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====Mammals==== | ====Mammals==== | ||
The [[wp:Manx_Loaghtan|Manx Loaghtan sheep]] has up to six horns. | The [[wp:Manx_Loaghtan|Manx Loaghtan sheep]] has up to six horns. | ||
====Other land animals==== | |||
The [https://www.google.com/search?q=panther+chameleon&tbm=isch panther chameleon] is one of many examples showing that nature does not have to be conservative with colors. | |||
====Birds==== | ====Birds==== | ||
The Guianan Cock-Of-The-Rock is fairly ordinary besides its crest, but [http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e8ed38fbb46c34148a7516c1e3a8b42/tumblr_mgxo8qk4iO1s3yrubo1_r1_1280.jpg from certain angles] it looks unearthly. | |||
The [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/55f702a4e4b0794fbe24736b/1491257723630-KCAVSSPB2LSJT4XMJIBR/Spatuletail+Hummingbird.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg marvellous spatuletail] has extremely improbable tailfeathers. | |||
====Insects and small animals==== | ====Insects and small animals==== | ||
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The assassin bug [http://www.arkinspace.com/2012/05/assassin-bug-malaysias-macabre.html wears the skeletons] of its victims like a trophy. | The assassin bug [http://www.arkinspace.com/2012/05/assassin-bug-malaysias-macabre.html wears the skeletons] of its victims like a trophy. | ||
The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgeaiEuFc0 stalk-eyed fly] alters its body in a particularly unsettling manner using air pressure. | |||
Tortoise beetles [https://www.google.com/search?q=tortoise+beetles&tbm=isch vary so widely in appearance] that you'd think they were totally different species. | |||
Ants in the Amazon [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0921_050921_amazon_ant_2.html use acid] to cultivate gardens of their preferred tree species. | |||
Queens in the "longhorn crazy ant" species can switch between [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20072-zoologger-invasion-of-the-crazy-incestuous-ants.html three methods of reproduction]: the typical sexual process, asexual self-cloning, and cloning of males, making her a cloning machine that allows the nest to sustain small populations without suffering from inbreeding. | |||
Oriental hornets are apparently partly [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19709-zoologger-the-solar-powered-electric-hornet/ solar-powered], generating electricity from the sunlight that falls on them, though we still don't know how exactly they use it. | |||
==Parasites== | ==Parasites== | ||