CC Image courtesy of Hani Amir on Flickr
Nudibranchs are my favorite animal. Nowhere in nature is such incredible diversity of appearance as evident as in the glorious nudibranch. These sea slugs live in shallow tide pools in oceans all over the world. Their remarkable colors and shapes warn predators of the toxic poison they use as a defense mechanism.
CC Image courtesy of Boogies with Fish on Flickr
Why do I love the nudibranch so? I love their weirdness, their paradox, their contradiction: a slug with glorious plumage and a toxic kiss.
Click here to see some AMAZING pictures of diverse nudibranchs.
Nudibranchs? Awesome! It's actually an animal? Looks more like a painting by a professional.
ReplyDeleteIt looks cool..! Somehow they looks like nerds.... but it is amazing how there are different animals that we do not know yet... I want to see one in real life.... It just looks like a sculpture painted by a person... but it is actually an animal... I have no doubt that there would be many animal dying because of this.... They call attention and make you want to touch it...
ReplyDeleteAmazing! They are really pretty ,even though i had never seen one. They have such beautiful, striking colors. i bet they must be really poisonous like you said, what type of animals can it kill?
ReplyDeleteAt first, I thought that it was just a painting, and not a real animal. It looks like if it came from a weird dinosaur movie, like jurassic park. It's cool how it uses it's colors to scare away predators.
ReplyDeleteWow... This is an awesome animal. Its a colorful animal haha, this animal actually looks like a plant instead of an animal. If you said these animals are poisonous they must be stinging a lot of humans because humans could be attracted from their colorful color. Don't touch colorful things if you don't know what it is.
ReplyDeleteThese animals are awesome, even though they don't really seem like animals, they can kill, and they're super colorful, I think it would be cool to have one as a pet, as long as it doesn't kill anyone.
ReplyDeleteAWESOME!!!! I had never seen animals like these. They are truly amazing. And a question for Mr. AB: How did you get to know these animals existed?
ReplyDeleteWow... It is very peculiar how you dislike lampreys but you take Nudibranchs as your favorite animal...
ReplyDeleteI would love see animals like these in my life! the more weird the better in my opinion. I would love to have a mini aquarium and see these kind of animals every day.
ReplyDeleteWow, it looks like little toys. I would like to have one of them as a pet.
ReplyDeleteThese animals are incredible! I never believed anything could be so colorfully creative. I also wondered why something so vulnerable would stand out so much, then i realized they were incredibly toxic.
ReplyDeleteOhh, those Nudibranchs tempt me to grab them and squish them. Its a wonder from God how such little and defenseless-looking animals possess a toxic mechanism to protect them from much bigger and carnivorous predators. It becomes kind of like a balance.
ReplyDeleteI want one Nudibranchs for pet. But if i have it as a pet it would be dangerous to have it, because if someone touch the Nudibranchs they can be poisoned. How dangerous is the poison of the Nudibrand?
ReplyDeleteDown with lampreys! Up with nudibranchs!
ReplyDeleteWhen Mr. AB told me about nudibranchs last year, they officially became my favorite animals. At one point I was so obsessed with getting one for myself, I had done a bunch of research, but then I found out that first, they're super expensive, second, they die if they're bought as pets and are forced to live outside of their natural habitats. I was kind of disappointed, but they really are amazing animals. Their colors are so bright and super awesome, and even they don't look the part, they are super tiny. There is not one like the other. Also, they don't exist in this part of the world, nudibranchs mostly inhabit Indonesia, The Phillipines, and all those places. So they are impossible to get, but I still want one though... BTW, they all have two tiny horns.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this link to see how small they are: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/david_behrens/875339.rsDscn1367.jpg/view.html
I absolutely love this one (the pink one):
http://www.reefed.edu.au/home/explorer/animals/marine_invertebrates/molluscs/nudibranchs
And this one:
http://www.seasky.org/seagallery/seagallery_02_16.html
And this one:
http://www.seaotter.com/marine/research/dirona/albolineata/html/1alabaster_nudibranch.jpg.html
And this one (they look fake, but they're not!!!):
http://imyourfanclub.wordpress.com/tag/nudibranch/
These Nudibranchs are soo cool looking!! I honestly thought they were corals!
ReplyDeleteA pictures awesome how the nature make it, really awesome
ReplyDeletewow! those things look like if they were a kind of algae. Those things are so cool.
ReplyDeleteNudibranchs!! That is a cool name.. The color is very unique! Kinda look like marshmallow.. I wonder how nudibranchs move !! It's going to be very weird hahaha
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