swipe —> NATURE IS CHEFS KISS slide 1 - the strawberry finch. across all bird species, male birds almost always display the brighter, more colorful feathers. @bintingm @wheretowillie & @pattiegonia slide 2 - the peacock spider. these spiders dance and wave their vibrant, colorful abdomen flaps in hopes to entice a female to mate with. often times, the female ends up eating the male during this mating ritual... but that doesn't stop these tiny dancers from their will to keep dancing and procreating, no matter how toxic the relationship is. @michael_doe_project_maratus slide 3 - the lowland streaked tenrec. the only mammal known to use #stridulation (the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts) @retreatours slide 4 - a colony of beech blight aphids. they dance in the wind and as a way to ward off predators like large wasps. @ecoamiplants slide 5 - a shore bird murmation. @biologosnarede slide 6 - marasmius mushroom. is it a living mushroom or a dead leaf? it’s all about perspective. @fungifoundation slide 7 - the orange oakleaf butterfly. one of nature’s many masters of glammoflauge. @thenaturewolf slide 8 - the blanket octopus. an extremely rare animal only found 21 years ago. octopuses have the unique ability to regenerate a fully functional arm in about 100 to 130 days. @thenaturewolf slide 9 - stemonitis. a timelapse video of stemonitis - a distinctive genus of slime molds @yeweijun98 slide 10 - bobtail squids bury themselves in the sand with only their eyes protruding, then they hunt at night. @yusura0846 @thenaturewolf #queer #nature #gay #dragqueen