Nature is Horrifying

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I'll translate what they are saying in this video...

"Holy shit! That squid is 15 feet long!"

"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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How about this adorable photo of a kangaroo cuddling his fallen mate, perhaps so she can see her child one last time?

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Or is that what's happening?
But the Australian Museum quickly weighed in with another interpretation of the image, with principal research scientist Dr Mark Eldridge saying the picture shows the standing male is in a state of sexual excitement and is “trying to get a female to stand up so he can mate with her.”

Other commentators say that the male may well have been trying to mate with the female for some time and, along the way, caused the injuries that killed the animal.
Koalas may not be hard, but that kangaroo sure is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/15 ... ons_heart/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Totally Kafkaesque
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Shirley wrote:How about this adorable photo of a kangaroo cuddling his fallen mate, perhaps so she can see her child one last time?

Or is that what's happening?
But the Australian Museum quickly weighed in with another interpretation of the image, with principal research scientist Dr Mark Eldridge saying the picture shows the standing male is in a state of sexual excitement and is “trying to get a female to stand up so he can mate with her.”

Other commentators say that the male may well have been trying to mate with the female for some time and, along the way, caused the injuries that killed the animal.
Koalas may not be hard, but that kangaroo sure is.
All in front of her child.
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The Sybian wrote:
Shirley wrote:How about this adorable photo of a kangaroo cuddling his fallen mate, perhaps so she can see her child one last time?

Or is that what's happening?
But the Australian Museum quickly weighed in with another interpretation of the image, with principal research scientist Dr Mark Eldridge saying the picture shows the standing male is in a state of sexual excitement and is “trying to get a female to stand up so he can mate with her.”

Other commentators say that the male may well have been trying to mate with the female for some time and, along the way, caused the injuries that killed the animal.
Koalas may not be hard, but that kangaroo sure is.
All in front of her child.
Whatever. Big Kangaroo's name is Steven and little one is a Brendan.
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I like whales when they're in the water, but
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I felt aswirl with warm secretions.
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That looks like the Mario Maker level my kids made
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I feel like that video was posted 10 years ago and someone made a porn money shot joke.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:
Poor kitty.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:
Apparently you have to show proficiency in forced perspective photography to get a gator-hunting license.
Totally Kafkaesque
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I felt aswirl with warm secretions.
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Awesome as well as horrifying

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Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.

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Rabbits don't leave tracks like that.
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rass wrote:Fucking wildfires.

Crazy reading about all of the complex multi-level infrastructure we have in place to fight them (which under other circumstances would be interesting to learn about on its own) and it just fails because it was quickly and fully overwhelmed.
Just because I posted the above and semi-regularly post links to worst case scenarios for the Pacific Northwest, here is similarly themed article on the potential for wild fires in South Jersey.
Wildfire damage to a city can be astronomical. America's worst contemporary wildfire hit Oakland in 1991. It killed 25, destroyed 3,300 homes and 2,000 vehicles, and cost $2.67 billion in losses. A New Jersey megafire could dwarf that record. In the Pinelands, half a million people and billions in property abut woods that Pyne called "the biotic equivalent of a munitions depot... among the most flammable landscapes in America."
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Jesus.

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Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Where's Toto?
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I took this while walking the dog last week. That's my massive man hand next to a writhing hell pile of ants.

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Cloud formation that looks like a massive wave.

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Here are a couple wild cloud formations:



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Not exactly horrifying, but damn if this cloud didn't look just like Australia:

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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Johnnie wrote:Here are a couple wild cloud formations:


More like the fist of God. Probably taking out his rage on Portugal for the Supreme Court holding in Obergefell.
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Not horrifying (unless you count nearly being eaten by a jaguar), but incredible. A remote camera in the Amazon.

Totally Kafkaesque
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That gave me some flashbacks to watching Go Diego, Go.
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Shirley wrote:Not horrifying (unless you count nearly being eaten by a jaguar), but incredible. A remote camera in the Amazon.

I enjoyed that. But, I imagine that guy's life's work will end when he gets eaten by a jaguar.
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Golfing today, hit a ball that slowly rolled into a pond. Went to see if I could get it and the water was black.

A bajillion tadpoles. Never seen anything like it. Fuck it, it was just a Pinnacle.
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From this weekend's trip to the Grand Tetons. It's about time I got to see one up close:

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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Shirley wrote:How about this adorable photo of a kangaroo cuddling his fallen mate, perhaps so she can see her child one last time?

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Or is that what's happening?
But the Australian Museum quickly weighed in with another interpretation of the image, with principal research scientist Dr Mark Eldridge saying the picture shows the standing male is in a state of sexual excitement and is “trying to get a female to stand up so he can mate with her.”

Other commentators say that the male may well have been trying to mate with the female for some time and, along the way, caused the injuries that killed the animal.
Koalas may not be hard, but that kangaroo sure is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/15 ... ons_heart/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cute until you read this article
http://www.bicycling.com/news/news/cycl ... roo-attack
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wlu_lax6 wrote:
Shirley wrote:How about this adorable photo of a kangaroo cuddling his fallen mate, perhaps so she can see her child one last time?

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Or is that what's happening?
But the Australian Museum quickly weighed in with another interpretation of the image, with principal research scientist Dr Mark Eldridge saying the picture shows the standing male is in a state of sexual excitement and is “trying to get a female to stand up so he can mate with her.”

Other commentators say that the male may well have been trying to mate with the female for some time and, along the way, caused the injuries that killed the animal.
Koalas may not be hard, but that kangaroo sure is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/15 ... ons_heart/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cute until you read this article
http://www.bicycling.com/news/news/cycl ... roo-attack
At least he didn't fuck her after. Maybe because her tits had popped.
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Kangaroos are freaks

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I love the duck
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Shark sonogram. I will have nightmares for a week.

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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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This Twitter account seems appropriate for this thread.

https://twitter.com/NatureisScary

A sample.

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"AH! Fuck. What was that? Tim? Tim, you hear that? Tim? ... ... ... Tim?"
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mister d wrote:"AH! Fuck. What was that? Tim? Tim, you hear that? Tim? ... ... ... Tim?"
The glowing eyes approaching were the creepiest part.
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They could have had so much more fun with this article. Especially with the quote the guy gave.
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Birds don’t suck. They lack the necessary anatomical structures to do so.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:They could have had so much more fun with this article. Especially with the quote the guy gave.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/it ... ative_1_na
“It’s crazy,” he said. “The last thing in my mind was being attacked by a damn beaver.”
Especially so close to a beaver dam.
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