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One of the Denver Zoo raccoons is cooling off with ice during a heat wave (lemmy.nz)

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[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, that is fascinating. I have never heard that term before. Thank you for explaining!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It is fascinating, I agree!

Here are some leucistic animals:

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

Those are so cool, especially the iridescent looking skin on that frog! Incredible :)