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Unusual Design

Look through the dome.

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9 spesies

Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Barreleye

Prinsip spesies: Vertical Vision

Look through the dome.

Seeing differently reveals food that ordinary sight would miss.

Barreleyes have transparent head domes and tubular eyes that can look upward to detect prey silhouettes in the deep ocean.

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Boat-billed Heron

Prinsip spesies: Utility

Trust the strange tool.

The strange tool becomes perfect when the right darkness arrives.

Boat-billed Herons have unusually broad scoop-like bills and large eyes, and they often feed at night in mangroves and wetlands.

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Naked Mole-rat

Prinsip spesies: Eusociality

Build the colony below.

A strange society can build an entire world underground.

Naked Mole-rats live in eusocial colonies with a breeding queen, workers, soldiers, cooperative tunnel digging, and strong adaptation to low-oxygen underground life.

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Ocean Sunfish

Prinsip spesies: Odd Thriving

Thrive strange.

A strange shape can thrive when it stops apologizing for its design.

Ocean Sunfish have huge flattened bodies, swim with dorsal and anal fins, bask near the surface, and feed largely on gelatinous prey such as jellyfish.

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Pelican Eel

Prinsip spesies: Wide-Mouth Opportunity

Open for rarity.

Opportunity favors a design that can open wider than expected.

Gulper Eels have huge expandable mouths and elastic bodies adapted for capturing prey in the deep sea where meals can be unpredictable.

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Pere David's Deer

Prinsip spesies: Wetland Build

Fit the marsh.

Unusual ground becomes possible when the body was shaped for it.

Père David's Deer are adapted to wetland habitats with long legs, broad hooves, swimming ability, and comfort in marshy ground.

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Platypus

Prinsip spesies: Integration

Make the strange whole.

Unusual parts become genius when they work as one system.

Platypuses combine webbed feet, dense fur, egg-laying reproduction, venomous male spurs, and electroreceptive bills used to detect prey underwater.

Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Titicaca Water Frog

Prinsip spesies: Folded-Skin Breathing

Breathe through the folds.

Unusual surfaces can solve what ordinary lungs cannot.

Titicaca Water Frogs have loose folded skin that increases surface area for cutaneous respiration in cold, oxygen-rich high-altitude lake water.

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Toco Toucan

Prinsip spesies: Bill Reach

Reach with color.

An unusual gift becomes useful when it extends what the body can touch.

Toco Toucans use large lightweight bills to reach, pluck, toss, and handle fruit in the canopy; the bill also helps with display and heat exchange.

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