Nature is Metal
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Only about twice the size of domestic cats, Florida's bobcats may be small in size, but they're big in moxie.
Case in point: A bobcat appears to have killed a massive, 13-foot Burmese python in the Everglades recently and made a meal of it.
The 52-pound male python was a Conservancy of Southwest Florida scout snake nicknamed Loki. Scout snakes have implanted transmitters that are tracked and used to lure breeding females.
The invasive snake was found in a pile of debris, apparently mauled, with its head smashed and slashed, and partially buried for later feeding.
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Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
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The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)
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Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
Link to video@taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:
Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?
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@taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:
Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek
Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?
@Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that
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the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?
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there is some bacteria in the mother that helps the babies digest things, which I guess they by instinct know.
So, I dont think that they eat other babies.
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Male bees die after mating with females
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Every year in the early days of summer, we get 2 monarch caterpillars and the kids watch them phase into a chrysalis and eventually a butterfly. It only takes a few weeks, a few leaves of milkweed, and it’s a remarkable sight to see to be honest.
This year, our first caterpillar went into chrysalis, and instead of emerging, we woke up one morning to find a string of silk from the hanging chrysalis down to the bottom of the container, after a quick Google it turned out T-flys will infect a caterpillar with parasitic eggs and once the caterpillar goes into chrysalis (hanging mode) the parasite eats the caterpillar from within, resulting in two or three fly larva climbing down a rope like a fucking mission impossible scene, and crawling around the jar until they turn into flies. Gross.
https://www.internationalbutterflybreeders.org/tachinid-fly-by-rose-franklin/
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Pictures or it didn’t happen.
By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.
@jon-nyc said in Nature is Metal:
By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.
THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU WANDER OFF AGAIN!!!!
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Not quite sure of the ending to this.. whether it was good or bad.
(title is a bit incorrect. Not sure if the leopard "saved" the deer or not)
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New research shows some female frogs fake their own deaths to avoid unwanted mating. We’re talking full-body limp, floating upside down, even holding their breath. It’s the ultimate ghost move—literally.
Turns out “playing dead” isn’t just for opossums… it’s for frog queens dodging thirsty suitors, too.
