I'll be really disappointed if none of my students do a presentation on flying snakes and show this video.
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/watch-tree-snakes-fly-they-dont-need-plane
Do NOT use dynamite to try to get rid of a dead whale. Very funny (if you're a biologist) video at the bottom of this post (not as gross as you're afraid it might be).
http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/68504302684/exploding-sperm-whale
AANNTTSS IINN SSPPAAAAAACCEE!!!
http://www.yourwildlife.org/2014/01/ants-take-over-space-station/
Whoa! This leach can survive temperatures colder than any every recorded on Earth. It can survive repeatedly being frozen in liquid nitrogen and then thawed. And we don't know HOW this is possible. Yet.
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/leech-can-survive-24-hour-submersion-liquid-nitrogen
Tiger Beetles can run so fast that they're eyes can't gather light fast enough and they're blind!
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/04/tiger-beetles-become-blind-when-they-run/
Wars can be hard on local wildlife. Or they can keep humans out of an area and allow the wildlife to survive there when they are in decline in other places. One of the most war torn parts of the world has recently been discovered to have a thriving population of chimpanzees. And these chimps have unique behaviors not seen in other populations.
Wars and poachers make it difficult to study them but they also make it difficult to destroy their forest home for logging or farming.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/07/chimpanzees-congo-forest?CMP=twt_fd
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