catering to all your obscure animal interests

weird, wonderful, and wow so cute

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Animals you never knew existed!

1) Maned Wolf

2) Pink Fairy Armadillo

3) Patagonian Mara

4) Raccoon Dog

5) Sunda Colugo

6) Irrawaddy Dolphin

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AHHHH The last one! SO ADORBS!! <3

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The sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is a footlong fish that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. When unthreatened, the fringehead’s visage is fairly unremarkable. But if a marine predator (or stray human hand) attempts to dislodge a fringehead from its crevasse, the fish will race into action, brandishing its frightening Predator-like mouth at the interloper.

And things get even stranger when two sarcastic fringeheads get embroiled in a turf war. How strange? Two words: “mouth wrestling.” Are you brave enough to behold the angriest make-out party in the animal kingdom?

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The Pudu: World’s smallest deer. They live in bamboo thickets to hide from predators, and can weigh up to 12 kilograms (26 pounds). (Source: Cuteoverload.com)

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Lesser Bushbaby (by Kbulder)

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DSC_5097-1 (by Nose Horned Viper)

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Clear sign that nature has favoritism. 

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“Stunning capture of a whale shark”

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Glaucus atlanticus

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Slug by ~melvynyeo

Like other pulmonate land snails, most slugs have two pairs of ‘feelers’ or tentacles on their head. The upper pair is light sensing, while the lower pair provides the sense of smell. Both pairs are retractable, and can be regrown if lost. On top of the slug, behind the head, is the saddle-shaped mantle, and under this are the genital opening and anus. On one side (almost always the right hand side) of the mantle is a respiratory opening, which is easy to see when open, but difficult to see when closed. This opening is known as the pneumostome. Within the mantle in some species is a very small, rather flat shell. Like other snails, a slug moves by rhythmic waves of muscular contraction on the underside of its foot. It simultaneously secretes a layer of mucus on which it travels, which helps prevent damage to the foot tissues. Some slug species hibernate underground during the winter in temperate climates, but in other species, the adults die in the autumn. In rural southern Italy, the garden slug Arion hortensis was used to treat gastritis, stomach ulcers or peptic ulcers by swallowing it whole and alive. Given that it is now known that most peptic ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori, the merit of swallowing a live slug is questionable. A clear mucus produced by the slug is also used to treat various skin conditions including dermatitis, warts, inflammations, calluses, acne and wounds.

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Nudibranch ~ 

More commonly known as sea slugs, nudibranchs are a very beautiful species of mollusc, famous for their stunning array of colours. Their name comes from the Latin for "naked". They have venomous appendages on their sides to keep predators away. Nudibranchs are also all hermaphrodite - they have a set of organs for both sexes, but cannot fertilize themselves. Most are carnivorous, and a few are even cannibalistic!