Duck-billed Platypus

The duck-billed platypus is an amazingly good swimmer, but probably just because it has webbed feet. Now this creature does not have five senses. It has sixth sense called electro-reception. You see they have these tiny little bumps on their snout and that is what they use for electro-sensing.  Now here is why they use it: when they dive, their eyes, noise and ears are shut which leaves them with their three last senses. Its last senses are electro-reception, touch and taste. And the platypus eats pretty much crayfish.

(photo from gentlefootprintsanimalanthology.blogspot.com)

Raccoon

The raccoon: a very very fast animal - of course not as fast as a cheetah. The raccoon is also a good climber and swimmer. On the plus side it has good hearing. It has thumbs so it can easily open almost any kind of lock. They are super smart so they can figure out how to unlock the locks.

And raccoons have a very powerful sense of touch. In fact the sens of touch is so powerful it like the sense of taste. And you know you may think that raccoons don't live in China. On the contrary they do. Because of this TV show with a raccoon in it, people in China thought racoons would pretty good pets, but they really were pretty mean, so they let them go and that was bad. And the raccoon urine was damaging some of those fancy houses. And we may be having a little raccoon brain problem. Every trap we make it makes the racoons smarter. And if we have too much of a smart raccoon we're doomed.

(Photo from en.wikipedia.com)