Nature's Weirdest Creatures
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
No, my maternal side all malaysian... So basically i guess they tried all sort of funny stuff when they were young and back in those forest + kampong days...Anyway i personally think it's too adorable to be eaten -___-
i guess it's a pangolin and not an armadillo
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Ahh... my bad master... seems like it shld be a pangolin... but it's still rather cute to be eaten...
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i think master's right... but pangolins are now protected...
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Pangolins used to be common here back in the 50s and 60s in the kampongs and reserves. Not so visible nowadays even in the nature reserves.
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you can blame the accursed PRC market for the illegal trade in pangolins for the pot
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Originally posted by the Bear:
you can blame the accursed PRC market for the illegal trade in pangolins for the pot
Blame PRCs for their exotic tastes. The rise of PRC in economic have put many species into the road of extinction.
An irony is their fervent protection of the WWF iconic giant pandas but hack the rest of the others into their cooking pots.
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on a lighter note:
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Here's something interesting....birds can do syncopation as well.
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Rediscovered and surprised by its diet.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
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today's instalment is..
The Lake Titicaca Frog
looking like it's got too much skin, the Lake Titicaca Frog lives in the highest lake on the planet..
being an amphibian, frogs breath through their skin as well as their lungs.. in the highlands where the frogs live, oxygen levels are low due to the altitude and the frog increases its oxygen supply by growing a huge amount of skin, increasing its surface area..
so we have a floppy-looking frog which looks like it's too small for its skin
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Galloping cow herds of the deep sea plains.
Sea cucumbers:
Edit: Notice they are all "galloping" in the same direction?
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African Freshwater Jellyfish Limnocnida tanganyicae first described from Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world.
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been ages since i updated this..
here's one more mundane..
momma and baby jaguar...
sometimes jaguars (in Latin America) come out all black and may have spotted offspring..
this happens to leopards of Asia and Africa too
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Originally posted by the Bear:
been ages since i updated this..
here's one more mundane..
momma and baby jaguar...
sometimes jaguars (in Latin America) come out all black and may have spotted offspring..
this happens to leopards of Asia and Africa too
"HONEY! You've been cheating on me with a Leopard!!"
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time for an update...
Barreleye Fish
As you can see, it's got a see-through head.. the eyes are the green things (which look like twin brains) and not the two things which look like eyes just above its mouth...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
time for an update...
Barreleye Fish
As you can see, it's got a see-through head.. the eyes are the green things (which look like twin brains) and not the two things which look like eyes just above its mouth...
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some of the Birds of Paradise are fantastic.. like this one..
the weird smiley thingy is actually the male of the species (strangely named the Superb Bird of Paradise) trying to court the drab-coloured female in the foreground
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err sorry 1 noob question
All the creature appear in picture here actually for real?
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Originally posted by SGporkz:
err sorry 1 noob question
All the creature appear in picture here actually for real?
yup.. all exist..cool aren't they?
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omgness...
very cool...really..
sometimes i rather they import this kinda rare strange thingy..
rather than pandas. wahaha
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really reminds me of this
haha
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since this is up again.. there was a Census of Marine Life done recently.. this was one of the fishes featured.. it just looks silly
Roundnose Grenadier
