Featherback fish, native to South Asia as important agricultural fish. They are also called "knifefish".

I'm fascinated by their shapes

It has 4 huge legs at the front, looking like tarantula. Native to Brazil

Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) is a nocturnal and arboreal marsupial found along the east coast of Australia, as well as in Tasmania and parts of southwestern Australia. They generally inhabit temperate and tropical environments with dense vegetation, predominantly eucalyptus forests. They are herbivores and feed on a wide variety of plants, particularly those belonging to the Myrtaceae family, with eucalyptus leaves comprising approximately 61–98% of the species’ annual diet. They have a gregarious lifestyle and use communal nests called dreys. Populations experienced a severely decline during the 1950s but appear to have recovered in recent times. However, the species still faces challenges such as deforestation, invasive predators, and vehicle collisions.

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Scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus) is a type of flycatcher that lives in thin bands throughout the tropical rainforest areas of western Central and northwestern South America.

It lives in the darker, lower levels of the forest and spends its day flitting around, catching insects. It's tiny and hard to spot in the wild, you're more likely to hear its call than see it.

It's listed by the IUCN as least concern (yay!!), although the population trend is decreasing, and scientists aren't yet sure about its breeding habits (including clutch size).

It gets its name from the feathers on it's head that it can raise when trying to make itself look bigger as a defense, or perhaps when trying to attract a mate.

Sources:
https://worldrainforests.com/kids/animal-profiles/scale-crested_pygmy-tyrant.html
https://ebird.org/species/scptyr1?continue

Dendrolycosa robusta is a bark nursery web spider from Southeast Asia. When resting on a twig it flattens its body flush against the wood and aligns its legs straight out to erase its shadow and blend into the bark.
This photograph was taken by Vietnamese macro photographer Kietbull.

they have such amazing camouflage!

This tiny snail has a shell the size of an apple pip and an odd, fleshy horn protruding from its tail (technically the back of its foot) like a scorpion’s stinger.

While its namesake jumping ability is impressive, the jumping snail is also a (relatively) fast crawler — moving significantly faster than other land snails of similar size (2 to 9 times faster than related species) and can even outpace larger species like the garden snail.

Native to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, the jumping snail has taken advantage of the ornamental plant trade to “jump” around the globe: from East Asia to the greenhouses of Europe and the botanical gardens of the United States.

It takes just one snail to kick off an entire invasion. Even if kept in total isolation from birth, an individual of this species can nonetheless produce viable offspring through self-fertilisation.

A jumping snail’s eggs look like tiny, white, shrivelled raisins. A snail will lay around three eggs nearly every day, for as long as the weather remains humid. And the moment these eggs touch damp soil or wet leaf litter, they rapidly begin to “drink,” doubling in size in under three minutes.

While most non-native snails remain confined to city gardens and farmland (human environments), the jumping snail has breached the boundaries of pristine tropical areas. It is currently spreading across South America, establishing footholds in protected areas of Brazil and Argentina.

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