@TarkabarkaHolgy CUTTLEFISH
Most intelligent of the invertebrates.
Cannibals.
Venomous.
Communicate via super quick skin changing. Their chameleon like absolutes are off the chats crazy.
Weird advanced eyesight.
Interior shell.
Also kinda cute.
I think it is highly advised not to use mating behaviour of marine sponge-inhabiting millimeter-sized isopodes to draw conclusions for humans (I see you, manosphere 🧐).
It is estimated that the population varies between 1,500 and 15,000 snails. At its lowest points, the entire population of snails can fit in an ice cream cone, and at its highest, in a one-litre milk carton.
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Batychordaeus charon. It's a small (centimetres) marine animal that secretes a 'house', a kind of slime net approx a meter wide for collecting food particles. When it has collected to much debris, the house is discarded and sinks to the bottom of the ocean and the organism builds a new one. This is an important mechanism to transport organic matter and carbon into the deep ocean, but also microplastic particles that get trapped in the house.
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Also mantis shrimps. These are predatory crustaceans with specially adapted claws that hit the prey with great power as fast as a bullet, either with a club-like blunt force smashing through shells, or a spear-like appendage.
@TarkabarkaHolgy It's not very weird anymore because the internet made the world smaller, but when I was a lot younger I had a serious crush on the whole concept of Pangolins. No one else here had even heard of them.
@TarkabarkaHolgy I used to have a little tripod..or geocities site devoted to pangolins, which shows how long ago I liked them really. I wrote a Pangolin poem, now.. hopefully lost forever.
@TarkabarkaHolgy There's so many good weird animals its hard to pick one.
I'll go with the horshoe crab today, because they're like weird walking bowls with pointy tails that have been almost unchanged since the Cambrian era.
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