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Weird animal of the day...the Argonaut Octopus.

Fun Fact: The male argonaut octopus is in so much danger of being eaten by females, that instead of trying to mount the female he will rip off his penis and throw it at the female so she can inseminate on her own.

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#nature
#ocean
Meet the Argonaut, The World’s Weirdest Octopus
Octopuses are awesome. These eight-legged oddballs of the ocean have always had a dedicated fanclub, and the recent documentary My Octopus Teacher helped
blog.nature.org
Cocaine Hippos - "You might not expect to encounter wild hippopotamuses, the huge, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, in the rivers – and ponds, swamps, lakes, forests and roads – of rural Colombia."

If you haven't heard of Cocaine Hippos, it's worth a read.
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
The long read: The Colombian drug lord’s exotic menagerie fell apart after his death, and now wild hippos are breeding out of control
www.theguardian.com
This is Willie, he is a very photogenic resident of the Houston Zoo in Houston, Texas.

Cool Fact:
Willie and I (and you too) share 98% of the same DNA. Willie is more closely related to us than he is to an orangutan.

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#wildlife
#photography
#greatape
#houstonzoo
Fungus photography! Orange Pore Fungus (Favolaschia calocera) from the North Island of New Zealand.

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#newzealand
#naturephotography
"Studies from 2022 and 2023 indicated a 12% per year decline (overall, 65% reduction) in cervical cancer incidence during 2012 to 2019 among US women younger than 25 years who likely benefited from HPV vaccination."

Vaccines cause adults...
Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years
This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.
jamanetwork.com