Mental_floss Blog & 6 Animals That Show Mother Nature's Sense of Humor. You've heard jokes like these all your life: What do you get if you cross an octopus with a cow? An animal that can milk itself. I didn't find such an animal, but the world has plenty of strange species that at first glance appear to be hybrids of unrelated species because they have attributes that surprise us. However, we are only surprised because our personal experiences don't encompass all that nature offers. 1. Turtle + Hedgehog = Armadillo Rudyard Kipling wrote the story The Beginning of the Armadillos, in which the animal came from a tortoise and a hedgehog.
Here in the real world, armadillos are related to both sloths and anteaters and are native to Latin America except for the nine-banded armadillo we see in the US. 2. The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) appears to be a short giraffe with a zebra's legs tacked on as an afterthought. 3. The pangolin is also known as the spiny anteater. 4. Fruit bats encompass several species and are also called megabats or flying foxes. 5. 6.
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