The AnglerZebra
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rabbit1080 can make me do anything, I present to you an ancestor in the evolution of the AnglerZebra:
Zebra >> Zebra Fish >> Zebra Angler Fish >> Chinese AnglerZebra
Here the Zebra Angler Fish is seen feeding on Starshine the vegetarian shark, successfully ensnared by his attraction to the fish's seaweed-like lure. Due to a shortage of vegetarian sharks, the Zebra Angler Fish was forced to evolve into a land animal where it became known as the AnglerZebra. The oldest fossils of the AnglerZebra have been found in southern China, hence the origin of this model manufactured from all new materials.
It is theorised that the AnglerZebra developed its land-based hunting techniques on pandas, who were easy prey to their fellow black-and-white creatures whom they perceived as harmless. Pandas are not very bright. An inevitable shortage of pandas forced the westward overland migration of the Chinese AnglerZebra to the plains of Africa. It was in Africa that the AnglerZebra honed its now-famous ambush hunting techniques on the local wildlife, eventually settling into a sustainable ecological niche as a predator of large browsing animals.
Although many descendents of AnglerZebra devolved into the modern-day Boring Old Grazing Zebra (and how that happened is anyone's guess), a few small populations of African AnglerZebra remain to this day.
No specimens of the original Chinese AnglerZebra have been sighted in the wild since the famous 1952 "And we saw a unicorn too!" wildlife expedition sponsored by Johnny Walker. It has been theorised that the subject of this expedition was not the same kind of wildlife usually seen in the pages of this publication.
rabbit1080 can make me do anything, I present to you an ancestor in the evolution of the AnglerZebra:Zebra >> Zebra Fish >> Zebra Angler Fish >> Chinese AnglerZebra
Here the Zebra Angler Fish is seen feeding on Starshine the vegetarian shark, successfully ensnared by his attraction to the fish's seaweed-like lure. Due to a shortage of vegetarian sharks, the Zebra Angler Fish was forced to evolve into a land animal where it became known as the AnglerZebra. The oldest fossils of the AnglerZebra have been found in southern China, hence the origin of this model manufactured from all new materials.
It is theorised that the AnglerZebra developed its land-based hunting techniques on pandas, who were easy prey to their fellow black-and-white creatures whom they perceived as harmless. Pandas are not very bright. An inevitable shortage of pandas forced the westward overland migration of the Chinese AnglerZebra to the plains of Africa. It was in Africa that the AnglerZebra honed its now-famous ambush hunting techniques on the local wildlife, eventually settling into a sustainable ecological niche as a predator of large browsing animals.
Although many descendents of AnglerZebra devolved into the modern-day Boring Old Grazing Zebra (and how that happened is anyone's guess), a few small populations of African AnglerZebra remain to this day.
No specimens of the original Chinese AnglerZebra have been sighted in the wild since the famous 1952 "And we saw a unicorn too!" wildlife expedition sponsored by Johnny Walker. It has been theorised that the subject of this expedition was not the same kind of wildlife usually seen in the pages of this publication.
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:53 pm (UTC)Especially cool since the Artist Statement mentioned pandas. And hunting techniques.
Love the way the shark is so nonchalant about being eaten btw - maybe it's planning its counterattack?
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Date: 2011-03-27 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-28 03:48 am (UTC)I now want a plush catfish. Just because.