Rarely Talked about or seen Animals

animal_expert01

animal_expert01

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There are some crazy and unusual animals out there that never or hardly ever get a mention, anywhere... If you walked up to a member of the public and told them the name of this animal they would look at you and think your crazy. So make a list of animals that are hardly ever seen or heard about that you think derserve a mention. Any animals are allowed, including sub species or recently extinct animals in the last few hundred years, also obviously you cannot repeat animals if they are in somebody else's list.
Animals:
Dingiso
Long-Watteld Umbrella Bird
Bare Necked Fruit Crow
Chinese Ferret Badger
Burmese Ferret Badger
Flores Giant Rat
Red Crested Tree Rat
Hopolodactylus Delcourti (Extinct)
Sumatran Rabbit
Volcano Rabbit
Ili Pika
Giant Hispanilonan Galliwasp
Blue-Tailed Galliwasp
Celestus Fowleri
Mountain Giant Sunda Rat
Tibetian Blue Bear
Capuchin Bird
Christmas Island Shrew (Possibly Extinct)
Visayan Warty Pig
Pygmy Hog


I have barely scratched the surface (especially in the primates, birds, reptiles and amphibians) and would love to see your lists.
 
Just from one group ( Hummingbirds ) :
Bearded helmetcrest
Fiery-tailed awlbill
Gould's jewelfront
Tyrian metaltail
Orange-throated sunangel
Glowing puffleg
Blue-fronted lancebill
Black-bellied thorntail
Bronze-tailed plumeleteer
Green-tailed goldenthroat
Booyed racket-tail
Mountain avocetbill
White-tailed hillstar
Bronzy inca
Long-tailed sylph
Buff-winged starfrontlet
Snowcap
Black-crested coqette
Slender sheartail
Green-throated mountain gem
Golden-crowned emerald
Blue-throated sapphire
Crowned woodnymph
Long-tailed hermit
Wedge-tailed sabrewing
Plain-capped starthroat
Green-breasted mango
White-necked jacobin
Purple-crowned fairy
Band-tailed barbthroat
Green violet-ear
Sparkling-tailed woodstar
Crimson topaz
 
Western falanouc,
Aquatic tenrec,
Hall's crocodile,
Speckled daysure,
Kouprey,
Nova Scotia fox,
Sunda leopard cat,
Ganges river dolphin,
(Just to name a few)
 
I don't even think we have to get that obscure. I think that if you walked up to a random person on the street and asked him to name at least a few of the 16 crocodile species, most (or at least many) would be surprised that there are actually different species instead of a crocodile just being a crocodile. Same thing with lemurs, pigs, ducks, storks, frogs and lots of other taxons.
 
Hvedekorn said:
I don't even think we have to get that obscure. I think that if you walked up to a random person on the street and asked him to name at least a few of the 16 crocodile species, most (or at least many) would be surprised that there are actually different species instead of a crocodile just being a crocodile. Same thing with lemurs, pigs, ducks, storks, frogs and lots of other taxons.
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Good point! I know so many people who are convinced that their is just 1 armadillo species. The armadillo! To animal nerds like us that can be kinda frustrating sometimes. Same with flies,
Heck, Even Jellyfish!!!
 
Bornean bristlehead
Rockfowl
Amami rabbit
Monito de monte
Shrew opossums
Gliding spiny rat
Flat-headed cat
Wrinkle-faced bat
Strap-toothed whale
Madagascar leaf-nosed snakes
Caecilians
Tardigrades
Peanut worms


Dassie rat
 
Gebe cusucs
Greater monkey faced bat
Mountain pygmy possum
Omura's whale
Ecuadorian cacique
Bay-vented cotinga
Sclater's antwren
 
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