Alright Mastodon, tell me about your favorite weird animals 
@TarkabarkaHolgy Are bats weird? Gosh, I am so basic.
@authorlevai totally weird
@TarkabarkaHolgy There's so many good weird animals its hard to pick one.
I'll go with the horshoe crab today, because they're like weird walking bowls with pointy tails that have been almost unchanged since the Cambrian era.
@floatybirb love them! If it ain't broke don't fix it
@TarkabarkaHolgy It's not very weird anymore because the internet made the world smaller, but when I was a lot younger I had a serious crush on the whole concept of Pangolins. No one else here had even heard of them.
@Printdevil same! Honestly most of the people around me didn't know about them until covid, sadly... Love them :)
@TarkabarkaHolgy I used to have a little tripod..or geocities site devoted to pangolins, which shows how long ago I liked them really. I wrote a Pangolin poem, now.. hopefully lost forever.
@TarkabarkaHolgy I like the tasmanian devil.
@TarkabarkaHolgy oops, I meant the tasmanian tiger / wolf
@TarkabarkaHolgy
Are pangolins still on the weird list?
@gryphonEschmidt @TarkabarkaHolgy Another one for Pangolins!
For weird reproductive strategies, I go with weird marine animals.
I think it is highly advised not to use mating behaviour of marine sponge-inhabiting millimeter-sized isopodes to draw conclusions for humans (I see you, manosphere 
).
But you asked for weird animals 
@TarkabarkaHolgy baby aardvarks
@GreenSkyOverMe or aardvarks in general
@TarkabarkaHolgy As babies they are additionally very wrinkly. So ugly, so cute!
@TarkabarkaHolgy Adding a photo that I use as avatar on some forums
@TarkabarkaHolgy The muntjaq is one I recently learned of. It’s a tiny deer with long fangs, and it has all of these scent glands on its face that pop open and closed in a very unsettling way.
https://youtu.be/XDKiBL8bVsk?si=Q_UdPwVb02NNp9Zz
@si_fuller I love all small deer kancils especially
We were fascinated by the Coati in Mexico on a trip this year. They look like a cross between a lemur and a cat.
@grayson we zoo-adopted one of them love hem
@TarkabarkaHolgy CUTTLEFISH
Most intelligent of the invertebrates.
Cannibals.
Venomous.
Communicate via super quick skin changing. Their chameleon like absolutes are off the chats crazy.
Weird advanced eyesight.
Interior shell.
Also kinda cute.
@littlerachyb I AM A HUGE CUTTLEFISH FAN 
@TarkabarkaHolgy Moose. The longer you look at them, the weirder they get.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Greenland shark. Lives centuries, has poisonous body, can swallow prey animals whole after sucking them in, is really large, and slow, looks funny. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
@TarkabarkaHolgy tiger beetle. It runs so fast when chasing prey it makes itself go blind.