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Trying to catch your crush’s attention? Take a lesson from the noble Argus Pheasant

19 Wild Animals That Have More to Teach Us Than Any Life Coach

July 07, 2024

If you’re paying for a life coach, or a dating coach, or a win-back-you-ex coach, you’re wasting your money. Just pop on a David Attenborough series and pay attention.

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THE PISTOL SHRIMP USES ITS CLAW LIKE A STUN GUN. The shrimp snaps its claws together so fast that it creates a jet of bubbles to stun its prety, without touching it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ELEPHANTS RARELY GET CANCER BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN EXTRA CANCER-FIGHTING GENE. The gene prevents cancer cells from multiplying then kills them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COCKROACHES NEED LESS THAN ONE PHOTON PER SECOND TO SEE. For comparision, humans need at least 100 to see anything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE COMB JELLY IS INVISISBLE TO ITS PREY. The comb jelly is slow, blind, and brainless but manages to eat ten times its body weight a day by slurping its food without it noticing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AN ELECTRIC EEL USES ELECTRICITY TO REMOTE CONTROL ITS PREY'S BODY. An eel can get a nearby fish to reveal its location by twitching and then paralyze it so it cannot escape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NAKED MOLE-RATS CAN GO MORE THAN 18 MINUTES WITHOUT OXYGEN. This is because they can switch their metabolism from using fructose instead of glucose. CRACKED.COM — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM ROLEPLAYING Bee orchids grow flowers that look like a lady bee to deceive male bees into mating with them so bees will transfer their pollen. (We certainly don't recommend you try sexual deception at home.) — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM DRINK THEIR PEE A male giraffe will whack the female until she pees, then taste her urine to see where she is on her cycle. If she's in heat, he'll follow her around for a few days until he can successfully mate with her. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM JOIN A BOYBAND During winter, male humpback whales will gather to sing together to attract females. Immature whales will also join, to learn the song and make them even louder. The female isn't attracted to the individual voices but to their joint song that brings her to the area. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM GET A WINGMAN The dominant male swallow-tailed Manakin will grab a friend or two to join his mating dance to impress a female. When the female is aroused, he dismisses the others and performs a solo dance that leads to breeding. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM LIE ABOUT YOUR HEIGHT Male bowerbirds spent 80% of their day building structures to impress their mate. They arrange bones, shells, and stones by size to create an optical illusion. When the female bird views in the male in his dome, this forced perspective makes him appears larger. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM MAKE INTRICATE CROP CIRCLES 5-inch-long male white-spotted pufferfish create ornate symmetrical patterns up to 7 feet in diameter in the sand, decorated with fragments of shells. Females will judge whether to mate based on the circles. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM OFFER GIFTS Before breeding, the male nursery web spider will wrap up an insect in silk. This sweet gesture is to prevent the female from eating him. How romantic! — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM PEE ON THEM From up to seven feet away, male porcupines will spray their urine on a lady. If she's into his his pheromones, she won't let him stop mating until he's physically exhausted. Female porcupines are only receptive to advances 8 to 12 hours per year, so male porcupines are used to rejection. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM DISCARD YOUR PENIS Both sea slug partners have both a penis and vagina, and all are used in mating. Sea slugs have spines on their penises that may help remove rival's sperm from their mate's vagina. 20 minutes after sex, they discard their penis to ensure it's not contaminated with rival sperm and grow a new one the next day. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM BECOME ONE In the greatest love story ever told, the male anglerfish eats a hole in side of his much larger female partner and implants himself, fusing together with her and essentially becoming a parasite with his one job to occasionally provide sperm. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM CLEAN UP The male Argus Pheasant will clean up an area of around 72 feet, removing debris, before inviting potential mates over with an early morning U up call. When a female comes over, he impresses her with a foot-stomping dance in his clean arena. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM GET IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT African bullfrogs will fight, sometimes to the death, in shallow pools. To avoid the smaller males who get pushed to the side, a female frog will swim underneath the group and emerge in the middle of the dominant males, ready to mate with the strongest male. — Source

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NATURE'S DATING TIPS CRACKED.COM LEARN AERIAL MANEUVERS Broad-tailed hummingbirds do dives of over 100 feet to impress a lady. As he impressively synchronizes his dive to reach a perched mate, the male achieves maximum speed, makes a sexy noise with his tail feathers, and shows off those irresistible iridescent throat feathers. — Source

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