Itt obscure animals that only (You) have heard of.I'll start with the otter civet. Which is in fact not related to otters at all. But instead a member of the viverrid family, that is found in Southeast Asia. The reason it resembles an otter is due to something called convergent evolution
The sunda flying lemur is in fact not a lemur. Despite what it's name suggests, it is actually part of the colugo family and is found in Southeast Asia instead of Madagascar.Oh and one more thing. If someone posts an animal here that you have heard of, then don't be a dick about it. It's just for fun
The Guam Rail is a flightless bird found on the island of Guam that almost went extinct due to invasive snakes that were accidentally introduced on the island. It's estimated that the rail population plummeted from roughly 60,000–80,000 birds in the 1960s and 1970s, down to almost 0 by the early 80s. Fortunately do to conservation efforts there are now an estimated 400 of these birds left. Even though they are critically endangered.
Oops I forgot to mention that I'd prefer that the animals in the thread be LIVING animals, and not extinct animals.Anyway, this not a worm or a snake but instead an amphibian. It is called the Caecilian.
Moonrat. Not actually a rat, instead very closely related to hedgehogs.
The football fish.
the wrap around spider
Amphisbaenians are like cacelians but dryer and even more obscure.
>>5169184These guys kick ass. Iirc they grow a special layer of fatty skin so their young eat their parents skin off as food
>>5169247reverse circumcision
>>5169177that not-lemur tried to steal his ride!
>>5169177Good ol' colugo. I remember this guy from Animal Planet's the most Xtreme
Found out about these guys last month.
Only about 40 of these magnificent animals are estimated to be left in the wild. It's sad to see how rough birds have had it through human history.
>>5169175Cycnorhamphus, a pterosaur with a retard face
>>5169314Living animals preferred. But it's fine, thanks for sharing.
Gladiators(Mantophasmatidae), a family of wingless predatory insects from Africa first discovered in 2001.
>>5169175jw.org
Rambutanura sp. springtails that mainly eat slime molds.
pill millipedes
ghost pipefish
Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug that eats algae and then incorporates the chloroplasts into its own cells to perform photosynthesis.
>>5169318>giwtwm.jpg
>>5169331>Neotrogla is a genus of barklice noted for its reversed sex roles and organs, traits shared by all species of the genus.>Female Neotrogla possess a penis-like organ, properly termed a "gynosome", but also described by some as a "female penis". They aggressively seek out mates, while males are more selective. During mating, the female mounts the male and penetrates his small genital opening from behind. Her gynosome swells and tiny barbs on the organ lock the individuals tightly together; when a researcher tried to separate mating individuals the male was torn in two, leaving his reproductive organs attached to the female. During mating, the female uses her gynosome to extract sperm and nutrient-filled seminal fluid from the male. A single mating session can last from 40 to 70 hours.>Female Neotrogla drain males of seminal fluid even when they are too young to reproduce
The mythical-looking chiru, also known as the Tibetan antelope (despite being a member of the caprine subfamily). The saiga gets attention sometimes but I never see anyone bring up this thing.
>Adactylidium is a genus of mites known for its unusual life cycle. An impregnated female mite feeds upon a single egg of a thrips, rapidly growing five to eight female offspring and one male in her body. The single male mite mates with all his sisters when they are still inside their mother. The new females, now impregnated, eat their way out of their mother's body so that they can emerge to find new thrips eggs, killing their mother in the process (though the mother may be only 4 days old at the time), starting the cycle again.The male emerges as well, but does not look for food or new mates, and dies after a few hours.
>>5169333...>giwtwm.jpg
It's sad how endangered the Saola is, with fewer than 50 left.
>>5169323picture from an alien ecosystem
The Yapok>Semi-aquatic marsupial>Only extant species where both males and females have a pouch>Special ring of muscles around the pouch to protect young while swimming
I like that these things resemble dinosaurs
Fun fact. This is the first photograph of a Ross Seal underwater, and it happened last year. Mostly due to their extreme isolated location in Antarctica.
They were rediscovered in the 1980s only to vanish for another 40 years, and then be rediscovered again in 2019. I believe they are only found on 3 islands and hide underground away from humans.Unfortunately they do struggle with poachers selling them on the black market.
The short eared dog (AKA the ghost dog) is an elusive wild canine found in the amazon rainforest. It is also the only member of the Atelocynus order. Meaning it doesn't share any close relatives.
It looks more like a large mongoose than a dog
Another weird canine from The Rainforest is the bush dog. They're usually found around rivers, making them the only aquatic canine in the world
>>5169175I just think they're neat
>>5169479>males use their pouches to store their balls so fish don't bite at them. And so they don't get snagged while swimmingLmao
This insect has an absolutely miraculous de-extinction story. I'd recommend giving it a read if you're into these kinds of things.>In 1918 the supply ship SS Makambo ran aground on Lord Howe Island during repairs and rats escaped onto shore. Within two years every stick insect on the island was gone. The species was declared extinct.>In 2001 two scientists climbed Ball’s Pyramid, a volcanic sea stack rising 562 meters straight out of the Tasman Sea, to confirm the insects were not there. On a narrow ledge 65 meters up, under a single wind-beaten tea tree bush, they found 24 of them. Two breeding pairs were collected. Melbourne Zoo bred them to over 9,000 individuals. Lord Howe Island was declared free of rats in 2023, and reintroduction to the island is now being planned for the first time in over a century
Ahaetulla prasina AKA green Asian vine snake.
>>5169587wow I new about ball's pyramid but hadn't heard that. That's so cool.
>>5169514like a mini arthropleura
>>5169587cool. nice that they survived, and I hope I never encounter one
>>5169177You're genuinely retarded, I've seen that dogwater ass ratbird like a million times already.
>>5169715>Oh and one more thing. If someone posts an animal here that you have heard of, then don't be a dick about it. It's just for fun
>>5169328Why exactly can't humans do this?
Bro never skips leg day.
>>5169747The human immune system is too advanced.If you injected live chloroplasts into yourself, your body would immediately flag them as foreign invaders, trigger a severe allergic reaction, and destroy'em.On top of that, chloroplasts just aren't very efficient energy producers relative to a mammal's caloric needs. For a human to generate enough daily calories from sunlight via photosynthesis, you would need to maximize your surface area and drastically lower your metabolism. That means you would have to be able to flatten yourself out to the size of half a tennis court and enter a coma to survive on sunlight using chloroplasts.And even if chloroplasts could survive inside human tissue, they require specific proteins and genetic machinery to maintain themselves.Sea slugs evolved ways to mitigate cellular stress and keep chloroplasts functional; human cells completely lack the cellular architecture to support, shield, or repair a plant organelle and while the sea slugs do have to replenish their chloroplast supply from time to time, we would have to do it much much much much much more often.That's fucking why.
>>5169808>That means you would have to be able to flatten yourself out to the size of half a tennis court and enter a coma to survive on sunlight using chloroplasts.cool design idea. Thanks
>>5169532Cute
