There are always some new things in this world that you don't know.
The more we explore, the more unknowns we discover, and in the midst of our constant exploration, zoologists have discovered these ten creatures that you don't even know exist
maned wolf
The maned wolf is a rare canine and is the largest canine in South America. It has a long, golden-red "coat", the fur on the side of the body is reddish brown, while the back and legs are black, at the tip of the tail, at the throat is white, the distinctive mane can be erect, when in danger or ready to attack, the mane wolf will expand the body contour to show itself. The legs are long and thin like stepping on stilts, which facilitates their look around in the tall grass. The snout, legs and claws, and ear tips are black, the body is also slender, and the ears are large and straight. Since they do not hunt large prey, their canine teeth are less developed.
Adult maned wolves weigh about 20-23 kg, have a shoulder height of about 1 m, a body length of about 1.24–1.34 m, and a tail length of 28–40 cm
Maned wolves are omnivorous. It eats armadillos, rabbits, rodents and other small mammals, fish, birds, eggs, reptiles, gastropods and other terrestrial molluscs, insects, and also eats a variety of fruits such as bananas, guavas, etc., as well as the roots and tubers of plants, and sometimes steals poultry and small livestock.
Deer and dolphins
Babyrousa babyrussa, also known as pig deer, is an animal of the family Homogulodocephalus and lives only on parts of Indonesia. It is one of the most peculiar animals in the world. There are 4 peculiar tusks, of which the lower fangs, like a wild boar, protrude out of the lip and block in front of the eyes, while the upper fangs grow upwards from the mouth, penetrate the face, and bend backward obliquely in front of the eyes. There are four species of deer dolphins: Babyrousa babyrussa, Babyrousa bolabatuensis, Babyrousa celebensis, and Babyrousa togeanensis, each living on a different island.
The body length of the deer is not more than 1.1 meters, the shoulder height is 65 to 80 cm, the tail length is 27-32 cm, the weight is about 80 kg, and the maximum is only about 100 kg. The body hair is sparse and short, with grayish-white mane and no face warts. The legs are long, thick-skinned and sparsely hairy.
Unlike other mammals, the male deer dolphin has 4 peculiar tusks. Among them, the lower fangs are like wild boar, protruding from the lips and blocking the front of the eyes; the upper fangs grow upwards from the mouth, penetrate the upper jawbone and face, and bend backwards obliquely in front of the eyes. The deer dolphin is good at swimming, running fast, hearing is very sharp, and the sense of smell is also very developed, but its vision is very poor.
Patagonia guinea pigs
Patagonian guinea pigs, because of their long ears, are commonly known as rabbit guinea pigs,
It is found in the Patagonian steppes of southern South America, mainly in Argentina. Its posture is not similar to rodents but slightly like ungulates that are good at running, and its limbs are very long, and it can run fast on the grassland. It feeds mainly on short grasses, leaves, etc., and is a diurnal animal, often warmed by basking in the sun.
The long-eared guinea pig has a head length of 69-75 cm, a tail length of 4-5 cm and a weight of 8-16 kg. The Patagonian guinea pig has a grey-brown appearance but a white on the inside of its tail to warn its companions when danger is approaching. The Patagonia guinea pig is good at jumping, with large eyes and short tail. Unlike other guinea pigs, Patagonian guinea pigs have hook-shaped claws on the back toes.
shoebill
The whale-headed stork is a stork-like bird with a tall body, averaging 1.2 meters tall, weighing 4,000-7,000 grams and reaching a wingspan of 2.6 meters. It is similar in size to a white stork, with a particularly large head and the largest surviving bird. He has a very funny, cute face. Its huge, mottled beak makes it even more attractive. The giant beak looks like the head of a whale, with eyes at the front of the head and the owl's eyes on the same plane. The beak is wide and stout, the widest beak in the world, 12 cm wide, the beak is bent into a hook shape, the role of the beak is not small, not only the tip is sharp and abnormal, but also the surrounding is sharp like a fast knife, able to penetrate the thick skin of the crocodile, and the upper and lower pieces are so clamped to the prey, like a workpiece is clipped to the fitter's vice.
The plumage is slate grey with a green sheen on the back, a short tail, and a short crown behind the head. The most prominent feature of the appearance is a particularly thick and large mouth with a large head and wooden boots. But its mouth looks very heavy, in fact, it is very light. The male and female feathers are the same color, only the size of the body difference, the female is slightly smaller. The juveniles are brownish and have no green luster on their backs. The beak is yellow-green , the iris is white to pale yellow , and the feet are black.
Atlantic poseidon sea slugs
The Atlantic sea slug, commonly known as the blue swallow or blue dragon, is a blue, small pelagic winged manatee in the gastropod family Neptune family. Atlantic Sea God Sea Slugs, a single genus of the genus Poseidon gills. It is closely related to Glaucilla marginata and belongs to the same family of poseidons. The Atlantic sea slug, which can be up to three centimeters in size and is mainly a floating species, often appears with currents along with the monk's hat jellyfish and silver coin jellyfish, which are mainly distributed in the tropical and pantropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The "Atlantic Poseidon" first appeared in an article published by European scholars in 1777. The reason why this sea slug is called "sea god" is because of its appearance like the greek god of the sea, Glaucus. In Greek mythology, the sea god Glaucus was immortalized by eating magical grasses, but his hands grew fins and his legs became tails.
The Atlantic poseidon sea slugs are only 3 centimeters long, and their shells have degenerated into an inner shell. On the back there is a transparent thin shell skin, which is generally white with a pearly luster. They have air sacs in their stomachs. The blue-and-black side of the photograph is actually its abdomen, which usually has its back facing downwards and is silvery gray. The position of the airbags creates this upside-down floating motion. This protective color of the upper (abdomen) blue-and-white (dark) and the lower (back) silver-gray (light) color helps them avoid predators from above and below. In addition, the blue color on the upper side is believed to have the effect of reflecting harmful ultraviolet rays.
The Atlantic neptune is a hermaphroditic creature that inhabits the seabed and is bare-chested, and the two reproductive foramen of the male and female are connected by an oviparous groove.
The Atlantic Sea God Sea Slugs have bare cheeks (the hand-like one) on their upper surfaces, and the number can be as many as 84. Food such as the monk's hat jellyfish contains spiny cells, which they store in their bare cheeks.
Therefore, grabbing the Atlantic Sea God Sea Slug will feel tingling (so don't hold it with your hands when you see it), just like when you are stung by a monk's hat jellyfish.
Glass frog
Glass Frogs, native to Venezuela, belong to the family Green Bone Frogs in the amphibian family. Although the back of the glass frog is grayish green, the abdominal skin of individual members is translucent. Through the translucent skin, you can clearly see its heart, liver and digestive tract.
Appearance: 2-3 cm long, small and slender, large and prominent eyes, pupil level. The skin on the ventral surface is transparent and can see the internal organs, so it is called a glass frog. With slender limbs and well-developed suction cups, he became a master climber.
There are about 60 species of glass frogs, which live in tropical rainforests, along streams and in mist-shrouded mountains.
They lay their eggs on leaves hanging from the edges of shallow ponds. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water. There is a glass frog whose tadpoles are bright red and bury themselves in submerged mud and rotting leaves.
Glass Frogs Guarding Their Eggs: On leaves hanging above a stream in the rainforest, two glass frogs (hyalinobatrachium valerioi) are quietly guarding the spawns. They want to make sure the eggs don't dry out while protecting them from parasites and small predatory insects.
One night, under the illumination of a flashlight, a creature with large silver-white eyes appeared in the light. Through its skin we can faintly see its skeleton. Wide blood vessels snake down its muscular thighs. This is the glass frog, a cute little elf.
Glass frogs live in Central and South America, there are more than 100 kinds of glass frogs, many glass frogs skin is transparent, even the stomach is transparent, can directly see organs, bones and blood vessels. Some glass frogs have green bones, while others are transparent even to other organs. It is unclear why the glass frog's body is transparent. The bright green back of the glass frog contributes to their concealment in the green habitat.
Blanket octopus
The peculiar name of the blanket octopus comes from the muscular membrane between the brachiopods that resemble a blanket. When in danger, they stretch out their brachiopods and open huge "blankets" in an attempt to scare away invading predators. What we saw was a female blanket octopus, which could be more than 2 meters long. But male blanket octopuses are generally only a few centimeters long. Male blanket octopuses spend their entire lives looking for females. When a male meets a female, they fill one of the tentacles with sperm and tear it off their bodies. The female will use this tentacle to fertilize the egg. (Usually the female does not notice mating during this process) After that, the female will leave the male, and the male will float in the water waiting for death.
Hagfish
Hagfish is a collective term for about 30 species of marine fish-shaped primitive vertebrates. Hagfish are a low-grade chordous organism of the order Orynosaurus and Hagfish. Hagfish generally live below 100 meters above the surface of the sea, with a white body, slender body like a snake, a mouth like an oval suction cup, and sharp yellow teeth inside. There are as many as 6 pairs of gill sacs in hagfish, hermaphrodite, but the sexes are still separated in physiological function, in the larvae of the hagfish, the anterior part of the reproductive glands is the ovary, the posterior part is the sperm nest, if the front end is developed and the posterior end is degenerated, it is female; conversely, it is male. Hagfish generally feed on tiny crustaceans or plankton. However, hagfish also feed on fish, often by the gills of the fish into the fish, in the stomach to bite the internal organs and muscles, only the skin and bones of the fish, and eventually bite through the abdominal muscles, holes out
The hagfish is like a river eel, but has no upper or lower jaws on its head, a mouth like a suction cup, and sharp teeth. The gills are sac-shaped, the inner gill foramen are directly connected to the pharynx, and the outer gill foramen open outwards far from the mouth, allowing the front part of the body to penetrate deep into the host tissue without affecting breathing. The hagfish are adsorbed on the big fish by suction cups, and then find an opportunity to drill from the gills into the belly of the fish. Due to the long-term parasitic life in the fish, the eyes have degenerated and hidden under the skin. Its sense of smell and the tactile sense of the 4 pairs of tentacles at the end of the mouth are very sensitive, and it can quickly perceive the arrival of large fish.
The skin has no scales and covers the muscles like "a sagging sock". Different species of hagfish have different body colors from pink to blue-gray. The skin also has a well-developed capillary network that allows them to "breathe" through the skin in the dirt as well.
The mouths are cracked, and they have short whiskers around the mouth and single nostrils, which are very sensitive. The mouth has a strong adsorption force, has teeth, and can scrape the internal organs and muscles of prey. The teeth are like rows and rows of combs that scrape meat off prey. No mouth funnel, the mouth is at the front of the mouth with a soft lip, there are 4 pairs of whiskers. 6 pairs of gill sacs, most species of external gill fissures do not go directly out of the body, but into a long tube with a common opening all over the body. The number of gills varies from species to species, generally ranging from 5 to 15 pairs. The inhaled seawater passes through the nasopharyngeal tube and flows into the pharynx and gill sac. Hagfish are the most primitive of the vertebrate population, with skulls but no vertebrae. Their skeleton is made up entirely of cartilage and, like the lamprey, has no upper and lower jaws.
The largest hagfish is Eptatretus goliath, which can grow to more than 1.2 meters, while the smallest hawks are only a few centimeters long.
Orange turtle spider
It lives in the basins of the upper Amazon River in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and other places in South America, and belongs to a species of garden spider family. The bright color is a cautionary color or mimetic, but there is no evidence that these cute little guys are toxic.