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Piraputanga jumps out of water to pick fruit off a overhanging tree in the jungle rivers of Brazil

#that is fucking awsome bro #animal

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African woolly chafers, genus Sparrmannia, Melolonthinae, Scarabaeidae

Photo 1 by rjbasson, 2-3 by alexdreyer, 4 by renecarbonaio, 5 by riana60, and 6 by hrodulf

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#tagged #real

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Titi Monkeys intertwine their tails to strengthen social bonds much like grooming is known to do

#cool moky! #animal

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My friend the Mountain hare/skogshare is helping me counting followers (although he insists on calling them dabloons, I’m clueless as to why…). And you know what, the count just reached 30 000! Thank you so much to each and every one of you! Thank you for being here with me. I’m not a people person, in fact, I often feel like an outsider, but it warms my heart to know that so many of you are enjoying my squirrels, birds, roe deers, plants, bugs and whatnot. Oh, and mountain hares. Thank you! Tack så mycket! Best, Michael

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Underwater Motion of Seagrass and Kelp

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#people

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Sua Ocean Trench

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#dude wtf this fish squaring up #animal

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Good morrrrrrrning

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Chinese Paradise-flycatcher /Terpsiphone incei in dongzhai 董寨, henan ◇ photo by 仇绍强

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Rufous potoo - ML201701561, Tomaz Melo

#oh my god he is wobbling #animal

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Groups of families and friends play in the water at Elegushi Beach as the sun sets. Lagos, Nigeria. ©@africanfoto

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Texel, The Netherlands

#95 #queue #earth

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When your cute stingrays fight over who gets to play with the enrichment.

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This is Shibam, Yemen

Also called “The Chicago of the Desert.”

Guess when those high-rises were built?

If you guessed the 1970s, you guessed wrong.

Way wrong.

Shibam is an estimated 1,700 years old.

Shibam, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for its distinct architecture. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud brick, and about 500 of them are tower blocks, which rise 5 to 11 stories high, with each floor having one or two rooms. While Shibam has been in existence for an estimated 1,700 years, most of the city’s houses originate from the 16th century. Many, though, have been rebuilt numerous times in the last few centuries.

Shibam is often called “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30 m (98 feet) high, thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. In order to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying fresh layers of mud.

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#95 #queue