Animal Image Cache. Amazing Bugs You Probably Didn't Know Exist! Ancient & Marvelous Turtles. "QUANTUM SHOT" #720Link - article by Avi Abrams Secret of their survival?
-They go inside their shell for a long time and THINK. Then, they ACT. Or rather, don't. Turtles are old species. (original unknown) Baby turtles are perhaps the most adorable baby reptiles. (image via) From tender young age, turtles grow old - up to 255 years old. Turtles display all sorts of emotion; from being curious, to being sad: (originals unknown) Perhaps little-known fact is that turtles are very sensitive creatures. Alligator Snapping Turtle lives up to its name (it also features camouflaged tongue which looks like a worm - to lure in some hungry fish, and then...
(image via) This delightfully aggressive specimen was caught in China: (image via) Eastern Box Turtle is a "state reptile" of North Carolina, has a nice "box" shell and a strange propensity to get hit by cars and agricultural machinery: 7 Superpowered Animal Senses You Won't Believe Are Possible. Hammerhead Sharks Can "Smell" Electricity Sharks are already pretty damn terrifying, since we are programmed to fear that which can eat us, especially when it's the size of a small boat and filled with razor blades; we don't need it to posses superpowers as well.
Hammerheads have just that -- an enhanced ability to detect electric fields, and incidentally, better smell and a wider field of vision than most sharks, with 360 degrees of vertical binocular vision. And they average 500 to 1,000 pounds. And they travel in packs. Their most impressive feature, however, is their ability to use their wide-set terror-head as a sort of natural minesweeper, detecting the minutest electrical signal over vast distances or through mud. Some faces are bigger than others. As a result, hammerheads can detect half a billionth of a volt. Yet ... Jewel Beetles Can Sense Fire We know what you're thinking: Everything can sense fire. Some of us closer than others. Mantis Shrimp Eyes are Superpowers And this guy. 6 Animals That Just Don't Give A F#@k. Some animals are boring, and that's fine: They're all gathering nuts or looking for mates or marking territory or some stupid shit.
Hey, you know, whatever floats your boat, squirrel. We prefer the animals that just straight don't give a fuck: the ones that punch sharks in the dick, ghost-ride somebody else's whip, beer-bong tequila and look you dead in the eye while plowing your girlfriend. Animals like: It's common knowledge that the mongoose and the snake are mortal enemies. And you'd think that statement is one-sided: On the one hand, you've got the very emblem of evil and sin -- a scaled, wriggling tube of poison, fangs and death. If they allowed bets on interspecies rivalries, we'd lay our money square on the snake, every time. And then along comes this doofy hillbilly weasel, which proceeds to murder the shit out of the living embodiment of terror just because there's nothing better to do that day.
Pen-Tailed Tree Shrew. The 9 Most Mind-blowing Disguises in the Animal Kingdom. Moths Pretending to be Spiders Metalmark moths of the Brenthia genus find that the best way to avoid getting killed by spiders is to wear the enemy uniform.
Indiana Jones found the same technique useful with the Nazis. Most spiders don't seem like that much of a threat to something that can simply fly away, but nature threw them a curve ball when it invented jumping spiders. To deal with the threat of agile spiders, this moth can make itself look like one of the spiders that hunt them. How does a moth with wings mimic an arachnid with eight legs? When a metalmark is confronted by its arch nemesis the jumping spider, it arranges its wings to mimic the spider's pose, looking like a bigger, meaner, spider gangster. Bugs Pretending to be Plants Believe it or not, there is an insect in the above picture. Then we have its cousin, the stick insect, which sways back and forth to mimic the sway of branches in the breeze. And the dead-leaf butterfly: Plants Looking Like Bugs. The 6 Deadliest Animals Too Adorable to Run Away From.
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Olive Baboons Are Kind of Dicks Photos.com First things first: an olive baboon is a monkey. Quick -- what do monkeys eat? You thought "bananas," didn't you? GettyShe thinks she's people! Olive baboons -- like all monkeys -- are actually opportunistic omnivores. Those gazelles the olive baboon likes to hang out with? Once the baboon catches the African Bambi, he unceremoniously kills it by beating and biting it. Getty Wait, What? Occasionally, olive baboons wake up and find that their home has been invaded by a bunch of flamingos, a "bunch" in this case meaning "up to four freaking million.
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