Animals that nature gave "charming" smiles (17 photos)

Category: Animals, PEGI 16
27 March 2023

A smile will make everyone warmer! But it is not exactly. From the view some "smiles" may become uncomfortable. In this collection, we will show animals that nature has given creepy fangs and teeth. How Some say it's better not to smile to make them look nicer.

Babirussa have hypertrophied upper and lower fangs





Scientists still cannot answer exactly why a pig needs such big bumps. After all, the animal does not use them either for protection or for getting food.

Musk deer - one of the most unusual deer in the northern hemisphere



Only male musk deer have prominent fangs. They serve a kind of decoration that allows you to attract females and scare away competitors.

Mackerel hydrolic or payara has huge fangs that make it easy to capture prey



The big merganser has over one hundred and fifty sharp teeth.



Thin and tenacious teeth help the bird to hold the slippery fish that it gets for itself as food.

The naked mole rat has large protruding teeth.



About 25% of the entire muscle mass of the animal falls on the muscles of its jaws.

Cape Cod carp have creepy teeth that strongly resemble human ones



Fish need such weighty teeth to grind hard crustaceans and molluscs, because it is from them that the main diet consists carp.

Humboldt squid and its beak



Batagur turtle is a real smile



Promachoteuthis sulcus is a species of promachotheutid squid.



The squid was caught in a single specimen by a German research vessel. It should be understood that the teeth he has are a kind of growths covering the usual beak, which All squids have it. Why exactly they are needed, scientists have not yet been able to to figure out.

Dragon fish can easily act as a monster in a horror movie



Penguins also have some pretty interesting and unusual teeth.



The narwhal has a single tooth that can reach 2-3 meters in length.



In fact, the outgrowth that we see in narwhals is not at all horn, and a tooth, or rather a tusk, which can reach 2 - 3 meters in length.

Crab-eating seals have oddly shaped teeth that allow them to weed out krill from the water.



This is what a snail's mouth looks like. By the way, her mouth can fit up to twenty thousand teeth.



Thanks to their strong teeth, parrot fish can chew on corals and not worry about the safety of their smile.



leatherback turtle teeth



They are somewhat reminiscent of stalactites and cover the turtle's mouth and esophagus in even rows right up to the intestines.

Fangtooth moray eel showing off his teeth

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