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Nature's Most Extreme Living Dead
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"The Most Extreme" is a long-running documentary TV series on the American cable television network, Animal Planet. It first aired on July 1, 2002. Each episode focuses on a specific animal feat, such as strength, speed, flirtation, appendages, diet, etc., and examines and ranks 10 animals which portray extreme or unusual examples of that quality. The rankings are not arrived at by a scientifically rigorous process; they serve only to give a broad depiction.
| 1. | Water Bear) It can stay in suspended animation for as long as 120 years. |
| 2. | Burrowing frog) It can stay in suspended animation for as long as seven years. |
| 3. | Lungfish) It can stay in suspended animation for as long as four years. |
| 4. | Weta) It can stay frozen for the winter. |
| 5. | Bear It spends the winter in suspended animation. |
| 6. | Ant (caused by a liver fluke)) One of the most complicated cycles in the animal kingdom happens to this animal sometimes. It can stay in suspended animation for as much as eight weeks. Liver Fluke causes Ant to climb on a leaf, Rabbits eat Ant, Rabbit lays eggs, Snail eats eggs, Snail slime and Ants eat mucus. The Liver Fluke is back in the Ant. |
| 7. | Earthworm (caused by a shrew)) They are paralyzed by one of the only venomous mammals, the shrew. They can stay in suspended animation for three weeks. |
| 8. | Tarantula (caused by a tarantula hawk)) They are paralyzed by a tarantula hawk and used as storage for its young. It can stay in suspended animation for as much as two weeks. |
| 9. | Opossum) If there is any threat, it acts like a hognose snake, but it can play dead for a lot longer, up to six hours. |
| 10. | Hognose snake) It isn't as tough as its larger cousins, so if all else fails, it goes into a state of suspended animation for a few minutes and sets off a rancid stench as if it were dead. |
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