Eyewitness Museum

Eyewitness is a natural history television series produced by BBC and DK Vision. The series is based on the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books series of children's books. Oxfordshire native Guy Dagul composes the theme music.

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Common tree shrew

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it continues

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thats a really long fox!!

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ummm if you’ll notice the fox part on the left has front legs and the fox on the right has hind legs :) That’s eight legs :) obviously this is a spider not a fox :)

~follow for more science facts~

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behold my ugly

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GET YELLED AT

photos by carl bergstrom

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Double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

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Blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus taurinus

Observed by koosretief, CC BY-NC

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A pair of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) in North Florida, USA

by Alex Roukis

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Lesser mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

Observed by hamsambly, CC BY-NC

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T - Guanacos and baby Mara

M - Muskoxen

B - Sichuan Takin

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could anyone spare some obscure animal facts? I got mad again thinking about outer wilds

[sunspotpony]

Are you familiar with the (funny) and (horrifying) forms of copulation of the Flatworm and the Bedbug respectively, known as “penis fencing” and “Traumatic Insemination” already?

[thepioden]

Don't you also have a Fact regarding mammals larger than 3 kilograms?

[sunspotpony]

I do!

The average urination time of all mammals over 3kg, regardless of weight or size (as long as it’s over kg) is 21 seconds. Blue whales, horses, elephants, dogs, cats. The average length of piss is 21 seconds across all species with breasts (whose body weight is more than 3kg.)

I want a t-shirt that just says “I am a mammal weighing over 3kg” for just this reason.

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Epic Bird

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Great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)

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Have you ever seen the Roti Island snake-necked turtle (Chelodina mccordi)? This reptile’s serpentine neck can measure about two-thirds the length of its carapace! When threatened, it can’t tuck its long neck into its shell like many other turtles can. Instead, it wraps its neck around its body like a scarf. You can find this species on Roti Island, Indonesia, where it inhabits wetlands such as lakes and swamps. Unfortunately, it’s critically endangered and threatened by habitat loss and hunting.

Photo: © Salix, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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I've brought you.. a gift!

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Hoffman's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)

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A flock of metallic starlings (Aplonis metallica) at a nest site in Australia

by Dustin Huntington

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Tibetan Fox