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Sunday, February 19, 2012

10 Animals Unique and Interesting But Very despised by the Human

1. Gumprecht 's Pit Viper Green

This snake is a striking bright green, commonly known as Gumprecht's green pit viper, is found in Southeast Asia over the Mekong ruler.
Snake, which has a formal name Trimeresurus gumprechti, first discovered by scientists in 2002, although the scientists finally decided to exterminate them.

2. Snakefish

In 2002, snakefish (or Channidae) was described as having "a voracious appetite, often consuming all other fish in the lake or pond. These animals can run on the ground, leaving the water for three days, to find new food sources." Norton also warns that once on land "snakeheads can eat almost any small animal in the road. they even attacked people in China who are too close to their spawning areas.

According to wikipedia, snakefish can be up to more than one meter in length and weighs over 6 pounds. Most snakefish measuring 2-3 meters.

They also reproduce by quickly if no natural enemies outside of their native environment.
In their native environments, small snakefish prey by larger fish, while adult snakefish devoured by crocodiles.

Because of their ability to move into a new habitat, and deleting local ecosystems, and to then jump out of the water and wander to find new pools of snakefish trying eradicated in 13 states of the United States and other countries (eg Australia).

3.Giant Isopod

These predators are similar to Giant Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), a carnivorous crustacean that spends time scavenging the deep ocean floor, to a depth of 6000 feet on the ocean floor where there is no light. The room dark and cold, they survive by eating dead and rotting fish or other marine animal carcasses.

4. Aye-aye

Considered by locals as a harbinger of misfortune, Aye-aye is one of the most endangered primates in the world and the strange.

For the Malagasy people, the aye-aye is magical beasts, and is believed to bring death when he appeared in the village - the local village, so they are often killed. body length of 16 inches (40 cm), bushy tail length of 2 feet (61 cm), and weighs about 2 pounds. Aye-aye has large round eyes, black hair, and large spoon-shaped ears. has a 5-finger hand with flat nails, with the middle finger that is 3 times the other fingers.


5. Star-nosed rat

One of the most interesting star in the universe: star-nosed rat is around (Condylura cristata). From the appearance and location, one would think maybe it is yng sensitive olfactory organ, helping the nearly blind mice recognize the underground environment, or extra hands to catch prey and manipulate objects. Some researchers have hypothesized that these mice can detect electric fields, so the nose works like a kind of antenna. But in fact, the nose is a star in mice organs sensor for exceptional touch with more than 25,000 sensory receptors, called Eimer organ.

6. frilled lizard

Frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingi) is a yellowish brown Australian lizard has a large frill on the skin side of the neck and throat. Length is 90 cm, and when angry or scared he developed appendage, which may be up to 25 cm wide in diameter, to give the impression that he is bigger. frilled lizard usually lives in trees but sometimes spend time on the ground, where they run with their forelimbs in the air.

7. Giant Leaf-tailed gecko

Giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) is endemic to Madagascar and the islands Bohara Mangabe nosy and nosy. These geckos live in tropical rain forests and reach a length of 330 mm. Nocturnal geckos are big size, berjhari day gecko that will be attached to trees and if disturbed it will shake its tail and head, opened his mouth and shouted for his mother.

8. Kerivoula Kachinensis

Other species found in one of the world's last scientifically unexplored, Asia's Greater Mekong, Kachinensis Kerivoula is one of the most disturbing bats ever found.

9. Desert rat

Heterocephalus glabe Digger is an animal native to East Africa known eusocial lifestyle, is unique among mammals, and a very unusual physical properties that allow it to thrive in the harsh underground environment, the skin is almost immune to pain, bleeding and metabolism cold.

10. caterpillars Cats

Caterpillar cat is the most poisonous caterpillar in the United States. poison is hidden in hollow spines among its hairs. This hairy caterpillar is found in southern states, ranging west through most of Texas and north to Maryland and Missouri. He ate on shade trees such as elm, oak, and sycamore. Puss caterpillars vary in size from 1.2 in (32 mm) to 1.4 inches (36 mm).


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