Archive for Animals
Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
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Weird tenrecs caught on camera for the first time
The only mammals in the world that chirp like crickets — by rubbing body parts together — are these strange shrew-like creatures called streaked tenrecs. A BBC film crew has captured their stridulations on camera for the first time.
Cross-eyed opossum, Heidi, is Germany’s new star
Posted by: | CommentsMove over, David Hasselhoff. A cross-eyed possum is Germany’s latest, biggest celebrity.
Heidi the opossum has more than 180,000 Facebook fans (more than twice that of German Chancellor Angela Merkel), a popular YouTube song and a stuffed animal named after her.
Adaptable dog learns to live without tongue
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He’s the Amazing Caine, the dog who lost three inches of his tongue in an electric paper shredder and lived to bark about it. When Caine, a boxer/Rhodesian ridgeback, was injured in January, one vet suggested that he be put to sleep.
But Caine’s owner, Ashley Taylor, of Park Forest, never gave up. Today, at a healthy 64 pounds, Caine has learned to live without most of his tongue.
Amazing Walking Fish
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A fish out of water? In my environment? It’s more likely than you think, as these amazing walking fish gladly step forward to show. Equipped with extra organs which enable them to draw oxygen from the air, these piscine perambulators provide a glimpse of what life must have been like for our “ground-breaking” early ancestors.
Walking Catfish
Originating in Thailand, the Walking Catfish (Clarias batrachus) is known in Thai as Pla Duk Dam, which means “dull colored wriggling fish”. Nice. What’s NOT so nice is that this pug-ugly, barbel-faced fish is a notorious invasive species that has established itself well beyond Thailand’s borders to Australia, India, the Middle East and (since the late 1960s) Florida. On the bright side, they make good eating for both predatory birds, alligators and the odd two-legged Floridian.