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Old 14-08-2006, 08:14 PM
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came across while looking up praying mantises (?)
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/si...is-hummer.aspx
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Old 14-08-2006, 08:26 PM
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OMG- never knew they could do that!! Gruesome.... isn't nature looovely!!!
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Old 14-08-2006, 08:27 PM
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i like the use of the word hummer in the article
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Old 14-08-2006, 08:29 PM
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lol.. yeah... and then the mantis ate the huuuuuge car!!! Now that *would* be a scary bug!!
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Seen that before, still very cool though Just been hearing about how praying mantis' have been eating birds caught in ringing traps. They climb up the net and start eating the birds while still alive
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starting to remind me of the velociraptors on jurassic park
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Hmm now I'd have gone for Ridley Scotts Aliens

Either way, no one super-size a praying mantis
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i never saw the alien films
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Well, this is a cute ickle baby alien bursting out of its human host...



Here is one of them that really likes that cap...



Oh here's an adult alien! It could use that nice big tail to spear the ickle birdies like the mantis does with its arms...



And here is a gharial...



Er, yeah I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with Ridley Scotts Aliens but it came up in the search

I love the first two Alien films! The other two I pretend don't exist I'm in denial that they were ever made
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