9 incredible animals with superpowers

1. A lizard shooting poisonous blood from its eyes

• Name: toad lizard, Phrynosoma platyrhinos.
• Habitat: from southwestern Canada to Guatemala, most are found in the southwestern United States and Mexico.

If a predator tries to capture this lizard, it will shootHabits and Behavior of the Texas Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum, Harlan. I, Phrynosoma into him with blood from his own eyes. At the same time, she aims at the eyes of the enemy. Its blood tastes disgusting and causes severe irritation, because it accumulates poisons from those eaten by the lizard ants. A reptile can spend a third of its blood volume on shots without harm.

2. The frog that fights with the fragments of its own bones

• Name: hairy frog, Trichobatrachus robustus.
• Habitat: from southwest Nigeria through west and southwest Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.

First, the very presence of hair in a frog is already unusual. Although, strictly speaking, these are not hairs, but skin appendages, presumably helping the creature to breathe. But the coolest feature of the frog is the bones of its fingers, which can serve as claws. This is a kind of amphibian

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If the frog needs to protect itself from predators, the bones in the toes of its hind paws break and, piercing the skin, pop outConcealed weapons: erectile claws in African frogs outward, turning into a weapon. Seeing such an atrocity, the predator runs away in panic, and the animal returns the bones to their place, splicing them and covering them with skin again.

3. Pistol Shrimp wielding Thanos' Flip

• Name: clicker cancer, Alpheus digitalis.
• Habitat: in most of the oceans, as well as in flowing caves.

The clicker crayfish, which is a real shrimp, grows to only 3–6 centimeters in length. Moreover, one claw is larger than the second. With this limb, a pistol shrimp, as this crustacean is also called, can click with incredible force.

Squeezing and unclenching the claw at speedHow Pistol Shrimp Kill with Bubbles bullets, the animal shoots at opponents with jets of hot water. The flow of bubbles accelerates to 100 kilometers per hour, and the click volume reaches 210 decibels - louder than the sound of a jet fighter taking off. This is enough to stun the fish it hunts. shrimp, or smash the aquarium if you put it there.

Clicking causes a flash of light and warms upHow Snapping Shrimp Snap (and flash) crab claw up to 5000 ℃ - higher than on the surface of the Sun.

These nutcrackers congregate in colonies and click together, and their noise interferes with sonar operation. And the cavitating bubbles they produce even damageShrimp, bubble and pop ship propellers.

The pistol shrimp has a relative, the mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis), which has the same ability. At the same time, he also sees in the usual, ultraviolet and infrared spectra and distinguishesMantis shrimp have the world's most complex eyes types of light polarization, which means better aiming.

In the air, he does not want to demonstrate his signature blow - maybe he is embarrassed, but, most likely, protects the claw. Outside the cooling sea water, it will be damagedMedium compensation in a spring ‑ actuated system click.

4. A slug throwing "spears of love"

• Name: ninja slug, Ibycus rachelae.
• Habitat: mountain forests on the slope of Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo.

At first glance, this is just a slug, and it is not immediately clear why they called him a ninja, because he looks like turtles only in color. It would be more appropriate to call this mollusk a cupid.

When female slugs want to reproduce, they shootWeird and wonderful species discovered in the Heart of Borneo, Ibycus rachelae in the male, "darts" produced by their bodies, consisting of calcium carbonate and coated with hormones. Having received such an arrow, the male becomes excited and goes to his beloved to mate.

5. Immortal jellyfish

• Name: jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula.
• Habitat: initially - the waters of the Caribbean Sea, then there was resettlement in other seas tropical and temperate zones.

This creature does not know how to kill with one touch or sink ships and there are whales: it is only a few millimeters in size. But it is immortal. If Turritopsis nutricula is not devoured by a predator, it will live foreverImmortal animal exists.

When a jellyfish gets into unfavorable conditions or gets injured, it sinks to the bottom and turns into a polyp. After a couple of months, having recovered, she again takes the form of a jellyfish. Propagated by budding.

6. Sea cucumber shooting internal organs from the anus

• Name: sea ​​cucumber, Holothuroidea.
• Habitat: throughout the oceans.

Sea cucumber is not a vegetable, but a representative of invertebrates such as echinoderms. When a predator attacks, the sea cucumber shoots without hesitationSea cucumbers, Sea cucumbers scare enemies with their internal organs into it with the back of your intestine or even your lungs through the anus. While the attacker shakes off this indecency in horror, the sea cucumber crawls away. He regrows lost organs.

If you cannot scare the enemy with your own lungs flying out through the anus, the sea cucumber allows the predator to tear itself apart. And when it is torn to pieces, a piece with a head crawls away and regenerates body.

7. Just a flying snake

• Name: an ordinary decorated snake, Chrysopelea ornata.
• Habitat: jungle South and Southeast Asia.

If you hate snakes, you better not meet this creature: the decorated snake does not worry at all about what will happen if it suddenly falls off the branch.

The reptile simply straightens its ribs, pulling in its stomach and thereby improving its aerodynamicFlying snake quality, and plans wherever he wants, controlling the direction of flight with his tail. Thus, the snake can attack prey from above or escape from predators.

During not very humane experimentsFlying kites: video, Gliding Speeds of Ptychozoon lionatum (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) and Chrysopelea ornata (Reptilia: Colubridae) it turned out that Chrysopelea ornata can plan without any harm to itself from a 41-meter tower - this is about 12 floors.

But do not worry: although these snakes are poisonous, they cannot kill a person.

8. Almond-scented centipede

• Name: centipede-dragon, Desmoxytes purpurosea.
• Habitat: Laos, South-East Asia.

Don't like centipedes? They are you too, so they have an impressive defense mechanism. Or attacks. The dragon centipede producesThe Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede, Desmoxytes Purpurosea, A Colorful New Species From Thailand (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) hydrogen cyanide - the same hydrocyanic acid, which characters of cheap detectives.

This is why the centipede emits an almond scentMeet two new species of dragon millipede.

The fact that the animal is poisonous is evidenced by its bright red-pink color.

And another centipede, this time yellow, Apheloria polychroma, can literally sprayThis Insanely Colorful Millipede Can Kill 18 Adult Birds, The Millipede That Protects Itself with Cyanide cyanide clouds around them to deter birds of prey.

One volley is enough to kill up to 18 birds the size of a dove.

9. Bed bug - sex giant

• Name: bed bug, Cimex lectularius.
• Habitat:your bed.

You may ask: what is interesting about common bugs? They bite, drink blood, and are hard to get rid of. Everything is true, but their intimate life is incredibly fun. Male bugs are noble Casanova, and they do not ask the lady if she wants intimacy.

Instead, with their sharp, long, curved penis, they poke the female wherever they can. It gets into the vagina - good, but this rarely happensBiology of the Bed Bugs (Cimicidae) and only in laboratory conditions. Basically, males do not aim, but make a hole in the female's shell, fertilizing her.

The seed goes directly to the circulatory system, from there to the reproductive system, and the female produces eggs, usually between 250 and 500. However, she can control when to get pregnant. If the living conditions are not very successful, the female will keep the received genetic stuff for later. Once fertilized, she canBiology of the Bed Bugs (Cimicidae) become pregnant and lay eggs for the rest of their lives, without even contacting males in the future.

If one female was with several boyfriends, she will have children from all at onceTraumatic insemination and sexual conflict in the bed bug Cimex lectularius. But from the latter, more offspring will be born.

Bedbugs can copulate 200 times a day, not figuring out who they are pestering with their courtship - females or other males. And if a male bug undergoes such "traumatic insemination", it simply changesBiology of the Bed Bugs (Cimicidae) sex, lays eggs and lives like a female, not really worrying about what happened.