Sometimes I really lament the size of the world and the smallness of us. We still haven't heard the names of the flowers we saw that day, let alone so many new things in the world that we haven't known.
For example, the following few magical transparent animals of nature that I want to introduce were stunned when I first saw them.
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A marine organism that is often mistaken for a transparent fish or a transparent shrimp.
The bottle sea squirt lives in the depths of the ocean, belongs to the relatively scarce marine life, the body resembles the gelatinous shape of jellyfish, and is almost completely transparent, about 1 to 10 cm long, is a marine invertebrate that feeds on plankton.
The bottle sea squirt has three particularly interesting identities:
(1) Hermaphrodites
Due to the complex living environment, the asexual and asexual periods alternate, and a bottle sea squirt can produce a series of hermaphrodite clones and be connected to each other. I have to give a thumbs up and give birth to my own child, it's great!
(2) "Environmental Ambassador"
There is a special kind of bottle sea squirt, which after months of breeding, densely covers nearly 39,000 square miles of ocean area, can consume nearly 71% of the carbon-containing microbial plants on the sea surface every day, and then sink the carbon-containing excrement to the seabed, equivalent to transporting thousands of tons of carbon to deep water, which effectively prevents carbon from re-entering the atmosphere and plays a carbon clearing role. We should be thankful for them.
(3) "Pot Man"
Bottle sea squirts are harmless to humans, generally live in cold seas but produce a lot of heat, and some experts have studied them and suspect that swarms of bottle sea squirts may cause global warming. Bottle sea sheath said: This pot I do not carry, hahaha.
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Glass frogs are scientifically called Glass Frogs, also known as Crystal Frogs.
Glass frogs are "ancestral" in Venezuela and are mainly distributed along tropical rainforests and streams in Central and South America. Small and slender, usually only 2-3 cm long, so it is difficult to spot.
Glass frogs have three bizarre features:
(1) The whole life is equivalent to "live broadcast"
Although the body color of most transparent frogs is lime green, their abdominal skin is transparent, so their hearts, livers and digestive tracts can be seen from the transparent skin, from the inside to the outside, without privacy, laughing and crying.
(2) "Calf Protection"
Glass frogs will eat other people's eggs, but they are very precious to their own eggs. They are often couples protecting the eggs together, and other animals will desperately protect their children if they want to touch them. Online question: Their own children are babies, and the same kind of children are not?
(3) Not poisonous but will "Scud"
Ordinary animals have their own life-saving tricks, such as brightly colored frogs are poisonous, but glass frogs are not poisonous, and their only martial art against enemies is "Scud". Bumblebees who love to eat frog eggs are fierce and poisonous, but the glass frog is not afraid at all, as long as the bumblebee dares to steal the eggs, the glass frog will see the opportunity to kick and injure the bumblebee to save its child.
PS: Now, due to logging and farmland reclamation destroying its rainforest habitat, many glass frog species have been added to the World Conservation Federation's Red List of Threatened Species. I really can't bear to think that such a cute little thing is going to go extinct.
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Glass-winged butterflies are also called transient butterflies or glass butterflies, so named because the tissue between their wing veins is transparent and looks like glass. Here are two more representative glass butterflies:
Broad-striped black-veined butterfly
(1) Broad-veined black-veined butterfly
This butterfly looks rare and actually numbers large.
The broad-veined black-veined butterfly lives mainly in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. The transparent wings make it blend in with the surrounding scenery and will not be easily detected by predators.
There is also a folklore about the transparent wings of the broad-veined black-veined butterfly:
A long time ago the valley lived a group of transparent butterflies, transparent to each other, without secrets, living a simple and happy life.
Later, a magician arrives and tells them that they will suffer losses and hurts if they do not know how to hide their minds, and the butterflies drink the potion given by the magician in a curious situation, and there will be no more transparent butterflies in this world.
Finally, the magician realizes that he has ruined a purely beautiful world and tries his best to save it, but the butterflies only return to a translucent state.
This legend warns us that people should not "cross the line", such as mistakenly entering the peach blossom source and not destroying the peach blossom source; seeing the beautiful flower, admiring it, do not pick it; when encountering a favorite wild animal, do not buy it, and protect it. Otherwise, beauty will cease to exist.
Rose crystal eye butterfly
(2) Rose crystal eye butterfly
This butterfly is rare all over the world.
The rose crystal eye butterfly, scientifically known as the red halo silk eye butterfly, lives deep in the rainforest, its forewings are transparent, the hindwings have two rose-colored red halos, and it also has two eye-like dots.
This thing called eye spots, which reflects light in light, looks very eye-catching, so the rose crystal eye butterfly is also called "the butterfly of dreams" and is listed in the list of the seven rarest butterflies in the world.
This butterfly is also a treasure in China, distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other regions, and is a national first-class protected animal.
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The full name of the transparent snail is the transparent cave snail, and the scientific name is the dome land snail. It is a "three-no product" discovered by scientists in 2013.
Transparent snails forage on the bed of an underground river
(1) No eyes
The transparent snail lives in a 914-meter-deep cave in Croatia where the sun does not shine, and the dark environment makes the transparent snail's eyes useless, so in the long process of evolution, its vision has completely deteriorated, and it has no eyes.
(2) No pigment
The transparent snail is the first fully transparent snail found in the world. Since most of the pigmentation on the animal comes from the obtained food, mainly the pigment in the plant, but the deep cave where the transparent snail is located cannot obtain pigment from the plant because there is no sunlight and no plants, so its shell has no color and looks completely transparent.
Interestingly, the transparent snail is still very small, about 1-3 mm, like gravel, plus it is completely transparent, which is difficult to find, and it is simply a stealth skill.
Transparent snail shell like glass
(3) No speed
Transparent snails like to forage for food near the vicinity where they live, that is, in circles in situ, and they only crawl a few millimeters or centimeters a week, rounding up, which is equivalent to standing still, hahaha.
However, I actually admire the transparent snail, in such a harsh condition can still live and thrive, I have to say, life is really tenacious! Therefore, some scientists speculate that some seemingly harsh aliens really live some unimaginable creatures. What do you think?
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