Oilfish
Deep-water predator with a waxy secret
Pair Bond Durations
Transient
Brief associations lasting only for copulation with no extended pair bond
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Transient Animals
Capuchin
Small hands, big brains.
Waterbuck
Ringed rump, river-edge ruler
Angled Sunbeam Caterpillar
Small larva, big ant allies
Smooth Hammerhead Shark
Smooth head, sharp hunter.
Nut Weevil
Snouts that drill, larvae that dine
Lace Bug
Lacy wings, leafy feasts.
Leichhardt's Grasshopper
Northern Australia's warning-coloured hopper
Fritillary Butterfly
Four legs, endless wing stories
Saturniidae Moth
Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.
Decorator Crab
Wear the reef. Fool the predator.
Trapdoor spider
Hidden door, lightning strike.
Sehuencas Water Frog
Bolivia's stream sentinel
Stoplight Loosejaw
The deep sea's red-light hunter
Javan Leopard
Java's hidden rosettes in the mist
Amano Shrimp
Algae patrol with a secret sea stage
Ocean Whitefish
A tilefish by blood, a whitefish by name
Limpet
Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.
Ostracod
Tiny shells, huge history
Africanized bee (killer bee)
Same species-different attitude.
Kaluga Sturgeon
Giant hunter of the Amur
Palaeoloxodon namadicus
The giant straight-tusked titan of Ice-Age India
Dunkleosteus
Armor-plated apex of Devonian seas
Hatzegopteryx
Hateg's giant sky-stalker