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Name the Animal
What is this? Try and be as specific as possible.
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snow leopard
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Mola Mola ...I wonder how they taste? And they get quite large
http://www.naturalsciences.org/visin.../Mola-Mola.jpg Next: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../dontcheat.jpg |
I name that animal Fred.
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OK with me if we can call its mate Wilma. But I think we need to know what it is, not just his name. In case somebody thinks I made that up or it's a joke, the fact is that it is a real live animal that currently lives on our fine Earth.
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slackin' off are we?
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ha ha don't cheat, I like.
looks like it lives in a shell. |
ringy, you looked :( ....j/k I always look.
I don't know if people lost interst or just don't know. Speak up so I can claim the ultimate championship already! ;) But you're sort of right, ring. It likes to live in shells and it does live in the sea. PS: if you guys give up I'll tell you and we can move on with the game. |
some kind of cuttlefish?
edit.. that or an octopus .. it has legs so one of those probably :orly: edit 2: yep yellow octopus in google did it.. dumbo octopus |
I'm proud of you ObieX. It is a dumbo octopus. Go for the next one.
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pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) ...it took me a couple of googles to figure it out. At first glance I thought it might be some kind of lizard, but then realized it looks sort of like a little ant eater, so I googled "ant eater scales" and that was a hit; then I found the name after looking at another link.
here's one being held http://www.cbc.ca/aih/STEAM/2005/Pangolin1.jpg Somebody thought a pangolin coat would be cool to have: I cut&pasted this from wiki: Scale coat Indian, Rajasthan, early 19th century This coat has been covered with the scales of the pangolin or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata). The scales have been decorated in gold, and the larger have been used where more protection is required. This is the only known example of this type of armour. It originally had a helmet, also made of pangolin scales, with three plumes. The scale coat was presented to the King George III in 1820 by Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquis of Hastinges (1754-1826), who was the East India Company's Governor General in Bengal, 1812-22. http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lin_scales.jpg I think this one shouldn't be too hard. But I'm using it anyway since it looks so awesome. Mother Nature is such a great designer sometimes it's hard to believe she's a she ;) http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...efc34efd96.jpg |
That would be a pelagic sea slug. The only way i knew how to find that is because i remembered it wasn't a fish heh. Took forever to think sea slug tho i kept thinking it was a sea cucumber. :p
Sea slugs come in lots of neat colors :) http://seaslugs.wordpress.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2...lug_discov.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/solar_sea_slug.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...brolineata.jpg Now I need to find a good animal.. I may need a little while :p K, here's an easy one and a favorite from when i was a kid. http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...onCAS/1111.jpg |
^ I love those little sand crabs ...I looked it up and they're actually called mole crabs, though we always called them sand crabs. But as a kid, hell I even do it now, I would sit on North Atlantic beaches and scoop them up with a handful of sand and let them dig down as I held it in my palm ...it tickled when they got down to my hand. One time my brother and sister buried me with about 4 inches of sand on my chest/stomache and then put about ten of those on me so they'd dig down and eat me. I wonder how they taste?
I'll go search for a new one. PS: I found these pics below while searching for a new animal. The ones I'm used to are not much over one inch. I would NOT let these critters crawl on my chest: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...o_sorocaba.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...sorocaba_2.jpg OK, here's one: At first I thought this looked a little like my son when he was born, but my son was a little larger; but I'll call this guy Mike anyway: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...llyoulater.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lyoulater2.jpg |
clue: maybe some of you Canadians can guess what this is, aye?
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aye???
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OK, I give up ...it's an aye aye http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/ayeAyeNH.html
anyone who feels inspired can post up the next one. |
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Cantor's giant turtle
Good one, I believe that this is an Cantor's giant turtle. There was recently an article about it in the globe and mail.
Looking for the next animal... this one should be easy : http://photos.mongabay.com/07/0326tarsius_bancanus.jpg |
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Is that a sea robin of some sort? or another Nudibranch?
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I keep thinking it looks a lot like that little blue Glaucus Atlanticus I posed above but I'm not sure.
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A lion fish?
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I guess I'll just answer it. It's a Bathypterois. Deep sea fish. If am not mistaken, the picture I posted is the fish in its immature state.
Somebody can post their animal next. |
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is it a glyptodont? or a Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis?
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Glyptodon(t). Take it away fredweena.
/ One is a subset of the other. |
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Yay for me.
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Tasmanian Wolf! (Thylacine)
http://www.fishbase.org/images/species/Hygol_u2.jpg Obviously a fish, but what kind of fish? |
a really effin' big one. with teefs!
sorry man, i have no clue. and i looked for a long time. |
Hint: African....
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ahhh, African Tigerfish ...Hydrocynus goliath. I didn't know they come that large, though now that I searched I see they do.
This isn't really difficult, but they're so cute I'm putting it up anyway: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...cutebabies.jpg |
hedgehogs :P baby ones
I've always wanted one of those things. I'm suprised that person holdin themisnt wearing gloves, those thorns are really like pins especially when they're babies. Hrm, I'll need some time to find a good animal to post. |
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And on the Tigerfish, would you believe it's in the same family as neon tetras? No? Same order, though. Same Family as the Congo Tetra. It's like a piranha (also a Characiform) with roid rage. Some folks think they're aquarium fish. Silly. |
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Connochaetes gnou, the Black Wildebeest, male. (I knew it was a gnu, but it's a new gnu to me. Had to google to get the scientific name.)
I'll need the day to get a good one. |
while Th is getting a good one, I have a question
how do you folks feel about posting part of an animal as the clue? I don't mean one hair from a beast, but more like a pic focused on a characteristic part. If no objections, I'll give this a shot next time I'm up ...if it's not liked I'll drop it. |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nturong_00.jpg
I'm fine with partial animals. Sometimes the full body shot is less informative than a close up. |
A Bearcat or Binturong
Next: The stuff of fairy-tales? http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...ler/lalala.jpg |
ahhh, one of my favorite cetaceans, the narwhal
Let me start with this "partial" and I'll add more if needed: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...0834-1_500.jpg |
The Star Nosed Mole that is. Weird little thing.
...is this a case of cute gone crazy? lol http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...dodedodedo.jpg |
that looks sort of like a lama's nose but I'm not at all sure so I'll wait for confirmation or denial
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It that an Angora Rabbit? (Looks like a vegetable Lamb)
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Yes it's an Angora Rabbit. Just too funny not to post!
What about this...thing (makes my skin crawl blech) http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...ler/teehee.jpg |
That's a blob fish. Psychrolutes marcidus
http://www.wettropics.gov.au/st/rain...tickInsect.jpg (BTW - the name is in the filename, so if you want to cheat, well, go ahead, but it won't be as much fun.) |
I keep thinking of stick bug as I look at the pic, but I can't figure out what's what ...it looks like the little skinny one on the bottom is grabbing/attacking the big green one on top. But to me the one on the bottom looks like stick bug and the one on top looks like some kind of mantis.
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Funny, I didn't even notice the one on the bottom. The big green one is a spiny stick insect (sorry, didn't get a binomial). Over to you, BadNick
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I'm going for another "cute but no so hard" one
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...amacallits.jpg |
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Looks like some sort of gallinule, but that's the best I can do at this point.
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I'll give it to ya since it's taking so long :P
Its a purple gallinule or purple swamphen |
Hmm, for some reason, I thought that was too stocky for a Purple Gallinule. Would have been my first guess if I had to pick one.
Try this one out for size (name is in the filename if you want to go that route.) http://academics.smcvt.edu/dfacey/Aq...llgrammite.jpg |
yea i think thats just a fat one.. or it was caught in the back-swing of that little bird head bob they do when they walk.
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that sure looks like some kind of centipede to me, but even if it is, I have no idea which one.
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hellgrammite ...I struggled to come up with that word since yesterday; even while I said centipede I was trying to remember that word "hellgrammite" but just now I remembered enough of it to piece it together and get the correct spelling and then I found pics of it. In the back of my mind I knew it was some kind of lure I used for fishing even back when I was a kid, but back then I remember thinking "what kind of fish would eat that creepy thing!"
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That's a crab spider of some sort. Let me see if I can run down the binomial nomenclature on that one. I have definitely seen the like in person before.
Allrighty then. Wrong family and everything. That's a Gasteracantha cancriformis - Spinybacked Orbweaver. Now I can picture one sitting in the middle of its web in the mountain laurels outside my door when I was a kid. http://bugguide.net/images/raw/VQ30N...O04QV0PQ10.jpg This one's been in the news in the last couple of years. |
right about the spinyback ...I edited my original picture since it had webs and I thought it would be too obvious. So I found a pic without webs but still couldn't stump Tophat.
Is that a cicada? Cicadas have been in the news but it just doesn't quite look like I'm remembering cicadas at any stage. |
Not a cicada, but definitely the right order
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It looks just like this ...it's not the Pioneer Zephyr bug, is it?
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ephyr20Box.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...erZephyr_2.jpg I guess I still haven't figured out Tophat's bug, but I know this guy would eat it: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...cs/23452_w.jpg |
It's a glassy winger sharpshooter. Coming to a Vineyard near you.
Over to Nick again, since he at least got the right general type of critter with the Cicadas. |
Tophat, we should change the title of this thread to the "Tophat665 & BadNick animal game thread" ...I'm hoping somebody else steps up to guess this one.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...s/notadodo.jpg |
Oh oh! It's a BIRDIE!!!
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Tophat is a dodo
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Tophat is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a warm flour tortilla with guacamole and sour cream.
That's a hornbill of some sort. |
damn, you got another one. It is a hornbill. So now it's to you again.
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Let's give this one a try. No fair looking at the filename.
Whoops - name on the picture. Stand by. http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/at...-oarfish93.jpg and an illustration for clarity http://www.dkimages.com/discover/pre...3/25203639.JPG |
After hunting info on various eel, finned eel, eel fish, I'm thinking it's a conger eel.
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It is completely unrelated to any eel that I know of. It's a really odd duck, and a leading cause of sea serpent stories. Let's see if that helps any.
This is a conger http://www.gowerfishing.co.uk/assets...conger_eel.jpg |
or it could be an ....oarfish :)
persistent googling usually pays off. This one took me longer than usual. I had no idea these can get so large: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...cs/oarfish.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...-marcos-se.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../weirdfish.jpg |
Damn! Got it in one - Lump Fish.
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Very good on the hoatzin.
I think I know what that is. Let's see if I can run it down before Badnick. Moschus spp. - Musk Deer, I think M. fuscus - Black Musk deer, but it might be another species. The teeth are the clue. Vampire Bambi Away!!! http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.u...lectrolux1.jpg |
Because it doesn't have a long, thin tail, that looks more like some type of Hypostomus plecostomus fishy than a sting ray of sorts. But I'm not sure which one. I'll go explore the Amazon and see what I find. I had a beautiful "Leopard pleco" for a few years, it grew from about 2" to over 10" and then died, so I would like to find another.
edit: I'm back from the Amazon, and since I've injested some mind expanding herbs, I'm starting to think this is some kind of loach. How about Hillstream Loach? a.k.a. Chinese Hillstream Loach, Borneo Sucker, and sometimes affectionately called Beaufortia kweichowensis edit2: now that I'm sober again, after further explorations of loaches and rays, I found it is a ray from around South Africa. From PFK fishnews: ************************ South African scientists have discovered a new genus and species of an attractively patterned electric ray off the east coast of South Africa and they have named it after a vacuum cleaner company. The new electric ray, named Electrolux addisoni, is described in the latest issue of the journal Smithiana Bulletin by Leonard Compagno and Phillip Heemstra. Electrolux addisoni is easily distinguished from other electric rays of the family Narkidae by its striking colour pattern consisting of a dark brown dorsal surface of the disc with numerous small pale yellow spots and a series of concentric black stripes. Other distinguishing characters of the new genus include its prominent spiracular papillae, the unique morphologies of the nostrils, nasal curtain, mouth, jaws, chondrocranium, basibranchial skeleton, pectoral and pelvic girdles, and the presence of two dorsal fins. Electrolux? The genus name raises eyebrows, and its origin is best explained in the authors' own words: "The name alludes to the well-developed electrogenic properties of this ray (collectors and photographers have experienced the shocking personality of this bold, active and brightly patterned electric ray first-hand), the discovery of which sheds light (Latin, lux) on the rich and poorly-known fish diversity of the Western Indian Ocean. And the vigorous sucking action displayed on the videotape of the feeding ray that was taken by Stephania and Peer Lamberti may rival a well-known electrical device used to suck the detritus from carpets, furniture, and other dust-gathering surfaces in modern homes...". The species is named after Mark Addison, who collected the holotype. Endemic to South Africa Electrolux addisoni is endemic to the east coast of South Africa, and was first identified to the authors in 1984 by photographing divers. It was subsequently sighted, photographed and even videographed by divers, but it was not until 2003 that the authors were finally able to obtain specimens for study. Electrolux addisoni is also apparently the largest member of the Narkidae, reaching up to 515 mm total length. |
That's the one. Ran across mention of it in TFH (not to be confused with TFP) last month or the month before. An electric ray named after a vacuum cleaner. Over to you Bad Nick.
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How about these guys?
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Got me. Is that an anemone they're on or a sea-slug or something else entirely? I'll have to find me a good shrimp resource to figure these out. I do assume they're shrimp of some sort (or some related arthropod order, like possum shrimp), and I also assume they are symbiotic on whatever that is, but if it's not a cnidarian of some sort, but rather a mollusc or echidnoderm, I could be off base there.
Whatever they are they are cute little bugs. |
You're right, they are a type of shrimp. If you choose to end your research on it, I think you hit it close enough that I would toss the ball to you again, and divulge more of the name that I found.
Btw Th, are you trained/educated/experienced as some kind of animal/biology expert? You seem to be very knowledgeable about all sorts of critters. |
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I should note that one of the very first books that I really enjoyed as a small kid was Larousse Natural History. Belonged to my Grandad and Nana passed it to me when he passed on. I called it the Cassowary Book from as long ago as I have any memory at all, because of the big color plate of the Cassowary head. I just read it cover to cover for the first time in my life 2 months ago (rather than flipping here and there.) Quote:
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For the shrimp photo I posted above, I tried to track down more info about it other than "walindi alien shrimp" as it was identified when I found it, but even that didn't give me much. It sure looks like they're on an anemone of some kind, but I can't be sure and I don't have more on the name.
Wow, $200 bucks for such a nice tank and setup is a steal for sure, TheePH! |
Nothin' moving here for a while....I'll post one...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/61...bb5e14.jpg?v=0 |
I'll give somebody else a chance.
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one-legged spotted rhinocerous?
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I've been searching ...it's been sort of on the tip of my tongue since you posted it but I just couldn't come up with the name of it. Today I did some more googling, one term "strange animals of the african plains" came up with this painting
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...s/image130.jpg So then I went to the site that had the painting and finally found it. Okapi :) |
okapi
Correct...
okapi (ōkăp'ē) [key], nocturnal ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni, of the giraffe family. It inhabits the almost sunless rain forests of the upper Congo and feeds on leaves. Its shape is reminiscent of a giraffe's, but it is smaller, with a much shorter neck. It is deep reddish brown with black and white zebra-striped legs. Its head is giraffelike and in the male bears blunt skin-covered horns. The okapi was unknown to zoologists until the beginning of the 20th cent. It is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Giraffidae. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright |
my turn again? How about this one ...I'm guessing Tophat would know this right away since he's an animalistic genius
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It is a Cassowaries (genus Casuarius)
....a very large flightless birds native to the tropical forests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia. Some nearby islands also have small cassowary populations, but it is not known if these are natural or the result of the New Guinea trade in young birds. They are frugivorous; fallen fruit and fruit on low branches is the mainstay of their diet. They also eat fungi, snails, insects, frogs, snakes and other small animals. They are a keystone species of rain forests because they eat fallen fruit whole and distribute seeds across the jungle floor via excrement. Try this one... http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explor...eodory_600.jpg (don't look at the photo file name) |
Looks like a Dory of some sort, but I don't see anything in Fishbase under Genus Zeus or Family Zeidae that matches, and the mouth is wrong. (Funny thing - Pterophyllum scalare - the freshwater angelfish - was at one point classifies in the Geneus Zeus with John Dories) Could it be an Oreo of some sort?
How about Neocyttus rhomboidalis, the Spiky Oreo? A deepwater fish, related to the Dories, living on the continental slope of the Southern Oceans, forming large shoals and feeding on salps, crustaceans, fish, and squid. |
you got it...it's an Oreo Dory...
There are several varieties of the dory, the most prominent being the John dory. The John dory is also called St. Peter's fish in Europe, because the thumbprint marking on its side is attributed to the legend of the fisherman Simon (later known as St. Peter) grasping the fish tightly to search for a coin hidden in its mouth. Other fish that are called dories include the smooth oreo and black oreo dory, both of which do not actually belong to the dory family but are part of the Oreosomatidae, or oreo family. |
OK...
Give this one a shot. No fair peeking at the image name. http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Aplysia-punctata-BA.jpg |
I would think it is a variety of sea slug.
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maybe I'm reading too much into details I think I'm seeing in the pic, but I think I see an eye and a mouth on the lower right, so I'm searching for a fish that looks like a sea slug type thing.
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Y'all are on the right track with sea slug - it's related.
Badnick, the head is at the other end. |
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ahhh, the good old www.glaucus.org.uk had it. The Sea Hare, Aplysia punctata, from the Dorset shore. This aplysiid mollusc is usually brown in colour, although green ones have been discovered from Dorset before. PS: I just looked out of curiosity and saw that you, Tophat, posted your link from glaucus.org ...I didn't look at that before I found it. How about this cute little guy?: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arnivcenti.jpg |
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