Awesome animals appreciation club

Flare

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I didn't see a thread for this kind of club yet, and I thought it'd be a good cousin to the cute animals appreciation club.

So everyone, go ahead and show off some awesome animals in this thread!

Here's one to start:
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RedFFWolf

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The temptation just to put up our own pets must be resisted - but, for the record, my dog was definitely the most awesome of all :monster:

Anyhow, canines with great expressions are what I'd consider awesome
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And, in the probably more literal sense of awesome: wolves!
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Starling

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From what I found searching for that last pic, it seems somewhere around the world, people train eagles to assist in wolf hunting. I find the sight of tied up wolves getting attacked by a falconer's eagle rather worrying.
 

Flare

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That's both awesome and creepy. I've never seen an eagle attack a deer or a wolf before. Holy moly. :closedmonster:
But it just shows how awesome their size is.
 

Starling

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ForceStealer

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Holy shit that eagle vs deer stuff is insane.

For some reason that method of hunting mountain goats seems extra dickish, but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess. :monster:

Just more arguments for when people try to make it sound like nature is more "good" and humane than humans are.
 

Starling

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Nature is survival of the fittest, there's some pretty brutal stuff like male animals killing the offspring of other males and some animals killing their prey by suffocating them. Goats are pretty good climbers so knocking them off is the only way anything other than a snow leopard is going to get them.

Considering how hostile environments can get, the stuff that lives there needs to learn to adapt to that.
 

RedFFWolf

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I've heard about hamsters eating their offspring before - and, according to a quick Google search, there are enough articles out there suggesting how common it is. Brutal stuff for little Jimmy or Jacinta, excited by the new batch of hamster babies, if they were to bear witness to such cannibalism
 

Flare

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This dog:

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A truly heroic lab, Roselle the Labrador was a guide dog who saved her owner and numerous other business people when they became trapped on the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower of the Twin Towers, during their collapse on September 11th 2001. While everyone around him panicked, owner Michael Hingson, blind since birth, was kept calm by his guide dog Roselle, who led him down the staircases of the collapsing building. As they descended the stairs, they gathered more and more panicked people who ultimately followed the Labrador to safety. The descent took approximately an hour.
 

RedFFWolf

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^ A fine definition for awesome.
The non-humans of the world truly deserve much greater credit than is often ascribed to them.
 

Ghost X

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I think deep sea animals are slowly becoming my favourite kind :P.

Cute little transparent squid
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The eyes are the things you see inside its transparent head, the things on the front are actually its nostrils
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Flare

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Speaking of sea animals... :monster:

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