I Used To Have Geese So Here’s A Tip For Everyone:

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I know there's a niche in ecology for organisms that climb on other organisms and eat their parasites. Are there any examples in nature of creatures mimicking other more beneficial organisms?

There's probably more examples than we know of but oddly the only one I've ever heard of are the false cleaner wrasses! Real cleaner wrasses perform a "dance" that "advertises" to fish of countless other species that they'll eat their parasites, so other fish will respond to the dance by hovering in place and spreading their fins to be cleaned up.

The false cleaner wrasse mimics the coloration, shape, and dance of the real thing but then eats chunks of actual fin. It also has a silly face that opens up into demon fangs:

smilin about it!! thinks its funny!!!!

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Being a millennial is getting buyer’s remorse over a $3.83 pack of oreos.

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“The Largest Animal on the Planet for World Wildlife Day 🐋” 

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*eats a berry* *eats a berry* *eats a berry* *eats a berry* *eats a berry*

What is your favorite animal tidbit about the denizens of Lake Baikal?

actually my favorite thing about Baikal is the lake itself!

viewed from above, it looks like nothing particularly special. sure, it’s a big lake, but it doesn’t have the surface area of the Great Lakes or the Caspian Sea, right?

WRONG!

BOOM.

see, Lake Baikal really isn’t a lake at all, it’s a deep rent in the earth’s crust called a Rift Valley that just happened to get water in it. and the Baikal rift is one of the deepest and narrowest on earth, making this deceptively placid lake slightly over a MILE deep! that’s bonkers nutso.

like, you think the OCEAN is bad, just imagine being in a little fishing boat on this thing without realizing just how far away the bottom is....

well.

A capybara running along the bottom of a river  

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