• Question: What is the weirdest animal youve ever seen?

    Asked by d277243 to Christine, Edd, Jess, Nicolas, Zara on 21 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by loza22, animelvr7.
    • Photo: Zara Gladman

      Zara Gladman answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      My brother. He’s soooo weird! 😉

      (either that or the ‘sea mouse’, google it! it’s furry and oval-shaped but it’s actually a worm.. I saw it at the seaside)

    • Photo: Christine Switzer

      Christine Switzer answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Underwater is a great place to see weird things. The basic rule when scuba diving is don’t touch it and especially don’t touch it if it is really pretty or really ugly because those are usually poisonous. We saw lots of things with big prickly spines and little prickly spines. The weirdest fish I’ve seen so far was in Egypt. The Napoleon Wrasse looks really grumpy, almost like a dinosaur fish. The photos don’t really do it justice. Here’s one example: http://seafishes.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/egypt-napoleon-wrasse.jpg?w=510&h=485 They are huge and seems to hover more than swim. Swimming napoleons looks a lot like those plastic fish in fishbowls that you see sometimes.

    • Photo: Edward Codling

      Edward Codling answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I saw a few weird animals at the London Aquarium when I went last week. As Christine says, weird animals seem to live on coral reefs!

      Grass / garden eels are cool – they form ‘forests’ that wave around in the current like seaweed or grass but they can quickly vanish into their burrows if there is danger:

      I also like the porcupine fish – this blows itself up and has spines so it ends up like a spiky football. This is a defence mechanism so it doesn’t get eaten by bigger fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNWAwJ4IpM

      My favourite though is the leafy sea dragon – these look just like model space ships but they are real fish related to sea horses:

      They look like seaweed as a camouflage mechanism…

    • Photo: Jessica Chu

      Jessica Chu answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hi,

      I think it is this fish with a see-through head :

      I think it’s quite cool!

    • Photo: Nicolas Biber

      Nicolas Biber answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I still opt for the platypus here, just because it’s so unique and unlikely … a mammal that lays eggs and has a duck beak how weird is that 😀 … they are so cool too

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