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Octo-moms...as in real octopus moms...echidnas & more on NatGeo!

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It looks like a cross between a shrew and a bath brush, but could an echidna actually hurt you? Plus reader questions about the octopus mom who set a record of guarding eggs for more than four years, fish behavior and how species get classified as endangered in my column,  Ask Your Weird Animal Questions: Venomous Mammals, Octopus Mothers, on National Geographic.  I'm happy to answer your questions, too! Just sign in to NatGeo and post your questions in the comments or tweet me at @LizLangley

NatGeo: Ask Your Weird Animal Questions: Purple Frogs, Taming Zebras

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This week in National Geographic's  Ask Your Weird Animal Questions: Purple Frogs, Taming Zebras  I got to talk to Fiona Marshall, expert in animal domestication about why the ancestor of the donkey, the African wild ass or dibokali, ended up a domestic animal instead of the zebra and talk to Ariadne Angulo of the IUCN Redlist about how species are declared endangered. Great stuff! If you have a weird animal question, click the column and leave it in the comments or tweet me!

Ask Your Weird Animal Questions: “Stiletto” Snakes, Cat Purrs

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Been so busy it's been hard to keep up with blogger lately, but I can't forego documenting this installment of my NatGeo column because the stiletto snake is really something special. As if snakes don't have enough elements of surprise going for them, this one doesn't have to open its mouth to bite you. In addition there's info on cat purrs and why there are no insects in the sea - great questions this week in  Ask Your Weird Animal Questions: “Stiletto” Snakes, Cat Purrs on National Geographic.