BBC Focus Magazine

[Hyrulian Outlaw]

Pics of some wierdos from the animal kingdoms, just photos and no descriptions so if you have any idea's on what some of the odder ones are then post please

http://altopalto.blogspot.com/2010/01/s ... world.html

[M Paul Lloyd]

Nice pictures, the 'giant' jellyfish is a fake though isn't it??

[Esther]

Hehe - I'm stuck indoors today so this looks like a fun way to pass the time

This one's a capybara, the world's largest living rodent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara. Closely related to guinea pigs, and looks rather like an enormously fat one...



This fella might be a pangolin, aka spiny anteater. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin



And some kind of giant salamander, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_salamander



This one looks like a wombat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat



Tasmanian Devil? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil



Okapi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi



Naked mole rat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat



Red panda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda



Three toed sloth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-toed_sloth



A platpus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus



I'll be back later to find some more...

[Esther]

Giant anteater? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Anteater



Some kind of mudskipper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper



Some kind of bat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat



Armadillo lizard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Lizard



Aye aye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye



Tasmanian wolf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_wolf



Star-nosed mole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Nosed_Mole



The rest might take a bit longer - should keep me out of mischief for a while...

[Hyrulian Outlaw]

I have no idea if there's fakes in there MPL.

Nice work there Esther, to be fair some of them aren't that odd, I miss quoted the article's title, it was meant to say rare.

Any idea what the hell that thing hanging onto the side of that dust bin is? That scares the bejeebies out of me!

[Esther]

It's a coconut crab, "The Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) is the world's biggest land-living arthropod. It lives in the eastern Pacific region, and, as the name suggests, can crack open and eat coconuts. Actually it will eat all sorts of things; but luckily for us, rarely if ever does it eat live animals. " I'm pretty sure David Attenburgh met one of these in one of the Life on Earth programs.

http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php/2009/01/18/birgus_latro



And this fellow...



is a barreleye fish. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/

This photo of a giant jellyfish looks kind of familiar



and the webpage it was on http://www.diverssite.com/news.php?extend.778 says that the largest ever found was 2m accross, so I think the diver was added afterwards.

I'm not very convinced by these fellows...





They look kind of rubbery and their eyes don't look quite 'right' to me. No sparkle, no soul...

This looks like one of the river dolphins, but I don't know which one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin



And this guy seems to be a fennec fox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_Fox



And as for this fella...



...my son and I are convinced it's a chinchilla that's just crawled home after a hard out on the town.

There's still a few more left to keep me busy tomorrow, but that's quite enough fow now!

[Esther]

My son also says that this is a vampire squid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Squid



He also assured me that this fella was a moonfish, as he'd seen on in the Lisbon aquarium and it was a 'peixe da lua', but after struggling to confirm this we discovered that in English it's a sunfish. I guess Portuguese moons are as bright as the sun in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

[M Paul Lloyd]

I have no idea if there's fakes in there MPL.

I spotted a picture of a diver apparently 'in front' of a positively leviathan jelly fish, here it is.
Is it genuine??

[The Jules]

Great stuff.

As long as they don't spoil it by putting up pictures of fictional creatures like unicorns and tapirs.

[EzBloke]

Great stuff.

As long as they don't spoil it by putting up pictures of fictional creatures like unicorns and tapirs.