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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA really big snail and a couple other animals
No, thats not a rabbit in a Halloween costume, its an achatina fulica, otherwise known as a giant African Land Snail. Depending on how you feel about snails these big boys are either the cutest thing on the planet or theyre the thing that should not exist. Their bodies can grow up to about 15 inches long, and they get incredibly hungry.
In their 10 year life span they can eat through pretty much anything, and people whove kept them as pets have found that they can even chew through plaster walls. If you take a giant land snail home make sure youve got plenty of food ready.
Someone get this guy to a hair dresser, STAT. The Angora rabbit is one of the oldest kinds of domestic rabbit, and its bred for the long fibers of its coat which is known as Angora wool. No one knows exactly how they became pets, but its believed that they were first brought to Europe from Ankara, Turkey by French sailors in order to copy the shawls that they saw on native women.
There are at least 15 breeds of Angora rabbits, with the English Angora being the most popular. Obviously this guys hair has gotten out of control, and most Angora rabbits need to be groomed daily in order to keep their hair from getting out of control.
Most fish in the sea are considered to be bony fish, but this big boy is the king of them all. This huge creature is a Mola alexandrini ocean sunfish, initially it was believed to be a Mola mola, but recent research has helped to re-identify the animal. Sunfish are the largest bony fish known to man, and due to their size they grow into strange shapes - often resembling discs or wagon wheels.
While this huge fish holds the title as the worlds heaviest bony fish, the largest recorded catch was actually a M. alexandrini, or a southern sunfish, caught in 1996 off Kamogawa, Japan. It would seem that there are some very big boys out in the eastern sea.
It's clickbait and I didn't go through all of them so if you want here is the link.
https://historydaily.org/bizarre-animals-we-never-knew-existed?utm_subid=3958253&utm_campaign=706352&utm_source=revcontent_tc&utm_medium=tc&utm_term=118454&rev_campaign_id=698716&rc_uuid=yi-E3pMXjwtXsRdTUcNJXnz3nEMZkwgs8vNSyzQ0BFg99q6vVBU0bJRshBq1apLs2nYmn-XmNoEayvNVo74GFciyaFHH1DxHOMNkMZku2gUtWFFUhx8cxlQD0k_06NGS544RB5h005DNyLsRZM7IJDuwC61v2gKjeoLjmJNVbGGvdiaXXdIrZ_60ivs7f2UCQKQ4yT6SO-OEbm0FRfxPoWEtQ--p92vOE2rrSY77RAEWZwIOwZNUqs7k6SeybAWA
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)I was completely stunned. I had no idea there really were snails that big that looked like that. I thought those were just cute pictures in kids' books.
I still get a very stunned, awed feeling of disbelief when I remember that evening walk with my relatives.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)And cute. Still not gonna pet it though.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)This is even better, thanks!
LAS14
(13,777 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)intentional...
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)In China, they grow angora rabbits on factory farms for their fur.
Every three months or so, they just rip their fur off, and it leaves them shaking with pain and fear, and no fur at all.
Then. three months later, they do it again, and three months after that, and three months after that.....What a horrible, painful life those poor rabbits have to endure!
Boycott angora fur products using Chinese angora fur!
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Under pressure from PETA, world-wide Boycotts have really hurt the sales of angora from China.