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Category: Creature Feature
Creature Feature: Laughing Kookaburra
No one likes being laughed at. And no one likes sibling sabotage. The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) does both with little regard for what we find objectionable. Laughing kookaburras are the largest kingfisher species in the world and can be described as stout, stocky, and overall pretty thicc [1]. These creepy kooks, like many frightening…
Creature Feature: Slave-making ants
“Take no prisoners!” said no slave-making ant ever.
Creature Feature: Loxo and Mud Crabs
In the animal kingdom, zombies really do exist! The cause is most often some nasty (but fascinating) parasites, and you’d best believe that these parasites are truly terrifying to their respective hosts.
Creature Feature: Zebra finch
The zebra finch is arguably in the running to be the world’s next top model….organism, that is
Creature Feature: Tarantula Hawk Wasp
Read how the tarantula hawk transforms from a mean stinger to an invertebrate villain of science fiction proportions.
Creature Feature: Eastern Pacific harbor seal
These young harbor seals must learn many important life lessons before graduating to their independent sea lives!
Creature Feature: Mexican Free-tailed Bat
Batshit crazy. Batty. Bats in the belfry. Blind as a bat. A cursory examination of these idioms does not exactly paint a pretty picture of the collective opinion of our winged mammalian relatives. Bats, however, have a slew of fascinating behavioral and morphological traits that should elicit awe and recognition. The Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida…
Creature Feature: Verreaux’s Sifaka
Learn more about Zaboomafoo’s close cousin, the Verreaux’s sifaka!
Creature Feature: American Horseshoe Crab
Move over dinosaurs, there is a cooler fossil in town! Meet the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus); don’t be fooled, it is neither a horse, nor a crab, but a close relative of spiders and scorpions (class: arachnids) [1][3]. These marine invertebrates are considered living fossils as their body structure, which has made them so…
