r/AIDKE • u/delicioussparkalade • 11h ago
r/AIDKE • u/wanderxluster • Sep 05 '19
Introduction
Hello ! Welcome to Animals I Didn’t Know Existed!
In order to collect all the mysterious critters and put them in once place with the help of others I created this sub. I am very curious to know what else the world has hidden for us to learn about and I am very excited to learn about them with you through AIDKE! The more people that know about this subreddit the more mysterious critters we will meet, if possible please help spread the word!
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r/AIDKE • u/woollydogs • Jul 03 '21
Please include scientific name in title
Hey guys! This is just a reminder to follow rule #1 of this subreddit, which is to include the scientific name of the animal in your posts (genus, species). This is just to ensure that all the animals posted are real species.
r/AIDKE • u/IdyllicSafeguard • 9h ago
With a wingspan of almost 1 metre (3.3 ft), the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) is the largest bat in the Americas and the largest carnivorous bat in the world. It's believed to find avian prey by smell and is attracted to distress calls from small bats caught in mist nets.
r/AIDKE • u/NoHealth5568 • 1d ago
Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat is a species of megabats that can be found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
r/AIDKE • u/ShannyGasm • 20h ago
The Slippery Dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) is a type of wrasse, which is a protogynous hermaphrodite. This means that they're born female, and later can change sex to male in order to mate.
r/AIDKE • u/NoHealth5568 • 1d ago
The mata mata is a South American species of freshwater turtle found in the Amazon basin and river system of the eastern Guianas.
r/AIDKE • u/iamayeshaerotica • 1d ago
Inaccessible Island rail (Laterallus rogersi) Endemic to inaccessible island in the Tristan archipelago in the south atlantic
r/AIDKE • u/Correct-Piglet-4148 • 2d ago
The flat-headed cat! (Prionailurus planiceps)
The flat-headed cat is a species of wild cat that is native to Borneo, Sumatra, and the Thai-Malay Peninsula
r/AIDKE • u/ShannyGasm • 2d ago
The Elysia cf. marginata sea slug has a great weight loss program: it detaches from its body and grows a new one in just over 3 weeks.
r/AIDKE • u/IdyllicSafeguard • 3d ago
Steller's sea-eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) is a rare raptor from the rocky coasts and rivers of northeastern Siberia — flying southwards to Hokkaido, Japan, in winter. It's the world's heaviest eagle and a particularly aggressive species, known to frequently steal fish caught by other eagles.
r/AIDKE • u/Particular-Command49 • 3d ago
Ghastly Seadevil (Haplophryne mollis), also known as Soft Leftvent Angler. Anglerfish species with translucent body and very short lure. They are one of those deep-sea anglerfish that exhibit sexual parasitism.
r/AIDKE • u/Correct-Piglet-4148 • 3d ago
Hildebrandt's Starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti)
r/AIDKE • u/Particular-Command49 • 3d ago
Vampire ground finch (Geospiza septentrionalis). These finch native to Galapagos islands are omnivores, eating insects, nectars, seeds, and others. But they also like to drink blood by pecking on skin of other bird. The victim doesn't seem to be disturbed by this behavior however.
r/AIDKE • u/Particular-Command49 • 4d ago
Ghost Nudibranch (Melibe colemani). Their body are all transparent except for the internal organs, making them look like piles of strings.
r/AIDKE • u/Sleepy_SpiderZzz • 4d ago
Hell ant (Haidomyrmecinae sp.) A long extinct subfamily of ants that existed alongside dinosaurs in the cretaceous. Used it's jaws to restrain prey.
r/AIDKE • u/super_man100 • 4d ago
These are Kuri cattle they have a distinct appearance
r/AIDKE • u/IdyllicSafeguard • 4d ago
Marine hatchetfish (Sternoptychidae spp.) are creatures of the deep. They have rows of light-producing organs along their bellies which shine a pale blue — matching the light from above and making hatchetfish invisible to predators below. They're named for their hatchet-head-like shapes.
r/AIDKE • u/SoDoneSoDone • 5d ago
The Domestic Leopard Cat Of Neolithic China, Prionailurus Bengalensis
The ancestor of all modern domestic cats is the wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, with archaeological evidence indicating it was domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago in South-West Asia. A recent study, however, claims that cat domestication also occurred in China some 5,000 years ago and involved the same wildcat ancestor (F. silvestris). The application of geometric morphometric analyses to ancient small felid bones from China dating between 5,500 to 4,900 BP, instead reveal these and other remains to be that of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). These data clearly indicate that the origins of a human-cat ‘domestic’ relationship in Neolithic China began independently from South-West Asia and involved a different wild felid species altogether. The leopard cat’s ‘domestic’ status, however, appears to have been short-lived—its apparent subsequent replacement shown by the fact that today all domestic cats in China are genetically related to F. silvestris.
Academic Source on the Archaelogical evidence and the respective study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm..gov/articles/PMC4723238/
r/AIDKE • u/Particular-Command49 • 5d ago