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Photos for a Sunday Night [NATURE]
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Posted on 02/27/2022 7:11:16 PM PST by MarvinStinson

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.Soviet soldier feeding polar bear in the 1950s

Taken in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union, an area known for being painfully cold. The negative 40 degree temperatures can take down a polar bear and its children, starving and freezing them if they don't get enough to eat.
At the time the soldiers had an abundance of tin cans of condensed milk. They would cut open the tin and feed the condensed milk to the bears

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Seagull Trying To Save His Friend From A Bald Eagle

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A woman went camping 30 years ago and heard strange noises in the middle of the night so she stuck her camera outside the tent and snapped this photo of curious racoons.

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Morocco's tree climbing goats

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This Black timber wolf is ready to attack

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A very wise dog waiting until his buddy finishes eating

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One of the rarest animals on the planet, the Black Jaguar

There have only been a few legitimate sightings of black jaguars in south America and Mexico throughout the 20th century

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Woman gets her photo taken with a tornado in the background 1989<>

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Coyote pups learning to howl

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Gray Owl is hiding in plain sight

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Geese have multiple rows of teeth like appendages made of cartilage

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Hyena matriarch fighting off pack of African wild dogs

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Lightning storm over Lake Michigan

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Look closer...in the darkness stands this baby polar bear's mother and she will not hesitate to attack

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Marmot realizes it's been caught by a fox

This award winning image was snapped by Chinese photographer Yongqing Bao while he was traipsing through the Qilian Mountains National Nature Reserve in 2019. With his camera at the ready, he captured the moment that a Marmot realized it was going to become dinner for a hungry fox.

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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic exploration vessel ‘Endurance’, as it sits stuck in sea ice, later to be crushed from the force and sink, 1915

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The honey badger can survive through the worst of conditions due to their super power... thick skin.

Now this is what a tough guy looks like. Or rather, a tough animal.

These small animals are known as one of the most fearless creatures on the planet. They don't care if they're facing down a hyena or a lion, they'll put up a fight until everyone is sorry that they crossed paths. Aside from being incredibly mean, Their strong skin can take a licking and keep going, but it's also so rubbery that if it's caught in the teeth of a predator it can shake loose with no problems.

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The moment you realize this is only one photo
[Bow Lake in Alberta, Canada.]

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These goats defy gravity

These are ibex goats, animals who instinctually climb wherever they need to in search of salt. As herbivores they don't get enough calcium salts so they climb until they reach salt deposits in the masonry of the walls that they climb.

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This moose may have survived a lightning strike

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Two lions fighting for supremacy


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: nature
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1 posted on 02/27/2022 7:11:16 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

No Helen Thomas in the wild?


2 posted on 02/27/2022 7:21:32 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: MarvinStinson

thanks for the post!


3 posted on 02/27/2022 7:23:11 PM PST by dadfly
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To: MarvinStinson

Honey Badger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg


4 posted on 02/27/2022 7:26:11 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: MarvinStinson
GREAT photos and stories. Thanks for posting this, Marv.

I was hiking Windy Hill in Portola Valley, CA yesterday. Shortly after starting down, I heard a loud mix of howling, yipping, and barking from several coyotes. My first thought was mom had brought a fresh kill to her cubs. The noise lasted maybe a minute, then all was quiet again. I spotted four small rabbits on my hike in that area, so lots of food available. It seems rather early in the year for a litter of coyote pups, though. I was rather wary on that stretch of the hike after hearing that cacophony.

So this photo you posted struck a chord with me. I could just see mom teaching the kids like that.


5 posted on 02/27/2022 7:26:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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Porcupine quills are easily removed by scissors (cut the ends off and let the air out). Vet told me this 150 bucks after the fact. Wife would not let me rip them out as a teachable moment.


6 posted on 02/27/2022 7:39:21 PM PST by waterhill (Resist)
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To: MarvinStinson

The owl makes my eyes hurt to try to see it.
And honey badger still don’t give a sh!t!


7 posted on 02/27/2022 7:47:12 PM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Can’t go out on the porch at night without hearing a kill. Here’s some daytime action: https://youtu.be/JZsatKUm8Jc (25 secs.)


8 posted on 02/27/2022 7:56:03 PM PST by Born in 1950 (Courts are trains and needles are ovens. )
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To: MarvinStinson

Thanks for posting! I went to the website at the link and there are many more.
Some are absolutely astonishing!😮


9 posted on 02/27/2022 7:57:15 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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Ping


10 posted on 02/27/2022 8:12:20 PM PST by MinuteGal (Twenty-Four Years a Freeper....and lovin' every minute of it.....MAGA ! MAGA! MAGA !)
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To: Born in 1950

Thanks. Lots of jackrabbits!

Looks like we have cottontails on this mountain. Lots of new signs have popped up about coyotes whereas it used to be just signs about mountain lions eating you.


11 posted on 02/27/2022 8:13:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Very Cool pictures.
I had a coyote family in my back yard @ 10 years ago, and I’m in Detroit!
Nothing bothered my garden for that year. Unfortunately the police shot them all as they also prey on small pets, and children.
The coats where much darker that the one in the picture above.
🐺


12 posted on 02/27/2022 8:15:02 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: MarvinStinson

Outstanding photos!


13 posted on 02/27/2022 8:57:06 PM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: MarvinStinson

Great photos - perfect way to top off a very pleasant Sunday. thnx


14 posted on 02/27/2022 9:11:53 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: texas booster; Hebrews 11:6; dakine; rightwingintelligentsia; Tijeras_Slim; Fiddlstix; ...

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15 posted on 02/27/2022 9:41:14 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Deaf Smith; dadfly; EvilCapitalist; waterhill; Delta 21; Born in 1950; telescope115; MinuteGal; ...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4024274/posts


16 posted on 02/27/2022 9:47:41 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Thanks for the Dec 2021 link. I missed those.


17 posted on 02/27/2022 9:59:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: MarvinStinson
FABULOUS!!! Thank you so much for the ping.

God has quite an imagination. I've always wondered whether He might have done each species' general design and then delegated, under His close supervision, the creation detailing to angels.

For that matter, although He has now ceased from creating, Revelation describes His resumption (new heaven and earth, etc.), when He might permit the redeemed humans to assist similarly.

18 posted on 02/27/2022 10:07:17 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (I won't let the rocks cry out in my place)
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To: MarvinStinson

Thank you for sharing


19 posted on 02/28/2022 2:14:29 AM PST by deek69
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To: Deaf Smith
Will this do?


20 posted on 02/28/2022 5:41:20 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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