What's the strangest animal that you know of?
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What's the strangest animal that you know of?
Include pictures if you can, please! That way we can all get the full effect!
To open the thread, though I'm sure I have way more to list, I bring you the Angler Fish. Fans of Finding Nemo will be familiar with this one, but may not know the weirdest thing about them.

Be glad you are human.When scientists first discovered these fish, they kept wondering why all the fish they captured where females. However, after some time they noticed small “growths” on the females skin that, upon closer inspection, turned out to be males. The tiny males actually only live to find a female. Upon encounter, a male bites into her skin after which the tissues of the male and female become completely fused together so that their blood vessels join as one.
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It's actually kind of awesome looking!kandscreeley wrote:Okay gravy. I have to say. That's REALLY odd. It's very disturbing too. I never knew that.
This is the Salp. Apparently, it's own waste helps to remove carbon from the surface of the water. Odd...
-- 07 Sep 2017, 12:41 --
This one is just scary lolGravy wrote:Inspired by some of the threads here, what is strangest animal that you know of? What makes it the strangest? How did you come to know it? What about it makes it stick with you?
Include pictures if you can, please! That way we can all get the full effect!
To open the thread, though I'm sure I have way more to list, I bring you the Angler Fish. Fans of Finding Nemo will be familiar with this one, but may not know the weirdest thing about them.
Be glad you are human.When scientists first discovered these fish, they kept wondering why all the fish they captured where females. However, after some time they noticed small “growths” on the females skin that, upon closer inspection, turned out to be males. The tiny males actually only live to find a female. Upon encounter, a male bites into her skin after which the tissues of the male and female become completely fused together so that their blood vessels join as one.
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I cant get a photo up at the moment, will try again, or just google
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Yes! The pangolin!micoleon13 wrote:Although not quite as strange as the angler fish, I find pangolins quite strange. Theyre an awesome animal and severly endangered as they are part of the illegal wildlife trade. Ive heard them likened to walking artichokes. Quite small, sadly theyre seen as a delicacy and used in the restaurant trade, even the fetuses for soup!
I cant get a photo up at the moment, will try again, or just google

Very sad that people will be so heartless.
@CatInTheHatCatInTheHat wrote:I was going to say the platypus but then I saw your picture of the angler fish and knew that was absolutely the strangest animal I've ever seen.
The platypus is a good example, considering it was thought to be a hoax for so long.

I'm somewhat hoping someone can surprise me. Animals are my thing, so I know quite a few strange ones, but I have been surprised before!
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That's awesome!kandscreeley wrote:Okay gravy. I have to say. That's REALLY odd. It's very disturbing too. I never knew that.
This is the Salp. Apparently, it's own waste helps to remove carbon from the surface of the water. Odd...
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It also happens in nature. Sometimes a sad consequence of habitate loss. They've recently found hybridized sharks.Amagine wrote:The strangest animals to me are all the different hybrids that exists in our world. Whenever humans forces two different animals to mate and reproduce, their offspring always seem strange to me.
Here's one that is found in nature, a pizzly.

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It's actually king of cute, but the sad part is that a lot of hybrids don't live as long as their pure counterparts. There are some exceptions though.Gravy wrote:It also happens in nature. Sometimes a sad consequence of habitate loss. They've recently found hybridized sharks.Amagine wrote:The strangest animals to me are all the different hybrids that exists in our world. Whenever humans forces two different animals to mate and reproduce, their offspring always seem strange to me.
Here's one that is found in nature, a pizzly.
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Much cuter but still a pretty bizarre creature, my submission is the cuttlefish- 3 hearts & blue blood!

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Yes! River dolphins!readandsmile wrote:The pink dolphins.

Very interesting critter.Child wrote:The Honey Badger it steal from Lions, raids bee hives, kills snakes and eats porcupines that's jus crazy and weird.
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The fish walks on land, sometimes it can even be confused with a large snake. And some are really huge. Despite their scary looks, they are mild mannered and we openly played with bigger specimens as kids.
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