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evilmoers · 17th October 2012, 18:24

Brachionichthys / Brachiopsilus

Most fish swim. But not the handfish. These small, strikingly patterned fish prefer to stroll leisurely across the sea floor on a pair of hand-like fins.
The endangered spotted handfish is found on sediment at the bottom of Tasmania’s Derwent estuary and adjoining bays.Csiro The endangered spotted handfish is found on sediment in an estuary and adjoining bays in Tasmania.

Fifty million years ago, handfish roamed many of the world’s oceans, but today they are found only in the coastal waters of Tasmania and southern Australia – and rarely at that. But this month, diligent researchers from Australia’s national science agency announced that they had discovered nine entirely new species of handfish over the last several years. Previously, only five had been described.

Finding these new species could not have been an easy task, as handfish are rare and elusive. One species is known from a single specimen caught in the late 1800s and never seen again. Another, the pink handfish, is known from only four specimens. And even after years of research, little is known conclusively about their biology and preferred habitat.

The announcement of these new species came with a warning: some handfish may be treading down the rocky path to extinction.

One handfish species is already considered endangered and another two are listed as vulnerable by the Australian authorities.

details:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ence-pictures/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_handfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachionichthys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiopsilus

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Handfish from Tasmania, Australia - YouTube

evilmoers · 17th October 2012, 18:25

New Species 2012 - YouTube

evilmoers · 25th October 2012, 20:35

Macrochelys temminckii

The Alligator Snapping Turtle is quite the big, bitey brute. From beaky head to long, scaly tail it looks like something that was supposed to have died out millions of years ago, but survived through sheer force of anger and crankiness.

Between head and tail is a craggy shell covered in three rows of spikes. The shell alone can reach up to 80 cm (31 in) long in a really large male. Females are smaller and an unusually small adult may have a shell just 40 cm (16 in) long. That's still over a foot, so you shouldn't point and laugh. Never point and laugh at an Alligator Snapping Turtle! They REALLY don't like it!

Coming from the warm rivers and lakes of south-eastern United States, the Alligator Snapping Turtle is the biggest freshwater turtle in North America and amongst the biggest in the world. And yet, strange as it may seem, a lot of creatures initially think it's a tiny worm! Unfortunately, they often don't get a chance to re-evaluate their first impression.

We're talking about the Alligator Snapping Turtle's remarkable tongue. It has a little, fleshy appendage that looks just like a worm, something of great culinary interest to many amphibians and fish. The rest of the turtle looks like it was chiselled from stone and given life by powerful magic. In other words, it's one big dollop of camouflage.

alligator snapping turtle a living statue - YouTube

At the bottom of the lake, our Alligator Snapping Turtle sits unseen among the stones, dead leaves and mud. His mouth gapes open as his wormy tongue wriggles suggestively. A nearby frog is intrigued by this tongue. He likes the look of it. He thinks maybe he'll eat it. That would be nice! As he approaches the tongue, the turtle watches and waits.

Once the frog is close enough, the Alligator Snapping Turtle's head lunges forward, his neck stretching to a disheartening degree. The frog watches as the worm suddenly approaches at a shocking rate. SNAP goes the turtle. SQUISH goes the frog.

And that's why little boys and girls must never point and laugh at Alligator Snapping Turtles. Maybe you can laugh, but definitely don't point. Those jaws can take a finger off, and the stretchiness of the neck is something best beheld from a distance.

Alligator Snapping Turtle Feeding - Cincinnati Zoo - YouTube

Females leave the water to lay their eggs each year and dig their nests far enough away to ensure they won't get flooded. The eggs hatch 3 or 4 months later and it will be about 12 years before the hatchlings produce young of their own.

Alligator Snapping Turtles are thought to live for more or less 100 years in the wild and a few might even reach 200! So definitely don't feed them your fingers nor anyone else's. If one of them gets a taste for human flesh it'll be around for decades!

details:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...apping-turtle/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_snapping_turtle

evilmoers · 28th October 2012, 01:41

10 Unique Animals - YouTube

evilmoers · 28th October 2012, 01:48

perissodactyls

Although tapirs are often mistaken for pigs and anteaters, they're in the odd-toed hooved animal family (perissodactyls), as are the horse and rinocerous. All four species of tapir are endangered. The Malay tapir (shown below) is native to Asia, where its natural enemies are the tiger and man. The largest tapir, the Malay tapir weighs up to 800 pounds. It also has the most dramatic coloration, with black shoulders, head, and legs and a white band around the body. The Mountain, Baird and Brazillian tapirs are native to South America, and all are solid black or black- brown. All baby tapirs have light colored, horizontal, watermelon like stripes, but these disappear by adulthood.

If you see a tapir lounging on a hot day, you might think it is slothful. However, in motion, tapirs are fast and agile, and they also swim well. Tapirs in captivity sometimes have violent tantrums: a Malay tapir severed the arm of a keeper at the Oklahoma City Zoo in 1998.

At the Artis zoo in Amsterdam, on an overcast morning in late autumn, we walked by a display that looked empty, until a door in the stone wall in the back opened, releasing two Malay tapirs. When excited, they squeaked at each other, a sound out of scale with such a large animal. They plunged into, splashed, and bolted dripping out of a pool in their enclosure. They galloped, trotted, chased and switched leads just like horses. We'd seen only sedate tapirs in Dresden's zoo, and never even a picture of one running, so we didn't understand its relationship to the horse until we saw them gallop. Later we remembered that Eohippus, the tiny 5-toed ancestor of the modern horse, bounded through prehistoric tropical forests browsing understory vegetation. Is the tapir what the horse might have been if it had stayed in the jungle?

Tapirs showed up in grey pencil, ultramarine and aquamarine, and pale vermillion and yellowed orange. Quick sketches of ears, feet, and trunks surrounded tapirs running and eating. I liked the roundness of the their body and ears, their strange three toed feet, their short trunks, and their otherworldly presence. The tapir became an imaginary or enchanted creature creeping across pages, none more so than our glowing magenta mascot, who had attained full enlightenment. Paul discovered that tapir.org wasn't taken, so we found our spirit animal animal we were looking to watch over our place about plants, animals, art, and science.

All four species of tapir are either endangered or threatened.

details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_tapir
http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...?source=A-to-Z

clip:

What in the World is a Tapir? - YouTube

evilmoers · 4th November 2012, 20:28

Vulpes ferrilata

Tibetan foxes live in the barren slopes and stream beds of Asia at altitudes of 9,840–13,120 ft (3,000–4,000 m) in the Mustang District of Nepal, in Tibet and in the Tsinghai, Kansu, and Yunnan regions of China. They make their dens in the nooks and crannies of the boulders.

Tibetan foxes are fierce hunters of high plains rodents and pikas (a rabbit-hamster-like mammal).

They have rather square heads and large wise eyes. It almost looks like the heads are too big for the body but that is mostly the shape of the fur. They have thick fur for the cold weather and thick tails with white tips. They are middle-sized for canines being about 23–28 in (58–70 cm) long with tails about 16–19 in (40–48 cm) long.

Males and females usually form pairs and stay together throughout their lives. They also may hunt together. The mothers bear from 2-5 young a year which stay with the parents until they are about 8-10 months old.

details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sand_fox

clip:

The Tibetan Fox - YouTube

evilmoers · 9th November 2012, 23:59

Pardofelis badia

No actual studies of this cat have ever been made in the wild, and it continues to be the mystery cat of the feline family. Virtually all information has been taken from museum specimens, except for in 1992 when a female was captured in a trap accidentally. It is believed she was kept in captivity for some months after capture, and was brought in to the local museum on the brink of death, and her remains were used for genetic analysis.

Size & Appearance:
About the size of a housecat, the Bay Cat weighs between 5-10 pounds. It has 2 coat colors, the more common being a chestnut-red, and the other being a gray. The coat is speckled with black markings, and the backs of the rounded ears are darker in color. The tail is long and has a whitish stripe running down most of the underside of the tail, which becomes pure whiListen to Bay Catte at the tip, but black on the topside. It has a long body, and that combined with the long tail give it the appearance of the Jaguarundi.

Habitat:
The Highlands, areas of rocky limestone on the edge of dense jungle. Some reports also indicate it may be found in dense primary forest and along rivers.

details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Cat

clip:

ATWA Brasil - Bornean Red Cat // Gato-vemelho-de-Bornéu - YouTube

evilmoers · 23rd November 2012, 21:57

Cyclosa octotuberculata

Cyclosa octotuberculata is a small, spiky spider with a nasty, nasty habit.

C. octotuberculata lines up a whole strip of dead bodies and other debris in a line running down its web. It's a great bridge composed of the gutted corpses, the emptied exoskeletons of long gone prey. At its centre, the lady of the web stands camouflaged against her morbid creation as she awaits new building material.

They live in Australia, Japan and probably a few other places I couldn't find out. Their Japanese name translates to "Trash Spider", so I guess my trash pillar would be composed almost entirely of chocolate bar wrappers.

advanced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclosa
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cyclosa
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cy...ctotuberculata

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Touching a spider( Cyclosa octotuberculata )　ゴミグモをつついてみた - YouTube

evilmoers · 26th November 2012, 00:40

Dactyloptena macracantha - Dactylopteridae

The word "gurnard" comes from the Old French for "grunt". So I guess a Flying Gurnard is some sort of high level ventriloquism skill?

Alas, no. They're fish, but they don't swim around with little fish dummies and drink a glass of water while reciting the alphabet. They're fish. If they did that, reciting the alphabet would be a lot more impressive than drinking a glass of water. And what would be really amazing is if they could recite the alphabet with no water at all. Which, strangely enough, is something I can do very easily and no-one would be impressed at all.

Oriental Flying Gurnard, Dactyloptena orientalis
Like most of the others, it reaches about 40 cm (16 in) long and lives in the Indo-Pacific

Anyway... Flying Gurnards! They are seven species in the family Dactylopteridae. They're related to the ordinary Gurnards, or Sea Robins, but not as closely as the name suggests. Like the Sea Robins, they get the name "Gurnard" from the special muscle that thumps their swim bladder to produce an annoyed grunting sound if they're removed from the water. That's... almost impressive...

The Flying bit comes from the huge, beautifully marked pectoral fins which... don't actually let them fly. They don't even glide! I'm so sorry, but Flying Gurnards aren't Gurnards that fly. Don't worry. Hold my hand, we'll get through this together.

Spotwing Flying Gurnard - YouTube

In reality, it seems those massive and magnificent fins are for scaring predators away. They're not even required for swimming, but I guess they're big and colourful enough to make predators think that they really don't know who they're messing with.

Dactylopterus volitans

It isn't usually a problem when a fish doesn't fly. We've grown so accustomed to it over the years that by now we all ensure that none of our best laid plans rely on a fish soaring through the air, glistening in the sunlight, its tail laden with messages from our spies behind enemy lines. With that in mind, it's no wonder that some people would like to rename the Flying Gurnard the Helmet Gurnard! No wonder. No wonder, at all...

Helmet Gurnards don't wear tiny helmets, but they don't need to because of their incredibly tough, bony skull. Knuckle-head, basically.

Even their scales are like scutes, being all pointy and prickly.

And when they pack away those impressive fins, Flying Gurnards aren't too bad at disappearing into the background.

All things considered, Flying Gurnards don't seem to be built so much for flight as for staying right where they are. And who needs to fly when you can walk?

Just under the gigantic pectoral fins are a small pair of pelvic fins which Flying Gurnards use to walk around on the sea floor. But not only do they have legs, they also have hands...

Flying gurnard - YouTube

Those pectoral fins are so gigantic that Flying Gurnards can afford to keep a little bit of them aside for purposes other than not flying. Next to their head are two lobes for sweeping away sediment to uncover bottom dwelling crustaceans and small fish. They're like tiny brooms! And we finally get a name that makes sense, since the family name Dactylopteridae means "finger fin".

Hands and feet! And wings! That's like, every single limb possible!
The question remains, though: how can a fish with little hands and feet and wings look so cute? Rather than the abhorrent, limb-hoarding transgressors they truly are?

details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylopteridae

evilmoers · 26th November 2012, 19:29

Cobra Sucuri Vomitando para Escapar - YouTube