Weird Animals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

15. This striped possum is a marsupial.

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16. De Brazza’s monkey was named after the Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.

Steve Wilson

17. Stick insect from the Phasmids family

Drägüs

18. Von der Decken’s sifaka is named after the first European person who attempted to climb Kilimanjaro.

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19. The Saharan horned viper has “horns” on its head.

Sari Barazi

20. Sea pens are colonial marine cnidarians belonging to the order Pennatulacea.

Jodi Jacobson

21. A unicorn katydid from the Orthoptera order

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22. The Ankole-Watusi cows’ horns have the largest circumference found in any cattle breed.

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23. The Lesser prairie chicken from the grouse family

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24. The black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys live in the Hengduan Mountains. They can climb up to 3 miles above sea level.

Richard McManus

25. The bearded reedling is the only species in the family, Panuridae.

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26. The white-faced saki is a species of the New World saki monkey.

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27. Sarada lizard from the Agamidae family

Ashahar alias Krishna Khan

28. This is a bongo bovidae.

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29. The red ruffed lemur that only lives in Madagascar

Charles J Sharp