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Amazing animals thread

Here are my three.
Is it a dragon ? Is it a leaf ? Is it a fish ? No, it's a leafy sea dragon.
http://images.google.com/images?q="leafy sea dragon"&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi

The short-eared elephant shrew, it's basically a head on four legs.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q="short-eared+elephant+shrew"

And the amazing fantastic triops. These are fab, you can get them on the internet as dried eggs, put them in water and a week or so later you have these massive (about an 2 inches) prehistoric looking creatures swimming about. Shows sea monkeys up for what they really are (crap).
http://images.google.com/images?q=triops&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
 
lizzieloo said:
Bless the dead porcupine awwwwwwwwwww
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assuming it did die of course... the webpage didn't say it did & those spine are designed to do that if it is attacked.

I doubt that Inca will be attacking any more porcupines either way.
 
MarkMark said:
assuming it did die of course... the webpage didn't say it did & those spine are designed to do that if it is attacked.

I doubt that Inca will be attacking any more porcupines either way.
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Yes it did die, and the owners were making 'you should have seen the other guy' jokes.

I'd be horrified if my dog killed a wild animal, not amused.
 
axon said:
Here are my three.
Is it a dragon ? Is it a leaf ? Is it a fish ? No, it's a leafy sea dragon.
http://images.google.com/images?q="leafy sea dragon"&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi

The short-eared elephant shrew, it's basically a head on four legs.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q="short-eared+elephant+shrew"
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You can see both of those at London zoo. The elephant shrews are particularly fab. They make a little path through the rubbish on the forest floor and keep it obsessively clean. Thay bounce up and down it all day looking for stray litter.
 
In Botswana an ambitious and very hungry pride of lions has learned how to hunt full grown elephants and to turn this
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into this (link to massive picture )
http://www.scip.be/PhotosBotswana/Botswana - Chobe - Leeuwen aan kadaver.jpg

more here:
http://www.ngcasia.com/explore/UltimateEnemies/home.asp
 
axon said:
And the amazing fantastic triops. These are fab, you can get them on the internet as dried eggs, put them in water and a week or so later you have these massive (about an 2 inches) prehistoric looking creatures swimming about. Shows sea monkeys up for what they really are (crap).
http://images.google.com/images?q=triops&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
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Are they the same as aquasaurs? I was going to get some 'til I realised they don't live that long
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Are they the same as aquasaurs? I was going to get some 'til I realised they don't live that long
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Yes, I think they are. Mine lasted just under 3 weeks, but it should be possible if you take enough tender loving care of them for them to breed. Although they do tend to eat each other. Either way, I'd recomend them.
 
Louloubelle said:
My first animal is going to be the extremely rare Fossa of Madagascar.
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they're beautiful creatures :cool:

they have them at marwell zoo, my daughter was peering into their enclosure and one was hiding in the foliage and leapt towards her! she fell over and has loved them ever since :D

has anyone mentioned aye aye's? (can't really read the thread cos I'm at work :( )

they're cool, with their long middle finger.
 
Orang Utan said:
There's a theory that this is how life might have spread to other planets - if they can travel in space indefinitely, they could have made their way elsewhere, or indeed have come frome somewhere else.
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Yeah, astrogenesis or something like that. It usually applies to bacteria, but these little critters come close to being able to do it... they could certainly reach another planet during the time they can stay in suspension!
 
some incredible choices

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the coelacanth

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Prior to 1938 coelacanths were known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared. The most recent fossil record dates from about 80 mya but earlier records date back as far as approximately 360 mya.

http://www.mnh.si.edu/highlight/coelacanth/
 
sh-pygmy-eleph.jpg
pygmyelephants.jpg


African pygmy elephants are distant cousins of the much bigger savannah elephants, they also have a reddish coloured skin as opposed to bluish grey of the savannahs, are hairier and live in forests and swamps in the Congo. The elephant to the right is fully grown. There is also an inbetween sized african elephant called the forest elephant.

Other pygmy elephants have been recently discovered in thailand and Borneo, until; recently these little elephants were misclassified as juvenile elephants but advances in DNA and bone analysis have identified them as distinct species.

There may be even more species of pygmy elephant yet to be identified.

wwwf-malaysia_pygmy_elephant_borneo_18sep03_se.jpg

this is a pygmy elephant from Borneo
 
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