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Special design

Swim your own shape.

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.

2 species

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.

Tooth-billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Tooth-billed Pigeon

Species principle: Toothed Design

Use the strange bill.

Unusual designs become unforgettable when they solve a real feeding problem.

Tooth-billed Pigeons have a distinctive heavy bill with tooth-like projections, used to feed on fruits in Samoan forest habitat.

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