My favorite animal is (pretty much) all of them. :D

The variety of life that has existed in the past or exists today is mind-boggling. There are so many amazing creatures adapted to the niches they have carved out for themselves.

Pick any animal. Any at all. Think about its behaviors, its appearance, its environment. And link them together.

Ducks evolved wide, flat bills for foraging for food at the bottoms of lakes. They evolved soft, downy feathers to keep them warm. They evolved precise flight feathers, all of them a different shape and size, to fly, sometimes for long distances. They evolved webbed feet, to paddle around in the water. They evolved oil for their feathers that keeps them dry. They evolved a boat-like body to make paddling around easy.

All these cool adaptations happened, and combined to make the ducks we know and love today.

All animals went through changing and adapting and evolving to become perfect at living how they do. Every species is fascinating, and worth learning about.

I dare you to try something.

Go to the #Wahnimals hashtag, pick an animal you don't know much about, and do some research into it. Look up pictures and info from reliable sources. And then you'll be one step closer to understanding how they fit into their complex ecosystems, and one step closer to understanding life as we know it.

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