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Post cute, weird, or interesting defensive postures in animals.
For fun include animal name and why it has that defensive posture that if you know!
>Rough Skinned Newt
>Shows it's bright belly colors to indicate to predators they shouldn't eat it.
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>Desert Rain Frog
>Warns other animals off it's territory with a high pitched squeak
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>Hedgehog
>Rolls up so predator can't bite because hedgehog will poke.
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>Frill neck lizard
>Flaring makes it look bigger and opening it's mouth makes it look scarier.

Also realized I made a typo >>2088289
should say
>has that defensive posture if you know!
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>>2088291
Frogs in general look pretty silly.
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>horned lizard
>sprays blood from its eyes as a last resort
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>Caiques
>Caiques do this so their claws and beak are free to attack their enemy
>young domestic caiques and some adult domestic caiques do this to play
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>Guineafowl puffer
>Things can't eat it when it's puffed this big
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>leaf beetle larvae
>carry a huge bag of shit with them
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>Crab
>it's getting ready to snibbidy snab
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>>2088297
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>>2088314
master race lizard
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>earwig
>displays (false) pinchers to scare
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>Wolverine
>It fucking kills you
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>Blue tongue skink
>Hisses and shows blue tongue to scare off threats
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>Poecilotheria tarantula
>scares off predators with symmetry and stylish sports-wear pattern
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>Hairy Frogs
>Can break their own fingers to have sharp bones pierce through the skin
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>Pelinobius muticus
>hiss hiss
>slap slap
>1" fangs in your ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZXffnoT-o
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>Motyxia
>Turns on glow to warn
>cyanide if you don't listen to the glow
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>Pom-pom crab
>symbiotic pom pom boxing gloves that are stinging sea anemones
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>be firebelly toad
>predator aproaches
>flip on back
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>you're going to love this
>what you're seeing now is my normal state
>this is pretending to be a cobra
>and this, this is what is known as flipping over with your tongue out, or you can just call this pretending to be dead
>and this... is to go even further beyond
>shits self
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>>2088340

this wins.
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>>2088334
>Can break their own fingers to have sharp bones pierce through the skin
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>>2088318
No mang, Varanids are the Aryan race of lizards.
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>>2088375
An Australian V.p.panoptes cousin to V.p.horni from New Guinea

*Tripoding used as a defensive manuever to warn possible threats and also to see over tall grass.
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>>2088289
>>2088345

unken reflex
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>>2088312
Kek
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>>2088319
They're not fucking false. I hate when people claim this. I've been pinched by those little shits enough to know their pinchers are fully functional.
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>>2088349
Hearty Afrotherian kek m8.
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>>2088334
Metal as fuck
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>>2088314
I bet that chlamidosaurus started that fire..
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literally burns your face off
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>>2088340
I miss my pom Pom :(
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>>2088291
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>2088289
>a fuckton of different birds
>outstretched wings make is look bigger than it actually is
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>>2090864
>a fuckton of different birds
>posts an owl
you knew it was going to be said, no hate though.
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>>2088345
> do as you must, I have already won with this fabulous body pattern
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>>2089749
> gets pinched by false pincers
Stay pleb
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>>2090943
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>>2090864
African grey puffs up and growls, or screams a sound like a bunch of quarters in a garbage disposal.
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>>2088314
that fucking filename
well done anon
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>>2088301
what
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Bumping this top notch thread
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>>2088291

webum with sound:

>>>/wsg/1006547
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>>2088375
A dying breed with delusions of grandeur?
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>>2088304
Fucking brazilian jujitsu birds
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>>2088349
Do they change colour or is the black one a different morph?
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>>2090864
>implying owls are birds
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>>2090864
>implying birds can turn their head 270 degrees
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