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A praying mantis disguised as a green leaf. Perfect camouflage and lightning attack!
Praying mantises are not poisonous and do not pose a threat to humans. And yet, praying mantises are incredibly strong. They can hunt small reptiles or birds. If praying mantises were the size of a puppy, they could easily hunt humans too, given their strength.
Scorpion.
After birth, baby scorpions spend the first week of their lives on their mother's back.
This kind of riding allows the little scorpions to survive, as the mother’s body regulates their moisture level.
Family of Japanese Flying Squirrels
Some of the cutest rodents on the planet❤️
🐾 Contrary to their name, anteaters do not only eat ants. The basis of their diet is termites, and they eat other insects only when they encounter them. Such gastronomic preferences are quite understandable. Animals have fused jaws, unable to grasp even a human little finger. Therefore, they do not have to choose what to eat.
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🦜 The red-crested turaco is the only representative that combines red and green colors.
This combination creates a unique and vibrant image.
🕷 Amazing Eight-spotted side-walking spider (or crab spider) from the rainforests of Sumatra (an island in Indonesia).
This incredibly beautiful spider with yellow coloring and black dots is actually very rare. Its length is 2.5 cm, which is quite a lot for such spiders. Females are larger than males.
The Eurasian hoopoe is a small bird common in Europe, Asia and Africa. It is known for its mottled plumage and distinctive crest on its head. Hoopoes have a long, curved beak adapted for searching for food in the ground. Hoopoes feed mainly on insects, such as beetles, ants, bees, etc. They may also feed on lizards, small snakes and other small animals.
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🍃 Leaf beetles - insects with amazing camouflage
📍Scientists have discovered that leaf beetles live in a vast tropical area throughout Southeast Asia, as well as in northeastern Australia and the islands of Melanesia.
🐍 The rattlesnake's rattle is very interesting. When used as a threat display element, the rattle at the end of a rattlesnake's tail can shake 50 to 100 times per second.
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🪨 Armadillo meat tastes like pork and is considered a delicacy.
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The pangolin is an ancient animal, believed to have existed on Earth for at least 70 million years, but scientists do not know where it came from.
If two males meet in the same territory, they begin to sort things out by striking each other with their forelimbs with long claws and tail.
The ants in the anthill are divided into classes: queen, workers, soldiers and future colonizers (ants with wings). Workers intensively fatten ants with wings so that during the mating season they can fly away from the anthill and form a new colony. Having left their home, winged males and females meet the same winged ants, only from other anthills. After the “wedding night,” the winged males die, and the winged females shed their wings, become queens, and give birth to their own colony.
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🐸 During rest, the eyes of the red-eyed tree frog are closed with a transparent membrane that does not interfere with the frogs’ vision. When attacked by predators, she sharply opens her eyes and misleads them with her bright red color.
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The pottery (pill) wasp Eumenes leads a solitary lifestyle and builds a vase-like nest. The most widely used building material is mud, consisting of a mixture of soil and regurgitated water, but many species use chewed plant material instead.
Solitary wasps, as opposed to social wasps, lay eggs in each individual cell, after which it is sealed so that no interaction occurs between the larvae and adults.
But before sealing the nest, the wasp collects the larvae of beetles, spiders or caterpillars - and, paralyzing them, places them in the nest so that they serve as food for its larva
These caterpillars will turn into White Morpho butterflies in the future 🦋
They live in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.
Most Morpho butterflies have a shimmering, metallic coloration with shades of blue, purple and green. The wingspan ranges from 7.5 to 20 cm.
🐧 It's amazing how in a colony of several hundred thousand king penguins they find each other.
They all look the same, parent and chick can recognize each other only by sound, using a two-voice call, their voice carries two different frequencies but at the same time it is enough for the parent to recognize his child in a crowd of sometimes half a million penguins.
Miracle animal - Geneta
Looks like a hybrid of a cat, a dog and a ferret. It is easily tamed and makes a good pet.
🐹 The hamster is so flexible that it can turn around completely in a tight hole.
Which often saves his life. For example, he easily changes direction when he senses a predator near a mink, or when he finds himself in a dead end.
When hunting, frogs use both their long, sticky tongue and their strong hind legs. And perfect camouflage and the ability to sit motionless for a long time make the frog an ideal hunter. When hunting, frogs are capable of jumping up to 40 cm. During the season, one frog catches and eats about 1,500 insects, most of which are harmful. This is several times more than what an insectivorous bird can catch in the same period of time. Frogs also hunt at night and eat even those tasteless insects that birds refuse.
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🦡 A badger can hunt snakes, and their poison does not affect him, which gives him a great advantage in a fight with them.
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The orchid mantis is another unsurpassed master of camouflage among insects!
In 1879, Australian journalist James Hingsley mistook a praying mantis for an orchid. Returning from a trip to Indonesia, he noticed that the orchid had completely devoured the insect. It was only later, in 1972, that scientists identified the culprit as a praying mantis rather than a true orchid. Since then, scientists have wondered why this praying mantis always wears flower clothes.
The orchid mantis, Hymenopus coronatus, is a species of praying mantis. However, unlike green or brown mantises, the exoskeleton of the orchid mantis is colored in bright hues, like an orchid flower. Of the six legs of a praying mantis, four of the hind legs can expand at the "thigh" area. When the praying mantis crouches and spreads its hind legs, its “hips” look like orchid petals.
🦊 Foxes have a special gland on their tail that releases scent. They can use it to communicate with other foxes and also to mark their territory.
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🐦⬛️ African cuckoo.
Found in sub-Saharan Africa, it is one of the most common cuckoo species on the continent.
These birds do not transfer their eggs to other bird species. But the male warms the eggs and feeds the offspring, showing more parental care than the female.
🐻 Bears' paws are very powerful. They have huge claws, the length of which reaches up to twenty centimeters.
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🕺 Anhinga
The male anhinga signals the nearest female by flapping each wing and performing complex dance moves, bowing and displaying movements. The eyes are bright green and especially bright during the breeding season. This behavior is fun to watch.
🦘A female kangaroo can produce milk of different fat contents for cubs of different ages - and can do this at the same time.
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🐹 Chinchillas do not shed seasonally, so they are the most hypoallergenic animals. These animals shed their fur only under stress or as a defensive reaction, leaving a piece of fur in the teeth of a predator.
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The antlion, Myrmeleon formicarius, is an insect of the order Netoptera, found throughout the world, mainly in dry, sandy regions.
The term "antlion" refers to the immature or larval stages of members of this family. Antlion larvae are predatory, while the adult stage feeds on nectar and pollen. The larvae are insatiable eaters of ants and other small insects that fall into the conical pits they build.
The head of the antlion larva has an impressive pair of sickle-shaped jaws, which are armed with sharp and hollow projections that have the function of piercing and sucking. Having captured prey, the larva paralyzes it with poison injected during the first bite.
She then injects digestive enzymes to break down the victim's internal tissues and sucks out the contents. Fully developed larvae can grow up to 1.2 cm in length.
An adult antlion is 4 cm long, does not feed its young and has a relatively short lifespan of 20-25 days or slightly longer (up to 45 days).
A cute animal with the funny name “dik-dik” Madoqua kirkii is a miniature antelope that lives in the semi-deserts and savannas of South and Central Africa. The length of an adult dikdik is no more than half a meter, and its weight is up to 5 kg.
These antelopes are elegant and graceful, they have elongated muzzles, large eyes and ears, a long neck and thin legs. The color is dominated by various shades of brown. This coloring helps these dwarf antelopes blend into the background of the surrounding landscape.
These are paired animals, and permanent pairs are formed, each of them has its own territory - as a rule, no more than a hundred meters in diameter.
These antelopes prefer to settle in arid areas covered with dense bushes - their main food. Dik-diks like to graze in the morning and evening, and rest during the day. Dense thickets also serve as shelter for them from predators who cannot get there. Seeing danger, they make strange sounds, something like “dik-dik”, which is what they owe their name to.
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