich hair and majestic sweeping horns, the Highlander breed has remained largely unchanged over the centuries. Although the classic image of a Highland cow today is red they also come in other shades including yellow, brindle, dun, white and also black, the breed’s original colour.
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The flying lemur, or colugo, is a tree-dwelling gliding mammal found in South East Asia. While they are known as flying lemurs, they are not actually lemurs, and they also can’t fly, but instead glide! This baby would have weighed only around 35g when it was born.
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Play, eat, repeat 🥹 While mama bear feeds on the fresh spring grasses, these black bear cubs explore and play.
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It’s happy hour at the watering hole! ✨🪷 Lilies are a water plant packed with essential minerals that help keep bonobos strong and healthy.
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The Golden Eagle drinking and bathing under a natural waterfall
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Don’t forget to eat your veggies!🌾🥬🥕
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Basking shark in glass in California! 🦈🤯🔥
Basking shark are extremely rare to find in Southern California, but are possible during certain months! At first glance, the world's second largest fish might seem menacing: Its gaping mouth has six rows of teeth in its upper jaw, and nine rows below, for a total of about 1,500 tiny, hooked teeth. However, though they may be intimidating based on their size, basking sharks are filter feeders. They will not attack people, and it is exceedingly rare that anyone is injured by a basking shark.
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A lioness resting in a sausage tree after a successful hunt. Her belly was so big it was hanging off on the side of the branch 😂 Sun was starting to set. Everything was just so beautiful on the Serengeti 🥺
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Tucked along the rugged coastlines from Alaska to British Columbia lives a rare and elusive population of sea wolves.
These wolves are genetically distinct from their inland cousins. They’re smaller in size, powerful swimmers, and get more than 75% of their diet from the sea — feasting on everything from salmon and seals to shellfish, kelp, and even the odd whale carcass.
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The American badger is a sturdy, nocturnal mammal recognized for its striking black-and-white facial markings and exceptional digging abilities. Native to the grasslands and open areas of North America, it hunts rodents by skillfully excavating their burrows. Fiercely solitary and territorial, the American badger plays a vital role in its ecosystem—both by keeping small mammal populations in check and by creating burrows that later become homes for other wildlife.
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Three tiny foxes share their spoils in the middle of the road🦊
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We've always wanted to see life through a beaver's eyes 🦫
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