Strange animals you may or may not know exists

Feb 7, 2017 11:37 AM

Janthomasz

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Pink fairy armadillo.

Aye-aye.

The maned wolf.

Tufted deer.

Dumbo octopus.

Patagonian mara.

Naked mole rat.

Irrawaddy dolphin.

Gerenuk.

Dugong.

Babirusa.

Lamprey.

Fossa.

Star-nosed mole.

Sunda colugo.

Zebra duiker.

Yeti crab.

Superb bird of paradise.

Blob fish.

Cantor’s giant soft shelled turtle.

Gobi jerboa.

Japanese spider crab.

If this makes it to the FP there will be alot of strange animals on the FP..

Source: http://www.boredpanda.com/strange-animals/

Aye Aye Aye you're my little butterfly...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you, for the 30-40 % i didn't know. They were awesome.

9 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 3

paging @TinyOctopus

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure the maned fox is Sophie Turner's spirit animal.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

when a creepy guy says 'show me that beautiful smile'

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Jokes on you pal. I knew all the animals from Go Diego Go

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I loved every pic. Good job OP I've been always fond of underground animals. That was an amazing post.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you!! ;)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anyone who's seen Madagascar knows about the fossa.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#24 "lemme smash"

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That bird truly is superb!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

MRW someone finally notices my existence.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

#5 @TinyOctopus

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My bad. #7

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck lampreys and their god-forsaken teeth

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#6 I want to know who first looked at this and decided "I'll name this fanged deer after the weird patch of hair on its head."

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

To be fair there are other water deer that have fangs. This one just has a bad hair cut.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd judge on that too but I'm the one that named my dong Willy the One-Eyed Wonder Weasel...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm very disappointed to see that naked mole rats are not as cute as Roofus was on Kim Possible.

9 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

Nope they are not. Damaraland moles rats are cute though.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Gotta catch them all!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Imagine those crabs legs cooked and served with butter

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm imagining a flavor that is somehow more terrifying than their appearance.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I feel like this should be a meme

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

Brb

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Irritated Irrawaddy

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I don't know what the Sunda Culogo is but I want it

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

All colugo are the best.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/8OCUOQT a.k.a. the Malayan flying lemur

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you should know what a naked mole rat looks like

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

What is that? That freaky thing?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tuft Deer, yes lets completely ignore the vampire fangs.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

*loud VATS SFX*

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Aye-aye looks like a lemur got all fucked up on Meth. Continuously. For a year.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

#wokeuplikethis

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They aren't cute but those are exceptionally bad pictures.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because that one's a baby.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I can't hear you

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't hear you

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Muad'Dib?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Looking for spice

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lamprey are terrifying

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

I want to kill the lampreys.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They scrape away a fish's flesh to drink their blood. That's pretty fucking metal.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Agreed..

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

...but also delicious!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think the Aye-Aye is terrifying

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know some of theese from watching animated movies: Finding Nemo: Dumbo octopus Madagascar: Foossa Gerbi Jaboa: not sure

9 years ago | Likes 104 Dislikes 2

The jerboa is now in the game Ark: Survival Evolved, in the Scorched Earth DLC. It's quite popular

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jerboa was in The Rescuers Down Under

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I know Jerboas from ARK

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Gerbi Jaboa: Coraline

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The jerboa is pretty common in my country, extremely fast night-dwhellers.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Foossa Gerbi Jaboa looks like a kangaroo rat, I read this book possibly decades ago called "I Am Leaper", one learns to talk and tries

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to get help from local kids to help protect the desert it lives in.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The spider crab I know from octonauts... Creature Report!

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Also the yeti crab and blob fish! Tunip!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dance break

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Go insert animal here

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Gerbi Jaboa is definitely from Pokémon

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Does Dune count? Reminds me of Muad'dib.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert. Muad'Dib creates his own water. Muad'Dib hides from the sun and travels in the cool night. --

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

-- your life, Paul Muad'Dib, who is Usul among us.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

-- Muad'Dib is fruitful and multiplies over the land. Muad'Dib we call 'instructor-of-boys.' That is a powerful base on which to build --

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

gerbi jaboa: zoobooks

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Blob fish.. Men in Black

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The mice from coralline!!!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Coraline*

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Giant starnoset mole: City of ember

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

also, Avatar: Last Airbender

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And phineas and ferb

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Naked Mole Rat: Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

And Kim Possible

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

And Brooklyn Nine Nine

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fallout and Fallout 2, all though a pig rat was more likely based of a naked mole rat.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That spider crab can fuck right off

9 years ago | Likes 455 Dislikes 3

Damn nature, you scary.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Try googling "coconut crab".

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Crabpeople.gif

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The picture gives you scale, but seeing one is person is mystifying and somewhat terrifying at the same time.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I really want to eat it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is why I don't like arthropods in general. Bugs, spiders, et al can just fuck the hell off

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Heck off

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I want to eat it badly.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You are not alone in that endeavor

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

looks delicious!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They're pretty good. I had a meal once with one of those, probably not Japanese spider crab but a big ol guy still

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah but look at its itty bitty little claws

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn't remind me of a spider at all when seeing one under water. Also was pretty shy, hiding under a coral. Not as scary as you might think!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The lampreys are worse...imagine getting one on your arm.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

No, no, no. Let's not imagine that. Okay

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Funny thing about lampreys: they eat microbes and such from the skin of the animals they latch onto, effectively cleaning them.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i mean they also bore holes into fish

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The more you know

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Into a vat of boiling water and garbage bag of melted butter?

9 years ago | Likes 166 Dislikes 0

Garlic. you forgot the garlic.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Garlic. You forgot the garlic.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh baby

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I ate one once. I don't think it was Japanese but yeah it was pretty damn good. That meal was like $300 for 4 people tho

9 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

Imagine how nerve racking it would be cooking a $300 meal for a customer.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Yes and no, it was a big crab, I forget the number but I think it was 7 dishes that came from one crab and it was fine dining so, they know

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Where?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

The crabs are building up an army against humanity... HAVE MERCY

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

thank you.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Whenever I see this all I can think is dinner.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Aww C'mon! Those pictures make Aye Ayes look terrible. They're the largest nocturnal primates and actually really cool!

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

It is said that if you speak its name out loud, one will find you in the night, tap on your chest with its huge finger, and eat your life.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think that little one looks fascinating!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For some reason I don't like the fact that in English it is "aye-aye". In my language it is pronounced about the same, but written "ai-ai".

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What language is that?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What language is that?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They're also the only primate to use echolocation to find food, they tap on trees and listen. And they have a ball and socket joint on one >

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Finger!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yea those pics aren't the best.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I really appreciate your enthusiasm regarding Aye Ayes

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Haha they just don't deserve the bad rap they get

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had a guy in high school tell me I looked like one. So thank you for that.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He was definitely hitting on you then ;)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I sure hope so. Because actually looking like that. Eek!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is said that if you speak its name out loud, one will find you in the night, tap on your chest with its huge finger, and eat your life.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

v All I see are these guys lol

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Haha what is that from??

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Labyrinth, I believe.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1986 film from Jim Henson: The Labyrinth, David Bowie did all the music, and is the villian! It just got updated to 4k for it's anniversary.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Solid research, well done

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Jareth isn't a villain, just a fabulous and glittery magical babysitter

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is true he gave her everything she asked for, every time. Good guy Jareth and Scumbag Sarah lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I got to see the smallest primates (also nocturnal) recently. Tarsiers in Bohol, Philippines.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's awesome! I was just in Madagascar last summer and saw mouse lemurs =D do you study tarsiers?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha no I was just traveling with friends in the Philippines. How was Madagascar!?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice! Madagascar was amazing! I got to tag along with a bunch of scientists doing fieldwork so I was tromping through the jungle everyday

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That sounds amazing! Can I ask what organisation you were working with since I'm looking for global internships?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's so rad

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Come on, everybody knows rufus

9 years ago | Likes 615 Dislikes 3

No but roofies!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

But you don't know how horrible it really looks!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I went to comments to post this only to find I'm 11 hours late. :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or played Fallout.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Exactly my thought

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rufus really let himself go.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or the Meter long bastards that try to dig into your vault.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I saw that and thought who didn't watch Kim Possible?

9 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Not everyone on here is your age. Kim Possible came out after I left 'high school'....

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Whoa whoa whoa hold up. You're telling me there are people on here who aren't 21? v

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I know, its very, very hard to understand. You young things think you're the only ones around.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE AROUND? v

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's Ron's naked mole rat!

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

Yeah but Rufus is so much cuter than the actual thing...

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

The show was in 480p

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I have the vaguest idea what that means, but I still wanted to cuddle Rufus

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Video Display Resolution. There was a running gag of a TV reporter suddenly loosing popularit as TV switched to HD, gaining "imperfections".

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Although Kim Possible was actually fully in 1080p/Full HD and that's the joke. Yes, I'm fun at parties.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ahhhh, ok

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What is that, little freaky thing?!

9 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 0

That, THAT NAKED MOLE RAT!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes that's right, it's a naked mole rat.

9 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

Come on now, let the girlies sing

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

LISTEN TO THE NAKED MOLE RAT!

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

Naked mole RAP, thank you very much.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Na na na na na na nananana na na na na naaaaaaaaaa!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0