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Posted by John Cleese:

A poem to enrich your afternoon...

I have a pet possum
He's totally awesome...
I've also got cats
Who just lie there on mats
Doing fuck all.
They don't come if I call
But my possum will blossom
and soon learn to boss 'em
About and around
Or else I shall toss 'em
On to the live rail at the Sloane Square
Underground

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The Chiton makes its own teeth and it does so from magnetite, which is one of the hardest substances known to man. It's also an extraordinarily eye-catching creature.

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These Honduran White Bats make a sort of tent in a Heliconia tree leaf. They're also tiny and the biggest of them are only 1.5 inches long.

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This is kind of gross - the hairy frog can break its bones and then force them through their toes to form claws.

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Don't mess with the mantis shrimp. They swing their arms out at roughly 80 kilometers an hour. That's about the same speed as a .22 cartridge leaves a gun.

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These pink dolphins are, in fact, Amazon River Dolphins. They are only pink when they mature. The babies are gray. They also dislike captivity and refuse to be trained.

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The Yoda Bat, or more properly The Nendo-Tube Nosed Fruit Bat, is only found in Papua New Guinea.

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These slightly strange looking turtles use their necks and nostrils to their advantage. They enable them to snorkel without floating on top of the water.

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This little fellow can be found around the shores of the 10,000 islands of Indonesia. The world's largest archipelago. His color scheme is striking and unexplained by science.

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The Caedicia is a form of grasshopper. This one lives in the Pacific Highlands in the Muller Range of mountains.

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The Salp is a "planktonic tunicate" and it lives on nothing but carbon dioxide which it extracts from the water it swims through. It's also completely transparent as you can see here.

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The Grimpoteuthis gets its nickname thanks to the two fins on the side of its body. They look like the ears of Disney's most famous elephant, Dumbo.

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