Nature must beware

Nature is beautiful and ruthless at the same time. She invented for each being a separate weapon. It is worth noting that despite all the splendor, every day of animals - it is a struggle for survival and each masterfully uses his weapon.

Frightened fulmar chicks "spew" a predator fetid stream of orange.
If the victim - a bird, the oily liquid glues her feathers, making it impossible to fly. And if such a bird fall into the water, it will sink, because it also lost buoyancy.





Mouth crabeater:



Cordyceps - a fungus parasitic on insects. These "antlers" increased as a result of a fungal infection. Some species of cordyceps have the ability to mind control and turn into a zombie host to spread infection.



Woodlouse Cymothoa exigua penetrates into fish through the gills and is attached to the base of the tongue. In the mouth the fish Multiped sucks the blood from the language. After constant sucking blood, tongue fish dies and becomes a fish Multiped tongue remaining in the fish's mouth until his death.



All flatworms born males. When it comes to mating, the males of which will be able to strike a decisive blow with his forked member competitor is male. The loser becomes female.



Fish Mu, whose teeth are similar to human.



Red-lipped batfish. A characteristic feature of this fish is bright red lips. It is bad swims, and pectoral fins used for walking on the ocean floor.



Nora spider. Spiders like to build dens, and even with the door.



Bolshezubaya cigar shark. The ability to kill fish or marine animals, many times greater than its size. Shark-ectoparasite unnoticed bites into the victim's body and gnaws a piece of her flesh.



Embryos tiger sharks are fighting each other in the womb, so that the strongest eats the rest and eventually born.



Hairy frog. Kind of got the name because of the tightly spaced patches of skin ("hair"), which are formed in males during the breeding season. A feature of this type is the ability to break the bones of the phalanges and output them through the skin, thus forming small claws.



Octopus-blanket. Blanket have only females, which can grow up to two meters in length. It is their defensive reaction to predators. Through this blanket, the female seems more at some times than confuses the predator confusing and forces to flight. If blanket did not help, then the input can go a poison that is deadly for sea creatures. Against the background of its partners huge males look like real dwarfs: their size exceeds 2.5 cm. And they weigh forty thousand times smaller than their friends. They are protected by the tentacles «Portuguese boat." Portuguese ship - it's a jellyfish, which is very poisonous and can harm not only the sea creatures and people. Octopus tearing it apart (to the poison has long developed an immunity), and takes her with a poisonous tentacles and uses for his defense.



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