Horrigying Bugs

August 25th, 2008

But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many. Here are five you want to avoid at all costs.

Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia japonica)

gianthornet1 Horrigying Bugs

From: Japan, obviously.

Why you must fear it:
It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?

Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It’d be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like “Don’t worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live,” but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.

Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.

gianthornet3 Horrigying Bugs

More scary shit:
Here’s how the Japanese hornet treats other insects (and would presumably treat us, if we were small enough). An adult hornet will fly miles to find some squishy shit to feed to its children. Often times, it finds its food in, say, a hive inhabited by thousands of bees.

What to do? Well, Vespa japonica sprays the nest with some of the acid/pheromone and brings in reinforcements, usually consisting of 30 or so fellow hornets. They then descend upon the beehive like an unholy plague of hell-born death engines and proceed to make this world a scary goddamned place. This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.

Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with all the bee’s children. Who will then be eaten.

gianthornet2 Horrigying Bugs

Nature is fucking hardcore.

Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata)

bulletant1 Horrigying Bugs

From:
Rainforests from Nicaragua to Paraguay

Why you must fear it:
It’s a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive–the one you didn’t know was there, because it’s in a fucking tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you. This ant, you see, can shriek.

It’s called a Bullet Ant because its ‘unusually severe’ sting feels like getting shot. On the Schmidt Sting Index, Bullet Ants rate as the number one most try-not-to-shit-out-your-spine painful in the entirety of the Kingdom Arthropoda.

Also–and we do feel the need to stress this–they fucking shriek at you before they attack.

bulletant2 Horrigying Bugs

More scary shit:
Are you the sort of person who likes to think of yourself as tough? A “badass,” perhaps? “Hard,” as they say?

Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this initiation-to-manhood ceremony that they do. You know the kind we mean, with us it’s like, a big party and your relatives give you money and everyone loves you and is so proud of you? Yeah with them, it’s these special leaf sleeves with hundreds of bullet ants woven into them, stingers-inwards. They put them on and are immediately stung to holy fucking bejeezus by, and this is important, hundreds of Bullet Ants woven into the sleeves, stingers-inward.

The goal is to leave them on for 10 minutes, after which their arms are stiff, useless lengths of twisting agony, their bodies wracked with uncontrollable spasms for days. And in order to be actually pass the ordeal and become a man, they have to do it 20 fucking times.

Africanized Honey Bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)

africanized1 Horrigying Bugs

From:
South and Central America, the American Southwest

Why you must fear it:
You know how you can spot one of these? You can’t. There is no physical way to determine the difference between an Africanized bee and a common European bee. None whatsoever.

You can, however, easily tell the difference based on their behavior. Regular bees will give you about nine seconds of being too close to the hive before deciding you’re a threat and then attacking you. So it’s pretty easy to just walk past them without any screams. And if you do get them after you, they’ll consider you to be ‘chased off’ after about 300 feet.

africanized2 Horrigying Bugs

Africanized bees do not roll this way. They give you half a second of being too close before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up and empty the entire hive–tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of angry, angry bees. When you run, flailing and crying and soiling yourself while screaming “JESUS CHRIST I’M COVERED IN BEES,” they will chase you for over half a mile.

africanized3 Horrigying Bugs

More scary shit:
Africanized bees owe their existence to science. Warwick E. Kerr created them in Brazil during the 1950s by crossing a European bee with an African bee. He wanted a bee that could live in the jungle. He got a bee that swarms by the hundreds of millions, is insanely territorial, mindlessly aggressive, has killed anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people. And, can live in the jungle.

And after they escaped and swarmed northward, it turned out they were a-OK with deserts, too. They’ll be in Montana by 2010.

Army or Soldier Ant (Eciton burchellii)

armyant1 Horrigying Bugs

From:
The Amazon Basin. There’s other subfamilies living in Asia and Africa, but these are the most notorious.

Why you must fear it:
By now, you will not be surprised to hear that these ants are, in fact, fucking huge, with the soldiers reaching a half inch in length. You will also not be surprised to learn that they have massive, powerful, machete-like jaws half the length of the soldiers themselves. They’re notorious for dismantling any living thing in their path, regardless of size. They’re also completely blind, which for some reason makes the whole thing worse.

armyant2 Horrigying Bugs

They’re called ‘Army’ ants because their entire colony, comprising up to and over one million insects, is a 100 percent mobile battalion. They don’t make permanent hives like other ants, no, they bivouac down in single locations just long enough for the queen to shit out thousands of eggs, while the soldiers spread out in wide fans daily in search of food (”food” here, means “anything moving”). Then the eggs hatch and they enter the dreaded swarm phase of their existence.

armyant3 Horrigying Bugs

Much like the word “killer,” nature takes words like “dreaded” and “swarm” very, very seriously. They carefully pick up their larvae and go on the move, a near-solid mass of insect death and horror moving steadily and swiftly along the jungle floor, flaying alive and disassembling every living thing too stupid, slow or asleep to get the living fuck out of the way. There is no talk of painful stingers or ballistic acid here, no, this is terror of a far more primordial nature–the kind that simply flows over you by the hundreds of thousands and rips you apart with massive, unbelievably powerful jaws, utterly and literally blind to size and species, considering everything in their path to be a threat to the continuation of their colony.

There are reports of animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and shredded by them. Go stand next to a horse and then think about what that means for you.

More scary shit:
Army Ants are masters of wholly-organic, living architecture. For the good of the colony, the ants will use their own living bodies to build any conceivable structure necessary, latching on to each other foot-to-foot to create protective walls and ceilings against the ravages of the weather, bridges to cross otherwise impassable spans, whatever happens to be needed. (Can they form themselves into a crude catapult mechanism and launch themselves at prey? Not yet.)

There is no other living thing in the entire world that does this.

And, they’re blind.

Now, time for the disclaimer. If you are squeamish or have a weak stomach or value your sanity in any way, you may want to bail out now.

Okay, here goes…

Bot Fly (family oestridae, genus and species varies)

botfly1 Horrigying Bugs

From:
Most species found in Central and South America, some species found all over the world

Why you must fear it:
Oh boy. Ohhhhh boy. Okay, Bot flies.

There are dozens of varieties of Bot Fly, they’re each highly adapted to target a specific animal, they have delightfully descriptive names like Horse Stomach Bot Fly, Sheep Nose Bot Fly and, hey, guess what. One of them is called Human Bot Fly. They each have a different and elaborate reproductive cycle, all of which end with a fat, half-inch maggot embedded in living flesh. Feeding.

botfly2 Horrigying Bugs

Horse Stomach Bots, for example, lay their eggs in grass. Horses eat the grass. And the eggs. Which hatch in the heat of the horse’s mouth. Upon which they chew through the horse’s tongue and burrow, through the horse, into its belly. Where they meet up and dig honeycombs into the horse’s stomach. And get fat. When they’re ready to be flies, they just let go and get pooped out of the system.

The Human Bot Fly lays its eggs on a horsefly or a mosquito, something that will attempt to land on a human. This carrier finds a human and lands on him or her. The eggs rub off onto the human, whose body heat hatches the eggs. The larvae drop onto the skin and burrow right the fuck in. Where they live. Under your skin. Eating.

Here’s video of them removing one. DO NOT FUCKING WATCH THIS. Fuck, we don’t even know why we linked it.

More scary shit:
Here is the best part. The larvae can grow anywhere in your body, it just depends on where the eggs wind up. Which could end up with you having a fat wormy thing in your tear duct. Or your brain. We know, because that’s happened.

botfly3 Horrigying Bugs

A Human Bot Fly larvae, burrowing into your brain. Eating your thoughts.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

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The iguana drinks water often usually two or three times a day. Low humidity in the iguana’s surroundings will probably make itself evident by the Lizard’s increased intake of water. Spraying water on the leaves of plants in the iguana’s terrarium as a means of attempting to furnish an adequate supply of water for the lizard will fall far short of the intended goal. The iguana should always be provided with a water bowl that should be thoroughly cleaned and refilled daily. The habitat might include an additional container of water which the iguana can soak its entire body and tail. If the size of the environment it , the mantis might be a body of water , in which it can swim. A hatchling which measures close to 8 inches ( 20 cm) in length can be expected to grow approximately 1 to 1 1/2 inches ( 2.5 - 3.8 cm) per month , the first year or two. After the second year , the rate of growth declines to an average of much less than 1 inch ( 2.5 cm ) a month. Fully grown the mantis might reach a maximum length of around 6 1/2 feet ( 203 cm) although 5 feet ( 152 cm) is probably more typical of the size attained by many specimens during a lifespan that plausibly ranges from ten to 25 years.

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diet - insectivorous and carniverous

This nocturnal gecko has a bark and a bite. The voice of this species can be heard very clearly and the animal seldom hesitates to bite its keeper and breeder at the slightest provocation. The large cat like eyes lack moveable eyelids. These species are used as in house exterminators of certain unwanted insects.

Insects that are contaminated with insecticides and pesticides are most likely to be lethal .

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Crests

August 25th, 2008

With the popularity of science fiction being what it is today, few people have not seen a Lost Island picture where the bold scientist and his party encounter the “last surviving” dinosaurs. One fact pervades all the grand attempts to the cinema is to depict the dinosaur: all dinosaurs have to have crests , frills and spines. The lizards and crocodillians have to have crests, frills or spines. The lizards and crocodillians used in these movies are always adorned with this fancy make-up.

But among the vast array of living lizards, few of the large ones possess such fancy accouterments , while many small forms and more bizarre than anything than Hollywood could conceive. The large iguanas do have dorsal crests, but nothing like what one sees in the movies. Admittedly , these are a few large forms like Hydrosaurus which fit the bill nicely , bu they are exceptional.

Considered to be fairly plain lizards, the genus Anolis has members with a developed caudal sail , while males of the genus as a whole are known for their bright throat fans. The true chameleons have a great diversity in facial horns , as do true chameleons of the genus Harpesaurus . Ceratophora has a single horn like flap on the tip of its snout , while Lyriocephalus has a small globe on theirs.

The Australian lizard Chlomydosaurus kingti may have the most unique accessory of all. On the other side of the body , us a large flap of skin. When alarmed . the lizard extends these flaps even with the head, greatly enlarging its appearence.

The list of bizarrre forms goes on with the American horned lizards ( Phryosoma) and the Australian moloch ( Moloch). There exists the most beautifull union of form and function in the wings of Draco . Certain Central American teiids, genus Proctoporus, have light reflecting spots along their sides : one form may even be bioluminescent.

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Bugs Throughout the World

August 22nd, 2008

There are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects on earth at any given moment. Seriously, that’s a real number. For every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs.

But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many. Here are five you want to avoid at all costs.

Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia japonica)

gianthornet1 Bugs Throughout the World

From: Japan, obviously.

Why you must fear it:
It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?

Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It’d be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like “Don’t worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live,” but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.

Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.

gianthornet3 Bugs Throughout the World

More scary shit:
Here’s how the Japanese hornet treats other insects (and would presumably treat us, if we were small enough). An adult hornet will fly miles to find some squishy shit to feed to its children. Often times, it finds its food in, say, a hive inhabited by thousands of bees.

What to do? Well, Vespa japonica sprays the nest with some of the acid/pheromone and brings in reinforcements, usually consisting of 30 or so fellow hornets. They then descend upon the beehive like an unholy plague of hell-born death engines and proceed to make this world a scary goddamned place. This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.

Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with all the bee’s children. Who will then be eaten.

gianthornet2 Bugs Throughout the World

Nature is fucking hardcore.

Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata)

bulletant1 Bugs Throughout the World

From:
Rainforests from Nicaragua to Paraguay

Why you must fear it:
It’s a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive–the one you didn’t know was there, because it’s in a fucking tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you. This ant, you see, can shriek.

It’s called a Bullet Ant because its ‘unusually severe’ sting feels like getting shot. On the Schmidt Sting Index, Bullet Ants rate as the number one most try-not-to-shit-out-your-spine painful in the entirety of the Kingdom Arthropoda.

Also–and we do feel the need to stress this–they fucking shriek at you before they attack.

bulletant2 Bugs Throughout the World

More scary shit:
Are you the sort of person who likes to think of yourself as tough? A “badass,” perhaps? “Hard,” as they say?

Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this initiation-to-manhood ceremony that they do. You know the kind we mean, with us it’s like, a big party and your relatives give you money and everyone loves you and is so proud of you? Yeah with them, it’s these special leaf sleeves with hundreds of bullet ants woven into them, stingers-inwards. They put them on and are immediately stung to holy fucking bejeezus by, and this is important, hundreds of Bullet Ants woven into the sleeves, stingers-inward.

The goal is to leave them on for 10 minutes, after which their arms are stiff, useless lengths of twisting agony, their bodies wracked with uncontrollable spasms for days. And in order to be actually pass the ordeal and become a man, they have to do it 20 fucking times.

Africanized Honey Bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)

africanized1 Bugs Throughout the World

From:
South and Central America, the American Southwest

Why you must fear it:
You know how you can spot one of these? You can’t. There is no physical way to determine the difference between an Africanized bee and a common European bee. None whatsoever.

You can, however, easily tell the difference based on their behavior. Regular bees will give you about nine seconds of being too close to the hive before deciding you’re a threat and then attacking you. So it’s pretty easy to just walk past them without any screams. And if you do get them after you, they’ll consider you to be ‘chased off’ after about 300 feet.

africanized2 Bugs Throughout the World

Africanized bees do not roll this way. They give you half a second of being too close before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up and empty the entire hive–tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of angry, angry bees. When you run, flailing and crying and soiling yourself while screaming “JESUS CHRIST I’M COVERED IN BEES,” they will chase you for over half a mile.

africanized3 Bugs Throughout the World

More scary shit:
Africanized bees owe their existence to science. Warwick E. Kerr created them in Brazil during the 1950s by crossing a European bee with an African bee. He wanted a bee that could live in the jungle. He got a bee that swarms by the hundreds of millions, is insanely territorial, mindlessly aggressive, has killed anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people. And, can live in the jungle.

And after they escaped and swarmed northward, it turned out they were a-OK with deserts, too. They’ll be in Montana by 2010.

Army or Soldier Ant (Eciton burchellii)

armyant1 Bugs Throughout the World

From:
The Amazon Basin. There’s other subfamilies living in Asia and Africa, but these are the most notorious.

Why you must fear it:
By now, you will not be surprised to hear that these ants are, in fact, fucking huge, with the soldiers reaching a half inch in length. You will also not be surprised to learn that they have massive, powerful, machete-like jaws half the length of the soldiers themselves. They’re notorious for dismantling any living thing in their path, regardless of size. They’re also completely blind, which for some reason makes the whole thing worse.

armyant2 Bugs Throughout the World

They’re called ‘Army’ ants because their entire colony, comprising up to and over one million insects, is a 100 percent mobile battalion. They don’t make permanent hives like other ants, no, they bivouac down in single locations just long enough for the queen to shit out thousands of eggs, while the soldiers spread out in wide fans daily in search of food (”food” here, means “anything moving”). Then the eggs hatch and they enter the dreaded swarm phase of their existence.

armyant3 Bugs Throughout the World

Much like the word “killer,” nature takes words like “dreaded” and “swarm” very, very seriously. They carefully pick up their larvae and go on the move, a near-solid mass of insect death and horror moving steadily and swiftly along the jungle floor, flaying alive and disassembling every living thing too stupid, slow or asleep to get the living fuck out of the way. There is no talk of painful stingers or ballistic acid here, no, this is terror of a far more primordial nature–the kind that simply flows over you by the hundreds of thousands and rips you apart with massive, unbelievably powerful jaws, utterly and literally blind to size and species, considering everything in their path to be a threat to the continuation of their colony.

There are reports of animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and shredded by them. Go stand next to a horse and then think about what that means for you.

More scary shit:
Army Ants are masters of wholly-organic, living architecture. For the good of the colony, the ants will use their own living bodies to build any conceivable structure necessary, latching on to each other foot-to-foot to create protective walls and ceilings against the ravages of the weather, bridges to cross otherwise impassable spans, whatever happens to be needed. (Can they form themselves into a crude catapult mechanism and launch themselves at prey? Not yet.)

There is no other living thing in the entire world that does this.

And, they’re blind.

Now, time for the disclaimer. If you are squeamish or have a weak stomach or value your sanity in any way, you may want to bail out now.

Okay, here goes…

Bot Fly (family oestridae, genus and species varies)

botfly1 Bugs Throughout the World

From:
Most species found in Central and South America, some species found all over the world

Why you must fear it:
Oh boy. Ohhhhh boy. Okay, Bot flies.

There are dozens of varieties of Bot Fly, they’re each highly adapted to target a specific animal, they have delightfully descriptive names like Horse Stomach Bot Fly, Sheep Nose Bot Fly and, hey, guess what. One of them is called Human Bot Fly. They each have a different and elaborate reproductive cycle, all of which end with a fat, half-inch maggot embedded in living flesh. Feeding.

botfly2 Bugs Throughout the World

Horse Stomach Bots, for example, lay their eggs in grass. Horses eat the grass. And the eggs. Which hatch in the heat of the horse’s mouth. Upon which they chew through the horse’s tongue and burrow, through the horse, into its belly. Where they meet up and dig honeycombs into the horse’s stomach. And get fat. When they’re ready to be flies, they just let go and get pooped out of the system.

The Human Bot Fly lays its eggs on a horsefly or a mosquito, something that will attempt to land on a human. This carrier finds a human and lands on him or her. The eggs rub off onto the human, whose body heat hatches the eggs. The larvae drop onto the skin and burrow right the fuck in. Where they live. Under your skin. Eating.

Here’s video of them removing one. DO NOT FUCKING WATCH THIS. Fuck, we don’t even know why we linked it.

More scary shit:
Here is the best part. The larvae can grow anywhere in your body, it just depends on where the eggs wind up. Which could end up with you having a fat wormy thing in your tear duct. Or your brain. We know, because that’s happened.

botfly3 Bugs Throughout the World

A Human Bot Fly larvae, burrowing into your brain. Eating your thoughts.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

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Insects that are contaminated with insecticides and pesticides are most likely to be lethal .

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Young Iganuas Like to Eat Bugs

August 22nd, 2008

The juvenile iguana is mainly insectivorous. Its diet in captivity consists chiefly of mealworms , crickets and grasshoppers as well as other assorted garden pest insects.

It is a misconception that iguanas can thrive on a diet only of vegtables - lettuce tomatoes etc. Mealworms and other insects should be added to the diet. To ensure that the iguana’s diet remains sparked it is essential that the menu and feedings be diversified from day to day.

The individual mantis’s dietary preferences vary from mantis to mantis. The favorite food of one mantis might be unpalatable to another subject.

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Crests and Ornamentation

August 22nd, 2008

With the popularity of science fiction being what it is today, few people have not seen a Lost Island picture where the bold scientist and his party encounter the “last surviving” dinosaurs. One fact pervades all the grand attempts to the cinema is to depict the dinosaur: all dinosaurs have to have crests , frills and spines. The lizards and crocodillians have to have crests, frills or spines. The lizards and crocodillians used in these movies are always adorned with this fancy make-up.

But among the vast array of living lizards, few of the large ones possess such fancy accouterments , while many small forms and more bizarre than anything than Hollywood could conceive. The large iguanas do have dorsal crests, but nothing like what one sees in the movies. Admittedly , these are a few large forms like Hydrosaurus which fit the bill nicely , bu they are exceptional.

Considered to be fairly plain lizards, the genus Anolis has members with a developed caudal sail , while males of the genus as a whole are known for their bright throat fans. The true chameleons have a great diversity in facial horns , as do true chameleons of the genus Harpesaurus . Ceratophora has a single horn like flap on the tip of its snout , while Lyriocephalus has a small globe on theirs.

The Australian lizard Chlomydosaurus kingti may have the most unique accessory of all. On the other side of the body , us a large flap of skin. When alarmed . the lizard extends these flaps even with the head, greatly enlarging its appearence.

The list of bizarrre forms goes on with the American horned lizards ( Phryosoma) and the Australian moloch ( Moloch). There exists the most beautifull union of form and function in the wings of Draco . Certain Central American teiids, genus Proctoporus, have light reflecting spots along their sides : one form may even be bioluminescent.

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Tropical Rain Forest Climate

August 22nd, 2008

A tropical rain forest climate is also known as a “wet tropical climate””. This implies that the area tends to receive large amounts of rainfall. Many regions of tropical rainforest lack a dry season or at most only two months of the year are dry. Average annual precipitation is 70 to over 100 inches ( 180 - 250 cm). Temperatures remain consistently high and there is no winter season. The mean annual temperature is 77 to 81 degrees F. ( 25 to 27 degrees) . Daytime high temperatures range from 95 degrees F ( 30 degrees celsius) to the low 90’s ( 32 to 34 degrees celsius)

The highest temperature measured at Santarem , Brazil along the Amazon River in the Amazon Basin of South America was 85 degrees farenheit; this is just slightly below the usual tropical forest nightime low of 68 - 75 degrees farenheight ( 20 to 24 degrees celsius). Average humidity can be estimated at approximately 85 % and above. Tropical rainforest climates are located primarily within a range of 10 degrees lattitudes poleward in both directions of the equator.

Regions of the world that are influenced by the presence of a tropical rainforest climate include: most of the eastern half of Central America , part of the Northwestern coastline of South America from 15 degrees S latititude to 10 degrees North ( this includes the Amazon Basin ) , the Congo Basin of Africa, a small section on the eastern coast of Africa, eastern Madagascar , all of Malaya , almost all of the Indonesian islands including Sumatra; New guinea, the eastern Phillipines, and parts of Southwest Asia.

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So many amazing animals

August 13th, 2008

So many amazing animals, so little we know about them! This is your chance to get more up to date with some rare animals. The Zoological Society has published the list of 10 most rare and unusual kinds of amphibians, threatened by extinction and to be included in new conservation programs set for 2008. Zoologists hope that this list and pictures will convince sponsors and enthusiasts to get involved.

62 So many amazing animals

The list includes the Chinese giant salamander who reaches 1,8 meters at length, the Sagalla caecilian with its indefinite form

112 So many amazing animals

The Chinese giant salamander who reaches 1,8 meters at length

210 So many amazing animals

The Lilac frog that spends the most part of year four meters under the ground

32 So many amazing animals

You can also see the illusive frog that lives in traditional human places of burial in Skeletal gorge in Southern Africa

42 So many amazing animals

A blind salamander with a transparent leather which hunts due to sense of smell and electrosensitivity and can live without food up to 10 years

52 So many amazing animals

The Mexican salamander has no lungs, but breathes through a leather and corners of a mouth

63 So many amazing animals

The Iridescent frog Malagasy can climb up vertical rocks and inflates when it is threatened

72 So many amazing animals

The Chilean frog of Darwin that carries its offsprings in the mouth but hasn’t been seen since 1980 and can be already died out

82 So many amazing animals

The male Betic puts oosperms around of their back legs and is more of 150 million of years old

91 So many amazing animals

Zooglossusa Gardner - a frog, that, as an adult does not exceed 11 millimeters

101 So many amazing animals

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