Weird Animals

this is beautiful, thank you for showing me this exists

>>2442005
looks dangerous tho

>>2441994

Looks like a tiny man of war...you had me worried there for a second op

>>2442046
It's lethal when fully grown

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Slow loris, critically endangered.

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Rainbow pithon, I love reptiles

>>2442672
Lethal? Maybe if you're prone to anaphylaxis from seafood or shellfish. Most likely you'll just get an itchy rash anywhere you touch yourself after handling one. Definitely don't touch your eyes though.

>>2442681
that's a boa not a python, you fucking poser

>>2442799
>falling for the filename bait
Found the newfag

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The octopus which has adapted cuteness into its repertoire of camouflage techniques to evade the wrath of Japanese fishermen.

the most unique and odd animals likely don't have pictures associated with them.

>>2442868
Post yfw in the far future, every animal on earth evolved into its monstergirl counterpart because humans are reluctant to eat cute species.

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>>2443250

>>2441994
there should be incinerators on beaches for this sort of thing

>>2442868
This Kawaii Octopus post has made my day.

>>2441994
At first glance I thought it was some kind of expensive freaky condom.

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Bee hummingbird, the smallest bird species.

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>>2443461
practically an insect

>>2443585
That poor guinea pig

>>2443585
There are actual insects bigger than that bird. Ironically enough, one of them is the hummingbird moth.

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Kakapo, critically endangered flightless borb

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This nasty bastard is a Ganges softshell turtle. The Ganges river in India, if you didn't know, is one of the most polluted in the world. Some of the primary pollutants are human and animal corpses, of which hundreds are dumped into the river every single day. To curb this sanitation dilemma, the Indian government came up with the remarkable idea of breeding and releasing these massive beasties (they can reach over 3 feet in length) into the river. The turtles, you see, had already demonstrated a taste for human remains as they had been observed raiding funeral pyres to feast on the bodies they contained. Ten adult turtles can consume an entire corpse in around two days, leaving only bones uneaten.

All told, some 25,000 turtles were reared and released at a cost of roughly $32 million. The trouble was, the government officials in charge of the program did nothing to ensure the turtles' continued welfare after the initial investment, and they were poached and killed in great numbers.

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>Shoebill Stork

Look up videos they do cute dumb shit.

>>2444583
>Animals that were raised to clean their holiest place and probably are full of parasites/toxic compounds are killed and eaten
And that's why we will always mock the poos.

>>2444568
Famous for their ability to procreate with British naturalists if a female can't be found

>>2444594
It's fine, indians literally eat poo every day (because they have such poor sanitation).

>>2444591
>click click click click click

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>>2442681
>when you get that foil legendary

>>2444642
or at least try to

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this, because its really fucking cool

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>>2441994
-Technically not a crab
-Copper-based blood happens to be a perfect way of testing medicine for contaminants
-Was already an ancient species when the first Dinosaurs appeared
-If flipped on its back, can't flip itself back over and will die if left that way

>>2442868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuBwfNp2wk

ITT: many normie animals

>>2445196
post yours then fagface

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A mans best friend

>>2441994
Cool

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>>2444578
>futa

>>2445196
What the fuck does that even mean, retard.

>>2445657
This organism developed teeth in its anus because critters kept invading its butt.

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>>2445653
Some retard being a retard, ignore him. Anyways,

Xenophyphores are giant multi-cellular amoeba that live in extremely deep water. They develop tests to protect themselves. The Xenophyphores are the two balls with the brittle stars on them.

>>2444583
The Ganges is one of the bodies of water I will never under any circumstances touch. Fuckin poo in loos man

>>2445657
what the fuck is this

>>2445713
It's a giant sea cucumber. Those eels periodically take shelter in their anuses. Not even kidding.

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>>2445703
Really cool fish. Looks a bit pitiful up here on the surface, though.

>>2445758
What's the name of these cards? I had a lot of them but lost them and forgot the name

>>2445761
Weird n' Wild Creatures. You can see most of them on this wiki.
http://wierdnwildcreatures.wikia.com/wiki/Weird_n%27_Wild_Creatures_Wiki

>>2445719
ewww dude

>>2444211
not irony

>>2445884
not neurotypical

>>2444568
>work at pet store
>lady comes in asking if we have a place for pet sale ads
>says she's selling a kakapo
>she buys parrot food/toys regularly
>be very confused
>ad is for a dog
>didn't realize this because she had an accent
People who give breed names to specific mutts should be gassed

>>2445657
>mighty boosh filename
You are a man of culture and taste

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>>2444642
>>2444943
hot

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>>2443250
>>2444578

>>2444591
I will never understand why people consider these birds ugly.

>>2445952
My dog is half Chesapeake Bay Retriever, half Labrador Retriever. That takes too long to say, so I usually just say chesador, even though it's not a common mix.

>>2446191
I agree.
"OMG its beak is so fat lololol that doesn't look normal."
People are so used to seeing birds with thin, long, slender beaks on the covers of National Geographic magazines and on TV in nature documentaries that when they see a real bird with a large and curvy beak it shocks them. Sure, their beaks may not fit the conventional standards of beak beauty, but there's really no such thing as a normal beak. For many birds, having a thick beak is in their genetics and they can't do anything to change it, so we shouldn't point and laugh. Every beak is different, and every beak is beautiful. A bird can be healthy with every beak shape.

>>2441994
10/10

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>>2442782
well, these fuckers can kill you, although these species are problably ok

>>2441994
In australia we call those bluebottles and around summer there are literally thousands on the beaches and in the water, I remember getting the tentacles wrapped around my face and chest many times as a kid, hurt alot.

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Minor Flag-Tailed Centipede, also known as Alipes grandidieri.

>>2442782
Wait, wait, wait; so you're telling me,
you're sat there telling me,
you're trying to tell me,
that if I find some weird, little, blob-creature lying on the beach,
just some weird blob thing just lying there,
that I *shouldn't*,
just to be clear,
that I *shouldn't* rub it into my eyeballs?
Is that what you're telling me?

>>2445657
"The sea-cucumber, meanwhile, has a fish in its butt!"
https://youtu.be/_y4DbZivHCY

>>2445657
Didn't they find one of these with like 15 fish inside of it at once?

>>2446329
>This is a stock footage of a sea cucumber, which has been downloaded one time. By me.
On point humor. It's a shame he stopped making these.

>>2446353
Lewd

>>2445657
ALL THE WAY THROUGH

>>2445657
beep beep, coming through!

>>2446194

The word you're looking for is "mongrel".

Fucking pretentious douchebags...

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>>2444591
A while back I was reading a book about a keeper at the Berlin zoo during the last days of ww2. He was trying so hard to keep the animals alive including a shoebill that he took home. The bird lived in his bathroom while the soviets were bombing the city. Because of extreme rationing he couldn't get it any fish. The bird was stubborn. it refused anything including a ham it was offered. At one point he begged the bird to eat but it only threw the ham at him.

>>2447156
What is that?

>>2442678
Maybe it wouldn't be endangered if it was a quick loris hahahaha stupid monkey

>>2447420
autistic snake

>>2446316
Stinging cells from some species may be not be able to break human skin but they can certainly penetrate nerves in the conjunctiva and that would suck. Unfired cells present on your hands after handling some jellies can fire later when rubbing eyes or picking nose. So don't.

>>2443585
That just looks like a desiccated elephant head

>>2444969
It's a very distant cousin of spiders and scorpions.

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>>2447420
It's a predatory flatworm. Most flatworms are known for being parasites(liver flukes, tape worms) or microscopic (Like this planerian) but there are larger land ones that are effective predators.

Flatworms are mainly interesting because they don't have an internal body cavity and their mouths jet out of the middle of them, counter productive to most living things with a worm-like body plan where the mouth is close to the "head".

Even still, these predatory flatworms make it work by wrapping around the prey and jamming their "inside-out throat" proboscis into their food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DU_pvAtIYQ

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>>2441994
The weirdest shit in nature are the animals that exist in completely separate phylum from the sheer bulk of animal life on planet earth.

Chordates and Arthropods basically make up everything living today but you can find some weird shit that isn't very close to most living species on earth.

Take this thing for example, it's called a penis worm. These have been around since the Cambrian and are only distantly related Arthropods and velvet worms.

>>2448302
>it's called a penis worm
i dont belive you

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>>2448303
Google Priapulida

This is an Arrow Worm, a platonic life form in its own phylum that is basically a pair of jaws. Again most of all animal life today last shared a common ancestor with it in the Precambrian, it isn't close to jack shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1KDzMdH-qs

>>2444594
>>2444583
>32 million.
I don't get why they can't spend that on a graveyard or crematorium and stop people from dumping bodies, arrest ones that do.

>>2448444
>expecting competence from the indian government
If they were capable in any way india wouldn't be the shithole it is.

>>2444969
i would find these on the beach all the time flipped upside down
i'd usually toss them back into the ocean

>>2442681
What a pretty kitty.

>>2448302
GET ON MY LEVEL!
These mfers don't need oxygen to survive

>>2441994
god these things are EVERYWHERE on the oregon coast

>>2448752

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these guys (lancelets) are chordates (they have a dorsal nerve cord and a notochord) so they are not invertebrates. but they do not have a skeleton of bone or cartilage to protect the aforementioned nerve cord--so they're not vertebrates either. they are "nonvertebrates" and closely related to the ancestors of the first real vertebrate fish.

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Golden tortoise beetle, its really small

>>2444568
Very cute borb

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I didn't want to start a thread, thinking that would be rude, with me being a guest. I have a lot of animal pics though, so maybe I'll start posting.
Anyway,after weeding, came home, in bathroom, and rubbed my eyelid and this fell off.
what is it?

>>2444950
it's a sea pen if anyone's wondering since this jackass didn't say so

>>2449550

some kind of ked, an insect

>>2449550
Only know it in german, it's a Hirschlaus. Roughly, a deer louse. It has wings and lands on the deer. There it drops it's wings and finds a soft spot to get some blood.

Doesn't bite humans for some reason.

>>2444969
>-If flipped on its back, can't flip itself back over and will die if left that way
such a sad existence

>>2449603
thanks\
>>2449660
and thank you. it had me terriffied.
thanks so much!

>>2449660
>Hirschlaus
my gosh, you are right! oh man! this is such a relief! It's still really creepy looking, but at least something isn't gonna pop out of my belly like in the movie Alien.
I was really, really worried.

>>2449603
>▶
wow! sorry for all these posts, but yes, they do seem to call it that.thank you all. I don't think I'm gonna die yet. I'm USA, Pennsylvania, btw.

>>2447156
My god, it's beautiful.

>>2447150
Nope, that's too long, the proper word is "mutt"

>>2446191
I only think it looks scary because it could totally cave your skull in if it wanted to. Not that it would, but if one was in a bad mood who fucking knows.

>>2449531
these fuckers used to bite me as a child and I would get so mad because I didn't do anything to them. WHY NATURE!?!?

>>2446329
Oh fuck I love these
I'm glad people haven't forgotten about them

>>2444211
>Ironically

>>2446329
I'd like to shill for my favorite for like two seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM

>>2449856
Was it alive? They have excellent sight, put on a finger, they will go where you don't see them. Turn your finger and they will move again.

They are kind of a nuissance if you have longer hair.

>>2450066
it was. In fact a few swats didn't get rid of it. I thought it was one of those lone hairs that can show up and like be a nusiance. so I thought, what the heck? and went into the bathroom, made a swat, and that fell off into the sink.
but it seemed to die when i picked it up with tweesers and put it ina jar. for awhile it was moving pretty fast there. sorry so much info. I'm really indebted for my German friends who identified it.gosh! I'm so grateful! i come from the land of s4s and and irc kek---i thank them for pointing me over here.

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While diminutive, the Bobbit worm can grow to ten feet in length. It is a sedentary, ambush predator that completely lacks a brain. It responds entirely by sensation, using it's five incredibly sensitive antennae. When it picks up the subtle vibration in the water of a passing fish the head follows the source, suddenly lunging while snapping its bear trap-like jaws. They pull their unlucky victims into its burrow to be swallowed and it is not uncommon for prey to be sheared in twain by its fatal bite.

Ain't nature magical?

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The pistol shrimp has two claws, a small pincer and an enormous snapper. The snapper, which can grow to up to half the length of the shrimp’s body, does not have two symmetrical halves like the pincer. Instead, half of it is immobile, called a propus, which has a socket. The other half, called a dactyl, is the mobile part. It has a plunger that fits into this socket. The shrimp opens the dactyl by co-contracting both an opener and closer muscle. This builds tension until another closer muscle contracts, setting the whole thing off with incredible force.

When the plunger slams into this socket it displaces water that jets out at 105 feet a second, a velocity so high that its pressure drops below the vapor pressure of water. Tiny bubbles already present in the water suddenly swell in this low pressure, then collapse when the pressure climbs again.

“You essentially create this cavitation bubble,” said coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institute. “And when the bubble collapses, it generates that snap sound,” as opposed to the impact of the claws themselves making the noise.

More importantly, the collapse of the bubble generates, for a split second, temperatures of 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun, and also, oddly, a flash of light. The resulting shockwave bombards the shrimp’s prey, which if it’s lucky will die instantly because it’s then dragged into the pistol shrimp’s burrow and consumed. That’s not so fun if you’re half-conscious. It’s such a powerful blast that some species use it to drill into solid basalt rock, snap after snap, to make a comfy little home.

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Researches have discovered that boxer crabs carry sea anemones around to use as stingers to protect themselves from predators. The crabs carry the anemones around like pom poms and will even rip an anemone in two if it only has one. They also use the anemone pom poms to sting food which they then bring to their mouths and eat.

According to the authors of the paper, the crabs deliberately keep the anemones to a small size, stunting their growth to 'bonsai sea anemones' so that they remain easier to hold. If the sea anemones are taken away from the crabs, they grow much bigger.

If a boxer crab only has one anemone, it can even tear it in two so that it has one in each claw. But if a boxer crab doesn't even have one anemone, it will often steal a piece of one from another crab.

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Triops are a very basal, freshwater crustacean that has changed very little since the end of the Carboniferous.

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>>2443250

>>2448290
Planarians are fucking cool. You neglected the fact that you can pretty much dice them up and the pieces grow into functional worms.

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Velvet worm, it looks soft

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>>2453155
They can also use string-shot...

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>>2453173
...and bite, too!

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Female trilobite beetles remain in their larval instar throughout their entire lives.

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>>2453559

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>>2441994
I found those at the beach just a bit ago. I thought the first one was a piece of trash, then I noticed there were hundreds of them all over the beach. The ocean has so many weird things. Hagfish for example.

>>2445758
>>2445799
OH SHIT THOSE THINGS
I had a bunch of those cards as a kid and loved them, but I completely forgot they existed until now.

>>2453175
I bet those teachers who say "sex is bad" at sexual education classes could make some clever usage of this gif.

>>2453559
I just looked up their wiki page.
>>2453565
Now this post makes more sense.

>>2450759
The coolest.

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>>2450759
>we finally get a pistol shrimp pokemon
>not water/fire type
>essentially a worse version of a fucking turtle
it's not fucking fair, and that's coming from someone who's always liked blastoise

>>2447240
source?

>>2447240
what a dick

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>>2448317
It brought me this.
kek

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>>2450767

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>>2445758
>niger

I know that all animals are basically tubes, but I have never seen an animal that is topologically so interesting

>>2450767
>According to the authors of the paper, the crabs deliberately keep the anemones to a small size, stunting their growth to 'bonsai sea anemones' so that they remain easier to hold. If the sea anemones are taken away from the crabs, they grow much bigger.

If a boxer crab only has one anemone, it can even tear it in two so that it has one in each claw. But if a boxer crab doesn't even have one anemone, it will often steal a piece of one from another crab.

huh I've seen pics of this crab before but never knew that. interesting stuff

>>2442678
I heard the best way to preserve these is to buy them from our local exotic animal dealer, I had three but my Toadline SMASHED AND SLAMMED pure inbred dog ate them shortly before his death from massive organ failure at the age of 3

>>2451155
These are pets

>>2456503
That makes them less bizarre and unique why?

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These fish may not be super interesting themselves, but their fucking scientific name is Boops boops.

>>2443250
That sounds like the plot for Kemono Friends

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>>2445657

>>2450759
That's amazing.

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>>2450759
reddit animal

>>2457555
That's a MANTIS shrimp you twat

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>>2458863
You fucks talkin' about me like I wouldn't know?!

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>>2441994
this is very strange

>>2455578
Mushroom Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmNIz08gis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

Parasites freak me out man.