No Zoo Will Take This Animal, Here's Why

wow this guy has gained international fame for its uh not so attractive looks but it was an unfair competition i'm talking about the one and only blob fish this thing was once on display in an aquarium looking like a gloopy slimy well blob but underwater in its natural habitat it looks like any other normal fish it's a deep sea dweller living off the coast of australia the blobfish thrives at around 3000 feet below the surface at those depths the pressure is 120 times higher than what you and i are used to in fact only robust submarines can go that deep this droopy creature doesn't have a skeleton or much muscle instead it has jelly-like flesh to combat the extreme underwater pressure you also won't find a great white shark in any aquarium you go to in the past many have tried adding great whites along other sharks in their tanks but it never worked out they'd stop eating and even struggle to swim doesn't make for great business either it's too costly to keep the great white because a large enough tank will need millions of gallons of water these fish don't like staying in one area for long they prefer open waters where they can swim vast distances we haven't seen one in captivity since the 1970s the saula better known as the asian unicorn was just discovered in 1992 it lives on the slopes of the anamite mountains between laos and vietnam it looks like an antelope but genetic tests show it's more closely related to cows the saola is one of the rarest large mammals in the world surveys estimate there are just 70 to 750 left in the wild yeah it's a pretty big range experts can't get a more specific number because they're impossible to spot only two have been caught and studied on to the unicorns of the sea narwhals there are more than eighty thousand of these creatures but they're still near threatened they've got long narrow tusks protruding from their heads this unicorn-like tusk is actually a tooth that can grow up to 10 feet they belong to the whale family but unlike their relatives they don't migrate narwhals spend their lives in the arctic waters of greenland canada norway and russia they live up to 50 years in the wild but they can't make it in captivity so if you want to see one in real life the zoo isn't the place to look unlike other creatures on the list swallows are very common you might recognize this pretty bird from those gorgeous blue feathers running from their head to tail even though they're one of the most widespread species they're not suited for zoos they eat on the fly literally and catch their food in the air which is why they only feed on flying insects they need to live in large aviary structures with plenty of flying room and most zoos can't provide that you'll find plenty of lowland gorillas in captivity the same can't be said about mountain gorillas these apes have longer hair and they're more grayish than brown there are only about 1 000 of them in the wild making them an endangered species mountain gorillas usually spend a quarter of their day eating back in the 60s and 70s there were many attempts to catch them and start a captive population but it was impossible they might not do well in enclosed environments because of their particular dietary needs without those the gorilla's health declined noticeably another issue could have been stress now there aren't any mountain gorillas in any facility diving back into the water we have the giant squid a behemoth that inspired lore of the kraken this creature remains a mystery to scientists their inhospitable deep-sea environment has made them hard to study the only research scientists could do was from rare specimens that washed up on the shore in 2004 researchers in japan snapped the first pick of a live giant squid two years later they managed to bring one up to the surface because they live so deep in the sea their eyes are the size of a beach ball they can see things in the darkest places of the ocean where other creatures would struggle to see anything at all to this day the giant squid has never been caught or kept in captivity to be studied in full next we've got the rarest large mammal on the planet the javan rhino less than 70 are left and they all live in a national park on the island of java indonesia of the five total rhino species they're the most endangered one scientists aren't sure how long they live but guess somewhere between 30 to 40 years the area where they live is vulnerable to tsunamis and they're also close to many active volcanoes if any of them erupts the job and rhino could go extinct now a creature you've probably never heard of is the injury the madagascar native is a unique primate that relies on trees to move around and feed they live 15 to 18 years in the wild but in captivity some barely made it one year probably because they don't do so well with stress and disturbance experts believe their diet is so specific that it can't be replicated in captivity they also notice the animals don't reproduce when they're taken out of the wild the pink fairy armadillo doesn't have wings or do magic but it's still an adorable little animal with a pinkish shell that acts like a living radiator it's the smallest of all armadillos and it spends its entire life using its bulky front claws to burrow through the earth mostly at night it can hardly be spotted let alone caught and that's why scientists haven't been able to study this fella very much and you'll only find it in central argentina even though rare bugs are popular in zoos one you'll never see is the giraffe weevil why the name it has an extraordinarily long neck that helps the bug build its nest no ladder needed they spend most of their time feeding on the leaves of a single tree species dubbed in their honor the giraffe beetle tree there's another insect species called the giraffe weevil in new zealand but funny enough it's an entirely different species straight from the deepest part of the earth comes the mariana snail fish it thrives at 26 000 feet below it's almost as high as planes fly only the opposite direction of course the pressure at such depths is so intense it feels like an elephant is standing on your toe ow thus it just couldn't make it in the shallower waters of an aquarium another deep sea lover is the dumbo octopus it lives 13 000 feet below the surface at those depths it rarely feels threatened so this little cutie doesn't have an ink sack like other octopuses which use theirs for protection to get away from enemies it belongs to the family of umbrella octopuses you can see its arms are connected by a web of skin giving it an umbrella-like appearance when swimming around not many people have seen a dumbo octopus but it isn't an endangered species nobody can go that deep to mess with this guy lastly one of the most critical factors for deciding if an animal can survive in an aquarium is their size when it comes to blue whales unless an aquarium is the size of the ocean that's a no-go and an animal that big needs tons of food no aquarium could ever afford it it's an endangered species with less than 25 000 left these marine mammals migrate over thousands of miles to cover such vast distances a blue whale can actually sleep while it's swimming but it's never entirely unconscious it lightly naps while cruising through the water that's a big boy

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Length: 8min 13sec (493 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 31 2020