Is this how whales talk to each other? 🐋 | EBC Earth
Also referred to as a tail slapping, lobtailing is when whales slap their tails on the surface of the water, and there is evidence to say this could be a means of communication. Bigger splashes may signal long distance calls.
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#Whale #Australia #HumpbackWhale
Why do racoons have a black ‘mask’? 🦝 | EBC Earth
Acting as shields, these ‘masks’ help with night vision and reduce incoming glare from the sunlight. It is also believed that they could be used as an identifier, allowing racoons to communicate and recognise one another.
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#Racoon #RacoonsOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Wildlife
Just keep swimming 🪸 | EBC Earth
Clownfish and anemone are dependent on each other for survival. Anemone provide a shelter for clownfish from predators, while clownfish give anemone key nutrients from their waste in a symbiotic relationship 🫶
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#Clownfish #Anemone #Reefs
Pov: you’re trying to get out of bed on a Monday 🙄 | EBC Earth
Flying squirrels often make their homes in holes in trees, and sometimes like to use nests made and abandoned by other animals, such as woodpeckers.
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#FlyingSquirrel #MondayMood
A pair of preening parakeets 💚 🦜 | EBC Earth
What you see here is a process called “allopreening” where parakeets help to keep each other clean, strengthen bonds, and maybe even show affection.
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#Parakeets #BirdsOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Wildlife
Talented yellow weaver 💛 | EBC Earth
Male yellow weavers skillfully craft their homes using plants. The way they build their structures is cautiously chosen, as the best will win potential mates.
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#YellowWeaver #YellowWeaversOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Wildlife
Sightings of the swallowtail butterfly are becoming increasingly rare. The species faces a challenge in expanding its population, as it lays eggs just once a year. | EBC Earth
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#SwallowtailButterfly #SwallowtailButterfliesOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Wildlife
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A camel’s love sac ❤️ | EBC Earth
It’s estimated that almost one million camels roam the deserts of the Australian Outback. But this particular camel is just looking for the one, and he’ll pull out all the stops to impress the ladies!
Born to survive. Built to thrive. #Mammals
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#ArabianCamel #Australia #Desert
Why do penguins waddle?👇🐧| EBC Earth
Waddling from side to side as a walking technique requires a lot of energy, but paradoxically for penguins, it can also help to conserve it.
A penguin’s proportions make them well designed for seamlessly diving and gliding through water, but their walk isn’t quite as elegant. As a penguin sways to one side, the kinetic energy of its swing is stored as potential energy, which it then uses to power its next step.
By moving in this way, its centre of mass is raised, so their muscles expend less energy to walk. Penguins therefore recover eighty per cent of the energy that they use on each step, which is the highest of any terrestrial animal. For comparison, humans get back around 65% with each step.
Studies into penguins’ movement may increase our understanding of gait, and could lead to mobility treatments for humans.
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#WorldPenguinDay #Penguin #AnimalFacts
The Spanish dancer 💃 | EBC Earth
Named after its undulating way of swimming, reminiscent of a Flamenco dancer, this colourful sea slug ‘dances’ to evade predators. It can also grow up to 40cm!
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#SpanishDancer #SeaSlug #MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography
Not as cute as they look 🐻❄️ | EBC Earth
On average, polar bears are the largest bear species and the largest land carnivore, too. They can weigh up to 800 pounds and grow as big as 3m long!
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#InternationalPolarBearDay #PolarBear #Arctic
A flamboyance of flying flamingos 🦩 | EBC Earth
These iconic pink birds live and feed in flocks, sometimes in the thousands. A group of them is commonly referred to as a ‘flamboyance’.
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#Flamingo #FlamingosOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Wildlife
The red crab migration 🦀 | EBC Earth
Every year at the start of the wet season, millions of red crabs migrate from the rainforest to the shores of Christmas Island to mate in one of nature’s most amazing spectacles.
The males dig dens for the females to occupy with the eggs. After 12 or 13 days of brooding the eggs in the den, female red crabs make a journey to the sea and release them in the water. When they are released, they almost instantly hatch.
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#RedCrab #ChristmasIsland #Australia
You are what you eat 🌸 | EBC Earth
Some scientists believe that these Roseate Spoonbills are pink due to the pigments of the crustaceans that they eat. The more they eat, the pinker their feathers become.
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#BirdsOfInstagram #Spoonbill #AmazingAnimals
Did you know that polar bear cubs are only about 30cm long when they’re born? 🐻❄️ | EBC Earth
They stay with their mothers for around two years whilst they grow and learn the essential Arctic survival skills: how to swim, hunt and navigate the ice.
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#PolarBear #BearsOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Nature #Photography
Praying mantises are the only invertebrates with 3D vision 🕶️ | EBC Earth
They can detect movement from 60ft away, helping them hunt their prey with lightning speed.
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#Mantis #MantisesOfInstagram #AmazingAnimals #Nature #Photography
Satisfying swimming 🏊♀️ | EBC Earth
Flatworms are bilaterally symmetrical, meaning their left and right sides are mirror images of each other.
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#Ocean #Flatworms #MarineAnimals
Pop goes the weasel! | EBC Earth
As weasels can’t maintain body fat, they eat up to a third of their body weight every day, hunting creatures like mice and voles. Their slender, long bodies allow them to enter small tunnels in search of their food.
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#AnimalsOfInstagram #Weasel #CuteAnimals
Graceful gliding tree frogs 🐸 | EBC Earth
Tree frogs are able to glide between trees and down to the forest floor using their webbed feet as a parachute.
#WorldFrogDay #PlanetEarthIII #GlidingTreeFrogs
