Animals in photos and videos and biological and animal curiosities

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A 25-year-old man swallowed by a python in Indonesia.

An Indonesian man has been found dead inside the belly of a seven-meter-long python, a local media reports.

Akbar Salubiro had not been seen since setting off to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of Sulawesi. The 25-year-old man has been missing since March 26.


A seven-meter-long python swallows an Indonesian man until died. (Tribunnews / File)

A search found the giant python sprawled out next to his garden with the 25-year-old's boots clearly visible in its stomach, according to tribunsulbar.com.

Villagers then used a large knife to cut open the snake's belly slowly revealing the father-of-two's body.

The horrifying footage shows the corpse being slowly removed from the killer reptile as the leathery skin is peeled away.

Akbar's neighbor Satriawan said: "He was found in the location of the garden.

"Initially Akbar set out from his home to go to harvest palm. After not returning to his home, people looked for him."

Akbar's wife, Munu, was away at the time and only found out when pictures and video emerged in the news, Tribun Timur said.

Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi said: "People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake's stomach.

"When the snake was captured, the Akbar boots was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.

"Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless."

Reticulated pythons suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole, reports said.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017 ... thon-.html

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Shark found on road after Cyclone Debbie

Paris Match | Posted on 30/03/2017



The floods caused by cyclone Debbie in Queensland (Australia) killed dozens of animals including a bull shark, which was thrown a few kilometers from the ocean.

"He must have been caught in a torrent and disoriented, he ran aground on the side of the road," he told local press, before continuing: "We were quite surprised, we did not expect not to see this type of fauna here ".
It was a surprising meeting made by Philip Calder, who left to report on the damage caused by cyclone Debbie which raged in the north of Queensland (Australia). Thursday morning, this journalist came face to face with a bull shark lying in a puddle in the town of Ayr, located several kilometers from the coast. "The only victim of the Burdekin floods [the name of the county, note] ... a bull shark," wrote the man on his Twitter account.

http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Insolite ... ie-1223249

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A chimpanzee throws its excrement on the visitors and aims right on target

03 April 2017

We all know that monkeys are cunning and playful, but we rarely think of being wary of them. One of the visitors to the John Ball Zoo in Michigan, USA, paid the price.

From his enclosure, this chimpanzee simply decided to throw his excrement on the people who looked at him from above. And the animal has hit the bull's eye. The droppings landed right on the nose of an old lady ... What cause the laughter of the witnesses to the scene.

The video was posted to YouTube on April 2 and in just a few hours, it was viewed tens of thousands of times.

http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/04/03 ... _22023139/

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Very surprising :

For the first time, an American badger (Taxidea taxus) was caught burying the entire carcass of a young cow in the desert.

April 2th

While studying scavengers in the Great Basin of the United States, researchers from the University of Utah captured images of a badger burying a large carcass and then showed themselves to be quite proud of the task accomplished.

Badgers (burrowing animals) are known to hide their food supply, but have never been seen dragging and burying such a large animal before.
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http://www.gurumed.org/2017/04/02/limag ... -lui-vido/

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Oceanopolis in tongs for the extremely rare blue lobster from Saint-Quay-Portrieux

the 14 / 04 / 2017



The blue lobster, caught last week in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, in Saint-Quay-Portrieux, will take the direction of Océanopolis next week. The Brest aquarium has shown its interest in the extremely rare specimen brought up by a fisherman in its nets.

The lobster caught last week in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, an extremely rare blue, will be able to bubble at Océanopolis. The Brest aquarium has shown interest in crustaceans, which are very rare in color. An Océanopolis representative will pick it up from the fish tank at La Cabane restaurant in Crabes, Binic, where the lobster is currently staying.

From next week, the Costa Rican lobster will be able to squeeze the clamp to its future red-orange neighbor, a fellow with an equally strange color ... for a live lobster!

A very rare catch

Blue lobster was caught by Mickaël Gault, whose boat is based in Saint-Quay-Portrieux. The fisherman donated it to the Binic restaurant he usually supplies.



According to a Maine (United States) institute specializing in crustaceans, one in two million lobsters is blue. The reason ? “A genetic abnormality that results in the production of a protein that gives it that color. A fisherman from Massachusetts, on the east coast of the USA, made such a catch last August.

http://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/bin ... ux-4929240

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In New York, a giraffe gives birth live

AFP Video 18/04/2017

Millions of people waited patiently for it, watching images broadcast live from a New York state animal park. Saturday morning, after fifteen months of gestation, the April giraffe finally gave birth, delighting fans around the world. IMAGES. Duration: 01:25

http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/a- ... c9c668ed7c

with 2 screenshots.

The girafon falls by at least 1 meter!



A few moments later



and a little later he is already standing!

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The naked mole rat uses a plant survival mechanism

21.04.2017 -

Deprived of oxygen in crowded burrows, the naked mole rat can survive by metabolizing fructose, according to a study published in the American journal Science. This unique survival mechanism in mammals is used by plants.

https://www.rjb.ch/rjb/Actualite/Monde/ ... etaux.html

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Really extremely strange:

Why does this strange mole have an octopus-shaped nose that can smell underwater?



The Star Condylide is a species that has attracted the attention of scientists for almost a quarter of a century. This mole with the star nose is surely one of the strangest creatures in the world. If you came face to face (…) with one of its members, you might think that its head has been replaced by a small octopus. And for an almost blind animal, the American species is surprisingly fast: the fastest eater in the world, he can find and swallow up an insect or a worm in a quarter of a second.

As the little hairy carnivore crosses the soggy soils of its marshy area, it pushes its head forward in constant movements. In the underground and therefore obscure world of the mole, sight is useless. Instead, it captures the vibrations of a world teeming with prey. The star condylide hunts by putting its star nose against the ground as quickly as possible. It can touch 10 or 12 different places in a single second. The movement might seem random, but it is not. Each touch, 100 nerve fibers send information to the brain of the mole. They are five times more tactile sensors than in a human hand, all contained in a nose smaller than the tip of the finger.

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http://www.gurumed.org/2017/04/25/pourq ... sous-leau/

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VIDEO. When cuttlefish take themselves for Rocky

the 09.05.2017

Cuttlefish that fight in such a violent way, it was unheard of. Between sprawling Kung Fu and prominent jets of ink, this scene is worth a look. Point by point analysis of the behavior of these molluscs.


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the video in: https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/animaux ... cky_112703

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VIDEO. Narwhal uses its horn like a club

the 18.05.2017

According to a WWF-supported study, the narwhal, also known as the sea unicorn, uses its horn to knock out fish.

The narwhal's horn (Monodon monoceros) would serve as a club intended to knock out the fish! This was revealed on May 15, 2017 by researchers supported by the Canadian branch of WWF. Thanks to the use of drones intended to avoid disturbing the animals as much as possible, they were able to observe in the Arctic Ocean, a male Monodon monoceros using its long spiral defense - it can reach up to 3 meters - to strike a fish swimming near him. Once the prey stunned, the cetacean only had to swallow it up.

A horn has several uses

This famous horn, which is actually the outgrowth of a tooth in the upper jaw (the left incisor) and is generally the prerogative of males, does not stop surprising researchers. In 2005, scientists had discovered that under its apparent hardness, this rostrum is actually particularly sensitive. Millions of nerve endings are present inside, making it a likely sensory sensor. But it would also play a major role in reproductive success. Indeed, according to a study published in 2015 based on the analysis of precise anatomical measurements of more than one hundred narwhals captured during hunting by Aboriginal Inuit in the Canadian Arctic between 1990 and 2008, the length of the horn would be directly correlated with ... the mass of the testicles. Thus, the longer the rostrum, the more fertile the male.

https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/animaux ... sue_113058