Crying over spilt oil!

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Armor in need, armor indeed!

Pangolins or scaly ant-eaters are insectivorous mammals which have a scaly armor-like keratin covering to protect themselves from predators. At the sign of the slightest threat, a pangolin curls into a ball, projecting its armor-like covering outwards, which is very difficult to penetrate, and the curled pangolin is also very difficult to unroll by the predator. As pangolins are toothless and very slow, the armor and ‘curling-up’ are their primary defense mechanisms.

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Weekly Adventure!

a sloth's diet consist almost entirely of leaves, which yield very little energy. hence, they have an extremely slow metabolic rate and move only when required (they also are the slowest mammals in the world) in order to use their energy economically. sloths spend their lives hanging upside down tree branches and come to the ground only once a week to defecate, and when in search of a mate.

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out of ink!

octopuses have several defense mechanisms such as fleeing off at a high speed and excellent camouflage. when it is spotted by a predator inspie of this, it expels an ink like substance which stuns the predator temporarily, enabling the octopus to escape. (this ink is also used by the octopus to stun prey such as crabs and lobsters, making them easy to secure)


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and everybody knows what'll happen next...

more on the cheetah introduction issue

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swapping professions

their attempts to tranquilize always fail,
they get air-conditioned offices instead of the jail,
they kill tigers, they kill bears,
about wildlife, the department seldom cares
...that's all i've got to say!

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Big Cats, Big Jokes!

My take on the cheetah introduction issue.

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