The elk gila is the only predator on earth that is hunted for its antlers. The difference between its cold blooded body and the warm blood required to feed its trophy headgear creates an internal current that allows blood to circulate in the body despite not having a heart.
Children tend to be charmed by the soft, flowing fur of the No Toed Sloth, but the affection is short-lived. In most cultures, it is actually a sign of adulthood when the natural revulsion to it’s slithery boneless movements finally takes hold, after which the sloth is prized only for its absence.
The kite bat floats on pockets of warm air for its entire lifespan like a living, shrieking maple leaf. In dense populations, millions of kite bats will link together into a massive, undulating canopy that cools the ground below by as much as 17 degrees.
Like the spirochete, the fin fin finwhale’s asymmetrical body pattern causes it to swim in a twisting helix and experience nearly constant motion sickness.
Using mechanisms similar to the Saguaro Oak, armored wood storks take in no nutrients by mouth, siphon, or root. Instead they get all the moisture and nitrogen they require from the sun and the air.
Unable to reproduce in any meaningful way, the salmon headed squid must keep its culture alive by stealing eggs from the nests of other creatures. Though this constitutes a brand of brood-parasitism, they are nonetheless unrelated to cuckoo birds.
The song of the stagg-mandibled cockatoo has a dream suppressing quality that many campers and fieldworkers report as unpleasant. The mechanism of action is different than the vision-altering venom of the red-eared slider.
Like the conure and the draped fruit fly, dorsal finned bush babies are very unlikely to secure lifelong companionship and must mate remotely.