Ashtrays, Abandoned Malls And Chernobyl -- 7 Of The Strangest Places Animals Call Home

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1. These koi fish live in an abandoned mall in China, feeding on mosquitos.

2. The stick insects that survived on this crazy pyramid-shaped island.
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The giant Lord Howe Island stick insects, which look like this:

[Wikipedia]

... were thought to be extinct, until explorers found a family living under a bush on the side of Ball's Pyramid, the island pictured above.

3. Pea crabs make their homes inside oysters, mussels and other mollusks.

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4. The so-called "devil worm" tunnels up to 2.2 miles beneath the earth's surface.

[Gaetan Borgonie, University of Ghent]

Upon discovering the devil worms, Princeton University microbiologist Tullis Onstottremarked, "it's like finding a whale in Lake Ontario."

5. Wolves prowl the area where the Chernobyl accident happened.

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Chernobyl's evacuated zone, as PBS puts it, is now a "kind of post-nuclear Eden" -- there are no humans, but there are wolves.

6. The rainforest frogs, like this golden poison dart frog, that live inside large plants.

[Madmack]

7. These blue tits that nested in an old ashtray.

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