{"id":85394,"date":"2012-03-30T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85394\/unusual-animals\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:59:48","slug":"unusual-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85394\/unusual-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>as I remembered more and more unusual animals, I couldn&#8217;t think of any questions interesting enough, so the quiz has morphed into a blog post for you to enjoy thanks to wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Even though these first animals are <strong>old hat<\/strong> to some readers, they deserve to be mentioned<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armadillo\">armadillo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pangolin\">pangolin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platypus\">platypus<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manx_Loaghtan\">manx sheep<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scimitar_cat\">scimitar<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antlion\">antlion<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_snake\">sea snake<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anguis_fragilis\">anguis fragilis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remora\">remora<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nautilus\">nautilus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Size matters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_sunfish\">ocean sunfish<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oarfish\">oarfish<\/a><br \/>\nor used to in prehistoric times<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glyptodon\">glyptodon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megatherium\">megatherium<\/a><br \/>\ngiant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paraceratherium\">rhino&#8217;s<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purussaurus\">crocodiles<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quetzalcoatlus\">pterosaurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nTime for some <strong>colour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jabiru\">jabiru<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eresus_sandaliatus\">eresus sandaliatus<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokay_gecko\">tokay gecko<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uakari\">uakari<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tritonioidea\">tritonioidea<\/a> and other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nudibranch\">nude beasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learning to <strong>fly<\/strong> or other useful skills<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_squirrel\">flying squirrel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sugar_glider\">sugar glider<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Draco_%28genus%29\">draco<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chrysopelea_paradisi\">flying snake<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archerfish\">archerfish<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Caledonian_Crow\">caledonian crow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Shape<\/strong> is very important<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerboa\">jerboa<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giraffe_beetle\">giraffe beetle<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sawfish\">sawfish<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hammerhead_shark\">hammerhead shark<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thorny_Devil\">thorny devil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now things get <strong>really weird<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuatara\">tuatara<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoatzin\">hoatzin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_horseshoe_crab\">horseshoe crab<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tardigrade\">tardigrade<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hallucigenia\">hallucigenia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nROFL &#8211; and the winner is <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synthetoceras\">synthetoceras<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<p>unless we&#8217;re leaving reality<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wwwmidgetonfire.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/more-living-dinosaurs-mokele-mbembe.html\">yamala<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chupacabra\">chupacabra<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/subtlefields.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/are-you-mulkurul.html\">mulkurul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as I remembered more and more unusual animals, I couldn&#8217;t think of any questions interesting enough, so the quiz has morphed into a blog post for you to enjoy thanks to wikipedia. Even though these first animals are old hat to some readers, they deserve to be mentioned armadillo pangolin platypus manx sheep scimitar antlion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,837,2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-life","category-nature-2","category-other","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}