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Alright Mastodon, tell me about your favorite weird animals 😄

#animals #nature #biology
#Nature #animals #biology
Jessica Lévai, Author
Are bats weird? Gosh, I am so basic.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
totally weird 😄
Floaty Birb
There's so many good weird animals its hard to pick one.

I'll go with the horshoe crab today, because they're like weird walking bowls with pointy tails that have been almost unchanged since the Cambrian era.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
love them! If it ain't broke don't fix it
Charnock
It's not very weird anymore because the internet made the world smaller, but when I was a lot younger I had a serious crush on the whole concept of Pangolins. No one else here had even heard of them.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
same! Honestly most of the people around me didn't know about them until covid, sadly... Love them :)
Charnock
I used to have a little tripod..or geocities site devoted to pangolins, which shows how long ago I liked them really. I wrote a Pangolin poem, now.. hopefully lost forever.
Gryph
Are pangolins still on the weird list?
Charnock
Another one for Pangolins!
Earthworm
For weird reproductive strategies, I go with weird marine animals.

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

species of crustacean

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Earthworm
I think it is highly advised not to use mating behaviour of marine sponge-inhabiting millimeter-sized isopodes to draw conclusions for humans (I see you, manosphere 🧐).

But you asked for weird animals 😅
wolf of the wisp
bats are pretty high on the list #fliedermus https://www.dwds.de/wb/dwb/fliedermus

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GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
baby aardvarks
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
or aardvarks in general 😄
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
As babies they are additionally very wrinkly. So ugly, so cute!
Si Fuller
The muntjaq is one I recently learned of. It’s a tiny deer with long fangs, and it has all of these scent glands on its face that pop open and closed in a very unsettling way.
https://youtu.be/XDKiBL8bVsk?si=Q_UdPwVb02NNp9Zz

Muntjac Deer Looks Like a Space Alien || ViralHog

Occurred on April 11, 2023 / New Waverly, Texas, USABiscuit, the deer, loves to use his unique scent marking glands to mark things that are new to him. This...
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
I love all small deer 😄 kancils especially
U.S. Elaine
By-the-Sea Sailor is crazier than jellyfish, and that’s hard to do.
littlerachyb
CUTTLEFISH
Most intelligent of the invertebrates.
Cannibals.
Venomous.
Communicate via super quick skin changing. Their chameleon like absolutes are off the chats crazy.
Weird advanced eyesight.
Interior shell.
Also kinda cute.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
I AM A HUGE CUTTLEFISH FAN ❤️❤️
littlerachyb
🙌🏻🦑
tcduff
The Alligator Gar is pretty weird.

Virginicus
Moose. The longer you look at them, the weirder they get.
Bram Meehan
Our state insect? https://factanimal.com/tarantula-hawk/ Just. What.

10 Terrifying Tarantula Hawk Wasp Facts - Fact Animal

Tarantula Hawk Profile There’s only one way to make the phrase “tarantula hawk” sound more intimidating, and that’s by adding “wasp” to the end of
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
both amazing, thank you!
Stephan Matthiesen
Also mantis shrimps. These are predatory crustaceans with specially adapted claws that hit the prey with great power as fast as a bullet, either with a club-like blunt force smashing through shells, or a spear-like appendage.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
wow tiny teeny snails, love it 😄
Grayson
We were fascinated by the Coati in Mexico on a trip this year. They look like a cross between a lemur and a cat.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
we zoo-adopted one of them 😄 love hem
holothuroid
Sea horses.
Julia
Greenland shark. Lives centuries, has poisonous body, can swallow prey animals whole after sucking them in, is really large, and slow, looks funny. 🦈
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

species of shark

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taffysaint
tiger beetle. It runs so fast when chasing prey it makes itself go blind.
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