capybara appreciation zone

fundamentally the best animal


below is a collection of animals that are incredibly interesting, but because nature education so heavily covers already well-known topics like bears, tigers, birds of paradise, etc, I have only found out about by chance online. I will never forgive BBC for making Planet Earth 2 only for it to be nearly identical to the original



mammals

birds

reptiles an 'phibians

fish

aquatic

buggies

honorable mentions

plants

  • Baquila trifoliolata, a type of plant that can mimic more than one other type of plant at once, and can mimic plastic plants, which suggests light sensitive cells and a type of "vision"
  • two other plants that may have light sensitive cells
  • the black locust tree is flourecent under uv light

    misc

  • a water snake that lived in a pool of water long enough to grow hair algea on its body
  • baracudas are fucking enormous and no one told me
  • king cobras can growl (warning for live animal feeding)