Favorite Uncommonly Known Animal

[carloswebcomic]

My tardigrades will outlive you all!!!

[scullpanda]

Oh wow i was getting ready for some sort of unholy screech but this is beautiful @phenylketonurics

[PotooGryphon]

I mean, how could you not love something so... derpy. XD

Truly must be my spirit animal... well, a potoo gryphon. That's DEFINITELY my spirit animal. XD

Absolutely love these birds. It's like one of my cartoon characters come to life.

OH MAN, there's a particular Potoo that has the most beautiful call. They're really stunning birds.

AH! They're SO cool!!!

I also love the Kookaburra's laugh

[russell_m_ols]

I'm rather partial to the binturong. It looks like something that would be right at home in Labyrinth.

[Ringarune]

Golden lion tamarin!!!
Actually learned about this thing from Tokyo mew mew, who knew magical girls could teach educational lessons XD

[indagold]

Bishonen fox... I mean tibetan fox

Hooded seal. Here's the baby:

here's the... uh adult male:

Jerboa:

Japan's weird prehistoric bunny called the Amami:

And the critically endangered kakapo:

Only became well known because one of them named Sirocco liked humping people's heads, became a meme and so they made it the ambassador of the species.

[csimma]

I'm not sure of it's popularity, but I'm fascinated by cuttlefish.

[Michelle]

I freakin love this thread D: Some of my favourite weird animals are already up here!

What about the okapi, aka "WHICH UNGULATE ARE YOU TRYING TO BE?!"

[KSlinger]

Bishonen fox... I mean tibetan fox

Oh my god what is wrong with it's face!

[joannekwan]

Ah, I was thinking about including the Okapi in my post but I thought I already had too many animals! xD

[indagold]

It's like someone who doesn't know how to draw made a fox.

[NickRowler]

Uncommonly known....um, maybe the Sand Cat

They are a wild cat which are about the size of a domesticated cat.

Echidnas are also pretty cool.

[apurviance]

We have around 10 silkies. The babies are even cuter. Their skin is black.

One of my favorite critters that I've bumped into are gray jays. These wild birds are quite sociable and love checking out campers and hikers. Some will land on you and beg for food, like this guy did last summer. They all showed up at dinner time, so they must have been making the campsite rounds.

[carloswebcomic]

Bishonen fox... I mean tibetan fox

That's the most serious fox I've ever seen. It's like he's asking you to step into his office.

[PotooGryphon]

Oh my god what is wrong with it's face!

I think it's the square-ness of the fox's face that makes it so odd looking and the squinti-ness of their eyes certainly adds to it lol

Here's a short clip of how these guys hunt and them in motion. It's still super unsettling looking in motion.

[J.Z.Castillo]

@indagold HAHAHAHA that wolf!!! It looks like those derpy animals from No Man's Sky! I can't hahaha

I didn't want to double dip... but... I just thought of another one. The Ayam Cemani chicken. These chickens are from Indonesia and they are ALL BLACK. Their feathers, their organs, their eggs, their BONES! It's an all black chicken! I love it! I wear all black year round so I can relate to these cuties! :^P

[dreamingamaris]

Someone has probably already mentioned these awesome little guys, Axolotls!

They are unbelievably cute and colourful

[Pandastrophic]

If monkeys were aliens they'd look like the Golden snub nosed monkey

[heterodont]

I'm a sucker for reptiles so my two faves are crocodile skinks and dragon snakes!

[realSean_Murphy]

I'd say mine is the Greenland Shark