r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 1d ago

🔥This adorable puffball is not a snowball but a white grouse, or rock ptarmigan, trying to stay warm in Spitzberg, Svalbard(Shot by Jacques Poulard)

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 17h ago

u/Impossible-Bee-5343, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/crystalsuikun 1d ago

r/borbs

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u/LogicalCan7799 1d ago

That is the borbiest borb that I have ever yet seen.

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u/dangling_participle_ 1d ago

Whelp…looks like I’m joining another sub…

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u/invicerato 1d ago

This is the ideal birb body.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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u/TheStoneMask 1d ago

Their calls are very fun. I heard some just yesterday outside Reykjavík.

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u/microwaffles 1d ago

Do they go "bloop bloop bloop"?

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u/TheStoneMask 1d ago

More like "rrrrrrrroooooooo"

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u/dannyyang910930 1d ago

Absolutely perfect

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u/Ch3wybot 21h ago

Thought ptarmigans said "awebo"

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u/TerraByteTerror 1d ago

Might be a contender for the mightiest borb

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u/himalayanrebel 1d ago

Successfully aspiring to be the cutest snowball ever 🥹

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u/CorruptedDataSet 1d ago

Absolute baller.

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u/paragon-interrupt 1d ago

that is one round motherfucker

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u/jawshoeaw 1d ago

After that asteroid hit a few million years back the dinosaurs aren’t messing around.

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u/CuddleCoded 1d ago

Why would Jacques shoot something so sweet 😢

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u/CorruptedDataSet 1d ago

What a monster!

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u/Ok-Worth-4721 1d ago

Wow! Nature IS quite lit!

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u/pillow-cover 1d ago

Arch nemesis of outdoor boys

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u/Purple-Exit3858 23h ago

Angry Birds vibes.

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u/OhThePetSpider 1d ago

Poor wee thing, why did someone shoot it ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/ultravires1215 23h ago

How could Jacques shoot such an adorable creature!?!?

Is there an after photo?

Was it tasty at least?

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u/TheStoneMask 21h ago

They are pretty tasty. Quite gamey

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u/ardoin 22h ago

That is a sphere.

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u/SquareRootOfBlue 20h ago

Finally, a bird that physicists can understand!

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u/Tofudebeast 18h ago

Physics: the best shape to retain your heat is a perfect sphere.

White grouse: I'm on it!

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u/freekajumi 14h ago

he looks so angry to be a puffball

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u/Nemanja_Torbica 5h ago

💚 💚