Animal Qualities
Trust the odd fit.
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
Species principle: Odd Fit
Trust the odd fit.
A strange solution is not strange when it fits the life exactly.
Hoatzins eat large amounts of leaves and use foregut fermentation, unusual among birds, to digest plant material in swamp forest habitats.
Species principle: 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.
