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Nature is already quite majestic, but did you know, that wombats have almost perfectly cube-shaped poop? Or that kiwis are practically blind and forage mainly by smell? And, believe it or not, axolotls can regrow lost limbs and even grow new ones! Nature is just full of surprises and weird animal facts.

Bored Panda has chosen a few of the more unexpected animal facts, with which you can definitely blow your colleagues' minds. Just be sure to remember at least one of them in the time of need. And if you thought that human life is rather complex, then after checking these illustrations and animal trivia compiled by A. Stiffler and K. Copeland in a series called Nature is Magic, you might just think otherwise.

Don't forget to check their website called ChaosLife for more fun facts about animals!

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Chicken Facts

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Wanda Queen
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, I know, having had chickens for years. They even look sort of dino-ish up close.

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Vampire Butterflies

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does that work? You take the butterfly on a binge weekend and ask it to choose between flower juice and blood?

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Platypus Fact

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Hans
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recommend goggles...it helped me to swim with my eyes, open, too! :)

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Starling Facts

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Zori the degu
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

City dwelling birds can be really good at imitating sounds, I got fooled by a magpie into believing that there was a kitten stuck on a tree. And it happened to some of my friends as well.

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Axolotl Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's because they are basically made of stem cells - they are stuck in a biological development limbo (think puberty). If they are injected with iodine, it actually resumes their ontogeny and they become a salamander.

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Bug Facts

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Squid Facts

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Troux
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usually found at depths of 7,000 feet but I'm still going to keep checking under the bed...

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Slow Loris Facts

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Deep Ocean Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that is rebellious. nature wants it to swim, it just doesn't give a fu**.

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Giraffe Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you think that's disgusting I dare somebody to Google the mating rituals of a camel. they spread Pee with the tails. They dance, they make weird noises, they have this sack that blows up out of their mouth that they wiggle around. it could be much worse trust me

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Vlad Horobet
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ha! i bet you can't fake the old "headache excuse" in a urine sample. also, EWWW.

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Ambry Petersen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most animals communicate through smell. So there is alot of pee smelling and tasting that goes on in nature....So glad humans don't do this.

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Shiba Inu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What if they drank of themselves, accidently? They'll date themselves!??

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Boba_Queen7
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bar tender: Martini, cocktail, or beer? Boy giraffe: I’ll take the urine martini

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Cassie
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Goats do this, too, and they will even duck their head under their own urine stream as a sort of cologne to get the ladies turned on. That was the only part of keeping goats I didn't like. Really, ladies? That's what gets you hot??

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look at that face. He knows you know, and he doesn't even care.

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Kiwi Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the wingspan once they stretch out their wings is smaller than any other bird species if they're an inch long I would be surprised

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Flamingo Facts

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Vlad Horobet
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wait wait wait...you mean to tell that there are people that think they are just some lawn decoration and not a real bird?

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Parasite Facts

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Isabel Tamayo
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen a picture of this and I don't wanna see anymore.. Too much disgusting, for me at least.

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Worm Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Best Google search of the day unlike the last when I decided to Google which gave me nightmares for the rest of my life

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Horse Facts

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Elle Valentino
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called cribbing (or crib biting) involves a horse grasping a solid object such as the stall door or fence rail with its incisor teeth, then arching its neck, and contracting the lower neck muscles to retract the larynx

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Maggot Facts

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Hans
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, much food colouring and flavours comes from grinded lice, fungi, and microorganisms.

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Bird Facts

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen seagulls sunbathe on one leg I've seen crows sunbathe on one leg think it's just a bird thing

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