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    Hanging around in golden hour 🌅 Grey-headed flying foxes help keep forests healthy by pollinating flowers and dispersing seeds as they travel between feeding sites. 📸: Burro Blando #bat #flyingfoxes #halloween #autumn
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    You can run, but you can't hide 🫣 Great Gray Owls can break through deep, compacted snow to catch small mammals hiding underneath. Their asymmetrical ear openings help them pinpoint prey with remarkable accuracy, even when it's completely out of sight. 📸: Scott Suriano #halloween #owl #sunset #wildlife
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    🧠🐙🫀 Octopuses not only have three hearts, but they also have nine brains! They have one central brain and eight "mini-brains," with one located in each arm. 📸: WK-Production #octopus #heart #ocean #marine
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    Longest tongue award goes to...👅🐋 Blue whale tongues are the longest and heaviest tongues in the entire animal kingdom, measuring up to 18 feet long and weighing around 8,800 pounds! 📸: Gerard Soury #bluewhale #funfact #tongue #ocean
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    Eye see you 👀🐘 Elephants are one of the few ungulates with round pupils instead of the horizontal slits common in many mammals. They can also grow eyelashes up to 5 inches long, helping keep dust, insects, and debris out of their eyes. 📸: Pablo Jeffs Munizaga #elephant #closeup #eye
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    Nature's sweet illusion 😋 The Chocolate Hills of Bohol, Philippines, are made up of more than 1,200 grass-covered limestone mounds. During the dry season, the grass turns brown, giving them their famous chocolate-colored appearance. 🍫⛰️ 1 📸: Jordan Banks 2 📸: Eduardo Castro #chocolatehills #nature #philippines #asia
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    Shimmering into your feed 🦚✨ A peacock's train can grow up to 6 feet long and make up nearly 60% of its body length. Those dazzling blues and greens aren't created by pigments, but rather by microscopic structures that bend and reflect light to create their signature iridescent glow. 📸: Sarayut Thaneerat #peacock #blue #feather
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    Located in British Columbia, Canada, Spotted Lake is one of the world's most unique mineral lakes. As the water evaporates each summer, concentrated minerals crystallize into colorful pools that vary in size and color. 💧 📸: Nalidsa Sukprasert #lake #spotted #nature #canada
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