One in a million: 10 unusual animals that deserve special issue from National Geographic

For 25 years of the existence of the National Geographic broadcast, not a few issues have been devoted to unusual, rarely found in nature animals. In the next 25 years, we can not but mention the representatives of this collection.

1. Capybara

Capybara is the largest rodent in the world. Representatives of this kind are very affectionate, allow themselves to iron and even eat with their hands. Some exotic lovers keep them as pets.

2. Alligator-albino

The albino albino is seldom found in the wild, mainly in zoos, since there is very little chance of survival in such individuals: coloring does not allow them to merge with the environment, they are extremely sensitive to sunlight and vulnerable to many diseases not common to ordinary representatives its kind.

3. The Madagascar Router (Ai-ay)

The largest representative of nocturnal primates. And the most ugly ...

4. Angora rabbit

Angora rabbit is a domesticated animal known for its gentle fluff. Of course.

5. Fish-drop

Inhabits the deep water near the coast of Australia and the island of Tasmania. Rarely, but still it can be seen.

6. Tamarin

Tamarin is a bearded squirrel the size of a squirrel).

7. Chinese giant salamander

The largest representative of the detachment of tailed amphibians. She lives exclusively in clean and cold mountain reservoirs. It is endangered by extinction due to habitat loss, environmental pollution and targeted destruction, as it is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

8. The Giant Shark

The second largest shark, after the whale.

9. The dwarf tarsier

Night primate with HUGE eyes. Occurs only in Southeast Asia.

10. Thick Lory

Dearest creatures! But not as they seem at first glance ... Thick lory is the only known kind of poisonous primates. The poison is secreted by glands on the forelimbs. In a mixture with saliva, poison or smeared on the head to scare off predators, or keeps in the mouth, allowing lori painfully bite. It can cause suffocation and death not only in small animals, but even in humans.