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Explore the animals featured in each episode of LIFE.

Ostrich
The target of a band of cheetah brothers in the LIFE series, the ostrich is a powerful bird with the ability to kick large predators to death.

Water Buffalo
The water buffalo can gore a predator to death with its backward-curving horns, but that doesn't stop Komodo dragons from taking one down in LIFE.

Rufous Sengi
The sengi, or elephant shrew, has a long proboscis for eating insects. It also builds intricate trail systems, perfect for escaping predators.

Weedy Sea Dragon
In LIFE, weedy sea dragons perform an elegant courtship dance. The dance, which may last for hours, ends with the female giving her eggs to the male.

Lammergeier
The lammergeier has figured out a clever way to eat animal bones and the nutritious marrow inside: by dropping them from the sky until they shatter.

Sea Stars
These marine invertebrates feed by pushing their stomach through their mouth, then emitting corrosive digestive fluids that dissolve flesh.

Ethiopian Wolf
Africa's only wolf species, the Ethiopian wolf isn't a pack hunter like the gray wolf. Instead, it survives by hunting small rodents.

Dawson's Burrowing Bee
Spurred on by the scent of females during the mating season, these bees become so incensed that they'll literally rip others apart.

Phayre's Leaf Monkey
These drably colored monkeys have bright orange babies, all the better to keep an eye on them in the dense forests of Southeast Asia.
Stalk-Eyed Fly
Stalk-eyed flies aren't born that way. They swallow air, then pump it into a cavity behind the eye. The cavity unrolls to form long, rigid stalks.

Panther Chameleon
With its extra-long tongue, rotating eyes and ability to blend in with its surroundings, the panther chameleon is an insect-eating machine.

Aye-Aye
It may look like an over-sized rodent, but the aye-aye is the world's largest noctural primate. It uses its long fingers to dig for insect larvae.

Sarcastic Fringehead
As seen in LIFE, when an intruder invades the sarcastic fringehead's personal space, it launches a highly aggressive and vicious attack.

Magnificent Frigatebird
In LIFE, this master thief engages its archenemy, the red-billed tropicbird, in a high-speed dogfight. The winner takes the spoils.

Nemertean Worm
Capable of stretching to 100 feet or longer, nemertean worms are insatiable carnivores that eat almost anything they come across, living or dead.

Greater Bulldog Bat
One of the planet's noisiest fishermen, the bulldog bat emits high-frequency chirps to locate fish beneath the water at night.

Japanese Red Bug
Unusual among insects, the Japanese red bug is am extremely devoted parent. She guards her eggs and feeds her nymphs once they hatch.

Spectral Tarsier
The world's shortest primate, the 6-inch spectral tarsier is a formidable creature. It will sometimes tackle insects half its own body length.

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