Posted at 05:34PM on March 09, 2020 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
Video about the amazing beetles that shoot blinding acid from their butt
Oogpister beetles are able to shoot formic acid into the eyes and mouth of would-be predators. In this BBC video you can see an oogpister teach a mongoose a painful lesson.We also meet a defenseless lizard that has developed the same marking pattern on the oogpister beetle's...
Posted at 06:06PM on August 28, 2019 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
Troop of monkeys think an animatronic spy monkey is a dead baby and become sad
In this BBC video, a troop of Langur monkeys come across an animatronic spy monkey with a camera in its eye, and assume it's a dead baby. They gather around it and appear to mourn it. Image: YouTube...
