Animals are Fascinating

[thesummerqueen]

[Welsh cake]

Apologies if this one's already been uploaded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSk7oCNaHg

[Lethe]

The CUTENESS.




Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards (Lesbian lizards ):

[Rayaan]

A colony of ants create a lifeboat in the water to save the queen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4

[Rayaan]

This tube-nosed fruit bat — which became a Web sensation as "Yoda bat" — is just one of the roughly 200 species encountered during two scientific expeditions to Papua New Guinea in 2009, scientists announced in October. Though seen on previous expeditions, the bat has yet to be formally documented as a new species, or even named. Like other fruit bats, though, it disperses seeds from the fruit in its diet, perhaps making the flying mammal crucial to its tropical rain forest ecosystem.

Source: Top Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010: Editors' Picks

[Justtristo]

I am proud to say Chimps are my cousins, something I am not for some of my fellow human beings alas.

[Rayaan]

Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.

"This could be a fusion of a plant and an animal — that’s just cool," said invertebrate zoologist John Zardus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.

Continued here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/0...n-sea-slug

[Of_Tomato]

Just had to

[OnlyNatural]

Green Tree Python - I call this the 'cinnamon bun' position




Picasso Triggerfish - like a work of art.

[Rayaan]

This is called the "happy face" spider (Theridion grallator):




Article: British scientists study Hawaiian happy face spider