Weird Animals

funny story that
https://www.popsci.com/article/science/venomous-slow-loris-may-have-evolved-mimic-cobras/

Venomous underarms!

That they lick when threatened! 0.0

We haven't linked anything from the ocean deep animal in a while: https://www.cnet.com/news/ultra-black-fish-reveal-secrets-of-deep-dark-ocean-camouflage/

Oh and I meant to add a link to this caecilian: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2012/08/ugly-and-not-safe-for-work.html

Time for cuteness

NEW FAVOURITE ANIMAL ALERT: Leafsheep. Only animal that can photosynthesize

NEW FAVOURITE ANIMAL ALERT: Leafsheep. Only animal that can photosynthesize pic.twitter.com/iphILB6P0I

— L.e (@termiteinmyhead) July 15, 2020

URL delivers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/science/beetle-frog-poop.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=qbefo_vUzog

When they reach the end of that tunnel, the insects may be able to tickle open the cloacal sphincter, the ring of muscle that drawstrings the frog’s rear end shut, expelling themselves in a flood of feces.

lol yes that bit caught my eye too.

it's a hell of a detail

https://youtu.be/FXmVW0MMYFI

The curious dance of the saci, also known as the striped cuckoo.

🎥 Ednilson Pereira. pic.twitter.com/2eQLkaGEA4

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 9, 2020

let a million WAP videos bloom

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/science/reptile-long-neck-fossil.html
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/12/science/12TB-REPTILE1/12TB-REPTILE1-superJumbo.jpg

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/lystrosaurus-oldest-known-hibernation-trnd/index.html
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200830163933-lystrosaurus-file-exlarge-169.jpg

Lystrosaurus's weirdness is eclipsed only by its pathetic ugliness. Never will a child name it as their favorite saurus, ever.

this animal's kinda weird - why is it jumping into leaf piles? for what reason? it is weird to do things for no apparent reason

https://youtu.be/Tu3HN-MmJc4

oh it's like that huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3HN-MmJc4

Does the animal think that there is potentially food or a mate inside of the leaf pile, with which it may fulfill its biological imperatives? I do not understand

I think that lystrosaurus is adorable, WKIW

Lystrosaurus gurgles a barely audible "THANK YOU, FRIEND" at you from its pus-encrusted mouth/anus combination orifice

Lystrosaurus is the ORNALDO BLOOMPS of Pokemon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46258616

"We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas"

lol that stood out to me as well

(totally fascinating, btw)

Very much so!

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1769/2959/products/Wombat_poo_500x500.jpeg?v=1560320854

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-beetle-that-pretends-to-be-an-army-ants-butt/516522/

Excellent.

Went down a rabbit hole from that which led me to witness the following sentence fragment

mites in the genus Adactylidium, which mate inside the body of their mother before they are born

This is life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium

That is metal, gross, and amazing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54284952

weird heroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxV1wbBrfU

the high lonesome sound

I think my neighbour has one of these...

some beautiful pictures in here. a sub to Nat Geo is still worth it btw.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/science/african-crested-rat-poison.html

Two interesting tidbits:

Rodents can't vomit.

This:

While doing field work in Kenya, Dr. Weinstein was horrified when a gang of monkeys broke into her lab and absconded with some of the team’s crested rat fecal samples. In the chase that ensued, some of the packets of poop ripped open, scattering scat all about.

“The monkeys, I think, were equally disappointed,” Dr. Weinstein said. “That’s not what they were hoping was in there.”

Excellent weird animal content

all time intro para imo

For a rodent that resembles the love child of a skunk and a steel wool brush, the African crested rat carries itself with a surprising amount of swagger. The rats “very much have the personality of something that knows it’s poisonous,” says Sara Weinstein, a biologist at the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who studies them.

BEAUTIFUL: A ribbon eel swimming by. pic.twitter.com/QpJgjEpwIm

— Oceana (@oceana) December 8, 2020

seamless gif

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/science/pandas-horse-poop.html
with this key bit of info

“Maybe it’s like Vicks VapoRub, or maybe like Tiger Balm,” Dr. McShea said, describing the tingly feeling they cause.

“I don’t know, though,” he added. “I’ve never rolled in horse manure.”

lol and gross. BTW, that article spurred me to check the Wikipedia entry for pandas to see if any changes have been made to their classification, and I was honestly surprised to see that they are true bears after all!

that eel is my friend

NEW TURTLE DROPPED
NEW TURTLE DROPPED
NEW TURTLE DROPPEDhttps://t.co/yQ88pRxVvP

— Be Just & Fear Not | Let None Survive (@SuperNerdMike) December 22, 2020

of all the articles not to use photos for...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/02/opinion/sunday/2020-animal-news.html

also I posted this in the streaming thread but it's more appropriate here:

Something new/old that i got into this week is NHK Japan's DEEP OCEAN from 2015, which is four episodes of super alien deep sea ichthyology narrated by David Attenborough that will leave you in constant amazement at the weirdness of the natural plan. Get to know the jellynose fish! The Mariana snailfish! The bioluminescent barbeled dragonfish!

The best part: Joe Hisaishi, the music director responsible for all the Ghibli/Miyazaki films did the score for the whole series and it is FUCKING MAGICAL. I can see rewatching this for sleepytimes in perpetuity.

It was recently ported over to HBO Max in the US, though the fourth episode (set in the Antarctic) is oddly AWOL. You should try it!