Top 15 Weirdest Animals in the World

Streaked Tenrec

A streaked what now?

Class: Mammals
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecs
Habitat: Madagascar

Tenrecs are small mammals with a coat of wild-looking spines. To defend itself, it stands its spines on end and hops towards its enemy to stab it. Cute!

Streaked Tenrec - Photo: Arto Hakola/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