Strangest Animal

[Crossbreed]

Back at you with albino kangaroos - both will make a nasty mess of your car.

They can drive...?

(Apparently, not very well...

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The Thorny Devil...

It looks like a more colorful version of our horned toad.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

We have those stick insects here, too. Weird.

I saw an aquatic one on my last canoe trip.

 

[arithmetic]

Thar be weirdness in Aotearoa (New Zealand), too - and not just on the political scene.
We have a 3 eyed "lizard" from the time of the dinosaurs! (We have a baldy white prime minister too!)

 

[arithmetic]

I saw an aquatic one on my last canoe trip.

An aquatic stick insect? Please say more - how much did it have to do with the water? Was it walking on the water?

 

[Outdated]

I've been bitten by an aquatic scorpion commonly known as a Toe Biter, they really hurt. They don't have a sting in the tail like a terrestrial scorpion though, that "tail" is actually a breathing tube. They hunt prey in shallow still water, puddles mostly.

Laccotrephes tristis - Wikipedia

 

[Outdated]

An aquatic stick insect? Please say more - how much did it have to do with the water? Was it walking on the water?

Ranatra - Wikipedia

 

[RESleight]

Create Your Own: Walking Trash

 

[Outdated]

Create Your Own: Walking Trash

They're strange critters in more ways than one:

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Their was this goat ugliest thing I ever saw. purebread.

 

[Outdated]

Blue Sea Dragons sometimes appear at beaches along Australia's east coast.

https://www.treehugger.com/fascinating-facts-about-blue-dragons-sea-4864481

 

[JudeB]

Blue Sea Dragons sometimes appear at beaches along Australia's east coast.

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Is that a fish or a strange alien?

 

[Outdated]

Is that a fish or a strange alien?

Actually a type of sea slug, it eats poisonous jellyfish.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Humans are the strangest animals of all. They think fighting and killing each other will solve the world's problems and always have money for war, but they refuse to help people that are poor and homeless. If an autistic person has an interest they think it's wrong and unhealthy and yet they spend most of the year obsessing over hockey or football (both kinds). They think people with mental health problems or disabilities are somehow at fault for their struggling. They are responsible for the extinction of hundreds or more of animals and plants. They also live in denial that they are really animals and would rather pull their tongue out than admit that they are.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

An aquatic stick insect? Please say more - how much did it have to do with the water? Was it walking on the water?

Lucky for me Outdated answered your question. I had never seen one before. I do spend time looking into shallow water to see what goes on there. It was walking underwater, probably about 8 inches of water.

 

[Outdated]

The world's greatest mimic.

Lots of birds are capable of mimicking the sounds of other animals, parrots are reknowned for it and crows and ravens are also very good at it, but none of them even come close to what the Lyre Bird is capable of.

Attenborough did take a little bit of poetic license with his films though. The bird in this film wasn't in the wild, it was in the Royal Adelaide Zoo which is where it got to hear all the strange noises it makes. It learned to copy the chainsaw sounds while builders were constructing a new animal enclosure nearby. Still pretty amazing though.

 

[Tiqat]

In person maybe some of the praying mantids I had for pets. Last one I have was an African twig mantis so they stick out their arms to add to the illusion. A lot of cryptic animals are pretty cool, I think there's a gecko that is a leaf mimic called a dead leaf gecko. And the the ocean's hold's a lot of weird and wonderful like the frilled shark or goblin shark. I'd semi-planned to make a game of cthulhu rolepay and looked for creepy animals and the one I chose the antarctic scale worm.