Have you seen a northwestern pacific tree octopus?
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No, but I've seen a "Scandinavian Tree Pig".\nThere is a well known rhyme that starts:\nThe Scandinavian tree pig \nflies from bough to bough\nIt builds its nest in a cuckoo tree\nand whistles like a cow.
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See?!  This is proof that the Panda is illogical!  Science be praised!  Let there be much opening of clams on my tummy!  Bring my clam-rock so I may smash the clams open!
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Tonight, I was out with my 10 yr old and I was spraying some water on our plants. A toad came "running" out of his bush cover to sit in the spray. He was really liking it.  After a couple of minutes laughing at him, a spider crossed the walk about 4 ft away. That toad went on a beeline charge up to the spider. They sat about 4 inches apart - neither one so much as twitching. We froze and watched.  After 2 minutes, the toad pounced in! He tongue-flicked that spider and had a good meal.\nIt was a great moment to share and very educational for him. It cemented some of the things we have spoken about in the past about nature being brutal, but efficient and basically well-planned.\nGo forth and critter. \n\nIf the neighbors think you are "different" - then Thank GOODNESS. Because you are!
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I live in Ireland and that particular species of animal is very rare here, I don't think I've ever spotted one in fact.\n\nJudging by the abuse that anyone here gets when they criticise bush or blair (I refuse to put either of those names in capital letters) this species seems to be thriving in internet land.
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I go drag netting in the Moriches Bay with the kids in summer all the time off the beach and sandbars by the inlet and we have gotten a number of tropical fish. I can not tell you the names of them but they there out there in the summer months!
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Yes - I went to San Diego Zoo and saw them up close, they were SO CUTE!!! The babies were up in the tree, so I couldn't see them :'(\nInstead I bought plushies of the pandas for me and my buddies!
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Mmm... it could have been an escaped pet. You could try to contact your local faunal control service and let them know, I'm sure environmental agencies would be interested in knowing about any possible exotic species. \nOne popular pet tree frog is Agalychnis callidrias (originally from Central America). Did it look like this?\nhttp://www.froggyville.com/images/graphics/usenet/wild28%5B2%5D.gif
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There have been a lot of new animals found in the forests of Indonesia.  Here's a story I found on it. Enjoy.\n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060207/ap_on_sc/indonesia_new_species
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It depends how they've been brought up.  Some octopuses teach their offspring to be polite, to say please and thankyou in all the right places,  and even to give up their seat to a lady.  \n\nSadly, these traditions are not much in evidence now.  \nIn fact,  I doubt if you will ever have been thanked by an octopus.  \nMany of the young seem to do whatever they like, going out clubbing and suchlike at the weekend, drinking until they can't stand upright.  \nIf you have doubts about that, just think.  When was the last time you saw an octopus stand upright?  \n\nOf course,  this is just my opinion.  If you want anything else, you could always try this site.  It tells you more than anyone would ever want to know about octopuses. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus  \n\nThough I'm not sure how accurate it is.  It has a picture of a Big Blue Octopus that sure looks pink to me.  \nAnd it doesn't mention rowdy behaviour either.   \n\nHope that helps.
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Interesting that you should ask....Jacques Cousteau had made some very interesting observations on the subject. He noted that dogfish do indeed wag their tails when happy. More interesting tho was the fact that catfish purr when pleased and sea horses jumped for joy. Star fish glow at the thought of a visit from you, and on occasion a clam will show his mussels with pride.\n\nIf there's one thing I know, Cousteau otter know his fishes.
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I haven't, but I have a friend who has seen one.\n\nHe talks about it all the time.  He has told me that it is one of the most amazing things he has every seen.\n\nInteresting, he has the same initials as you.
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Physiology\n\nOctopuses are characterized by their eight arms (not tentacles), usually bearing suction cups. These arms are a type of muscular hydrostat. Unlike most other cephalopods, the majority of octopuses — those in the suborder most commonly known, Incirrata — have almost entirely soft bodies with no internal skeleton. They have neither a protective outer shell like the nautilus, nor any vestige of an internal shell or bones, like cuttlefish or squids. A beak, similar in shape to a parrot's beak, is their only hard part. This enables them to squeeze through very narrow slits between underwater rocks, which is very helpful when they are fleeing from morays or other predatory fish. The octopuses in the less familiar Cirrata suborder have two fins and an internal shell, generally lessening their ability to squeeze into small spaces.\n\nOctopuses have a relatively short life span, and some species live for as little as six months. Larger species, such as the North Pacific Giant Octopus, may live for up to five years under suitable circumstances. However, reproduction is a cause of death: males can only live for a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch, for they neglect to eat during the (roughly) one month period spent taking care of their unhatched eggs.\n\nOctopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third pumps blood through the body. Octopus blood contains the copper-rich protein hemocyanin for transporting oxygen. Less efficient than the iron-rich hemoglobin of vertebrates, the hemocyanin is dissolved in the plasma instead of being bound in red blood cells and gives the blood a blue color. Octopuses draw water into their mantle cavity where it passes through its gills. As a mollusc, octopus gills are finely divided and vascularilzed outgrowths of either the outer or the inner body surface.\n\nDefense\n\nThree defensive mechanisms are typical of octopuses: ink sacs, camouflage, and autotomising limbs. Most octopuses can eject a thick blackish ink in a large cloud to aid in escaping from predators. They also have specialized skin cells both for color changing (chromatophores) and light reflection and refraction (iridophores and leucophores). They use this ability to blend into the environment to hide, communicate with other octopuses, or warn. The very poisonous Blue-ringed Octopus becomes bright yellow with blue rings when it is provoked. When under attack, some octopuses can autotomise their limbs, in a similar manner to skinks and other lizards. The crawling arm serves as a distraction to would-be predators; this ability is also used in mating. A few species, such as the Mimic Octopus have a fourth defense mechanism. They can combine their highly flexible bodies with their color changing ability to accurately mimic other, more dangerous animals such as lionfish and eels.\n\nReproduction\n\nWhen octopuses reproduce, they use a specialized arm called a hectocotylus to insert spermatophores (packets of sperm) into the female's mantle cavity. The hectocotylus is usually the third right arm. In some species, the female octopus can keep the sperm alive inside her for weeks until her eggs are mature. After they have been fertilized, the female lays roughly 200,000 eggs (this figure dramatically varies between species). The female hangs these eggs in strings from the ceiling of her lair. After the eggs hatch, the young larval octopuses must spend a period of time drifting in clouds of plankton, where they feed on copepods, larval crabs and larval seastars until they are ready to sink down to the bottom of the ocean, where the cycle repeats itself. In some deeper dwelling species, the young don't go through this period. This is a dangerous time for the larval octopuses; as they become part of the plankton cloud they are vulnerable to many plankton eaters.\n\nIntelligence\n\nOctopuses are highly intelligent, probably the most intelligent of
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http://www.livescience.com/images/ls_ugliest_monkfish_03.jpg
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I heard of a skunk ape sighting in the everglades two years ago. no i am not joking . I firmly believe in their existence. The ape ran across a pathway about a hundred yard behind a swamp buggy and was seen by several tourists and native guides. A deputy apperently had some fur that was found at the sight of that sighting and supposiply also pics. It looked kind of like a OrangUtan.
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[EDIT] it's actually the honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) which covered 2,200 acres in a forest in Oregon and is about 2,400 years old...but for all practical purposes...i would still say the blue whale\n[EDIT]  it is the blue whale\ni would venture to say the whale shark or another whale of some type...although i'm sure that someone will come up behind me with a much more accurate answer
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Creatures from beyond Earth!
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you need to take a picture of this fish and register it under your own name. if this fish was never discovered by anyone else but you, this could be great chance. also if this fish looks like a dragon when you approach it, you can call her "Sea Dragon" or "Oceanic Dragon". :-)