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Piping plover chicks take shelter under their mother to stay warm and protected. This behavior, called brooding, is essential since the chicks can’t yet regulate their body temperature. At the end, the mother ran off, wh…

As the red deer stag sheds its velvet, a soft layer of skin on its antlers, it often rubs against trees and branches to ease irritation and speed up the process to reveal the hard bone beneath. Sometimes loose branches o…

Aequorea victoria is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish best known as the source of aequorin, a green fluorescent photoprotein. National Geographic

Touching is one of the primary ways elephants communicate to show they care. This is a typical way you can recurrently see elephants when showing affection. National Geographic

Compilation of wombats with a itch National Geographic