When you start digging deeper, you realize that other creatures can be just as strange as people themselves, with bizarre behaviors, personality quirks, and bizarre instincts that are more interesting than some of the fiction we've seen in recent years. Today we're diving headfirst into the world of obscure animal facts. How much do we really know about the animal kingdom?
Crows will recognize individual humans, even if they are wearing different clothes, and years later.
Steven Wooding of the Institute of Physics in the UK said "Crows are the Einsteins of the bird world, adept at solving puzzles and they can even recognize your face. They will actively avoid people who have been aggressive towards them in the past. People, “We should never underestimate Crows.
All the pictures you see of deep sea angler fish with lil lights hanging on their heads, they are all female. The male anglerfish is very small, has a very weak jaw when it is born, and has a great sense of hunger. They will seek out a female and, torn between hunger and horniness, they will bite the female, who will then release an enzyme that fuses the male into her body. She slowly absorbs them into her body, leaving only their little testicles intact, so that she can fertilize her eggs instantly whenever she wants.
Sloths are really too lazy to look for a mate, so the female sloth often sits in a tree and screams until the male hears her and decides to mate with her.
Female dragonflies will pretend to be dead to keep unwanted males away.
Probably the most useful thing I learned today
The compound used to create the fake banana smell is the same compound that bees use as alarm pheromones. So never eat banana candies near hive and if you suddenly smell bananas near the hive, run!
Wolf spider has a pet frog. The frog eats bugs and parasites and prevents these bugs and parasites from damaging the spider's eggs. In turn, the spider will protect the frog. Even after the eggs hatch, they continue to protect the frog.
The binturong , also known as the panda, is an arboreal mammal closely related to the red panda. Smells like popcorn! Captive binturongs are capable of harboring grudges and will climb on top of people they dislike in order to pry over their heads.
In Africa, certain tribes communicate directly with birds called honeyguides (honeybirds) to let them know they are ready to hunt. Then, the honey bird will take them to a hive hidden in the tree. Tribal members open the hive and remove the honey, an important resource in their diet, allowing the honeybirds to eat bee larvae.
The really crazy fact is that despite liquefying and then transforming like butterflies, they retain the memory of the caterpillars
When caterpillars enter the chrysalis stage, not only do they develop wings, their entire body first turns into a liquid , a soup-like substance, and then turns into a butterfly.
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I wonder if human babies do this too
Roosters are temporarily deafened every time they crow so they don't damage their hearing. They actually have a mechanism in their ear canals that whenever they chirp, their eardrums are covered with a fleshy flap to protect them.
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We all know that the octopus has 8 legs.
But it also has 3 hearts and 9 brains, and it can fit through a hole a quarter of its size. Octopuses have blue blood.To survive in the deep sea, octopuses have evolved a copper-based rather than iron-based blood called hemocyanin , giving their blood a blue color. When the water temperature is very cold and there isn't much oxygen around, this copper base is more effective at transporting oxygen than hemoglobin.
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Sperm whales 's calls are so loud that the sound waves could kill humans if they swam close. Apparently, some divers even say they can feel the water heating up from the energy of the sound.
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The woodpecker's tongue wraps around the back of the brain, which helps protect the brain during high-speed pecking.
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Natural sunscreen!
hippo sweat is red.
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Note to self, never be licked by a tiger
The spines on a tiger's tongue are sharp enough to lick the skin of muscles clean.
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Not the only fish to change gender, clownfish also
All halibut are male until they reach 45 inches in length, and then, they all become female.
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There is a genus of frog called "mini". There are only three species of frogs in this genus, and their scientific names are puns : Mini mum, Mini ature and Mini scule.
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When a chicken dies they say goodbye to each other, they click gently and then leave, and the chicken usually dies alone. Some chickens will also kill another chicken because they sense something is wrong with the chicken, such as a disease.
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Bats can live up to 30 years
The average lifespan of a squirrel is 16 years, which is much longer than I thought.
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Every once in a while, an emperor penguin will do something very strange, but most of the penguins will never do it. These phenomena have put many scientists in trouble.
For example, every once in a while, the emperor penguin will leave its colony and start traveling to the interior of the Antarctic continent, away from food, water, and safe colonies, walking towards death alone, almost like a zombie. In the past, scientists would have tried to stop them or bring them back to the colony. At this point they just turn around and start their journey again, in the same direction, towards the same end. Some emperor penguins can even become violent if interfered with.
The common thought is that the penguin is depressed, for which there are many possible explanations (including a fungal infection similar to a cordyceps infection that may cause some insects to behave in the exact same way, a potential sign of a brain tumor, etc.)
It is known that birds can also experience depression or anxiety, but they tend to react to this in very direct ways, such as excessive feeding (pulling out their own feathers), screaming or being unusually quiet, loss of appetite, etc. (birds Anorexia-like), these activities are very obvious signs of stress, but choosing to wander in the abyss of the ruthless frozen continent like emperor penguins means that they have deeper analysis and thinking that most birds seem to be unable to do. , so the reasons may not be as obvious as you think.
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Platypus glows blue-green under UV light, so Perry the Platypus is actually the correct color.
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Snakes don’t have eyelids, so if you see a snake blinking, it’s a legless lizard.
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Vultures use their legs and feet to urinate to cool down on hot days, a process called urination.Their urine also helps kill any bacteria or parasites they picked up by walking through or perching on the dead animals.
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Sharks are older than dinosaurs, trees and Saturn’s rings .
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To cross a river, armadillos can sink to the bottom and crawl across as they can hold their breath for 7 minutes, or they can inflate their intestines and use them as a flotation device to float.
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Whale milk is so rich in fat that it is as thick as toothpaste... This allows baby blue whales to grow at a rate of about 10 pounds per hour.
Whales are the loudest animals on Earth - The song of the humpback whale can be heard up to 10,000 miles away.
Whales are the longest-lived mammals on earth. In 2007, a dead whale was found in Alaska with a 19th-century harpoon embedded in its flesh. It was estimated that it was at least 130 years old when it died.
The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth, far larger than any prehistoric animal ever discovered.
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The vast majority of Greenland sharks are blind, thanks to a special parasite that eats their eyes and replaces them. It's understood this may actually help sharks, as their eyesight is already poor, and the parasites, swung like bait, may have an anglerfish-like effect.
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Penguins have a gland above their eyes that converts seawater into fresh water.
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Turtles can breathe through their butts
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The teeth of the Pacu fish look exactly like those of humans and can chew nuts that fall into the water.
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I no longer want to become a little bird.
Many birds will eat the feces bags of their young to keep their nests clean for their young.
