The Hawaiian Monk Seal nicknamed llio-holo-ikauaua, which mean dog that runs in the sea, lives in the waters of Hawaii. They have been living on this Earth for around thirteen million years. Today they mostly live around the coral reefs of Hawaii. This seal's population is at its lowest in history at about 1200. Just in the last fifty years the population decreased to 2/5 of it's previous size. Although these seals can live up to the age of thirty, many of them fail to reach adulthood (5). The main reason in which these seals decreased put humans at fault. Starting around the early 1900's these animals were slaughtered for their oil and pelts. These seals were very easily captured and killed. This is due to their evolution with an absence of land predators. This means that when on land the Hawaiian Monk Seal would sit on the beach with out any fear of being hunted. They were able to do this successfully until humans came and drastically decreased their population. Another problem is these animals are overly playful and see fishing gear as a fun oppurtunity and become entangled in nets and lines which can cause their death (6).
The Egyptian fruit bat is very important to the world. This bat can be up to seven inches in length and can have a wingspan of about two feet. The lifespan of this bats is around the twenty year mark. Bats are the only true flying mammal in the world. These bats are known for flying up to twenty five miles from the roosting site when they are looking for some food. Their diet consists of fruit which is the reason behind their name (7). Fruit Bats are very important to the growing of fruit. The statistic is that fruit bats are responsible for pollinating seventy percent of the worlds fruit. Since the bats travel such a great distance from their roosting site to go get food, they carry seeds and drop them on their way back. Fruit bats are not very picky when it comes to which fruit they want to eat which is important because this means that they will pollinate almost every type of fruit (8).
At first site these snakes appear to be just a normal tree snake. These snakes are slightly venomous and almost always ready to attack. These snakes feed on almost any type of small vertabre animals. These overall just seem like your average everyday tree snake. But this snake developed an adaptation in which it's hunting can be made easier, it can fly (9). Not much is known about this snake, but the fact that it can fly is a definate. This snake will be sitting in a tree and all of the sudden it will leap, the height at which the snake leaps from would be suicidal for almost any other reptile. This species will compress it's body and glide from one tree to another. At speed up to 33 feet per second it can reach distances up to 80 feet from it's launch point. The reasoning which is thought for why this snake travels from one tree to another is to find food (10).
The Malaysian ant is an ant in which is a member of the carpenter ant genus. The body of this ant is oddly shapened. This ant is actually a rather large ant. But the abdomen is unproportioned to the rest of it's body. The Abdomen is larger than that of a regular carpenter ant. This is because the abdomen is filled with chemicals that are very poisonus. Not only is this chemical fluid poisonus but it works as an adhevise which will stick onto it's victim (1). The way that the Malaysian Ant releases it's poisonus adhevise is what makes it the "coolest prey adaptation." The soldier ants have one responsibility, and that is to protect the colony from predators no matter what would be needed to be done. When in a battle and it takes a turn for the worst for this ant it will actually contract muscles in it's abdomen which causes it to exploxde. This explosion sprays a sticky poison onto any surrounding enemy which proves to be very effective in protecting it's colony and scares away the predators (2).