Top 15 Weirdest Animals in the World

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Longhorn Cowfish

Facts

• Class: Fish
• Order: Tetraodontiformes
• Family: Boxfish
• Habitat: Indo-Pacific

Appearance

"The fish with the small kebab skewers"

Sometimes we say, "I have a frog in my throat" when we need to cough to clear our throat and breathe better. For predatory fish, it’s just as unpleasant to have a cowfish (a kind of boxfish) in their throat as its two horns make it harder for predators to swallow. The cowfish also has a toxin in its skin that it releases into the water when in danger.

Longhorn Cowfish - Photo: Khoroshunova Olga/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Longhorn Cowfish
• 2. Glass Frog
• 3. Sawfish
• 4. Fried Egg Jellyfish
• 5. Streaked Tenrec
• 6. Red-Lipped Batfish
• 7. Saiga
• 8. Spook Fish
• 9. Clearwing Moth
• 10. Musk Deer
• 11. Dugong
• 12. Blue Ocean Slug
• 13. Giant Isopod
• 14. Leafy Seadragon
• 15. Leaf-Tailed Gecko