5 Animals with Incredible Defense Mechanisms

If you are the owner of a soft body made for swimming or burrowing in earth, you are pretty much guaranteed to be the bottom of the food chain. Fish, insects, and amphibians have all adapted to their habitats and this means more than foraging for food and adapted to weather patters: it also means escaping predators to allow your species to continue. For the largest animals, such as the Elephant or the Blue Whale, size alone usually discourages most predators. But what if you are tiny, live in the dark, or are eaten by just about everything else, you might to have invent some new ways of defending yourself! Here are 5 Animals with Incredible Defense Mechanisms.

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5. O. Deletron

Octopoteuthis deletron, or the Octopus Squid, is another of the many unusual deep-sea animals known worldwide. This dinner-plate sized squid makes its home in the dark depths at more than 2,500 ft. There isn't much light in the water at that depth and so protecting a squishy body can be difficult. This squid, however, has mastered the art of auto-amputation. When threatened, it throws out its long arms and grasps the threat with hook-like claws at the tips of each tentacle. If that weren't enough to make a predator let it go, with a quick yanks the squid's muscles give way and it loses either one or two arms. The idea of this "arm autonomy" is to distract the threat and allow the squid to live another day! Even more unusual? The lost limbs do regenerate over time.

4. Flying Fish

Leaving appendages behind sounds a bit gruesome, but what if you could leave your natural habitat behind? Out of the hundreds of species of fish on the planet, the 60 or so species of family Exocoetidae have evolved an unusual (for sea animals) method for escaping predators: they fly. A massive school of Flying fish can break the water's surface at speeds up to 35 miles an hour and have been seen flying out of the water for almost a minute at a time; and they are actually flying, not just gliding. What they are doing is akin to a human diving without an oxygen tank. Specialized pectoral fins have evolved into appendages resembling primitive birds' wings! The only downside to this? They do occasionally get eaten by seabirds such as pelicans who seem to find sport in catching them...on the wing.

3. Malaysian Exploding Ant

Squids that leave their arms behind and fish out of water, animals that have clearly learned to do whatever it takes to survive. What if you can't get away from predators at all?

Like all ants, Camponotus saudersi is tiny and lives in colonies that are divided into classes: the queen, the female workers, and the male workers. The seemingly defenseless worker ants of this species, however, are also warriors: the first defense in protecting the entire colony. These tiny ants were first described doing something really unusual in the 1970s: they literally explode in the face of a threat! They have evolved "poison" glands that contain modified digestive juices that sprays outward and either kills the predator outright or causes enough damage that they will not mess with the exploding ants again.

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