When you think of survival, you generally think about fleeing the danger.  Well animals have their own minds sometimes, especially these honeybees in the Canary Islands.  Posted on Ripleys.com, the Cumbre Vieja volcano violently erupted in September, firing off a wave of lava that destroyed homes, businesses, and churches around the resort island of La Palma, leaving little in its wake—except for some busy bees!  Returning to his devastated village to check on his hives, a local beekeeper was shocked & surprised to find some of his hives filled with tens of thousands of bees despite being completely covered in volcanic ash.

By sealing themselves in the hives, these brilliant bees managed to survive the volcano’s extreme heat and deadly gases and avoided starving to death by feasting on the honey they’d stored for a rainy—or fiery—day. Read more on this story here.