what is the most unusual animal specie that you have ever?

Question

encountered ?

Answer 1

Platypus is my favorite animal... But I think the above three user... U have misunderstood the question...

The questioner ask your "What is the most unusual animal specie that you have ever? encountered ?"

That mean what is the unusual animal U ever kept as pets...

So far I have not kept any unusual pet...

BTW what U mean "unusual"... A Goose with more than three feet instead of two... or a frog with an uniquely skill instead of hopping it can fly... LOL...

Answer 2

By "encountered" do you mean just seen, or met
with in the wild. I have seen platypus and echidnas
but only in captivity. The platypus, incidentally, is
all mammal, not "half bird". The male platypus has
poison spurs on its hind feet.

I have seen spiders living in empty barnacles on
rocks in the Gulf of California, where they were
under water for several hours each day. This
turned out to be a new species of spider that had
never been described and named before, which
ought to qualify as unusual. However new species
of arthropods are, overall, not unusual, especially
in the tropics. About 650 new species of spiders
were described in a year recently.

Your question should say, "the most unusual animal species", not "specie". With reference to
organisms the word species is both singular and
plural. The word specie means money in the form
of coins.

Answer 3

Well, humans are pretty weird, but I don't think that's quite what you are going for.

For out and out strangeness, I'd have to pick rotifers.

Although they are microscopic, even smaller than many single-celled organisms, they are in fact multi-cellular animals.

They have a weird, ciliated crown that beats in a circular pattern like a wheel. There are usually two coronae that rotate in opposite directions. This gives the critter an appearance not unlike an electric razor. They use the ciliated corona both to pull food towards themselves, and for locomotion, swimming through the water.

They have a single foot which can secrete a glue-like goop to anchor them in place.

Their mouth is a weird, grinding organ called the mastax.

Many species are parthenogenic, reproducing clone daughters of themselves without males. Some are parthenogenic part of the time, but under the right environmental conditions will lay eggs that produce males. Some groups alternate between parthenogenic and sexual reproduction with every generation.

Some rotifer eggs can survive for years, drifting on the wind until they land in water and hatch. Because of this, rotifers can be found in almost every drop of water, from ponds and sloughs to rainbarrels, eavestroughs and birdbaths. Some even survive in salt water.

In other groups, it is the adult rotifers that dry up. They become completely dessicated, entering a cryptobiotic state in which they appear to be dead. When rehydrated however, they spring to life and go rotifering about quite happily. Some of them can exist in this state for years.

All in all, a heck of lot weirder than any platypus.

Answer 4

The hideous flies with beaks, as described by Peter Falk in the movie, "The In-Laws". Bone chilling , the way he told of them carrying off small children, and "Sadly, nothing much can be done because of the enormous red tape in the bush"

Answer 5

A Chicken Boy.

Answer 6

A spider that was as big as my hand. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and sat paralyzed in my bed three feet from it for a half hour.

Answer 7

no one believes me but once i was driving home and i saw this weird animal that was running upright kinda like a monkey but it had a face more like a dog, i dont know what the heck it was, it might have been a baby big foot, i doubt that, but i sure dont know what it was

Answer 8

a platypus half bird half mammal.and is one of the few mammals that lay eggs

Answer 9

I agree with platypus, they also have venomous spurs on there back 'feet' (flippers?)

Answer 10

platypus