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Let’s Talk Trash! MAR- APR 2022
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Baby animals are adorable, but did you know that not every cub or chick resembles its parents. In fact, some creatures have a vastly different appearance before they grow up. Whether this means they completely change color or drastically change in size, some newborns just don't look like they'll grow up to look like their parents. From monkeys to amphibians, here are a few baby animals that look nothing like their adult counterparts.
Silvered Leaf Monkeys , can be identified by their dark, silvery fur and black skin. As babies, the monkeys look like they belong to a different species. When they're born, they have orange fur and light-colored skin.
When Giant Pandas are born, the cubs are pink, blind, and hairless. They're also 1/900th the size of their mothers. Consid- ering that adult female pandas can weigh over 200 pounds, the baby bears are puny.
Tadpoles look vastly different than adult amphibians. In their larval stage, frogs and toads have short, oval-shaped bodies and long tails. The tadpole stage can last anywhere from two weeks to three years.
Swans don't start out as the graceful, snow-white creatures we picture. Unlike their parents, the young birds, known as cygnets (a Latin word derived from a Greek term meaning "to be white"), have short necks and are covered in a thick coat of down.
The Echidna is an egg-laying mammal, native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Adults echidnas are coated in spikes but their young, called puggles, don't grow quills until they're 50 days old.
Bald Eagles , the national symbol of the United States since 1782, look quite different when they're born. Baby bald eagles' light grey bodies transi- tion to brown throughout the first five years of their life.
Can you think of any other animals that look totally different from baby to adult?
Source: https://www.insider.com/baby-animals-that-grow-up-to-look-different-2019-2
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