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the tree-kangaroo’s silky + woolly fur might be brown, black, or even golden. large of eye and round-faced, they appear very cute and cuddly. these tree-kangaroos live mostly in trees, as opposed to their terrestrial cousins. their strong forelimbs and long tail helps them jump on treetops.

4 Comments

2025/01/29
20:25 UTC

926

Young Orangutans stay with their mother until they reach around 7 years old, learning everything from her. Because of this long learning curve, Orangutans only have young once every 7 to 9 years, which is the longest birth interval of any land mammal.

9 Comments

2025/01/29
14:54 UTC

749

Pink Fairy Crab: also known as a "pink hairy squat lobster," this species of crab has a strikingly colorful, fuzzy-looking appearance, and it feeds on various bits of detritus that are collected in its own "fur"

15 Comments

2025/01/27
05:04 UTC

512

Hopkin’s rose nudibranch is a sea slug from North America’s West Coast. It gets its rosy-pink pigment by eating pink bryozoans — tiny, colonial animals that form larger plant-like structures. Despite looking like bubblegum, the sea slug's frilly, pink appearance is thought to deter predators.

6 Comments

2025/01/20
23:13 UTC

2,753

Snow leopards are primarily crepuscular, meaning that they are most active during dawn and dusk. They are capable of killing animals more than three to four times their own weight.

24 Comments

2025/01/17
20:06 UTC

Bioluminescent Phytoplankton (Pyrocystis fusiformis) under a microscope during their night cycle. They use light to deter predators by startling them or to attract larger predators to their location to feed on whatever might be feeding on them - this is called the burglar alarm theory.

1 Comment

2025/01/17
18:39 UTC

500

The hairy frogfish doesn't pursue prey. Instead, it wobbles along the sea floor, finds a hiding spot, and uses a worm-like appendage on its head to lure in a victim. Its body is covered in spines which resemble strands of hair — camouflaging it amongst seaweed, assisted by colour-changing abilities.

13 Comments

2025/01/10
22:06 UTC

682

Pandas devour massive amounts of bamboo and shift their eating habits throughout the season to maximize protein intake. They digest it so efficiently that bamboo protein supplies them with at least half of their calories, which is on par with the carnivorous diets of Wolves.

14 Comments

2025/01/08
14:51 UTC

610

A resident of the Tibetan Plateau, the ground tit lives above the treeline at elevations no lower than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). It moves along the ground in unpredictable dashes and hops — said to resemble a bouncing rubber ball — and digs burrows for nesting and shelter.

13 Comments

2025/01/05
21:22 UTC

3,897

Sand cats have been described to close their eyes at night when humans approach making them difficult to see them because they blend in with their environment.

15 Comments

2025/01/03
22:26 UTC

690

The ornate horned frog is also known as a "Pacman frog" and referred to as a “mouth with legs” — and it is, appropriately, quite a glutton. It'll eat any prey that fits in its huge mouth, from insects to lizards to mice to birds to other frogs. It'll even attempt to consume prey larger than itself.

15 Comments

2025/01/01
17:52 UTC

787

Frother Moths (Genus Amerila): when these moths feel threatened, they secrete a frothy yellow substance from their prothoracic glands, producing chemicals that are distasteful to predators

20 Comments

2024/12/30
11:57 UTC

570

Brush Jewel Beetle (Genus Julodis): this beetle has tufts of colorful, wax-coated bristles that sprout up along the dorsal surface of its head, thorax, and abdomen

8 Comments

2024/12/29
09:12 UTC

260

The call of a blacksmith lapwing is a noisy and metallic ‘tink tink tink’ — like a blacksmith hammering on an anvil. It's an exceedingly bold bird when defending its chicks, known to attack raptors and go after elephants using the sharp spurs on its carpal (wrist) joints.

10 Comments

2024/12/28
19:46 UTC

477

The mistletoebird of Australia and Indonesia specializes in feeding on mistletoe berries — digesting the flesh and depositing the sticky seeds onto branches in neat lines, where they quickly germinate and grow. The bird is nomadic, in near-constant search of mistletoe berries.

9 Comments

2024/12/23
21:28 UTC

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Flying Foxes are crucial pollinators that keep native forests healthy. Pollen sticks to their bodies as they fly between trees, pollinating their flowers. This reinforces the forest's health, which in turn provides valuable timber, honey, carbon sinks, stable river systems, & tourism opportunities.

21 Comments

2024/12/18
14:53 UTC

1,719

The Lake Pátzcuaro salamander is only found in a single lake in Mexico, with an estimated population of less than 100 left in the wild. A close relative of the axolotl, this salamander also retains many of its larval traits into adulthood — but it can still grow up to 35 cm (13.8 in) long.

11 Comments

2024/12/17
20:30 UTC

537

Elephantfish map their surroundings by emitting electric fields and then sensing the interference created by objects within these fields. They also use these electric impulses to talk to each other via a complex language, with some species having a larger brain to body size ratio than humans!

9 Comments

2024/12/15
18:55 UTC

1,167

The Okinawa rail is Japan's only flightless bird — found exclusively on the island of Okinawa. Before nightfall, it uses its powerful clawed feet to climb trees, where it sleeps to avoid nocturnal-hunting pit vipers. In the morning, it drops back down in a graceless fluttering of wings.

15 Comments

2024/12/11
22:38 UTC

733

The Culpeo is a fox-like canine native to the west coast of South America. It is an opportunistic feeder that primarily targets small prey, most importantly invasive European rabbits which it helps control the numbers of.

11 Comments

2024/12/11
12:46 UTC

3,133

The Galápagos pink land iguana is found only on the slopes of a single active volcano on one of the Galápagos Islands. Named for its pink scales, this land iguana was described as a distinct species in 2009 and is considered 'critically endangered' — with fewer than 200 left.

28 Comments

2024/12/04
21:30 UTC

503

Tayras are the biggest species of Central American Mustelid at up to 28 in long. They live as semi-arboreal omnivores in forests ranging from The Southern Yucatan to Northern Argentina & are also well known for their intelligence, having been seen ripping unripe bananas from trees to save for later.

9 Comments

2024/12/02
14:55 UTC

5,021

The night parrot was believed to be extinct for almost 80 years. One of Australia's most elusive birds, this nocturnal parrot lives in isolated arid regions, spending most of its time on the ground and hiding within tunnels of spinifex grass.

26 Comments

2024/12/01
22:25 UTC

284

Moss-and-Lichen Katydid (Genus Anaphidna): these katydids have cryptic features that allow them to blend in with the mossy, lichen-covered terrain of the rainforests in which they live, and their long, slender wings are typically held at a 45-degree angle in order to mimic the shape of a twig

8 Comments

2024/12/01
19:50 UTC

306

The Calabar Python (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a small snake (1 metre/39 inches long) native to West and Central Africa. Its common name is a misnomer, it is actually a species of boa. Unlike most boas, they lay one to three enormous eggs that may represent up to half of the female's body weight.

15 Comments

2024/12/01
04:42 UTC

1,032

Of the two living Wildebeest species, the Black Wildebeest is the rarer and less famous, found only in Southern Africa. It was once nearly hunted to extinction but since has been successfully reintroduced to many parts of its natural range.

15 Comments

2024/11/30
16:09 UTC

1,930

The armoured rat is covered in sharp spines that can grow as long as 3 cm (1.2 in) — a great defence against the snakes and ocelots that share its wet rainforest habitat. Additionally, if all else fails, this rat can drop its tail to confuse or distract a predator.

34 Comments

2024/11/25
14:47 UTC

3,887

After 2000 years of isolation, a few decades of interbreeding have rendered the Scottish wildcat “genomically extinct”. Starting in the mid-1950s, more than 5% of the genetic markers in Scottish wildcats began to resemble those of domestic cats. After 1997, that figure jumped to as high as 74%.

69 Comments

2024/11/24
19:09 UTC

611

The Asian openbill uses its "open bill" to locate and grab its favourite prey — freshwater snails — using the sharp tip of its curved, lower mandible to extract them from their shells. It is a common species of stork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

8 Comments

2024/11/22
14:18 UTC

"Black Rats" (Rattus rattus) aren't always black. They range in color from black to light brown with lighter colored bellies. Variations which were bred for show in the 1930's even included an unusual green tinted variety.

4 Comments

2024/11/22
14:08 UTC

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the tree-kangaroo’s silky + woolly fur might be brown, black, or even golden. large of eye and round-faced, they appear very cute and cuddly. these tree-kangaroos live mostly in trees, as opposed to their terrestrial cousins. their strong forelimbs and long tail helps them jump on treetops.

Young Orangutans stay with their mother until they reach around 7 years old, learning everything from her. Because of this long learning curve, Orangutans only have young once every 7 to 9 years, which is the longest birth interval of any land mammal.

Pink Fairy Crab: also known as a "pink hairy squat lobster," this species of crab has a strikingly colorful, fuzzy-looking appearance, and it feeds on various bits of detritus that are collected in its own "fur"

Hopkin’s rose nudibranch is a sea slug from North America’s West Coast. It gets its rosy-pink pigment by eating pink bryozoans — tiny, colonial animals that form larger plant-like structures. Despite looking like bubblegum, the sea slug's frilly, pink appearance is thought to deter predators.

Snow leopards are primarily crepuscular, meaning that they are most active during dawn and dusk. They are capable of killing animals more than three to four times their own weight.

Bioluminescent Phytoplankton (Pyrocystis fusiformis) under a microscope during their night cycle. They use light to deter predators by startling them or to attract larger predators to their location to feed on whatever might be feeding on them - this is called the burglar alarm theory.

Pandas devour massive amounts of bamboo and shift their eating habits throughout the season to maximize protein intake. They digest it so efficiently that bamboo protein supplies them with at least half of their calories, which is on par with the carnivorous diets of Wolves.

A resident of the Tibetan Plateau, the ground tit lives above the treeline at elevations no lower than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). It moves along the ground in unpredictable dashes and hops — said to resemble a bouncing rubber ball — and digs burrows for nesting and shelter.

Sand cats have been described to close their eyes at night when humans approach making them difficult to see them because they blend in with their environment.

Frother Moths (Genus Amerila): when these moths feel threatened, they secrete a frothy yellow substance from their prothoracic glands, producing chemicals that are distasteful to predators

Brush Jewel Beetle (Genus Julodis): this beetle has tufts of colorful, wax-coated bristles that sprout up along the dorsal surface of its head, thorax, and abdomen

The call of a blacksmith lapwing is a noisy and metallic ‘tink tink tink’ — like a blacksmith hammering on an anvil. It's an exceedingly bold bird when defending its chicks, known to attack raptors and go after elephants using the sharp spurs on its carpal (wrist) joints.

The mistletoebird of Australia and Indonesia specializes in feeding on mistletoe berries — digesting the flesh and depositing the sticky seeds onto branches in neat lines, where they quickly germinate and grow. The bird is nomadic, in near-constant search of mistletoe berries.

Flying Foxes are crucial pollinators that keep native forests healthy. Pollen sticks to their bodies as they fly between trees, pollinating their flowers. This reinforces the forest's health, which in turn provides valuable timber, honey, carbon sinks, stable river systems, & tourism opportunities.

The Lake Pátzcuaro salamander is only found in a single lake in Mexico, with an estimated population of less than 100 left in the wild. A close relative of the axolotl, this salamander also retains many of its larval traits into adulthood — but it can still grow up to 35 cm (13.8 in) long.

Elephantfish map their surroundings by emitting electric fields and then sensing the interference created by objects within these fields. They also use these electric impulses to talk to each other via a complex language, with some species having a larger brain to body size ratio than humans!

The Okinawa rail is Japan's only flightless bird — found exclusively on the island of Okinawa. Before nightfall, it uses its powerful clawed feet to climb trees, where it sleeps to avoid nocturnal-hunting pit vipers. In the morning, it drops back down in a graceless fluttering of wings.

The Culpeo is a fox-like canine native to the west coast of South America. It is an opportunistic feeder that primarily targets small prey, most importantly invasive European rabbits which it helps control the numbers of.

The Galápagos pink land iguana is found only on the slopes of a single active volcano on one of the Galápagos Islands. Named for its pink scales, this land iguana was described as a distinct species in 2009 and is considered 'critically endangered' — with fewer than 200 left.

Tayras are the biggest species of Central American Mustelid at up to 28 in long. They live as semi-arboreal omnivores in forests ranging from The Southern Yucatan to Northern Argentina & are also well known for their intelligence, having been seen ripping unripe bananas from trees to save for later.

The night parrot was believed to be extinct for almost 80 years. One of Australia's most elusive birds, this nocturnal parrot lives in isolated arid regions, spending most of its time on the ground and hiding within tunnels of spinifex grass.

Moss-and-Lichen Katydid (Genus Anaphidna): these katydids have cryptic features that allow them to blend in with the mossy, lichen-covered terrain of the rainforests in which they live, and their long, slender wings are typically held at a 45-degree angle in order to mimic the shape of a twig

The Calabar Python (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a small snake (1 metre/39 inches long) native to West and Central Africa. Its common name is a misnomer, it is actually a species of boa. Unlike most boas, they lay one to three enormous eggs that may represent up to half of the female's body weight.

Of the two living Wildebeest species, the Black Wildebeest is the rarer and less famous, found only in Southern Africa. It was once nearly hunted to extinction but since has been successfully reintroduced to many parts of its natural range.

The armoured rat is covered in sharp spines that can grow as long as 3 cm (1.2 in) — a great defence against the snakes and ocelots that share its wet rainforest habitat. Additionally, if all else fails, this rat can drop its tail to confuse or distract a predator.

After 2000 years of isolation, a few decades of interbreeding have rendered the Scottish wildcat “genomically extinct”. Starting in the mid-1950s, more than 5% of the genetic markers in Scottish wildcats began to resemble those of domestic cats. After 1997, that figure jumped to as high as 74%.

The Asian openbill uses its "open bill" to locate and grab its favourite prey — freshwater snails — using the sharp tip of its curved, lower mandible to extract them from their shells. It is a common species of stork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

"Black Rats" (Rattus rattus) aren't always black. They range in color from black to light brown with lighter colored bellies. Variations which were bred for show in the 1930's even included an unusual green tinted variety.