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Maraya1969

(22,462 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:46 AM Jun 2020

A really big snail and a couple other animals



No, that’s not a rabbit in a Halloween costume, it’s an achatina fulica, otherwise known as a giant African Land Snail. Depending on how you feel about snails these big boys are either the cutest thing on the planet or they’re the thing that should not exist. Their bodies can grow up to about 15 inches long, and they get incredibly hungry.

In their 10 year life span they can eat through pretty much anything, and people who’ve kept them as pets have found that they can even chew through plaster walls. If you take a giant land snail home make sure you’ve got plenty of food ready.



Someone get this guy to a hair dresser, STAT. The Angora rabbit is one of the oldest kinds of domestic rabbit, and its bred for the long fibers of its coat which is known as Angora wool. No one knows exactly how they became pets, but it’s believed that they were first brought to Europe from Ankara, Turkey by French sailors in order to copy the shawls that they saw on native women.

There are at least 15 breeds of Angora rabbits, with the English Angora being the most popular. Obviously this guy’s hair has gotten out of control, and most Angora rabbits need to be groomed daily in order to keep their hair from getting out of control.


Most fish in the sea are considered to be bony fish, but this big boy is the king of them all. This huge creature is a Mola alexandrini ocean sunfish, initially it was believed to be a Mola mola, but recent research has helped to re-identify the animal. Sunfish are the largest bony fish known to man, and due to their size they grow into strange shapes - often resembling discs or wagon wheels.

While this huge fish holds the title as the world’s heaviest bony fish, the largest recorded catch was actually a M. alexandrini, or a southern sunfish, caught in 1996 off Kamogawa, Japan. It would seem that there are some very big boys out in the eastern sea.

It's clickbait and I didn't go through all of them so if you want here is the link.

https://historydaily.org/bizarre-animals-we-never-knew-existed?utm_subid=3958253&utm_campaign=706352&utm_source=revcontent_tc&utm_medium=tc&utm_term=118454&rev_campaign_id=698716&rc_uuid=yi-E3pMXjwtXsRdTUcNJXnz3nEMZkwgs8vNSyzQ0BFg99q6vVBU0bJRshBq1apLs2nYmn-XmNoEayvNVo74GFciyaFHH1DxHOMNkMZku2gUtWFFUhx8cxlQD0k_06NGS544RB5h005DNyLsRZM7IJDuwC61v2gKjeoLjmJNVbGGvdiaXXdIrZ_60ivs7f2UCQKQ4yT6SO-OEbm0FRfxPoWEtQ--p92vOE2rrSY77RAEWZwIOwZNUqs7k6SeybAWA




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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
1. Yrs ago I saw a European snail in the evening in Switzerland
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:51 AM
Jun 2020

I was completely stunned. I had no idea there really were snails that big that looked like that. I thought those were just cute pictures in kids' books.

I still get a very stunned, awed feeling of disbelief when I remember that evening walk with my relatives.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. Thanks! The angora rabbit looks like hair that grew a nose! Izzat a pun? hair/hare It wasn't
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jun 2020

intentional...

red dog 1

(27,771 posts)
7. That's a HUGE snail!
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:48 PM
Jun 2020

In China, they grow angora rabbits on factory farms for their fur.
Every three months or so, they just rip their fur off, and it leaves them shaking with pain and fear, and no fur at all.
Then. three months later, they do it again, and three months after that, and three months after that.....What a horrible, painful life those poor rabbits have to endure!

Boycott angora fur products using Chinese angora fur!

red dog 1

(27,771 posts)
11. PETA is the only animal rights organization that is trying to help the Chinese angora rabbits
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jun 2020

Under pressure from PETA, world-wide Boycotts have really hurt the sales of angora from China.

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