Random Coolest Animals That Have the Most Unusual Abilities (15 items)

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  (#1) Horned Lizards Autohaemorrhage

  When you're starting to attack one of these Texan lone stars, don't be surprised if it shoots out a stream of blood from its eyes. Even if its in the mouth of a fox, the autohaemorrhage adaptation is so disgusting, the fox will drop the lizard because of the bad taste and trauma.
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  (#2) Malaysian Ants Will Explode

  This adaptation is perhaps the most intense defense mechanism: suicide. When the Malaysian Exploding Ant decides that its life is at risk, it will often click its own self-destruct button and say, "If I'm gonna get murdered, it better be by me."
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  (#3) Some Jellyfish Are Immortal

  If you go to the Mediterranean, check out the rare "immortal jellyfish," which has evolved in ways that make us question reality. These little jellyfish start as sexually immature animals, reach sexual maturity, and then have the distinct capability to indefinitely revert itself back into that sexually immature stage all over again.
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  (#4) Wombats Have Square Poop

  Wombats leave a crapton of crap around its environment, often up to 100 a night. Those droppings come in the shape of cubes in order to mark their territory that distinguishes their turds from those of any other animal in the world.
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  (#5) Pistol Shrimp

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  With an adaptation of this proportion, do not order a pistol shrimp cocktail appetizer anytime soon. When this type of shellfish snaps its extremely unique claw, the sound scares the crap of every living thing in its path, and it also shoots off a collapsing bubble that stuns the victim.
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  (#6) Basilisk Lizards Might Be the Second Coming

  Basilisk lizards walk on water, which is why they've garnered the lovely nickname "Jesus Lizards." This adaptation comes in handy when fleeing from mammals and reptiles who don't happen to have magical biblical powers.
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  (#7) Hippos Have Bloody Sweat

  It contains zero blood and zero sweat and yet, hippopotamuses secrete what we know as "blood sweat." This keeps their skin moist and protects it from sunburns, as well as many infections.
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  (#8) Cuttlefish Almost Go Invisible

  Cuttlefish have evolved in such a way that their camouflaging capability rivals any living organism. These punks can hide by controlling their own skin cells to blend in, including outrageously bright colors (even though they're colorblind).
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  (#9) Ladybugs Pee Blood

  Reflex bleeding is what happens when you scare a ladybug so much that it pees its pants. In an attempt to defend itself, a ladybug excretes a urine-esque stream of blood to keep enemies away.
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  (#10) White-Tailed Deer Fake Their Own Deaths

  When a predator approaches one of these fawns, their heart rate is programmed to drop so low that they enter a state of tonic immobility. The result is a fawn that looks like a dead corpse, which, coupled with its involuntary peeing and pooping that accompanies the heart rate drop, will look pretty unappealing, even to a hungry animal.
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  (#11) Northern Fulmars Projectile Vomit

  These are not your standard seagulls, so don't yell "Scram!" next time you see one at the beach. All it takes is a tiny confrontation for a fulmar chick to literally throw up chunks of orange puke that is so nasty and sticky, it becomes the foulest prey of all time.
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  (#12) Hooded Seals Blow Balloons

  This is easily the greatest way an animal has ever tried to get laid. In order to attract a mate, a hooded seal will close one nostril and inflate a pink balloon nasal membrane out of the other, and then shake it around to make sexy noises.
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  (#13) Leaf Bugs Look Like Leaves, Not Bugs

  The camouflage skills of the leaf bug make chameleons look like amateurs. These "walking leaves" are so brilliant they even sway back and forth to mimic the way a leaf is blowin' in the wind.
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  (#14) Limacodidae Slugs Have Stinging Spines

  Slug moths not only warn predators with their bright colors, but their spines will stab 'em off. These kinds of slugs often have urticating hairs that are like barbed wire if someone tries to mess with them.
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  (#15) Electric Eels

  Because its adaptation is so epically weird, taxonomists decided it has to be the only species in its entire genus. That's probably because there's no other animal that generates electric shocks of about 500 volts, which protects them from predators and allows them to be awesome predators.

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