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echidna mole,

Take stock of some strange-looking animals

Or echidna, an egg-laying mammal whose close relative is duckbill platypus. Echidnas are 17 to 28 inches (43 to 71 cm) long and weigh 5 to 22 pounds (2.3 to 10 kg). The coat of the needle mole is brownish black or gray, with sharp yellow dorsal bones with black edges. Above its naked nose there is a pair of small eyes that are very close, the feet are flat and wide, but the claws are long and curved, and their role is to dig holes. Echidnas predominantly eat ants, termites, and worms, which they dig out with their noses and deliver to their mouths through their long, sticky tongues. During breeding, the female has a belly pouch on her abdomen that holds an egg with a hard leather-like shell. After 10 days, the eggs hatch and the small needle mole begins to suck milk under the plush layer of the belly pocket. After about eight weeks, when the needle rats begin to grow back bones, they can leave the belly pocket.

Black Chamois

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(Scientific name: Muntiacus crinifrons), also known as Ugin, Unkempt, Red-headed Chamois, Chamois, Chamois, Green Chamois, belongs to the deer family, chamois genus, is the larger species of chamois. The body length is 100 to 110 cm, the shoulder height is about 60 cm, and the weight is 21 to 26 kg. The upper body of winter hair is dark brown; the brown component of summer hair is increased. The tail is long, generally more than 20 cm, the back is black, the tail abdomen and tail side hair are pure white, and the white tail is very eye-catching. There are tufts of bright brown, light brown or pale yellow hairs on the forehead behind the eyes, and sometimes the two short horns can be obscured so that the name "unkempt-headed chamois" comes from this

Lamprey

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Much like a normal eel, it has a slender, eel-shaped body, bare skin and no scales, and a long dorsal fin on its back, which extends backwards to the end of the tail and forms a tail fin around the tail, and there is no other fin on its body. 2 dorsal fins, well-developed mouth funnel, no whiskers. Lampreys have only one nostril, located between the two eyes on the top of the head. The eyes are developed, with pineal eyes, with photosensitive effect. It has 7 gill holes on each side of the body behind its eyes, which is why it is called "lamprey". The inner ear has two semicircular tubes. At the end of the nasophobeal sac is the blind sac. Hermaphroditic, development through a long larval stage, through metamorphosis into adult. Adults live semi-parasitically and are harmful to fisheries.

Giant isopods

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The giant deep-sea lice belong to the order Crustacean and are the largest known member of the isopods, and people are most familiar with its small and other foot siblings, the tide worms.

Although not vegetarian, these large crustaceans are not fierce animals, and they only clean animal carcasses on the ocean floor all their lives.

Due to the lack of food in the depths of the ocean, deep-sea lice must adapt to eating whatever falls from above. In addition to relying on pie in the sky, they also eat small invertebrates that live at the same depth as they do.

The largest known giant deep-sea lice is over 40 cm tall and is one of the largest species in the crustacean family. The animal looks like a prehistoric creature, and when threatened, behaves like a tidal worm, curling up its body into a tight ball and letting the hard armor on its back protect itself.

Compared with such a simple mouth as a human, their mouth structure is very complex, including many parts, which can be coordinated to stab, tear, pull out internal organs and other actions. For them, the most suitable survival temperature is 9 degrees Celsius. And the eggs they lay are the largest of all known marine invertebrates.

Pictured here are the newly hatched juveniles of the giant Antarctic isopod (Latin name: Glyptonotus antarcticus), a deep-sea lice that lives near islands and continents around the Arctic Ocean and inhabits a depth of about 790 meters. The larvae will eat the eggs that are not hatched after hatching, while the female Arctic Ocean giant deep-sea lice generally die after spawning, and individuals can continue to survive and reproduce again.

Eight-eyed eel

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Lampetra japonica, scientific name lamprey, is a species of fish of the lamprey family. It is characterized by a cylindrical mouth, no upper and lower palate, and sharp teeth inside the mouth. The octapod eel is a strange animal: it bites the octa eel into the carcass to feed, and can even stay in it for up to 3 or three days. Scientists at the University of British Columbia in Canada believe that the terrible way of eating octopus fish will make the water stored in animal carcasses acidic due to the carbon dioxide it produces. There are more than 30 species of eight-eyed eels in the world, and they belong to the order Hagfish. The most common Atlantic octopus is the Myxine glutinosa hagfish; the Pacific octopus is the genus Eptatretus stoutii.

Armadillo

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(Scientific name: Chlamyphorus truncatus) lives in central Argentina and is the smallest species of armadillo family. Body length 90-115 mm, excluding the tail. Animals that live in arid meadows and scrub-covered plains. Body color is rose or pink. It lives in dry meadows, thorny shrubs and cacti sands in central Argentina. Armadillos like to burrow in the dry dirt next to ant holes, feeding mainly on ants, and occasionally eat worms, snails, insects, and various plant foods. Once frightened, it can immediately bury itself completely.

platypus

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One of the most primitive mammals, it is an incompletely evolved mammal, with very few species, only one of the same genus, the platypus, and one of the lowest mammals; in the late 18th century, George Shaw received platypus specimens, believing that this creature was the product of a prank, and named it in 1799. The platypus's beak and feet resemble ducks, while its body and tail resemble beavers. It appeared 25 million years ago and still lives in Australia today