If it isn't strange enough that the clown fish lives in the tentacles of the anemone, this fish can actually change its sex.

Clown fish are monogamous and form pairs... the female is bigger than the male but if the female dies, the male with gain weight and change into a female fish and mate with a new male!

The anenome protects the clown from predators, and the clown brings food to the anenome. It's the perfect relationship.

theC said:

It is nice like that, but the fucking male fish will fuck around and turn into a female fish and start banging other guys... that is the strange part!

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Someone else must have a strange animal thing that they have been dying to post... right?

HOMOSEXUAL PENGUINS!!!
oh, that's not all that 'bizarre anymore is it???

Cuttlefish actually make these hallucinatory patterns of light in color that hypnotize their prey before they eat them. They're quite beautiful.

TRON said:

Excellent!

Cuttlefish are cool... in a weird way.

Male seahorses give birth to offspring.

Pack mentality:

The fire-bellied toad turns on its back when it is threatened to show its bright belly. The sudden change of color is usually enough to startle its enemy. It is also a warning that the toad's skin is poisonous.

2the9s said:

Those dogs probably cleaned UP that night!

The tuatara is just like a reptile that lived millions of years ago, and can only be found in New Zealand today. They usually share a nest with a type of bird called a "petrel" and they can be left together safely.

Stickleback fish build nests.

Scrub hens incubate their eggs by putting them in the side of a volcano.

For Tron:

That Turberllarian Flatworm on the X-Files was pretty damned bizarre!

IceNine said:

I just saw this one the other night. That fucker creeps me out! I'll never think of porta-johns the same again.

I'd say these are some pretty bizarre animals.

Euglenas are pretty fucked up. They can't decide whether they're plants or animals.

Starfish have a gross and unusual manner of eating. They regurgitate their stomach through their mouth onto their food, and absorb it directly. Then they suck their stomach back in.

There are all bioluminescent creatures. I believe it's a
kind of proteine that makes them light up like that, but
even still, it is pretty amazing for some of these small
and mid-sized creatures to make such bright light in
often very deep and extremely dark places.
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IstenSzek said:

Those are fucking cool... what are they???

IceNine said:

I wish that one could purchase those cool, bioluminescent creatures and cultivate them for one's personal gratification.

IceNine said:

Well, I know for certain that there are quite a lot of
bioluminescent jelly-fish. ranging from those tiny ones
to fairly big ones. I suppose those should be fairly
easy to keep at home.

When placed in an aquarium tank and exposed to blacklight
they light up very cool like ghosts in the water.

I don't know about the other creatures, though, perhaps.
I've also seen lots of other bioluminescent animals at the
marine zoo, so it is possible to keep them in aquariums.

But I think it might be very hard to keep them alive at
home, without a $100K aquarium with all the right stuff.

Still, it would be very cool, yes.

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Dolphins are the only other species (apart from humans) to be racist. If a dolphin of a particular breed spots a dolphin of different colouring it will attack it.

2the9s said:

AWWW that picture is so cute, I animals, they are the most precious things on this earth.

TRON said:

In the name of all that's unholy!