/r/natureismetal
Badass pictures, gifs and videos of the awesome yet vicious cycle of nature
This subreddit contains graphic material that involves animals engaging in violence and other vicious conduct in their natural environments.
We do not condone animal violence for sport or training animals to be used for animal fighting.
This subreddit is to appreciate the vicious and unforgiving parts of nature.
SUBREDDIT RULES
1: ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY
No posting of zoo animals, domestic pets, animals in laboratories, circuses, hunting preserves, show business, feral cats and dogs, and alligator/crocodile wrangling. Farm animals and non-mammalian aquarium animals are allowed provided there is no human instigated feeding, baiting or violence. Anyone posting animal cruelty or organized animal fighting will be banned permanently.
2: ANIMAL REMAINS
No images of piles of feathers, bones, or blood and guts. Remains must have some metal factor to them. Uniquely bad ass skeletons and skulls may be allowed at mod discretion.
Human Remains are allowed only under the following conditions. Damage seen in the submission must have been caused by animals and animals only. No other forms of nature or disease are allowed. Any submission must be fully marked with both NSFW and Human Remains (NSFL) flair or the submission will be removed. Repeated violations may result in a ban.
3: NSFW TAGS
Tag bloody or gory submissions as NSFW. If a mod tags your submission NSFW do not untag it.
4: HUMAN INVOLVEMENT
Animals hurting humans is okay. Humans killing animals is not allowed. No intentional human orchestrated interaction. This also includes animals being harmed at the hands of artificial objects. Animals attacking humans on their own initiative is allowed.
For humans being metal, check out /r/HumansAreMetal: a place for people doing badass things.
5: NON ANIMAL CONTENT
Acts of nature are allowed provided the content is metal.
6: NO POLITICS, RACE, RELIGION, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR SIMILAR TOPICS OF HUMAN CONCEIT
We are here for the awesomeness of nature. These topics will be removed.
7: NO CLICK BAIT OR SHITPOSTS
Seriously. We will kill you.
8: NON-DESCRIPTIVE TITLES
Please use accurate and descriptive titles to your submissions: a descriptive title should at least identify the animals in the content and optimally briefly describe what is happening. We do not allow "I see you X and raise you Y" titles.
9: REPOSTS
Any submission that is reposted within 120 days will be removed. No posts that have previously been posted on this subreddit with over 10,000 upvotes in the past year may be posted again.
No submissions allowed from the NiM Top 50.
No submissions from the NiM Hall of Fame or the NiM Hall of Shame.
Only images that have appeared previously in NiM or NiFL count as reposts.
Reposting will be adjudicated on a 3 strikes policy. (1: warning, 2: temp ban, 3: permenant ban)
Word-for-word reposts will be removed.
Expanded clarification of the rules
Expanded clarification of the Human Remains rule
All rules are subject to moderator discretion.
You can message the mods using modmail if you would like to contest the removal of post or bans.
Please Visit Our Sister Subreddits
For nature in all its stunning and fascinating beauty check out r/NatureisFuckingLit
For extinct badass nature, check out /r/Naturewasmetal.
For dead animals doing crazy and badass things from the afterlife, check out r/taxidermy and r/taxidermyismetal
For badass people being metal as fuck please visit r/Humansaremetal
NATURE IS METAL HALL OF FAME
NATURE IS METAL HALL OF SHAME
Australia dingo/shark/snakes - photoshopped two different pics
Shark takes flight - photoshopped
Deer caught in a wildfire - staged
Cougar caught in a wildfire - staged
Frozen, eaten caribou - propped up roadkill
"Rabbit gets caught" - a bird taking off from the snow
Deer stuck in fence and eaten by coyotes - rule breaker
Great white shark catching decoy seal - human involvement
Eel bursting from Heron's body - Photoshop
Please run your submissions through KarmaDecay before posting
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Same view from my house. Top is during the winter and the bottom is my view today. The smoke is from the Line Fire in California
01:09 UTC
My pitcher plant caught a gecko
Sorry if the picture is bad but that’s a gecko
00:32 UTC
Momma centipede gives great hugs
18:42 UTC
Lioness hops on girafe for takedown
From the
15:58 UTC
A spider wrapping up its dinner
Spotted on a mountain in Austria. I think it’s a Cross Orbweaver aka European Garden Spider
20:10 UTC
A cicada screeched past my head and landed on a branch in front of me. It wasn't doing the flying.
12:21 UTC
Red Fox finishing a snack.
07:33 UTC
Right on my windshield
Wasp was still moving while it’s eye was being eaten. I got a full show while I was driving. Initially the wasp was only securely laterally while my car was parked. Once I started driving, it was bouncing like crazy so the spider added a stabilizing line vertically which stopped the movement, and it ate in relative peace.
Once the spider had eaten enough, it cut the lines and let what remained of the wasp fly off into oblivion.
01:10 UTC
They tried wild cats in 1948, but the cats also ate the birds.
19:36 UTC
This bull reindeer that has recently shed it's velvet and still has bloody antlers
19:01 UTC
Wasps are gnarly
17:05 UTC
Red-legged spider wasp dragging away its kill
16:27 UTC
Picked clean
14:46 UTC
Pill bugs eating a monarch caterpillar
11:42 UTC
Cuttlefish use stereopsis to catch their prey.
23:57 UTC
Decomposing Chinstrap penguin at sea floor
21:54 UTC
This wasp devouring an Army Worm while it’s still alive and squirming
So I just found out I’ve got an army worm infestation covering about 10 acres of grass, which kinda sucks. But on the plus side, the wasps and I have become unexpected allies since we now share a common enemy. For now, we are both striving to achieve the same goal, Army Worm Genocide.
Im aware that the wasps alone aren’t capable of even putting a dent in the army worm population, there’s just too many. However, while watching this wasp literally chew one of these squirmy wormies in half while it’s still alive makes me so grateful for two things; First, I’m glad that insects can’t scream. And second, I’m SO glad wasps didn’t evolve to be the size of lions—or even house cats.. They’d be the scariest creatures on the planet hands down. They are bad enough as is, but Imagine accidentally stumbling upon a wasp nest the size of an office building with lion sized wasps crawling and buzzing around.
Truly the stuff of nightmares.
17:28 UTC
Hurricane Yagi versus balcony window
14:43 UTC