12 Animals and Their Bizarre Habits and Traits
Here are 12 animals and their unusual habits or traits.
Here are 12 animals and their unusual habits or traits.
1. Llama
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Llamas can carry as much as 91 kg or 200 lb for 12 hours a day, but they are not ridden. When weary or overloaded,
llama lies down and refuses to move, often spitting at their driver.
2. Hognose Snake

Hognose snake is a non-poisonous snake of North America that is harmless to humans. It is called the "puff adder"
because it flattens its head and neck, inflates its body with air, and hisses loudly when disturbed. It rarely, if ever, bites
in defense. If the intruder is not bluffed, the snake rolls over as if dead.
3. Herring

Herrings swim near the surface in vast shoals consisting of 3 million or more individuals. They can live for 20 years,
but most are caught in their first year by fishermen or are eaten by whales, seals, large fish, gulls and cormorants.
4. Sea Otter
Sea otter swims and floats on its back. It places a rock on its chest and uses it as anvil for breaking open shellfish,
its chief food. During mating, the male bites the nose of the female, often bloodying and scarring it.
5. Erenna

Erenna is the first marine invertebrate known to produce red luminescence. This is unusual because researchers
believed that animals in the deep sea couldn't even sea red lights.
6. Hyena

Hyena appears to be humpbacked because its hind legs are shorter than its front legs. Another unusual about hyena
is its powerful cheek muscles and teeth - it can crush the bones of an ox. Hyenas cry resembles human laughter.
7. Karakul

Karakul, also caracul, is an Asiatic breed of sheep that stores fat in its tail for use when food is scarce. The tail may weigh
up to 50 lb or 23 kg.
8. Impala

Impalas when frightened scatter, making leaps as long as 9 m or 30 ft and as high as 3 m or 10 ft, which have the
effect of startling and confusing their predators.
9. Luna Moth
Luna Moth is the handsomest of American moths.
10. Octopus
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Octopuses lack hearing organs but have acute vision and they can detect colors. Octopuses are also able to "walk"
on their arms.
11. Cormorant
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In china, cormorants are trained and used to catch fish.
12. Hermit Crab

For protection from predators, many hermit crabs seek out abandoned shells, usually snail shell. When a hermit crab
finds out one of the proper size, it pulls itself inside, leaving several legs and its head outside the shell. It carries the
shell wherever it goes, when it outgrows its shell, it switches to a larger one.
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Amazing! Thanks.
very interesting!