Angora Rabbit
The nightmare of every new boyfriend, this fluffy creature looks
like a science experiment crossing a Sasquatch and a kitten gone
wrong. It’s just a rabbit, however. They were exceptionally popular
in the 17th and 18th centuries among European nobility as lap pets,
and many different hybrids were bred to suit changing tastes of
different royalty. The angora rabbit is still popular to this
day.
Star Nosed Mole
Pucker up. The star nosed mole is a
tenacious creature, able to withstand severe cold and burrow easily
through ice to make its home and find food. It lives in Canada and
the East Coast of the United States. It favors a high protein diet
of clams, snails, small rodents, mollusks and worms. It’s not a
very big creature – about the size of a hand. But its 22 nose
tentacles are hard to miss. They help the mole find food.
Bell-Bearer Leaf Hopper
The Bell bearer leafhopper (Bocydium globulare) probably has the
strangest thorax among insects. It appears to be a leafhopper
carrying a 1950's modernist sculpture on it's back. This 4mm leaf
hopper is from South America (most of the pictures I found were
taken in Brazil) and is a member of the Membracidae family which
are known for their strange shapes. Many members of the Membracidae
family would make lovely organic modernist pieces. The growth on
its thorax breaks easily and might be carried off instead of the
leafhopper by a predator. It is also theorized that the growth on
this leafhopper's thorax may mimic an insect's head from the
front.
