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Aquatic life

Keep the gills.

Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.

3 species

Greater Siren (Siren lacertina) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Greater Siren

Species principle: Aquatic Simplicity

Keep the gills.

Thriving begins when the body stops pretending to need what it does not.

Greater Sirens are eel-like aquatic salamanders with external gills, small forelimbs, no hind limbs, and strong adaptation to muddy wetlands.

Lake Oku Clawed Frog (Xenopus longipes) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Lake Oku Clawed Frog

Species principle: Lake World

Guard the small lake.

A small lake can hold an entire world if nothing breaks its balance.

Lake Oku Clawed Frogs are restricted to Lake Oku in Cameroon and live fully aquatic lives in a very limited mountain lake habitat.

Pig-nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Pig-nosed Turtle

Species principle: Aquatic Uniqueness

Swim your own shape.

A strange shape can become fluent in a world others enter awkwardly.

Pig-nosed Turtles are unusual freshwater turtles with pig-like snouts and flipper-like limbs, moving through rivers and lagoons more like sea turtles than typical freshwater turtles.

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