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blackpepper

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BEEF !!!
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the13thround

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Bengal tiger about to crush a Chital deer like an empty beer can. It's an unfortunate fact of life that the younger an animal is, the more likely it ends up in the mouth of something larger. Predators tend to take the path of least resistance, and that's because there's usually a lot of it. The hardships they face are all too real, and starving to death isn't that many missed opportunities away. Almost everything they eat has to be killed against its will, nothing comes easy and absolutely nothing can be taken for granted.

If the predator hasn't eaten in a while, expending calories for nothing in return is a bad investment. Newborns are not as sure-footed as their parents, they are not as aware of the danger around them. They also won't put up as much of fight as a full grown adult, they're easier to subdue which means less risk of injury to the hunter. The table is definitely tilted in the favor or the predator in this instance, and they must exploit these opportunities every chance they get.

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the13thround

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Baby bacon. Lioness eats a warthog piglet face first. Catching a warthog is no easy task, they are very fast and can reach their top speed of 30mph (48km/h) in the blink of an eye. Warthog piglets are just as fast and have the advantage of being smaller, which makes it easier for them to slip away. Combine all of that with how deceptively agile they are and you've got yourself a worthy opponent. Just think about how hard it would be to murder something using only your face (and hands) every time you felt hungry. How many of us would starve in a weeks time. We must truly respect the way nature operates.

It is the polar opposite of easy, the struggles we suffer through everyday don't hold a candle to the absolute carnage experienced everyday - its all around us! And it never stops. There are no days off out there, time off is a human construct. You need to stay alert at all times to ensure your survival, lest you end up in a lion's mouth or a spider's web or an orca's jaws or injected with the eggs of a parasitic wasp that will hatch and devour you from the inside out.

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the13thround

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Stuck the landing. Agalychnis spurrelli (gliding tree frog) ran itself through on a palm thorn. Gliding tree frogs got that name as a result of their habit of parachuting out of trees - once airborne, they slow themselves down by deploying the extensive webbing between the toes of each hand and foot. They can also use this gliding ability to move horizontally as they fall and glide over to other trees instead of falling to the ground. Judging by the photo, this is not an exact science.

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The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) is a medium-sized North American lynx that ranges across Alaska, Canada, and northern areas of the contiguous United States. It is characterized by its long, dense fur, triangular ears with black tufts at the tips, and broad, snowshoe-like paws. As in the bobcat (L. rufus), the lynx's hindlimbs are longer than the forelimbs, so the back slopes downward to the front. The Canada lynx stands 48–56 cm (19–22 in) tall at the shoulder and weighs between 5 and 17 kg (11 and 37 lb). The lynx is a good swimmer and an agile climber. The Canada lynx was first described by Robert Kerr in 1792. Three subspecies have been proposed, but their validity is doubted; it is mostly considered a monotypic species.

A specialist predator, the Canada lynx depends heavily on snowshoe hares for food. This leads to a prey-predator cycle, as Canada lynxes respond to the cyclic rises and falls in snowshoe hare populations over the years in Alaska and central Canada. When hares are scarce lynxes tend to move to areas with more hares and tend not to produce litters, and as the numbers of the hare increase, so do the populations of the lynx. The Canada lynx hunts mainly around twilight, or at night, when snowshoe hares tend to be active. The lynx waits for the hare on specific trails or in "ambush beds", then pounces on it and kills it by a bite on its head, throat or the nape of its neck. Individuals, particularly of the same sex, tend to avoid each other, forming "intrasexual" territories. The mating season is roughly a month long (from March to early April). After a gestation of two to three months, a litter of one to eight kittens is born. Offspring are weaned at 12 weeks.

This lynx occurs predominantly in dense boreal forests, and its range strongly coincides with that of the snowshoe hare. Given its abundance throughout the range, and lack of severe threats, the Canada lynx has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. This lynx is regularly trapped for the international fur trade in most of Alaska and Canada but is protected in the southern half of its range due to threats such as habitat loss.
 

THE DRIZZY

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The most successful feline killers are not the larger panthera species like lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars. The small wild cats that are the size of domestic cats have a 60% hunting rate.















Even though these cats are small in size they are wild. It would take generations to domesticate these small wild cats. They are meant to be wild no matter how hard cat lovers would try to illegally own one as a pet or a display item.
 
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Darkness's

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Got away, but for how long?
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Got away, but for how long?
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Baby bacon. Lioness eats a warthog piglet face first. Catching a warthog is no easy task, they are very fast and can reach their top speed of 30mph (48km/h) in the blink of an eye. Warthog piglets are just as fast and have the advantage of being smaller, which makes it easier for them to slip away. Combine all of that with how deceptively agile they are and you've got yourself a worthy opponent. Just think about how hard it would be to murder something using only your face (and hands) every time you felt hungry. How many of us would starve in a weeks time. We must truly respect the way nature operates.

It is the polar opposite of easy, the struggles we suffer through everyday don't hold a candle to the absolute carnage experienced everyday - its all around us! And it never stops. There are no days off out there, time off is a human construct. You need to stay alert at all times to ensure your survival, lest you end up in a lion's mouth or a spider's web or an orca's jaws or injected with the eggs of a parasitic wasp that will hatch and devour you from the inside out.

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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!
Circle of life, my ass! Looks like Disney left out the death part
 

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