GLOW WORM
Glow worm is found in caves and dark crevices. They used their lights in order to lure the potential victim into their snares. The larvae secretes a sticky substance, extrudes it into threadlike fishing lines. One worm alone may dangle 70 threads or even more.They attracted their victims through their lights. They trapped them in the strand then reels them in and devour them. Their body is very transparent showing its internal organs. When the victims entangled, the worm bites a hole in the tube seizes the line with mandible and minute ventral bristles, draw it up by successive waves of the body muscle. They bite its prey to quiet its trashing then eats it.
ANGLER FISH
There are many different species of fish that fish. Angler fish is considered as an ugly creature in the depth in term of appearance. A bigger fish reached 70-pounds, some are measuring only a few inches. He has enough finny appendages hanging like a seaweed. He had a grotesque, mottled, craggy appearance of a rock. He prefer to sidle or walk along the rocks than swim using his ugly elbowed pectoral fins. He slowly paddle or crawl. It is quite difficult for him to catch other kind of fish.
Angler fish don’t really catch fish but just to lure them close to him and suck them in. The suddenness of its attack leaves you wonder due to its swiftness.
WHALE/DOLPHIN
Whale is a mammal with gargantuan in size. During the migration of the whale from one location top another, he has the ability to navigate in pitch darkness in the ocean depth depending only on its sonar ability to reach to his destination. He can swim under a thousand feet at ease. Many people were amazed of his ability to store up vast amount of body fats in addition to its enormous size and strength no other animal can do. He can eat fish in volume quantity, a feeding habit that no other sea creatures can equal in storing such a large amount.
A baby dolphin is born underwater and must within a moment should take their first breath of air otherwise he will die. He nudge gently to the surface. He automatically open and breathe air in his new little air vent at just the right moment and close it tight again, submerging to swim alongside his parents. He is nurse underwater to suckle at his mother’s specially built underwater paps receiving only milk and no salt water.
PORPOISE
Porpoise are among the most intelligent of all sea animals. It can be train to do any tricks. He has that learned behavior to adopt immediately any training given to him. He is fast in learning to play games. He leap out the water in such a distance. When instructed, he can throw things with great accuracy.
It is a great feat to dive a thousand feet below the ocean surface without decompression when he came up above. He has the ability to swim at the speed of around 22 miles per hour and can locate object more than a hundred yards away with underwater clicks. He can communicate on two separate voice channels at once.
He can emit series of clicks and whistles sound underwater. He can make a squawks and squeaks when he popped his head out of the water. It was already known from researcher’s point of view that its echo location system and navigation is far superior compared to the most sophisticated system of underwater vessel.
ANABLEPS
Anableps have little four eyes used to see objects below and above the water. It has a maximum size of 12 inches from head to tip of his fin. He spend most of his life along the surface of the water using 2 eyes above and 2 eyes below the surface, seeing an object under entirely different condition. He has separate retinas in the back of his eyes. Any object seen out of the water is viewed through his special air viewing eyes. Any object seen out of the water is viewed through his special air viewing eyes, flattened much like human eye lens transmitted to his lower retina. His 4 eyes is for defense against predators and for escaping from potential enemy. It has a fantastic jumping ability away from any threat to his life.
ARCHER FISH
Archer fish has a phenomenal ability to shoot down his meals from overhanging branches above the water. His meal comprised of small insects who happened to wander in the branches near his line of focus. Thus unusual creature lived in a murky, dark and brackish water. His body shines with bright, luminous color resembling a tiny, greenish fluorescent lamps.
His wide eyes is more complex, equipped with binocular vision. While his eyes are on the sides of his head, he can use them sufficiently to see one image in front or above the surface.
He can spurt stream of water for quite a distance, enough to bring the insects down to the water. He has a tiny groove in the roof of his mouth. When his hard and bony tongue is compressed against the roof of the mouth, water is forced through the mouth by a sudden snapping shut of the gill cover. The water squirts out of the gun barrel-like groove, usually striking its target the first time at distances of 2 or 3 feet. That’s amazing.
PLATYPUS
Platypus is considered a strange creature with may qualities similar to other animals consolidated into one image. It has a strange little duck-like beaver-otter appearance. It has an otter webbed-forefeet but with a tough skin extending up to his toes ideal for swimming and burrowing. the male has a pit or sharp, hollow spur on it’s hind foot. It carries a poisonous venom. It has a muscular, flat-shaped tail as that of a beaver with fur instead of scales. It has a bill of a duck filled with sensitive nerves.
It lays eggs a turtle in appearance covered with skin-like texture instead of hard shell.It suckle its young but actually secretes the milk from the mammary openings. Never before did one animal have patchwork of several characteristics owned by other animals. It has a duck-like bill, beaver-like tail, snake-like eggs and venom fang with otter-like forefeet and young suckling characteristics. It has a single opening used for elimination, mating and birthing.
FIREFLIES
From the blackness of the night, flashing lights started on a tree. The tree become the repository of glittering lights not only few but thousands of its flashing after the other, blinking away.
Fireflies clustered a single branch. They began flashing on and off in unison. It is a spectacular event making thus multitudes blink at the same instant when darkness come. They turn-on its light about once a second.
HORNBILL
The nesting habit of the hornbill placed as one of the extraordinary birds on earth. The female select a hollow tree and seals herself into her nest. Her mate feeds the family through a small opening.
She is a mud-gathering bird. She pick-up pellets of mud from the water hole several yards from the home tree. The female makes many trips back and forth, carrying small quantities of mud. The female continue her construction by plastering the nest entrance while the male bring food.
CHIMPANZEE
Chimpanzee make crude tools by using grass stalks, twigs and sticks in capturing and eating termites and ants.
He took leaves from the plants. He crumpled and chewed in its mouth to form a mass. He hold it to his fingers. He dipped the liquid mass into the hollow trunk of the tree. He dipped again with the use of a homemade sponge into the natural bowl of water and again drunk. He cleverly modified a natural object to adapt it to specific use. He briefly chew the leaves before seeping up and drink. It is the initial crumpling that will increase its absorptions.
What wondered us is that he use leaves to wipe his body in order to clean any sticky or unpleasant substances splattered like mud, blood and food residue. He don’t like being accidentally dirtied by his child. He understand what cleanliness means to him.
DOCTOR FISHH
Wrasse is a flashy little fish bobbing and prancing before the school of other fish. It is a curious ocean dweller who doctor other fish for a living by cleaning them of parasites on a damaged and infected tissues.
Besides getting free meal from the fishes it cleans – he also earns immunity from attack of the other larger fish. In picking parasites to their body, the fish cooperates by holding its fin erect so that the wrasse can examine them. Waiting patients hold their fin in normal position. He will attend to each of them in turn.
SEA HORSE
Sea horse is a vegetable-like creature of the sea. His appearance is like a tangle of seaweed. A true fish with leaf-like appendages that mimic vegetation. Its body exterior helps ward off attacks by predator. It sucks up marine microorganisms, small worms with its tubelike snout.
What wondered us is that the father is the one that is pregnant. He bear mass of eggs under his tail carrying young through the hatching period. The female will deposit the eggs in the underside of the male’s tail, then fertilized and protected in cuplike support. It is an odd fish. His body encased in bony armor. His protection against predators.
GRUNION
Grunion is a kind of fish that spawn on land. They come ashore just after peak tides have began to ebb. In a brief period, eggs are laid out in the far end of the sand where the tide will not disturbed the eggs until hatching time. They are likely to come in with the waves that curls to the left.
The female fish drill herself backward into the semi-fluid sand with side-to-side jerking motion of her body, burying to her pectoral fins. Then laid her eggs to each nest while the male emit their watery substances, which sinks into the sand to fertilize the eggs.
She swing her body vigorously back and forth to free himself from the sand, then wriggled toward the water and the wave brings her back to the sea.
PITCHER PLANTS
It is a strangest kind of plant. It is a giant insect-trapping pitcher plants called Nepenthes. Its vines can be found everywhere, creeping along the ground, clinging to lower branches of trees, snaking into bushes. Many long leaves, tapered into stout tendrils which ended in weird hanging structures shaped like a bowl of a pipe.
It is a well of no return from most insects. Once they are inside they can no longer go outside. It is the home of some protozoans, algae, diatoms, worms, crustaceans, spiders, tadpoles. When the insects tumbled inside its wall, they will die.
The plants has its own chemical secretion of wax that weakens the grip of an ant’s claw. The gluey fluid near the bottom of the cup was less appetizing. It is an insect-attracting chemicals produce in a glands.
Inside the pitcher plants’ vessel, it contains half full of water, a fluid that is mainly of plant origin fatal to most insects but can be consume by human. A sealed caps of immature pitchers has a best-testing water to taste.
The digestive enzyme secreted by the pitcher plant can be found in the lining of its lower wall which is fatal to most insects wandering in its domain. But what are their purpose of trapping an insects? The main reason is due to lack of nitrogen in the soil, the pitcher plant have to do these in order to have enough nutrients in its stem.
Inside the pitcher plant’s cavity were the skeleton of a small insects (ants, flies, beetles, worms and other crawling and flying insects). Their misfortune is not accidental but by the result of ingenuity and deception that only nature could devise.
JUMPING FROGS
Dendrobatidae is a colorful frog. His body are of mixed colors but despite their brilliant bodies and fantastic pattering and other markings, its garish colors may warn away potential predators out of his way.
They do most of their time hiding half camouflage under leaves or in bark openings. After dark they do a wooing, cheeps reverberating in the air and even be heard in a far distance.
The only problem of this kind of frog is that their skin secrete a poison that are toxic in substance. The poison will acts on the nerves of mammals and birds causing paralysis and quick death. The skin glands emit a venomous mucus used in blowgun dart to hunt animals preferably monkeys or birds.
SEA SNAKES
Sea snakes can be seen at the bottom of the coarse of the seafloor. Half of their body are protruding from the sand swaying along the current. They are the most venomous kind of vertebrate animals known to man.
They are similar to cobra. It has a venom many times more lethal than that of any other kinds of land snakes. The bite is painless at first but after several hours the victim’s legs become paralyzed. His eyes close and his jaw lock. He may live for several days. The victim will die when convulsion and respiratory failure takes place.
Upon seeing them, it can betray their intention by the way they move. Their faces may be expressionless, but their body is different and even lethal.
They have a specially adapted glands in the mouth. This adaptation is to get rid of salt from the sea water they drink. He only have one lung but a big one. He had a simple sac where the air is stored. It’s amazing to have this devise used for stretching a dive in a controlled heartbeat. He can slow their pulse rate by 50% when they go under the water.
INCREDIBLE SALMON
Salmon always do an autumn run for the purpose of spawning upstream. They shot with frenzy both male and female, tail thrashing with their back half of the water. In a deeper portion of the river, the school of salmon hung there motionless awaiting the final maturation changes before spawning to his selected site. Other fish are there in some part of the riverbed waiting their turn for the nest building. Spawning is the final act of the salmon before they die.
She slapped the gravel bottom with his powerful tails to removed the sand, pebbles and larger stones that obstruct her nesting. She dislodged and carried it downstream by the rivers swift current. When hollowed, the excavated portion will be her nest for spawning.
In going up to the river, salmon took so much effort to covers hundred miles traveling. They spend many days just to reach the area they are selected to spawn.
In protecting his territory, the male can do battle with other intruder by using his hooked snout and fierce teeth to sacre away others who will took advantage of the area where they spawned.
In nesting, the female settles to the bottom of the nest. While the male takes beside and a little to the rear of her. Suddenly they begin to vibrate rapidly, thrust themselves forward. When eggs and milt were released simultaneously then they are fertilized by the male and settle to the bottom.
Moving farther upstream, the female dig again another egg pit where the pairs are spawning. He may spawn 4 times or more with different males. After the spawning, her tail is worn out and frayed and die. The eggs lie there for many weeks at the bottom of the gravel, then suddenly the unborn little fish can be seen wriggling around, preparing to burst out of the encasement.
BOWER BIRD
Bower bird was named for his unique structures they built. He is an architect and exterior decorator. Additionally, a skilled painter. Bower bird has territorial space called bower where he do the courting of his mate. The only problem with this bird is that he is very fond of taking out various kinds of brightly colored or glittering objects he took fancy and brought this objects to his bower.
He has an amazing behavior of imitating other bird’s sound of calls. Some bower bird can build a wall arch overhead forming like a tunnel. He paint his bower by using charcoal mixed with his saliva. He chewed-up bark of the tree, and even use a laundry bluing. He used his beak as his brush to hold a wad of chewed bark that will serve as sponge. This behavior is a rare example of a bird using a tool in order to paint his bower by a pulp made of charcoal. Another behavior is that he can decorate it with flowers where he build his nest from parallel walls of twigs thrust upright in the ground.
HERON
These seemed to be a case of learned behavior by repitition. If a heron sees you doing fishing by throwing pellet to the water in order to bait the fish, heron can learned that by mimicking your action.
In a experiment conducted by a researcher, he recorded the heron picking up the pellet, putting it the water. If the fish don’t come boiling up right away, he takes the same pellet up on downstream to try his luck again. If he has a luck he strike out and get the fish.
If he gets the fish, he grip it with his bill then turn it so he can swallow its head first. After eating, he will dip his bill in the water then raise his head and shake it vigorously to help the morsel down. He retrieved the bait, which had drifted downstream, and placed it once again within his range. That’s amazing…
LUNG FISH
Lung fish is an ugly fish. His appearance is like an eel that live in lakes and mudflats most of his time. It has a remarkable ability to lie dormant for months or even years in a dry mud waiting for the next rainy season to again fill their shallow lakes with water.
The lung fish were not only able to breathe air, but to travel from mud puddle to mud puddle by using his paddle-like fins. During his dormant period, the fish lives off his own fat. His whole body metabolism slows down to a near standstill. His breathing rate becoming slower and slower taking only one breath every few hours in the deepest part of his dormancy. What wonder us is that his little heart slows down to function 3 beats a minute. Then he was able to ensconced in his parchment wrapping for up to seven long years. When rain awaken he make a convulsive effort to free himself.
