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Exploring life on Earth

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@earthcurated This is the first World Chimpanzee Day since Jane Goodall passed. The date marks July 14, 1960, the day she first walked into Gombe and changed how we see chimps forever. She studied them there for 65 years, right up until her death last October.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Geladas are the only grass-eating primates. They live up in Ethiopia’s highlands and spend most of the day grazing, sometimes digging for roots when the grass runs short.

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🇵🇰 One of the world’s rarest dolphins just got a new protected area in Pakistan.

The Indus River dolphin lives nowhere else on Earth and is nearly blind, using sound instead of sight to navigate the river.

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For the first time in 50 years, companies can legally drill, mine, and log in the habitats of America’s endangered animals after Trump weakened the Endangered Species Act.

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Trump weakens the Endangered Species Act, allowing drilling, mining, and logging in the areas these animals need to survive.

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When it’s time to sleep, red pandas curl up on a branch and wrap their thick, bushy tails around their bodies and faces to stay warm, essentially using them as a built-in blanket.

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The Asian small-clawed otter is the only otter species that primarily uses its paws to locate and capture prey, rather than relying mainly on its mouth.

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Bottlenose dolphins that hunt by chasing fish completely out of the water onto land.

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A Barbary macaque baby separated from the huddle in winter.

In bad years, over half the group won't survive the cold.

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A garter snake. Fishing.

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Arctic fox kits produce high-pitched calls, often described as whines or whimpers, to solicit care and food from their mother.

These sounds help her locate her kits and provide care, which is important for survival in Arctic conditions.

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Baby arctic fox calls out to its mother.

🎥 Léo Guedes

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This photograph of the puma cub briefly looking up was captured in Torres del Paine.

📸 @razeidan_photo

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Only some orca populations use this beach hunting technique. Each population has its own hunting traditions and distinct vocal dialects, similar to how humans form different cultures.

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@AP Panda lying in the snow

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@goddammitsarah Snow leopard launching off a snowy ledge.

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@historyinmemes They’re a built-in filtration system that lets crabeater seals feed almost entirely on Antarctic krill, one of the densest food sources in the ocean.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Bison are built for winter. Their coat is so insulating that snow can sit on their back without melting, and they use their heads to sweep through deep drifts to reach the grass underneath.

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@aestheticsguyy A Bengal tiger in the dry forest, its stripes blending with the grass and shadows as it moves through its territory.

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@NAmazing44779 Snow leopards use rocks and snow for cover, moving low to the ground to stay hidden in open terrain.