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Nov 21 2009

Extremes: the Smallest Horse Ever

"I shall call him...MiniMe."

Seriously. This is every little girl’s wish come true – a real, live My Little Pony.

Minus the rainbow explosion of color, disproportionately large eyes and endless silky tail. Fine, it’s My Little Pony – the Creepy Animals edition. This diminutive horse – appropriately named Thumbelina – is a miniature of a miniature – she’s a dwarf Miniature Horse! The teensy creature is just 17 inches high and 60 pounds – barely larger than most dogs and supposedly much more feisty.

Thumbelina on Wikipedia

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Nov 14 2009

Red Uakari Monkey

Dude. It's called sunscreen. SPF 45 at least.

This creepy animal looks as if it dunked its face in a vat of scalding water. Or maybe it took a 12-hour nap in the sun. Actually it’s a Red Uakari – a monkey that dwells in the moist jungles of Brazil, Peru and the Amazon River basin. The burned look comes from a lack of skin pigments and plentiful capillaries beneath the facial tissue. The Red Uakari population has dwindled by 30% over the past 30 years due to large-scale logging that greatly reduces their range.

Caught red-faced.

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Nov 9 2009

Rare: Pink Fairy Armadillo

And this is why they live underground.

The Pink Fairy Armadillo is one part warm fuzzy, one part cold prickly. The plates of armor-like skin protect this lilliputian armadillo species (~4 inches) against abrasion whilst digging underground, where it spends nearly all of its time. The supremely creepy animal is currently endangered in central Argentina, where it is found.

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Oct 21 2009

Animal Anomaly: the Liger

"It's like a lion and a tiger mixed...bred for its skills in magic." - Napoleon Dynamite

Behold, the Lion/Tigress hybrid: the Liger. For real. A Liger is the product of a male Lion and a female Tigress, whereas a Tigon is produced when a male Tiger is mated with a female Lioness. In nature, this type of combo would never take place, but in captivity, anything goes.

Watch this video of Sinbad the Liger. He is also the largest cat ever at 900 lbs – likely the result of hybrid giantism:

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Oct 12 2009

Extremes: the Grey German Giant Rabbit

Aesop would disapprove.

Behold, the Giant Rabbit. Carl Szmolinsky of Germany breeds these monster bunnies that are literally the size of a dog. No matter how many times we look at photos of these giant rabbits, they never cease to amaze us with their massive size. Visit this site and check these producs that can improve your pets health.

This particular specimen might be larger than a first grader.

Now let’s compare to regular rabbits – note the striking difference in ear size:

Giant German Rabbit next to normal rabbit.

This is just ridiculous.

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Oct 12 2009

Animal Anomaly: Pink Dolphin!

This is the stuff dreams are made of.

When we were young, we would obsess over all kinds of fantastical animals – unicorns, rainbow glitter butterflies and pink dolphins. Looks like one of them is for real. This gorgeous specimen was first seen in 2007 in a Louisiana estuary, just north of the Gulf of Mexico. It is actually an albino and has the red eyes of the devil…but we prefer to call it pink and giggle at the thought of it flipping around in paradise.

This anomaly is not to be confused with the pink dolphin species that lives in the Orinoco rivers in the Amazon – note the difference in the shape of the beak:

Also pink. Kind of.

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