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Your favorite animal; or the coolest you've seen.
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Guruofchem
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A lot of furry mammals have a gene (or group of genes) which controls deposition of pigment in the fur - labs are an example. Yellow labs have defective versions of the deposition gene, so the alleles for color they actually carry are irrelevant; even if the lab had two dominant alleles for black fur, it would still end up yellow because all that melanin can't get into the fur...
diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
Thanks to another book I got years ago, 'Innocent Killers' by Hugo Van Lawick, I fell in love with his stories about African Hunting Dogs, Spotted Hyenas and Golden Jackals. But another canid, the Silver Fox, is my total favourite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoB0pdhxfZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoB0pdhxfZs
Ooh, I love whale sharks too!
Tara80
ACR Breeder # 787
A really cool photo of a mud wasp building a nest.
Picture: Natasha Mhatre
From: http://migre.me/dVELe
Picture: Natasha Mhatre
From: http://migre.me/dVELe
beautifullywild77
Go Penguins!!!
beautifullywild77
Go Penguins!!!
He was cool. He made himself a little den in the rocks and sand. He would pop out at you when you walked by. He was not shy!
MegF.
That's for sale???
RoseRed
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Now that gave me a really good laugh. :laugh01:
My favorite has to be the Cheetah, not nearly as unique as some of the animals on this thread but I love them all the same ^.^
And the babies are so cute, nawwww
Twovultures
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Hyenas. They're fascinating animals. Great hunters (contrary to popular myth), capable of eating bone, matriarchal, and they are probably the most socially complex carnivores.
beautifullywild77
Go Penguins!!!
Hyenas were also thought to be hermaphrodites. We have an old National Geographic vhs that goes into details.
Zombiegirl
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<3 Hyenas ^-^...Nanci...how could I forget Komodo's...they are my favorite lizard! ...am I forgetting anything else since you seem to be so good at reminding me? Lol
Tara80
ACR Breeder # 787
Creatures from the Mariana Trench are cool!:
http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/01/10/creatures-from-mariana-trench/
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world’s oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has an average width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10.911 km (10,911 ± 40 m) or 6.831 mi (36,069 ± 131 ft) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi).
At the bottom of the trench the water column above exerts a pressure of 1,086 bars (15,750 psi), over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. At this pressure the density of water is increased by 4.96%, making ninety-five litres of water under the pressure of the Challenger Deep contain the same mass as a hundred litres at the surface. The temperature at the bottom is 1 to 4 ⁰C.
Some of the photos I thought were cool in that link:
http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/01/10/creatures-from-mariana-trench/
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world’s oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has an average width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10.911 km (10,911 ± 40 m) or 6.831 mi (36,069 ± 131 ft) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi).
At the bottom of the trench the water column above exerts a pressure of 1,086 bars (15,750 psi), over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. At this pressure the density of water is increased by 4.96%, making ninety-five litres of water under the pressure of the Challenger Deep contain the same mass as a hundred litres at the surface. The temperature at the bottom is 1 to 4 ⁰C.
Some of the photos I thought were cool in that link:
All those creatures are cool, but I love these guys, they look like sad zombies :laugh:
beautifullywild77
Go Penguins!!!
Bristle worms and the Bobbit worms are things nightmares are made of as well.
Bobbit Worm
Bristle Worm
The bristle worm actually stings you with those bristles. I have caught a few in our tank from the live rocks we have bought
Bobbit Worm
Bristle Worm
The bristle worm actually stings you with those bristles. I have caught a few in our tank from the live rocks we have bought
Zombiegirl
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ZOMG that baby Dumbo Octopus *ded from teh cutez* X.X