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From demons of the deep, to giant sea cockroaches, we look at 15 Animals you won’t Believe
are Real. 15 – Star Nosed Mole,
• This guy may look more like an alien *** with claws but he’s actually way more impressive
than that. • These underground dwellers are mostly
blind but their super-smelling powers well and truly compensate. Their snout has 22 tentacles,
which act more like fingers than a nose. The breed’s unique sniffers have almost double
the sensitivity of a human hand but are smaller than your average fingertip.
• They can even smell underwater, which was thought to be impossible for mammals.
So unlike us they have the luck of getting to smell all the whale and lobster farts you
could only dream of! 14 – Glass Frog,
• This translucent skinned guy leaves nothing to the imagination. Living mostly in trees
in tropical climates, they only take to the ground for mating season.
• The top half of their bodies is green but the skin of their bellies is see through.
This is thought to be an attempt to camouflage themselves against predators while jumping
from branch to branch. • But this surely can’t be too effective
since we can still see their internal organs. Thanks a lot evolution! Someone’s gotta
tell these guys to make sure they buy dinner first before they go showing every Tom, ***
and Kermit their innards. 13 – Angora Rabbit,
• These fluffy rabbits are bred mostly for their silky fur, which is finer and softer
than cashmere. The fur is then turned into angora wool and used to make some crazy expensive
clothes. • The Angora rabbit’s insanely long fur
needs a lot of maintenance and they need to eat a lot of hay to help them digest all the
hair they consume while they’re grooming. Originally from Turkey, they became popular
pets of the French royalty in the 18th century. • They’re pretty docile and make great
pets even if they do look like the resulting offspring of an Ewok and a rabbit.
12 – Bergamasco Shepherd, • This ancient breed of dog has been rockin’
the dreadlock hairstyle for more than 2000 years before hipster white guys started doing
it to look “cool”. • Originally bred in northern Italy and
used mostly for herding sheep, the effort to revive the dwindling numbers has led to
the spread of this intelligent, odd looking version of man’s best friend to places all
around the globe. • They start their lives with a soft fluffed
up puppy fur which “flocks” together at about one year old forming some pretty gnarly
dreads that any Rastafarian would envy. But don’t go blaring your Bob Marley records
just yet. There’ll be no Rastafarian relocation because these pups need to live in cooler
climates because of their thick woolly dreadlocked coats.
11 – Sea Pig, • These squishier looking sea creatures
are a type of sea cucumber that can fit in the palm of your hand.
• They hang out in hordes at the bottom of the ocean, on the abysmal plain. Weird
and slimy looking with some odd antennae, they act a lot like underwater slugs. Well,
slugs that breathe through their *** but, hey nobody’s perfect.
• Sea pigs spend their lives sucking the *** out of sea mud for all its yummy scummy
goodness. It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it.
10 – Aye Aye, • So this beady-eyed critter may look like
he’s from Bruce Wayne’s nightmares, but he’s actually a type of lemur native to
Madagascar. • Although they’re primates, just like
a bat they use echolocation. They’re even nocturnal and sleep upside down in trees during
the day time. They’re also pretty great at hide and seek. They were assumed to be
extinct for a little while until the breed resurfaced. Though they’re still endangered
unfortunately, but I got a feeling they are just hiding.
• Many natives in Madagascar believe that sighting the Aye Aye is bad luck. So if your
house burns down after viewing this video, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
9 – Venezuelan Poodle Moth, • These fluffy little guys are a pretty
new species, discovered only in 2009 and not much is known about them.
• When images of them were first released, the internet understandably assumed it was
a hoax or some kind of viral marketing campaign for Godzilla’s old foe Mothra. The poodle
moths may look soft and cuddly but the fine hairs will probably irritate your skin which
is why they sometimes deposit them on their eggs to annoy predators.
• While they may look like aristocratic aliens dressed in flashy fur coats, let’s
just hope that PETA gets the memo and doesn’t tip red paint all over them.
8 – Sea Lamprey, • This jawless fish have been around since
before the dinosaurs. But we’ve only recently figured out what pests they are.
• These parasites suck the blood out of creatures far and wide, wreaking havoc in
areas where endangered sea critters are trying to reproduce. With a mouth that looks like
Fleshlight death trap from a Saw movie, the Sea Lamprey isn’t winning over many friends
outside the S&M crowd. • But there’s more, immediately after
spawning sea lampreys up and die! Guess there’s no Netflix and chill for these guys, just
Netflix and death. Ah well, I guess there are worse ways to go.
7 – Emperor Tamarin, • While the emperor tamarin was named after
a German emperor because of their distinctive moustache, we all know they look more like
a villain from an old kung fu movie. • These graceful primates live in South
America and eats mostly bugs and spiders. In the groups the oldest female holds the
highest rank and there is normally only two fully mature males. During mating season,
the females get to mate with every male in the group, which would make the paternity
tests damn near impossible. Still, it’s good to see feminism has found its way into
the animal kingdom. • But when they get around to making an
all monkey version of ‘Kill Bill’, we totally have Pei Mei covered.
6 – Goblin Shark, • This spear headed, spindly toothed demon
from the deep disturbs every soul that sees it. Which means it’s probably a good thing
that they aren’t seen all that often. • Growing up to 3 metres long they have
been appropriately nicknamed the ‘alien of the deep’. With their most terrifying
feature being their protruding jaws that extend almost independently and entrap their prey
with its needle-like teeth. It looks like his jaw in trying to escape from the rest
of his face and who could blame it? • Thankfully, they tend to live deep in
the ocean, which means they’re not too dangerous to humans. But try telling that to my nightmares.
5 – Tardigrade, • What this little guy lacks in length he
makes us for in resilience. The tardigrade is a water dwelling micro-animal so durable
they put humans to shame. • Half a millimetre in length: they’re
tough, they’re tiny and have a face like something that would be trying to kill you
in Fallout. They can live in solid ice, in boiling water. Hell, we even shot them into
space and they still survived! Yikes, it’s a good thing they’re tiny otherwise the
human race would be in big trouble. • They’ve been around for over half a
billion years and they’re showing no sign of slowing down. I’m willing to bet that
with a face like that they’ll even survive the nuclear apocalypse
4 – Blob Fish, • This aesthetically challenged little guy
has a face only a mother could love…Actually no, no she couldn’t.
• This guy’s Blobbiness is the result of having zero muscles or bones in its entire
body. This also means they can’t hunt, so they suck in whatever unfortunate sea creature
swims passed. But some scientists feel the Blobfish is being misrepresented. In their
deep sea, high pressure environment they’re not nearly as ugly as they look when they
reach the surface. • Still, imagine being such an uggo that
you’re made the mascot for the ‘Ugly animal preservation society’. It’s an honour
nobody wanted. 3 – Angler Fish,
• An angry-looking fiend with an overbite game so impressive they can swallow prey twice
their size? It could only be the Anglerfish • With the female using her illuminated
antennae to lure prey and potential mates, the much smaller male latches onto his chosen
lady with his teeth. Then his body physically fuses with hers and he lives the rest of his
sad life being accused of being a deadbeat husband.
• So gentlemen, if you find yourself being drawn toward a sexy sea antenna, for the love
of God, don’t go towards the light! Unless you’re into that co-dependent kind of thing
2 – Snakehead Fish, • Charmingly nicknamed ‘Frankenfish’,
this ravenous species is the kind of fish that will haunt your dreams.
• They can live out of water for up to four days and will try eating whatever it comes
by. So when opportunity knocks, the snakehead always answers. There are even rumours of
these carnivores stalking small dogs, though researchers maintain that the fish doesn’t
have the muscle strength to take on prey of that size.
• Thank God, because my nightmares weren’t completely free of demons of the deep. Now
they’re even climbing out of the water. Let’s just hope nobody exposes these guys
to radiation because these guys are super villains in the making
1 – The Giant Isopod, • Scuttling in at number one is these huge
*** sea cockroaches called the giant isopod. • Even though they look a lot like insects,
they’re actually a type of crustacean. These bad boys can go years without eating but when
they have the chance they love to feast on the carcasses of whatever is left at the bottom
of the ocean. YUM! Anyone else up for carcass soup?!
• These guys can get really big, sometimes even grow to the size of your average house
cat. A few years ago 2 and a half foot long isopod was discovered. If only heavy duty
insecticide worked on these cockaroaches, then maybe I could sleep at night.