Vulture bees are eusocial bees closely related to the South American stingless bee. The foragers of the colony find animal corpses and eat them. They then feed it to worker vulture bees which eventually creates something similar to honey.
They make MEAT HONEY.
it sounds like a D&D monster.
According to reports, the flavor of this honey-resembling substance is described as intense, smokey, and salty, or uniquely sweet.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Charles Darwin went beetle hunting as it was fashionable for young intellectual gents in his day. He peeled back a strip of back to discover two beetles that would be perfect in his collection so he grabbed one in one hand and the other in his other hand. Then another rare beetle crawled into sight and he just had to have it but his hands were full. What was he to do?
Well, he put the beetle in his right hand into his mouth and then reached out to grab this new beetle. Unfortunately, the beetle Darwin placed in his mouth was a Bombardier beetle and it began to spray his tongue with a boiling hot chemical concoction. Shocked and hurt, Darwin spat the beetle out and lost it as well as the third insect on the tree.
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Charles Darwin went beetle hunting as it was fashionable for young intellectual gents in his day. He peeled back a strip of back to discover two beetles that would be perfect in his collection so he grabbed one in one hand and the other in his other hand. Then another rare beetle crawled into sight and he just had to have it but his hands were full. What was he to do?
Well, he put the beetle in his right hand into his mouth and then reached out to grab this new beetle. Unfortunately, the beetle Darwin placed in his mouth was a Bombardier beetle and it began to spray his tongue with a boiling hot chemical concoction. Shocked and hurt, Darwin spat the beetle out and lost it as well as the third insect on the tree.
Darwin lesson here- always have your pockets free
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Swans can and have killed people. It’s terrifying.
they’re also one of the heaviest flying birds.
hagfish have the weirdest mouths and a weirder way to defend themselves.
shrimp are one of the loudest creatures on earth. Pistol shrimp, specifically.
I LOVE HAGFISH. SO MUCH. Prepare for in depth hagfish knowledge.
They definitely do have weird mouths. Instead of teeth, they have a rasp, kinda like a tongue but with scrapy bits on it. What they do to eat is tie themselves in a knot which helps them generate torque and increase their bite force, making it easier for them to scrape flesh of whatever they're eating with their rasp.
What's even weirder is the slime they use for self defense. This stuff is stored in glands all over their bodies, and is made up of protein fibres like 1 micron in diameter and 15cm long. And then they somehow coil these fibres into tiny little 150-micron cells. That's insane. Also, a hagfish might have around 20,000km of fibre in its body at one time. Absolutely bonkers. When they are threatened by a predator they eject slime fibres from the glands closest to the predator, and these fibres mix with the water becoming slime that clogs in the predator's gills. (Also this slime creation happens in less than a second ). This means that the only animals hagfish truly have to fear are mammals, who don't have to worry about slime clogging their gills.
Another thing. As far as I'm aware, scientists still don't know exactly how hagfish breed. They simply refuse to do it in captivity. There is no known record of a hagfish ever laying fertile eggs in captivity. Good for them honestly.
I think it is the same for eels. No one has ever seen one breed. In fact, ancient science thought that eels were born from the mud. (Spontaneous Generation)
They also thought that mice came from sweaty clothes left in dark spaces.
They also have extra teeth!
According to reports, the flavor of this honey-resembling substance is described as intense, smokey, and salty, or uniquely sweet.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Once upon a time...
Charles Darwin went beetle hunting as it was fashionable for young intellectual gents in his day. He peeled back a strip of back to discover two beetles that would be perfect in his collection so he grabbed one in one hand and the other in his other hand. Then another rare beetle crawled into sight and he just had to have it but his hands were full. What was he to do?
Well, he put the beetle in his right hand into his mouth and then reached out to grab this new beetle. Unfortunately, the beetle Darwin placed in his mouth was a Bombardier beetle and it began to spray his tongue with a boiling hot chemical concoction. Shocked and hurt, Darwin spat the beetle out and lost it as well as the third insect on the tree.
GEESE HAVE SERRATED TONGUES AND BEAKS
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Darwin lesson here- always have your pockets free
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Swans can and have killed people. It’s terrifying.
they’re also one of the heaviest flying birds.
hagfish have the weirdest mouths and a weirder way to defend themselves.
shrimp are one of the loudest creatures on earth. Pistol shrimp, specifically.
I LOVE HAGFISH. SO MUCH. Prepare for in depth hagfish knowledge.
They definitely do have weird mouths. Instead of teeth, they have a rasp, kinda like a tongue but with scrapy bits on it. What they do to eat is tie themselves in a knot which helps them generate torque and increase their bite force, making it easier for them to scrape flesh of whatever they're eating with their rasp.
What's even weirder is the slime they use for self defense. This stuff is stored in glands all over their bodies, and is made up of protein fibres like 1 micron in diameter and 15cm long. And then they somehow coil these fibres into tiny little 150-micron cells. That's insane. Also, a hagfish might have around 20,000km of fibre in its body at one time. Absolutely bonkers. When they are threatened by a predator they eject slime fibres from the glands closest to the predator, and these fibres mix with the water becoming slime that clogs in the predator's gills. (Also this slime creation happens in less than a second ). This means that the only animals hagfish truly have to fear are mammals, who don't have to worry about slime clogging their gills.
Another thing. As far as I'm aware, scientists still don't know exactly how hagfish breed. They simply refuse to do it in captivity. There is no known record of a hagfish ever laying fertile eggs in captivity. Good for them honestly.
Man, those fish are weird!
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Slime eels, my boy.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Good name, except they aren't eels
I think it is the same for eels. No one has ever seen one breed. In fact, ancient science thought that eels were born from the mud. (Spontaneous Generation)
They also thought that mice came from sweaty clothes left in dark spaces.
Hellbenders, one of the largest amphibians in the world, are also called walking catfish, mud devils…
and snot otters.