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For The First Time, a Tortoise Has Been Filmed Going in For The Kill… Very Slowly
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 23 Aug 2021 | PETER DOCKRILL

Posted on 08/23/2021 12:19:02 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Daffynition

No point in arresting and fining the tortoise. Probably an aspiring rapper and will get off anyhow.


41 posted on 08/23/2021 2:52:23 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Red Badger
So John Durham has a Darwinian competitor?
42 posted on 08/23/2021 3:12:45 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: Salamander

Pretty much just shows it knocking the bird off a log.


43 posted on 08/23/2021 3:14:31 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

Are these scientists so sheltered that they find this act “horrifying”? C’mon, the natural world is largely about kill or be killed?


44 posted on 08/23/2021 3:16:00 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: monkeyshine

It was walking around OK for being dead.


45 posted on 08/23/2021 3:17:58 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t google meat eating deer or hummingbird hunting preying mantis.


46 posted on 08/23/2021 4:16:44 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Daffynition

Nature observes only the ‘Law of the Jungle’......................


47 posted on 08/24/2021 5:14:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: glorgau
You ought to see a Snapping Turtle. They can take a finger off in a second...................
48 posted on 08/24/2021 5:23:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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49 posted on 08/24/2021 5:24:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: AlaskaErik

But it was time well spent. The pathos and the suspense must have been overwhelming!....................


50 posted on 08/24/2021 5:36:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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51 posted on 08/25/2021 12:57:49 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: Red Badger

It will be another week before tortoise catches up with his buddies to brag about it.


52 posted on 08/25/2021 1:39:09 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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