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Sharing cute moments, fun facts, and amazing stories from the animal world.

The blue winged kookaburra is known as the “bushman’s alarm clock”: listen to one 'laughing'

[📹 San Diego Zoo]

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Tortoise shells have nerve endings and are sensitive to the slightest touch. This tortoise at Badger Run Wildlife Rehab loves to feel her shell scratched, so a kind volunteer made her a scratching device.

[📹 Badger Run Wild Rehab]

https://video.nostr.build/ef92f20822908d2796247bc7d129a755d7ecb31cc6c1a0417b9e29a2ce3e4c39.mp4

The archer fish preys on land-based insects and other small animals by shooting them down with jets of water from their mouths aimed with incredible accuracy—adult fish almost always hit the target with their first shot.

[📹 BBC]

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Derik M. was on the McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a US Coast Guard in 2017, when he spotted a family of penguins.

Suddenly, a piece of the ice broke and the clip turned out to be one of the most thrilling ever filmed.

https://video.nostr.build/8ded741b43722ef32acf735bb606b9a099dd2317be7e74448601bc5ed77ac5e4.mp4

The San peoples, aka the "Bushmen", are various indigenous hunter-gatherer groups of Southern Africa

Two of them, with only a stick, demonstrate how humans can keep wildlife under control even without technology.

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