Nature

Check out these amazing pictures from Socotra, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean off Africa. Apparently more than a third of the surveyed plants found there are found nowhere else.

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I'd heard that Australia's Lyrebirds are good mimics of the other birdcalls and sounds in their environment, but you really have to hear their impersonation of camera shutters (and car alarms, chainsaws…) to believe them:

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