Neon Tetra
Half-red stripe, full neon glow
Mating System Types
Promiscuity
Mating system with no lasting pair bonds, where both sexes mate with multiple partners opportunistically
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Promiscuity Animals
American Paddlefish
Paddle-snouted plankton hunter
Buffalo Fish
Big bodies, subtle mouths, ancient lives
Pictus Catfish
Spots, speed, and super-long whiskers
Dobsonfly
Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives
Thresher Shark
The shark that hunts with a whip
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
White-tipped wings of the high seas
Megalochelys
A fossil giant with a living legacy
Paleoparadoxia
The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"
Chiton
Eight plates. One unstoppable grip.
Sand Dollar
Coins of the seafloor, built to burrow
Snowflake Eel
Spotted night hunter of the reef cracks
Tailless Whip Scorpion
Feelers first. Pincers ready.
Oriental Cockroach
The basement-dwelling "black beetle"
Mullet Fish
Coastal recyclers in fast-moving schools
Opah
Warm-bodied hunter of the mid-ocean
Ladyfish
Silver rockets of the surf
Larder Beetle
The bacon-loving beetle of the larder
Water Beetle
Coleoptera's freshwater engineers
Soldier Beetle
Leatherwings on flowers, hunters below
Powderpost Beetle
Fine frass, hidden hardwood borers
American Pugabull
Pug charm, Bulldog brawn.
May Beetle
Spring's buzzing May flyer
Rufous Hummingbird
Small bird, epic migration.