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Crows recognize individual people even if they are wearing disguises and after many years. (The people are wearing disguises, not the crows.)
35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know


Sloths are literally too lazy to go looking for a mate, so a female sloth will often sit in a tree and scream until a male hears her and decides to mate with her
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All the deep sea anglerfish you see pictures of with the lil lights hanging over their heads? They're all female.
The males are tiny and born with a terribly weak jaw and a massive hunger. They seek out a female, and torn between hungry and horny they bite her.
She then releases an enzyme that fuses the male to her body. She slowly absorbs them into her body with only their lil testicles remaining so she can instantly fertilize her eggs when she wants to.
Some females have rows and rows of lil testicles on their bodies from where they have absorbed multiple males.
And you thought your sex life was weird, eh?
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Female dragonflies will fake being dead in order to stop unwanted male advances.
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Tarantulas have pet frogs. The frogs eat bugs and parasites that would damage the spider’s eggs, and in turn the spider protects the frog. Even after the eggs hatch they continue to protect the frog.
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The chemical compound which is used to make fake banana flavour is the same compound honey bees use as an alarm pheromone. So never eat banana sweets near a beehive, and if you suddenly smell banana near a beehive, run!
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Vultures urinate on their legs and feet to cool off on hot days, a process called urohydrosis. Their urine also helps kill any bacteria or parasites they’ve picked up from walking through carcasses or perching on dead animals.
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Snakes don't have eyelids. If you see a snake blink, that's a legless lizard.
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The spines on a Tiger's tongue are sharp enough to lick skin clean off of muscle.
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Woodpecker tongues wrap around the back of their brains. This helps the brain stay protected during high speed pecking.
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Hippo sweat is red
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The binturong, also known as the bearcat, is an arboreal mammal closely related to the red panda. It smells like popcorn!
My obscure fact about it is that captive binturong are capable of holding grudges, and will climb above people they dislike in order to shit on their heads.
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Roosters deafen themselves temporarily every time they crow, so that they don’t damage their own hearing.
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When caterpillars enter the chrysalis phase, they don’t just sprout wings, their entire body first turns into a liquid, soupy substance which then reforms into the butterfly
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We all know an octopus has 8 legs.
It also has 3 hearts and 9 brains, and it can fit itself through a hole the size of a quarter
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All halibut are male until they reach 45 inches in length. They then all become female
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Sea cucumbers spit out their insides to scare away predators
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Pacu fish have teeth that look exactly like people’s. They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water.
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A kangaroo will mate again one to three days after giving birth. the newborn will latch onto a teat in the pouch and as long as it thrives, the kangaroo can put its newly fertilized embryo in a state of dormancy and have a back up baby ready to go. if the newborn grows out of the pouch or dies, the kangaroos hormones will send signals to start the development of the egg. so they can have an adolescent Joey, a nursing one, and one in stasis all at the same time.
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Turtles can breathe through their butts @Duwop I had no idea!🤣 🤣
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A beaver's ass smells like icecream. Castoreum, the product of those anal glands, was once used as a flavor substitute for vanilla. It’s now only used in perfume and a style of Swedish schnapps called Bäverhojt, or “beaver shout.”
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Chickens will come say goodbye to each other when one is dying and they do soft clicks and will then leave and that chicken will normally die alone. Some chickens also will kill another chicken because they sense something’s wrong with the chicken, a disease for example. Hope u enjoyed these facts I found them in a book called How To Speak Chicken. - They will also absolutely eat dead chickens.
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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 is thought that this might actually be helpful because a) their eyesight was s**t anyway, b) the parasites wave like lures and may have an anglerfish-like effect, and c) the sharks are super slow so that might be one of the few ways for them to catch live prey.
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Dope thread.

I used to watch WAY too much animal planet. I knew a lot of those.

I learned recently that birds have ears. Y’all niggas ever seen bird ears? Lol. Google that shit. It’s both mundane and really bizarre.
 
And I don’t know that it’s accurate to say that snakes don’t have eyelids.

It’d prolly be more accurate to say they have clear eyelids that never open.
 
Had no idea that this was even possible.

(WARNING: Watch at your own risk!)

Rips his own head off to escape.



Like something from a cartoon.

This isn't something that ostriches do as an escape or protection mechanism. This happens by accident, in a panic.

In June 2021, a disturbing video was shared on social media that supposedly showed an ostrich decapitating itself as it struggled to free its head after it got stuck between a bar and a wall on a farm. We have not been able to source this specific footage (it was first circulated on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo and reportedly shows an incident that took place on an ostrich farm in China on June 5, 2021), but we have found a surprising number of reports of ostriches accidentally breaking their own necks (and in some cases pulling off their own heads) in a panic.


That should be posted in Damn Nature You Scary tho😬
 
I got hooked on watching this guy on YouTube talking about animals and his page has some crazy info that blew my mind





I don't know how he even walks outside or sleeps at night with all the fucked up shit he knows about animals in his mental rolodex.
 
The Platypus Is Unique Not Only For Laying Eggs. It Also Has Elecrtoreceptors In Its Snout For Locating Prey, Eyes With Double Cones, No Stomach, A Single Duct For Their Urinary, Defecatory, And Reproductive System, 10 Chromosomes, And The Males Have Venomous Barbs On Their Hind Legs
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@Inori 🔥😬😢 The Red Wolf (Canis Rufus) Is The Most Endangered Canid Species Alive. There Are Less Than 35 Individuals In The Wild After An Attempt To Bring The Species Numbers Up (Peaking At 130 Individuals In 2006). These Wolves Form Close-Knit Packs That Consist Of The Breeding Pair And Their Offspring
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Coyotes And Badgers Occasionally Form Short-Term Alliances To Hunt. The Most Common Structure Is One Coyote And One Badger, Though Occasionally Two Coyotes Will Join Up
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Hippos Can't Really Swim. Their Big Bones Are Too Dense And Heavy, So They Just Push Off The Ground, Walking Or Bouncing Off The Bottom
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Australian "Firehawk" Raptors, Such As This Black Kite, Have Recently Been Found To Purposefully Spread Wildfires, By Carrying Smouldering Branches To Unburnt Areas, To Flush Out Prey, Confirming Long-Held Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge
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Sea Otters Are Keystone Species In Kelp Forests. They Feed On Sea Urchins, Which Eat Kelp. Without The Otters, These Otherwise Productive Ecosystems Turn Into Urchin Barrens
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Pangolins Has Soft, Pale Scales When Born, Which Begin To Harden By Second Day
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