Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2026

Can you list some pictures of rarely seen animals?

 Alrighty. Let's roll.

  1. The Dracula Parrot. Looks Evil, eats nothing but figs.

2. The princess didn't touch me.

The Black Rain Frog.

3. The male peacock Spider performing his mating display.

4. Keep Photographing and you're next!

A mean Gorilla.

5. I'm gonna blow my nose.

A Hooded Seal with an inflated nose to attract a female.

6. Guinean Cock of the Rock.

7. A Tarsier looking Dark as hell.

8. The Cassowary. Considered the most dangerous bird in the world.

9. Crab hanging off iguanas. The crabs eat the dead parasites on the iguana's skin.

10. Whachu lookin at?

The Sunda Flying Lemur.

11. The head of a Tapeworm under an electron Microscope. If we weren't terrified of tapeworms already.

12. Wolf Camaraderie!

13. Gotta catch em all

Piraputanga fish gathers some fruits.

14. The Masobe Gecko

15. An Albino Sulcata Tortoise

16. The Margay also called the Mini Jaguar.

17. The Takahe from New Zealand.

18. Short toed snake eagle, no prizes for guessing what she's eating.

19. Greater Sage Grouse.

Those aren't eggs. This is a male and those huge egg like things are sacs on his neck that inflate as part of his courtship display.

20. The American Luna Moth

21. Sunbathing

Jellyfish chilling.

22. Up in Flames

A Kookaburra looking on after its home was destroyed by bush fires

23. A vine snake looking happy as hell.

24. Larval Octopus with a transparent head

25. Weeee!

Bungee jumping Spider.

Edit: On popular demand, I've added some more;

Let's roll once more!

26. Hey, Blue eye!

Reindeer's eyes turn blue during the winter so that they can see better in low light.

27. The Vietnamese Mossy Frog

28. A secretary bird dancing along

29. An Amazon Milk Frog

30. Are we still on Earth?

This Rosy Maple Moth is straight out of an alien world.

31. Imma get down at 9, Pacific Avenue!

A school of Remoras hitching a ride inside the mouth of a whale shark!

32. This Usain gonna bolt!

The Jesus Lizard.

33. I'd live to tell my tail!

The Giant Indian Squirrel enjoying a meal!

34. Cosmoderus Femoralis, a type of Cricket found in Cameroon.

35. Oh! These lunges really improve my core!

The majestic Alpine Ibex.

Saturday, April 18, 2026

What animals can eat sharks and are immune from their attacks?

 Not much is really ‘immune’ to shark attacks. At some point a shark can still bite everything and therefore damage it. Sharks have one of the highest recorded bite forces, being outpaced only by crocodiles. With up to 300 serrated teeth, a shark will bite something and start to thrash.

Not many ways to become invulnerable to this…

Of course, sharks will avoid various marine mammals. Marine mammals are massive - especially whales. The killer whale, or orca, is a whale (before I get “corrected” in the comments, yes orcas are dolphins but dolphins are a type of toothed whale, meaning orcas are dolphins and whales.) This badly represented animal is incredibly intelligent and strong, and will scare away sharks.

Sharks have been found to be significantly less likely to return to an area where the shark has seen an orca, and here's why:

Orcas are bigger than even great white sharks, and have killed and eaten great whites. Furthermore, orcas hunt in pods, which grants them even more protection and strength. But orcas don't always need numbers - only a pair of orcas killed at least 8 great white sharks!

How do the amazing killer whales do it? The orcas use their incredible intelligence. By flipping the shark over, the shark is forced to enter a state of tonic immobility, and cannot move as the orca kills it (usually by eating the high fat liver).

Here is a terrible excuse for a story explaining the relationship between orcas and great whites.

A family of orcas is out, going to a buffet, little kids all excited and parents hungry.

Gerald the great white shark is also visiting this buffet, seeking food.

The younger orcas spot a tasty seal, and immediately head for the sweet dish. Seals are one of the favourite foods of both the great white and the seal, but it's no secret the orca is a better hunter.

This seal has just escaped Gerald. Of course, this would never happen to an orca.

Think you can hide on the beach buddy boy?

Sooooooo that was my brother… he was kind of annoying though so I get it… but we're chill right?

Yeah get out

Heh you can't get me here…

Sorry what was that?

Oh hellll no

Anyways, back to our marine mealtime. As the young orcas head after a seal and launch it tens of feet into the air…

“Don't play with your food”

Mother orca is a little sidetracked though, as she has just caught sight of the main meal: Gerald the Great White Shark.

Half a second later…

Yep well storytime’s over… hey not all stories can have an entirely happy ending.

Other than orcas, sharks will avoid other whales too, such as the powerful sperm whale. In life pretty much any whale is too giant for even a great white to handle, but a whale carcass provides great blubber.

Bottlenose dolphins will also keep sharks away with their noses, using the snout to ram into the shark.

Other than whales, younger sharks will also avoid adult sea lions, which is yet another marine mammal. On the fishier side of things, sharks will only not eat highly poisonous or venomous animals.

Sea snake

In coastal waters, as stated in other answers, crocodiles can kill sharks, as they have powerful scale armour and an incredible bite force of up to 5,000 PSI. Saltwater crocodiles can eat younger bull sharks.

So in summary: nothing is really immune to sharks, but sharks will avoid marine mammals like whales, dolphins, and even larger seals. Saltwater crocodiles also pose a threat to sharks.

As for eating sharks, orca will eat shark liver (as it is high in fat), and saltwater crocodiles will also eat younger bull sharks.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

What are some animals that most people have never seen before?

 1.Finger Monkey: This is the smallest monkey in the world. It can grow upto 14 inches only.

2.Sea pig: It looks creepy

3. Ocean Sunfish: They spend half of the day in sunbathe

4. Naked mole rat: Totally naked!

5. Mudskipper: These are complete amphibious fishes. So, the can use their fins to walk on the land. Because they are amphibious, they are, unlike most fish, adapted to inter-tidal habitats. These are places where the tide of the ocean comes in and out. They hide under wet seaweed or in tidal pools to not get pulled away when the tide goes out. They are active when they are out of the water.

6. Lamprey: It is an eel-like creature that attacks its prey by attaching to it with circular rows of fairly nasty-looking teeth. Like an aquatic vampire, it is a parasite that often leaves its victim lifeless.

7. Sea Bunny: This is so Cute!

8.Lowland Streaked Tenrec:

9. Gerenuk:

10. Surinam Toad: It has no tongue. They give birth to their young ones in a very strange way.

The partners rise from the floor while in amplexus(mating position of toads) and flip through the water in arcs. During each arc, the female releases 3 to 10 eggs, which get embedded in the skin on her back by the male's movements. After implantation, the eggs sink into the skin and form pockets over a period of several days, eventually taking on the appearance of an irregular honeycomb. The larvae develop through to the tadpole stage inside these pockets, eventually emerging from the mother's back as fully developed toads, though they are less than an inch long (2 cm). Once they have emerged from their mother's back, the toads begin a largely solitary life.

After giving birth to the new toads, the mother slowly sheds the thin layer of skin that was used to birth them, and can begin the cycle again.

11. Sumatran rhino: World’s smallest and hairiest rhino

12. Oarfish:

13. Saiga Antelope:

It ends here. Thanks for watching :)

Source:

Google, National GeographicPinterest

What will animals look like in the future?

 Animals of the future will have to adapt to the way human have changed the environment. Here are some predictions of what future animals will evolve into in the future:

the Knox whale

It’s the last and only type of whale left on earth. It has evolved a hard armoured skin to protect it from hunters. 🏹🛡️It has adapted to swim faster to evade its only predator- humans. Its long beak makes it more water-dynamic, so there is less resistance when swimming at high speeds. 🏊🏻‍♂️It is brown to camouflage in the shit-ridden waters, 💩and because of reduced biodiversity in the ocean there is not a lot of food for the whales, so its body has shrunk so it only needs half the nutrients of a current whale. Its massive lungs take up the main bulk of its abdomen,🫁 so that it can hold more air for longer and doesn’t have to come to the surface, as this will increase the risk of it being seen by humans.👁️

the Ezrog

Ezrogs survived the nuclear extinction by living in burrows as deep as 50 feet underground! They eat bugs,🪲 but they also derive nutrients from the underground clay and minerals. Their hydrophilic tongues mean they can drink by absorbing moisture out of the soil. 👅💦While they rarely surface, they have been known to drag their dead to the entrance of the burrow, so the smell of their rotting body does not attract predators (starving humans).🧟

The Indian “Scooty” Scootworm

The streets of India are covered in poo. Due to overpopulation and poor sanitation infrastructure, it has been like this for so long that a new species of worm has adapted to camouflaging itself as a turd.💩 They eat decaying organic matter left by humans, so they actually help clean the streets and reduce pollution. Because poo is an integral part of life for Indian people, the Scooty has become a national treasure, these worms have been protected and able to thrive.🥰 A beautiful example of what can happen when a community comes together to protect biodiversity.