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This picture comes from the Arizona desert. There in the desert grows
a terrible and menacing plant known as the "Jumping Cholla Cactus".
These dangerous cactus plants have all these very sharp
thorns on them with little tiny barbs on the end of each one. If you walk
close enough to them and lightly brush up against one of them the ends will
fall off, very easily, and attach themselves to you, seemingly to be
"jumping" onto you. When you try to remove them they imbed themselves deeper
and are quite painful.

    Amazingly though, many animals like to make nests and borrows within the
safety of these cactus.