Nature is Horrifying
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Thank God the video had that title.
No sirree...
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I watched an episode of the Blue Planet recently, and it had a segment about Komodo dragons. They’re poisonous, but their venom doesn’t kill right away. In the segment, a Komodo dragon bit a water buffalo in the leg, and the venom made the water buffalo gradually weaker over a span of two weeks or so. During that time, other Komodo dragons started to gather near the water buffalo, and once it was sufficiently weakened, they all attacked it at once. The water buffalo was devoured in a matter of minutes.
Komodo dragons are hard.
Komodo dragons are hard.
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The BiL is retired military, and spent three years in Kenya (embassy detail) as part of his service. They did a lot of things in the bush, so he would sometime spend weeks out in camps. His favorite time of year was the migration, and the other night he told me one time they came up on a giant crocodile (~20-25ft) that had eaten so much whatever (wildebeest most likely I guess) that it was so stuffed and fat that not all four of its legs could be touching the ground at once. He said their guide said they could walk up and touch it if they wanted and it wouldn’t be able to do shit. No thanks.
Also related stories about places they stayed where they had specific noisemakers to scare away the hippos if you had to get up and leave your room in the night. Said everyone was way more scared of hippos than lions, as they should be.
Regardless, jealous as hell because that blows any ‘safari’ out of the water. I would love to see the Serengeti, and he got to hang out for weeks at a time with the Maasai.
Also related stories about places they stayed where they had specific noisemakers to scare away the hippos if you had to get up and leave your room in the night. Said everyone was way more scared of hippos than lions, as they should be.
Regardless, jealous as hell because that blows any ‘safari’ out of the water. I would love to see the Serengeti, and he got to hang out for weeks at a time with the Maasai.
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Two words that should never go together...
Fire Tornado!
The video is horrifying. Not graphic, but scary as all hell.
Fire Tornado!
The video is horrifying. Not graphic, but scary as all hell.
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Gizmodo just posted a bunch of photos taken by some Russian deep sea fisherman.
Holy Shit!!!
The ocean freaks me out.
Be warned, this is the stuff of nightmares.
Holy Shit!!!
The ocean freaks me out.
Be warned, this is the stuff of nightmares.
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Scientists Found a New Species of Wasp That Turns Spiders Into Zombies
I neither read the article or even looked at the story as it came up on my screen. The headline enough will give me nightmares for a week.
I neither read the article or even looked at the story as it came up on my screen. The headline enough will give me nightmares for a week.
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Volcanic eruption triggers tsunami...
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I felt aswirl with warm secretions.
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Oh fuck!
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Totchos
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
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She went to the hospital for an infection. Doctors found four bees living in her eye.
Oh good God! There's even a photograph.
Oh good God! There's even a photograph.
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And that link is staying blue, thankyouverymuchPruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:55 am She went to the hospital for an infection. Doctors found four bees living in her eye.
Oh good God! There's even a photograph.
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Smart move.BSF21 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:22 amAnd that link is staying blue, thankyouverymuchPruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:55 am She went to the hospital for an infection. Doctors found four bees living in her eye.
Oh good God! There's even a photograph.
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Could have gone in the Florida or Ohio thread as well...
A man kept one of the ‘world’s most dangerous’ birds on his farm. Then it killed him.
I'd never heard of the Cassowary, and hope to never run into one.
A man kept one of the ‘world’s most dangerous’ birds on his farm. Then it killed him.
I'd never heard of the Cassowary, and hope to never run into one.
What makes them dangerous, however, are their feet. Three toes sport pointed nails. The most dangerous is the inner toe, which ends in a veritable dagger several inches long.
“If you were kicked by a cassowary with that nail, it would do a lot of damage to you,” said Eric Slovak, assistant curator of birds at the National Zoo in Washington. “You would wind up in the hospital for sure.”
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Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:03 am Could have gone in the Florida or Ohio thread as well...
A man kept one of the ‘world’s most dangerous’ birds on his farm. Then it killed him.
I'd never heard of the Cassowary, and hope to never run into one.
What makes them dangerous, however, are their feet. Three toes sport pointed nails. The most dangerous is the inner toe, which ends in a veritable dagger several inches long.
“If you were kicked by a cassowary with that nail, it would do a lot of damage to you,” said Eric Slovak, assistant curator of birds at the National Zoo in Washington. “You would wind up in the hospital for sure.”
You don't need to even read that in an Australian accent, but it does make all things funnier.In 2012, an Australian tourist named Dennis Ward was kicked off a cliff into a body of water by a cassowary when he and his family were visiting Babinda Boulders in Queensland. “It just came straight up to me, decided to pick on me for some reason, I don’t know what for,” Ward told the Cairns Post.
“Next thing, thump, I copped a boot in the back and I was tumbling down the bank,” Ward said. “It was pretty high, about seven foot. I hit this ledge near the bottom and bounced off into the drink.”
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Until everything is less insane, I'm mixing weed with wine.
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"What a bunch of pedantic pricks." - sybian
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'It kept me to eat later': Russian man 'looking like a mummy' is rescued after spending a month inside a bear den after the predator broke his spine and saved him for a future meal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ussia.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ussia.html
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Bet the bear was pissed!
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That moment when they pounce tho...
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Massive wasp nests as big as a car are appearing in Alabama (again)
That has got to be the most Godforsaken part of the USA.
That has got to be the most Godforsaken part of the USA.
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Too bad Terminix is illegal
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
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Our Worst Enemy
The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children.
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More reasons to avoid places where Mr. D has lived....
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a2861326 ... e-illness/
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a2861326 ... e-illness/
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Also hilarious tho. In the jungle it's always ass eating season.
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That's a picture of Trump's fat ass should he refuse to concede the results of the election next November.
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That is great. Didn't we see those two at a Buffalo Bills tailgate?
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Not laughing now: Hyena is ripped to pieces by a lion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -lion.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -lion.html
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This is an old story, but I still found it interesting.
Great white sharks are completely terrified of orcas
Great white sharks are completely terrified of orcas
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