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For me it's the hartebeest. Looks like a gnu drawn badly.
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>>4925650
The saiga looks like a real life Dr. Seuss character
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>>4925650
Flashlight fish.
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This cave leech.
>We don't know what the finger like things on it's body are, probably gills.
>We don't know what the fuck it eats or if it even drinks blood.
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>>4925663
They are kinda "famous" for beeing these really alien and fucked up looking creatures for people who are interested in that shit but generally no one seems to know they even exist and I wonder why
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>>4925650
For me it was the Klipspringer, another african antelope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYHfyxilSw
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>>4925791
How the FUCK did they manage to keep their cool?
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>>4925650
japanese serow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsCk3CS6MHk
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>>4925750
>generally no one seems to know they even exist and I wonder why

The wild and captive populations are generally confined to remote parts of Kazakhstan and the northern Caucasus.

There's literally nowhere else you can see them. Quite a few Western zoos used to keep them but 1) they're oddly susceptible to various pathogens 2) bucks in the wild tend to die off shortly after mating (similar to many R-selected invertebrate and small mammal species). This means captive populations have to be constantly restocked with new males, which is a lot costlier for ungulates than it is for small rodents or fish.

Read more here if you're interested
https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/the-future-of-saigas.465652/
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>>4925928
pigdeer
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Mi-Ki dog breed
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hartebeest
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>>4926098
good, fuck those tiny shits
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>>4926107
wait i thought OP said extinct my bad
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>>4925928
I know these guys from Zoo Tycoon. They made really cute noises in that game
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>>4925750
>>4925663
What do they eat? Do they dig the ground or something?
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>>4925650
Why the long face?
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>>4926116
Absolutely disgusting
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>>4926155
Because great migration coming
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>>4926147
They're grazers that live around Central Asia. Their noses are to help thermoregulate themselves.
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>>4925791
can someone explain why hooves are good for climbing? never made sense to me
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>>4926794
The 2 hooves are mobile and adapt to the small surfaces on the rocks
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>>4925679
LEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!
That thing almost took my beard off!
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>>4926794
Same reason climbing shoes are the way they are

Basically it allows force to be concentrated in a small area for maximum adherence
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phylliroe, it's a seaslug that looks like a fish
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>>4925650
Caecilians
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>>4925663
There are an excessively diverse number of non-marine, non-bovid Artiodactyl that all resemble weird deer.

So the human mind loses interest because "oh wow another deer"
We only remember shit like Giraffes because of their weird body plans, but their next closest living relative that isn't an Okapi are Pronghorns, which yet again, look like weird deer.

It's really easy to mentally write off and be unaware of just how many deer, and deer like animals there are. But this also pretty much counts for the rest of Artiodactyls.
There are an excessive number of whales, excessive number of sheep and goats as well as bovines.

I frequently forget Ibex exist, because they're unironically just goats.
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>>4928637
Nigga what ibex are very iconic goats
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>>4929268
>Nigga what
ebonics sound so stupid. Even in text.
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>>4927256
I have never seen this before
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>>4931004
I have never seen you before
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>>4925750
there a relic of the ice age, they used that big nose to heat up the freezing air. they live on the tiny bits of mammoth steppe that survive in isolated eras
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>>4926116
it has winking horse clit on its face...
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>>4926116
Name? Looks breedable.
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>>4931615
Muntjac Deer

>>4931613
Cuntjac Deer
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Moonrat.
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>>4932449
He is opossum in his ways
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>>4925650
Not an animal, but peacock spiders.
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>>4932466
really?
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>>4932600
>Not an animal
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maybe underwhelming is aspect but conceptually the petroleum fly blows my mind
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>>4925750
>no one seems to know they even exist and I wonder why
Lookism.
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>>4925791
>Klipspringer
Those things are CUTE.
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>>4932449
Adorable. Looks so much like an Opussum.
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>>4925791
The rock isn't even that tall, why didn't a dog just jump down dragging them down with it?
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>>4934226
A leopard would have done that but the dogs are not that agile and would break a leg.



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