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A lone Cape Buffalo eats his salad, a quizzical look toward the tourist watching him eat.

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look at me! | Monique Verlouw | 500px

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Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

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A little glimpse of the front yard

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♦️🔸️💎🔸️♦️🔹️💎🔹️♦️🔸️💎🔸️♦️

1969 Chevrolet Camaro

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1966 Ford Mustang Fastback

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Bald Eagle.

📸(Photo courtesy of Joe Viola)

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A spotted hyena cub (Crocuta crocuta) is cleaned by its mother in Kruger National Park, South Africa

by Bernard Dupont

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What looks like a dragon’s claw… is actually nature’s silent climber.

This is the foot of a gecko — a creature that walks upside down, vertically, and even across ceilings like it's defying gravity. But look closer… those fierce talons aren’t just for show. Each one anchors it to survival.

While most lizards rely on sticky toe pads, geckos like this one also wield sharp claws that grip into bark, stone, and even glass. Their toes are masterpieces of micro-engineering, with millions of hair-like setae creating molecular-level friction.

To us, it's just a lizard's foot.

To the gecko, it's a life-saving grip.

A tool for escape. A weapon for defense.

And a silent promise: I hold on. No matter what.

Evolution didn’t give this gecko wings. It gave it something better — claws that cling when the world tries to shake you off.

credit: Wild Beyond

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1970 Plymouth GTX

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By Per Arne Slotte from Trondheim, Norway - wild_dogs_9, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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