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Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

10 Weird Strange Animals

Friday, November 25, 2016


10 Weird and Strange Animals

The Zombie Snail 
This is an animal right from the walking dead. Parasites invade the tentacle of this snail and cause it to pulse with bright colors. The snail has no control over the tentacles once the parasites invade the snail. The pulsing tentacles attract birds that feed on the snail, and the parasite then lives in the bird

Goblin Shark 
This is a strange looking shark that lives deep in the ocean. This strange shark has the capacity to dislocate its jaw and thrust it towards its prey and reattach the jaw.

Nudibranch Sea Slug
This slug gets its colors and even toxins from the meals it eats. It would be similar to you eating carrots,absorbing the orange color,and then you turning orange after ingesting the carrots.

Dumbo Octopus
This octopus lays eggs and will survive at depths as deep as 13,000 feet.

Saddleback Caterpillar
This caterpillar looks very strange and may sting and inflict an agonizing sting

Tarsier 
This primate found in the Philippines is the world's smallest primate. This little creature is nocturnal and feeds on insects and tiny lizards. This tiny primate is also incredibly nimble in trees

Cape Rain Frog
This frog looks like a rock This circular frog of South Africa will remain in a good burrow for months to in order to avoid the heat.

Komodo Dragon 
These huge lizards will cannibalize other Komodo Dragons and may inject venom.

Cuttlefish 
The cephalopods have an amazing capability to camouflage. They can change colors in an to match their environment in an instant. Cuttlefish work with pigmented and elastic sacs known as chromatophores, to display these change in colors.

Hippo
This is a mammal that loves the water They possess many of the same traits as whales. They possess a strange behavior. They fling their feces with their tail.

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15 Marine Iguana fun facts-These lizards love the ocean

Saturday, November 19, 2016


1. Marine iguanas are the only marine lizard in the world


2. They are found only on the Galapagos Island.

3. They are closely related to mainland iguanas but are black in color instead of green.

mainland iguana


4. Charles Darwin was fascinated by these lizards, and rumor has it he would toss them into the ocean and watch them swim to the rocks.

5. Marine iguanas are ectothermic. ( cold-blooded)

6. Marine iguanas are reptiles so they have scales.

7. Marine iguanas can grow up to 5 feet in length.

8. They lay between one and three eggs.

9. They dine on algae found in the ocean, and sometimes on plants.

10. These iguanas have a symbiotic relationship with mockingbirds.  

11. Hawks can eat iguanas and mockingbirds give off a warning sound when hawks are around which helps the iguanas stay alive.

12. Hawks found on Galapagos attack and eat marine iguanas.

13. These lizards sneeze often in order to remove salt water from their sinus cavity.

14. They can stay underwater almost an hour.

15. Because they are ectothermic, they have to sun themselves on rocks often during the day.
 
Bonus: Male iguanas are larger than female iguanas.

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Examples of mimicry

Tuesday, November 15, 2016


Mimicry is when a plant or animal resembles another organism or inanimate item, to acquire an advantage or even to stay alive.

A few plants or animals employ a technique known mimicry, that involves hiding or appearing as another organism.  Some might appear to be even more threatening. Looking more closely at a few of the examples  of mimicry can provide us a clear insight into the fascinating process regarding mimicry.

Some interesting examples of mimicry include,

  • The mimic octopus. This octopus can take the shape, and color of many objects in its surroundings.
  • The kingsnake has stripes on it’s body that make it look like the highly dangerous coral snake.
  • The pygmy owl has coloration on the back of it’s head that makes it look the same in the back of it's head as the front of it's head.
  • The fork tailed Drongo is a bird with a fascinating ability. It can mimic the security alarm sign of several animals. It sounds the fake security alarm, and then flies down and steals food from the animals that are frightened off.

Mimicry is merely one among many different techniques plants and animals use to help them stay alive, and reproduce.

Elephants and Hippos

Sunday, October 30, 2016




Here are some fun facts about elephants and Hippos
Elephants live 60 to 70 years.
The eat 300 to 400 pounds of food a day.
They live in herds of between 5 and 100 elephants.
Elephants can weigh between 5 and 10,000 pounds.
They can communicate with their feet.
When a new baby elephant is born the entire herd helps raise it.
Hippos are found in Africa.
The name hippopotamus means 'river horse'.
Hippos are the third largest land animal.
A hippopotamus can weigh up to 10,000 pounds
Hippos love the water and can nurse their young in the water.
Hippos like to live together in groups called schools or pods.
Hippos can't swim, but move very quickly in the water by pushing off objects.


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What animal releases purple ink?

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Sea hares (Aplysia ) release a colorful purple ink when attacked. The purple ink helps the sea hare escape and is irratating to it's predators. I first discovered a sea hare on Pensacola beach florida when I saw a blob of goo and was shocked when this blob of goo started to move. When I moved the sea hare back into the ocean it let lose a stream of purple dye. Life is strange.


Cellular respiration-Science Animated Video

Tuesday, August 23, 2016


Cellular Respiration

All living organisms practice cellular respiration.
This includes bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals.
Why is cellular respiration important?
Living organisms generate energy with cellular respiration.
In plants and animals, cellular respiration takes place at the mitochondria.

Think of the mitochondria as the power plant of the cell because the energy of the cell is generated at the mitochondria much like powerplants and turbines generate power for their city.

Cells that need more energy, like muscles, have more mitochondria. 

At the mitochondria, sugar combines with oxygen to produce
carbon dioxide plus and energy in the form of ATP.

Cellular respiration



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