Back when these creatures were discovered, someone looked at them and thought “slipper!”.
Exploratory biologists got rather homesick at times.
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Poison Frog
Rapunzel has been awaiting her rescuer for quite some time and is starting to think that she might have to rescue herself.
Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
Invisible pig.
Kiwi
Kiwi have evolved a tripod structure for maximal species stability.
Nightly New(t)s
Tonight on the Nightly New(t)s, this emperor newt explores an economic environment in which television networks make their money by selling shows about poor people to other poor people, making the first group of poor people ever richer the poorer they can get them to act.
Fortunately he concludes his analysis with the observation that, though such a system would make the network quite rich, it is too transparent and cruel of a ploy for anyone to really fall for.
Prairie Dog performing All’s Well That Ends Well
O madam, yonder’s my lord your son with a patch of
velvet on’s face: whether there be a scar under’t
or no, the velvet knows; but ’tis a goodly patch of
velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
half, but his right cheek is worn bare.
Self Portrait With Leaf Hopper
Green and Black Poison Frog (Dendrobates auratus)
Though normally quite meticulous, you can when frog painters are working on a Friday afternoon.
White Spot Anemone Shrimp (Periclimenes brevicarpalis)
When making a shrimp, you pretty much just poke a bunch of little sticks into the body until it doesn’t look like a shrimp anymore. Then you take that last one out and call it done.
Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
“Yo pretty snakiess ’round the worldss
Got a weird thingss to show yass
So tell all the lil snakeletss
Tell your brothersss, your sistersss and your mammasss too
‘Cause we’re about to go downss
And youss knows just whatss to do
Wave your tonguesss in the air like yousss don’t care
Glide by the peoplesss as they startsss to looksss and staresss
Do your squeezesss, do your squeezesss, do your squeezesss quick mammasss
Come snakeletsss tell me what’s the wordsss
Wordssssss upssssss.”
Bicolor Poison Frog (Phyllobates bicolor)
Some frogs will move their young from pond to pond or up trees to small pools of water in bromeliads. They do this by sticking them on their back and carrying them one-by-one to where they need to go.
This process can take a long time, so these frogs don’t see many movies until their brood has grown up.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus)
The peacock mantis shrimp has the most interesting eyes anywhere in the animal kingdom. If you don’t believe me, ask The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp.
Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Once they become successful with using two sticks in two hands, they progress with two in one. Then, they practice with smaller and smaller sticks. Eventually, when the sticks become sufficiently small, pandas may begin to to eat rice, greatly expanding their possible range.
Oriental Fire-fellied Toad (Bombina orientalis)
Sometimes it can be hard to tell where the frog ends and the pond begins. This is why we have biologists.
Great Land Crab (Cardisoma guanhumi)
He’s knows all the other kids will respect him more once his mustache comes in, but it sure is taking its own sweet time doing so.
Grand Cayman Iguana (Cyclura Lewisi)
This grand cayman iguana can’t remember that word.
Giant Vinegaroon (Mastigoproctus giganteus)
Like everyone else, they’re just looking for someone to hug.
False Water Cobra (Hydrodynastes gigas)
After a long day away, false water cobras show their appreciation for your return by barking and licking your face. True water cobras react rather differently.
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
They went through a lot of pelicans before they evolved the ability to float.
Well that’s answered
In this rare photo of a robin being spontaneously generated suggests that the egg did not, in fact, come first.