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The wierdest!

duck-billed platypus

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The Duck-billed Platypus is one of the 2 mammals that lay eggs,

The Echidna is the other egg-laying mammals. I can't remember the scientific name for these animals.

Respect for all living things.

People think that an excuse for treating non-European animals like Canadian geese are often hated or very few times killed. People think that they shouldn't be here and use this as a excuse, this does NOT give a good reason, killing things like Muntjack, Canadian geese, Rabbits or squirrels is always wrong, No matter how good the excuse is.

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There are different types of flying, Gliding, and wing beating. Gliders have longger and more narrower wings than smaller, round winged birds with whirring wing-beats. On some small, faster moving birds, their wing-shape is very little used, so you cannot see their wings much, but on bigger birds, slower wing-beats allow a better view.

This picture above (not taken by me) is a vampyroteuthis also known as the vampire squid from hell, this is in the blackness where no sunlight can reach, this creature is the wierdest of the strange. If you go to it, then it only retreats a little distance, go after it and it has a special defence, the picture below shows its defence.

The lights on the ends of its hands and in its eyes help to confuse its predators, bio-illuminative bacteria shine through pockets on its arms, to make the predator think that it is the head, and then it will go for the arms, leaving the head untouched.

7,000 years ago, England, Scotland and Whales split up from the mainland of Europe, this has put an effect on the Evolution of ou

r European animals, like the Jays in Scotland are not as red as the ones in England, the ones on the main island are more red than these ones in England.

Insects such as Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Dragonflies are in a group called exopterygotes, this means that these insects grow their wings outside while they are growing.

In the deep, now I' talking about the bathypelagic and the abbyssobelagic zone, also known a the dark zone, where no light can penetrate, fish have adapted in a way that was thought impossible, animals in the deep flash in the darkness, like Vampyroteuthis, Angler fish (use fishing poles with a luminous lure on the end) firefly Squid (all over), all these animals and many more use Biolluminessence.

Now your probably thinking 'How do they create light?', well I know the answer to that.

This is a reaction, the bacteria uses a kind of protein called luciferin, and when it is exposed to oxygen in the water, it creates light as it reacts, the luciferin is holding it together, many fish with this ability can switch it off, but how?

The answer is that in between the skin protecting it and the bacteria is a shutter, like an eyelid, when animal wants to shut it off, all it just does is closes the shutter, but the rest like the Firefly squid can't do that.

The best example for this is Periphylla. An amazing kind of Jelly that Lights up completely to scare away its enemies.

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