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Animals That Make Weird Noises and How They Do It
Animals That Make Weird Noises and How They Do It
by list_wrangler  • 
4 in common: Superb lyrebird, Koala and 2 more
A bird sounds like a pump, a fish hums through the night, and a shrimp snaps so fast it creates a bubble. Bowed feathers, vibrating tail segments, and the voices of some surprisingly loud animals...
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Animals That Use Camouflage to Hide in Plain Sight
Animals That Use Camouflage to Hide in Plain Sight
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Leafy seadragon and Synanceia verrucosa
Some animals hide by matching their background. Others pass themselves off as a dead leaf, a twig or a lump of coral, break up their outline with bold patterns, switch color on the spot, change...
Animals
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Animal Fathers Who Do Most of the Parenting
Animal Fathers Who Do Most of the Parenting
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Leafy seadragon
A father can keep an egg warm on his feet, fan it in a nest, or carry it until it hatches. These animals show how much of early life depends on male care, from incubation and brooding to staying...
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Weird-Looking Animals and Why They Look That Way
Weird-Looking Animals and Why They Look That Way
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Platypus
A nose ringed with 22 fleshy fingers, tusks that grow up through the face, a beak shaped like a wooden clog. Every animal here looks strange for a reason, and once you know the job a feature does...
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Forgotten ’90s Toys You Can Recognize From One Odd Detail
Forgotten ’90s Toys You Can Recognize From One Odd Detail
by curious_compiler  • 
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A tiny dollhouse in a compact, a cassette recorder that could change your voice, and a plastic ring that counted your jumps could all turn up in the same toy aisle. Look for the detail that made...
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Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
Fossils preserve things as strange as a five-eyed swimmer, a spiral of sharklike teeth, and a whale with hind feet. These animals span the early seas and the age of mammals. Look for the clue in...
Animals
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Animals With Weird Noses and What They Do With Them
Animals With Weird Noses and What They Do With Them
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Short-beaked Echidna
A mole feels its way with a star-shaped nose, a bat steers sound through a horseshoe-shaped leaf, and a turtle breathes through a snout that works like a snorkel. These animals put their noses and...
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Coral Reef Fish in Photos
Coral Reef Fish in Photos
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Synanceia verrucosa
Reef fish photographed where divers and snorkelers actually meet them: on coral slopes, rubble patches, sea fans and sandy channels from the Red Sea and East Africa to Indonesia and the Caribbean...
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Weird Animals of the Rainforest and How They Get By
Weird Animals of the Rainforest and How They Get By
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Southern cassowary
A bat turns a leaf into a tent, a frog drops out of its egg before a predator can eat it, and an ant steers back to its tree after falling from a branch. These animals show how life in tropical...
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Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
by curious_compiler  • 
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An axolotl can rebuild a limb. A green anole can replace its tail, but the new one is built differently. And a loose arm can become a whole sea star in some species. Compare what these animals can...
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Native Pony Breeds of Britain and Ireland
Native Pony Breeds of Britain and Ireland
by curious_compiler  • 
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A pony that carried peat in the Hebrides had a different job from one that hauled lead across the Pennines. Those old jobs help explain what to look for in the breeds today. Start with their home...
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Seabirds Worth Knowing, From Albatrosses to Puffins
Seabirds Worth Knowing, From Albatrosses to Puffins
by curious_compiler  • 
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These birds make a living at sea in very different ways. Some dive with folded wings, some glide for miles without flapping, and one looks as if it can walk on the water. Each entry gives you...
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Rare Dog Breeds From Around the World
Rare Dog Breeds From Around the World
by list_wrangler  • 
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Uncommon breeds with a written standard and a stable breeding population, most of them kept for a real job: hunting puffins on Norwegian cliffs, guarding camps in the Sahel, driving cattle in...
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Real Hybrid Animals, From Mules to Ligers
Real Hybrid Animals, From Mules to Ligers
by curious_compiler  • 
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A hybrid is what you get when two different species breed, sometimes because people arranged it and sometimes because nature did. Every animal here is a documented hybrid: each entry names the...
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Invertebrate Pets for Beginners
Invertebrate Pets for Beginners
by curious_compiler  • 
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Tarantulas, stick insects, beetles and snails make surprisingly good first pets. They live in a tank no bigger than a small aquarium, eat cheaply, never need walking and stay blissfully quiet...
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Cave Animals That Live in Total Darkness
Cave Animals That Live in Total Darkness
by curious_compiler  • 
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Plenty of animals use caves, but only some have been reshaped by them. This list gathers animals adapted to the dark zone, where no daylight ever reaches: salamanders and fish whose eyes have...
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