Thorny Devil
The ant-eating, water-wicking lizard
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
Dugong
Seagrass Meadows' Gentle Grazer
Newfoundland
Built for the surf, born to save
Tapir
Tapirs: forest gardeners with a snorkel nose
Opossum
America's adaptable marsupials
Scorpion Fish
Beautiful camouflage, serious spines.
Axolotl
Forever young, forever regrowing
Catfish
Whiskers, spines, and river smarts
Tiger Salamander
Vernal-pool tiger, underground traveler
Flounder
Two eyes, one side-seafloor masters
Gila Monster
Venom by chew, built for the desert
Tree Frog
Sticky toes, big voices, forest lives
Mayfly
Born in water, gone in a day
Moray Eel
Crevice kings with a second bite
Common Frog
Spring's frogspawn maker
Fin Whale
The fast rorqual with a split-color jaw
Bandicoot
Digging by night, healing soils by day
Basking Shark
Big mouth, tiny prey.
Leopard Tortoise
Spotted shell, savanna soul.
Marine Toad
Big toad. Bigger toxins.
Oyster
Reef builders that clean the coast
Barracuda
Silver speedsters with a bite
Glass Lizard
All the lizard-none of the legs.
Manta Ray
Wings of the sea, built to filter