20 February 2008
11:59:00 PM
There are quite a number of rather fascinating animals in our planet that i have never knew about, and i read about quite a few today, including some cool as well as gross ones too. I have learnt amazing facts about them,some leading me to be impressed, but others have led me to be even MORE grossed-out with them.
Mimic octopus
The first animal i read about is the Mimic octopus, and i must say that the name REALLY fits it. The Mimic Octopus has an amazingly flexible body, ( something like a rubber band)and it can twist itself into the shape of many different animals. the octopus in brown and white in colour, and here's what's amazing about it. In the blink of an eye, it can transform from octopus to sea snake, from sea snake to lionfish, and from lionfish back to the octopus. All in a day's work. There was even a report about a Mimic octopus the size of a volleyball being able to squeeze into a soda can. Oh my gosh.
Piggy
The second animal is the PIG. Pigs have a well-known reputation for eating practically everything. From crushed bits of paper to Mars Bars wrappers,they just gobble everything down in one gi-normous gulp.
Plus a burp.However, the pigs actually has 15,000 taste buds, which is alot compared to humans, who only have 9000. I wonder how come they're not as picky as i am when it comes to food.
cockroaches
Cockroaches are the MOST disgusting, icky, creepy,freaky, and ugliest thing i have EVER seen in my life.( including the vomit i saw on the street when i was 5. They're, like, all brownish and dirty and creepy. They should have won the Annual Animal 2008 Yuck-fest ( emphasis on the YUCK) for 10 years straight. Or maybe twenty. If there was one, anyway. However, roaches have an extreme survival rate, and i read on the website that a cockroach can live for a WEEK without its HEAD. I mean, disgusting much? Headless cockroach wandering around the house? and here's one more freaky fact about the cockroach. Its heart can stop pumping for a while without hurting the cockroach.
Humanely impossible? Not now. but sad to say, after reading all this stuff about cockroaches, it still doesn't change my opinion about them. In fact, as i mentioned, I'm even MORE disgusted with them.
Scallops
Before reading this article, scallops were like, totally brainless to me. They were like, weird squishy things inside a shell that i have only known to be disgusting to eat. Actually, they have 100 teeny-weeny eyes around the edge of their shells. Totally bizarre. I never knew they had eyes, which probably isn't surprising because i have only seen scallops cooked and served on a plate for dinner. ( and no, i don't like scallops either)Actually, i don't know what a scallop looks like.I haven't even seen a WHOLE scallop. Just the flesh.
star-nosed mouse
The star-nosed mouse is name after , erm... it's star shaped nose. No, I'm not kidding, it's really like a star. In fact, I've watched a documentary about it on TV. Anyway, do you guys watch The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet? it's so cool, you guys should really watch it. It's on TV every 7 o'clock in the evening. And I..Oh no. I'm way of track. I don't think i'm supposed to talk about TV shows. All right, back to the mole. (No, not THAT kind of mole. Not the black dot with hairs sprouting out of it from some one's face.) It has like, 100 000 nerve fibers connected from its star nose to it's not-so-star brain. The animal, i mean. Not the black thingy. I think so.( unless moles on a human's face have brains and a star-nose too) That's like, 6 times the number of touch receptors in our hand. Talk about being sensitive.I would love to see it one day.The mole must be pretty bizarre. ( NO, NOT THAT KIND OF MOLE!!!)
That's mostly all the animals i find interesting. Sometimes i wonder how it would be like if i was one of them. Actually, it might be kind of cool.( i don't really want to be the headless cockroach. full-stop.)( I don't really fancy being the pig either) (Maybe not the scallop too,or I'll get cooked) ( and i don't really want to have a star-nose) (And i don't like the idea compressing myself into a soda can ).( double full-stop) ( yes, now I'm really gonna stop writing) triple full-stop.
All right, i should really stop the full-stops. quadruple full-stop.
P.S ( i do NOT have pen diarrhoea)( quintuple full stop.)
ARGGHHH!!!!!