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Vampire squids.

* Unlike other squids, it can't expel ink in order to create a distraction while it jets away.
* Instead (this is sooooo cool) it expels glowing snot filled with blue balls of light in order to distract its opponent!
* It only grows to a foot long, but it has the biggest eyes of any creature proportionate to the size of its body (it needs big eyes, living at the depths it does).
* Unlike other squids, it normally doesn't move by jet action but by flapping the two fins on its head.
* During a certain stage of its growth from infant to adult, it has four fins on its head, which led people to think that the different body forms represented more than one species.
* It's covered with little dots that it can cause to glow and flash in order to confuse opponents.
* It uses its light-generating ability to obscure its outline so predators can't spot it.
* It can't change color as well as similar critters, but its skin and eyes look different colors depending on the circumstances.
* It has blue blood!
* (We think that) the females guard their eggs for like 400 days before they hatch.
* They have a defensive move they do called "pumpkin posture" in which they turn themselves inside out (sort of) so that their head is down inside the bell-shaped part of their body. When they assume this position they stick their legs way up away from their heads and make the ends glow to distract the opponent from where their vital organs (their head) are. If a predator bites one of the ends of their legs off, they regenerate it!

Post moar awesome animals.
>> Anonymous
Holy crap, I want a vampire squid now! They own!
>> Anonymous
>>97985
A normal human reaction; "Oh wow, something cool! I want to own it!"

Still, an awsome animal.
>> Anonymous
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>>97985
Well, for one thing they're deep ocean beasties, so your tank would have to be about 3000 feet deep. Also, instead of suckers, they have hooks, like tiny underwater cenobites. This confirms their status as most metal ocean animal.
>> Anonymous
>>97991

Or you could get a pressurized tank, I guess. I was watching National Geographic channel once about deep ocean creatures and they mentioned that if you bring them to the surface they explode. Their bodies are so used to the pressures of the deep that if you remove that pressure they fall apart.
>> Anonymous
>>97996
your knowledge gives me a hard on
>> Anonymous
OP here. Anyone have an even better animal than this thing?
>> Anonymous
>>98095
No, but that is a fucking awesome find. ;-; squids are my fetish.
>> Anonymous
The Colossal squid (not to be confused with the Giant squid) also has hooks on its arms.
>> Anonymous
I wish we had the fucking National Geographic channel up here ;_;

I love that channel
>> Anonymous
>>98123

It's pretty much the only channel I watch.. I wish they had more content though. Iv seen just about everything they have. Everything is a rerun. :(

I remember when TLC and History Channel were equally awesome to national geographic but now TLC might as well be called tender loving care instead of the learning channel and history channel is ww2 channel. Bullshit.
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>>98126

Hey there's a good number of shows on History Channel if you look for them

http://www.history.com/shows.do

I love history though so I dont mind WW2 stuff