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In his book My Family and Other Animals, British writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell wrote that as a young boy, he found studying very boring. His favorite subject, obviously, was zoology; everything else was just a torture until he got a homeschooling teacher who found a brilliant solution. He started adding animal facts to everything young Gerry had to study. From that moment on, every math problem involved animals, and in every historical battle there was at least one horse who they knew by name. Durrell admitted that this method indeed boosted his enthusiasm towards studying. 

Many teachers confirm that adding fun facts for kids to classes is a great way to help them take more interest in learning and also remember the information they get. I personally think it’s a pity teachers don’t do it more often. Imagine how much more fun your biology classes would have been if alongside things like physical characteristics or area of habitat, your teacher added some fun facts about animals. I know I would have enjoyed it so much more. 

But what if you don’t have to go to school and study anymore? The good news is that as an adult you can still enjoy reading interesting facts about animals, even if you don’t have to worry about grades. There are still lots of things to know about animals, and nature will keep surprising you with its diversity. 

Enjoy this collection of cute, cool, and very interesting facts about animals. You can share them with friends or even your kids. What other nature facts are you absolutely glad that you learned?

#1

Black white cat with green eyes looking Cats recognize their own name but choose not to respond.

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Elephants mourn their dead.

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

Sad but true. They have such long lives and are social animals in their herd. Beautiful noble creatures ❤️

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Cows have best friends.

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

I worked on a dairy farm for a summer when I was 14, can confirm. My personal favorite cow was named Dart and she would always follow me around 😆

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#4

Roosters prevent themselves from going deaf due to their own loud crowing, by tilting their head backs when they crow, which covers their ear canal completely, serving as a built-in ear-plug.

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Baby elephant looking Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.

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

There are pictures on two current threads on BP showing this. I can't remember which threads, sorry, but only in the last few days.

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#6

Koala fingerprints are so close to humans that they could taint crime scenes.

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#8

Greenland sharks are the longest living vertebrates on earth, with one individual thought to be over 400 years old.

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#9

Horses have distinct facial expressions.

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And the oldest evidence of domesticated cats dates back 9,500 years.

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

There would be evidence from even earlier, but the cat knocked it off the table and broke it.

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#14

Reindeer eyes turn blue in the winter.

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

All the better to see to fly. Yes, I know real reindeer don't fly, but has anyone ever enrolled them in flight school?

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#15

Brown dog smiling Dogs sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans.

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#16

Parrots will selflessly help each other out.

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"The team found African grey parrots helped their neighbours by passing tokens to their neighbour when a human held out their hand, allowing the second bird to drop it through the hole and receive a tasty treat." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/09/feathered-friends-study-shows-selfless-parrots-helping-peers#:~:text=All%20were%20trained%20individually%20to,and%20receive%20a%20tasty%20treat.

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#17

Young goats pick up accents from each other. This means they join humans, bats, and whales as mammals known to adjust their vocal sound to fit into a new social group.

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#20

Owl with yellow eyes looking Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes.

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

Their eyes also do not move in the socket. That's why they can turn their heads almost all the way around.

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#21

Female lions do 90 percent of the hunting.

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A grizzly bear's bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball.

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

If I were a grizzly bear, I'd probably rather bite the person taunting me with a bowling ball.

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#24

Rats laugh.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My boys brux and boggle! Bruxing is when they chatter/grind their teeth together when they're happy/relaxed. If they're feeling suuuuper chill (and I'm giving them really good pats) they boggle too, which is when their eyes bulge in and out. It looks bizarre but I love knowing they are happy. Oh and they also vibrate sometimes when they "feel something too intensely to express",😂 like fear/stress, or pleasure.

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#26

Snails have the most teeth of any animal.

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"A garden snail has about 14,000 teeth while other species can have over 20,000. But that's not even the most shocking part: The teeth of an aquatic snail called the limpet are the strongest known biological material on Earth, even stronger than titanium!" - https://www.exceptionalsmiles.dental/blog/10-interesting-weird-fun-facts-animals-teeth-exceptional-smiles-family dentistry/#:~:text=Snails%20have%20the%20most%20teeth%20of%20any%20animal&text=A%20garden%20snail%20has%20about,Earth%2C%20even%20stronger%20than%20titanium!

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#28

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside-down.

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Rhinoceros standing in the field A Rhinoceros‘s horns are made of ‘keratin’, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails.

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

Or maybe people who use rhino horn as an aphrodisiac can just chew their nails instead?

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#31

Even after having its head cut off, a cockroach can still live for weeks.

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

Those f*****g things can survive any and everything except a stomp from a foot, but the crunch sound from that stomp turns my stomach.

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#32

Polar bears have jet black skin under their white fur coats.

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

Also, their fur is translucent, not white. Algae can grow in it, that's why some are not actually white.

#35

Horned lizard looking Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes.

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

Sometimes I wish I could do that. But I wear glasses so that would get rather messy.

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#36

The largest insect to ever live was a “dragonfly” with a wingspan of over 75cm (2 and a half feet) across.

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#37

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so glad humans don't do this. Imagine if you stepped in dog shiz.

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#40

Swifts spend most of their lives flying in the air, and can fly for almost an entire year, without ever landing.

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#42

Painted turtles survive winter by breathing through their bums.

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#43

Vampire bat saliva keeps blood from clotting.

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

Researchers are using enzymes taken from vampire bat saliva to develop a blood-clot-dissolving drug called Draculin (yes, named after Count Dracula) to help stroke victims recover. Science is awesome.

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#44

Chimpanzees looking Chimpanzees are very intelligent and make all kinds of tools.

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#45

Grey-headed Albatross can circle the globe in only 46 days.

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

African swallows, while non migratory, could carry a coconut by gripping it by the husk and carry it to Mercia England. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second.

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Otters have the world's thickest fur.

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

I love otters! They hold hands when floating to keep from being separated from their life partner..

#50

Rhinos walking in the field A group of rhinos is called a crash.

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

I love when the name suits or accurately describes something. A group of wild or feral cats is called a destruction. That's my favorite!

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#51

The pangolin is able to roll up into an armour-plated ball, so lions can’t eat them.

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

I read this as penguins then thought how the heck are lions in Antarctica...Time for bed I think lol

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#52

Cows painted with zebra-like stripes can avoid being bitten by flies.

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#53

Elephants are covered with hair.

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#54

Capuchin monkeys wash their hands and feet in urine.

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#57

The Naked Mole-Rat can live in an almost zero oxygen atmosphere.

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#60

Sloth in the tree looking Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.

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#61

Axolotls can regenerate their parts.

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

How can something so ridiculously cute when they're small, be so damn ugly as adults?!

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#63

Narwhal tusks are really an "inside out" tooth.

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#64

The world's oldest known breed of domesticated dog dates back to 329 BC.

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#65

Gray cat lying on the chair and looking Adult cats only meow at humans.

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

Not true, our male cat Link frequently meows at the other two in the same voice he meows to me ( I sound nuts lol )

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#66

An octopus has three hearts.

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

3 hearts, 8 arms, no mouth .... Sounds like something went horribly wrong somewhere

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#67

There are no male mourning geckos. The entire species is female.

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

I had to look this up, Mourning geckos are parthenogenic, which means that males are not necessary for reproduction. As such, while males do exist, they are very rare and often sterile. Females lay 1-2 eggs at a time and glue them to surfaces in protected locations.

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The fastest land animal on the planet is a cheetah. It can reach speeds of up to 75 mph.

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

And they have to say "land" because fastest in general, I believe, is the peregrine falcon.

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#70

African buffalo watching and standing in the field African buffalo herds display voting behavior, in which individuals register their travel preference by standing up, looking in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females can vote.

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#73

Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times every second.

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#74

The bone-house wasp stuffs the walls of its nest with dead ants.

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#76

Sperm whales in the Caribbean have an accent.

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#77

Baby Tasmanian devils make life-long friendships.

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#78

Zebra stripes act as a natural bug repellant.

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

.... So says the fact about painting a cow like a zebra to repel insects...

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Elaphant standing in the field with bird on back Elephants and humans have similar self-soothing techniques.

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

Elephants binge Netflix and eat a quart of ice cream by themselves??

#80

Pea Crabs are miniature crabs that spend their whole lives inside oysters, clams, and mussels.

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The longest living, verified animal is a Madagascar radiated tortoise, which died at an age of 188 years in May 1965.

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

Now I know no one is factchecking these things. Someone already said (#18) the Greenland Shark lives to be 400 years old and I read an article yesterday about a 190 year old tortoise...

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Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day.

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

Their diet is so nutritionally lacking they kind of need to sleep a lot. Also a lot of them have chlamydia. :|

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#85

There are an estimated 8.7 million species on earth and more than 80% of them are undiscovered.

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#86

The Yangtze giant softshell turtle is the biggest freshwater turtle in the world.

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#88

Japanese Macaques play with snowballs for fun.

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#89

A Blue Whales tongue can weigh as much as a car, or a small adult elephant.

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Octopus in the water looking Octopuses can taste with their arms.

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Female bats give birth to babies that weigh up to a third of their weight.

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The Mariana snailfish is the deepest fish in the ocean, living up to around 8,000m below the surface.

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

Still haven't reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench though.

#96

The Edible Dormouse (Glis glis) is able to hibernate the longest – up to 11 months of the year when food availability is low.

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

With a name like "edible dormouse" I wouldn't get out of bed for 11 months either....too bloody risky..

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Cute spider looking Cats and horses are highly susceptible to black widow venom, but dogs are relatively resistant. Sheep and rabbits are apparently immune.

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

Got a BW bite the day before Halloween 2020. Left a little dip in my wrist for a solid year and a half. Didn't get horribly sick but it wasn't any fun.

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#98

Moray eels have a second pair of "Alien-style" jaws.

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#99

Slow lorises are the only venomous primates.

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

And they’re adorable little buggers. Adorable and venomous

#101

Snow leopards don't roar.

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

Do they purr? I read somewhere that big cats can either roar or purr, never both.

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Giraffes with darker spots are more dominant.

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

I think this is also true with lion manes. Females prefer the dark maned males.

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#104

The little known pangolin is the worlds most poached and trafficked animal.

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#105

Ostriches looking in the field An ostrich legs are so powerful that their kicks can kill a lion.

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

An Ostrich can kick with a force of about 2,000 pounds per square inch. Eeesh!

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The worlds deadliest animal isn’t a shark, bear or tiger, but something far smaller – the mosquito. According to the World Health Organization, 700,000 people are killed each year from mosquito-borne diseases, such as Malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever.

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Cowbirds use secret passwords to teach their young.

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#109

Sea otters are adept at using tools.

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

They also pick up their favorite rock and store it inside their little pouch/pocket ☺️

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Ferret looking A group of ferrets is called a business.

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

So, if you're taking care of a group of ferrets, you're just "minding your business" 😏

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#111

Queen mole rats make other female mole rats infertile.

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Snakes don't have eyelids.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that is true and now snakes are about 10% more creepier then they already are

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Dolphins swimming The U.S. military trained bottlenose dolphins.

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The Patu Digua is thought to be this smallest spider in the world at just 0.37 mm.

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#115

Electric eels are in fact not eels, and give a shock strong enough to knock out a horse.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

eels that are not eels...I read somewhere we might not actually be human, we could be anything to an alien controlling a brain (but we would NEVER KNOW!!)

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Tardigrades can survive in space and go without eating for more than 30 years.

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Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the movie trick of filming something using a faster speed of film. It sounds counterintuitive but it’s true, faster film speed produces slower motions when replayed at regular speed, while slower film speed produces fast, often jerky motion. It’s based on the number of frames per second. More frames means more of the action is caught and slows it down. Fewer frames leave more gaps in the action, so ps speed it up and jumps too quickly over the gaps. It’s why people thought silent movies were fast and jerky. They weren’t when they were originally released. Silent movies were filmed at 16-18 frames per second, while talkies were filmed at 24 fps (and up). Play a silent movie at 24 fps or more, and the result is fast and jerky movement. Play it at its intended speed, and the movement becomes totally normal.

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slug on the ground The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

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Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.

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

Which is why it pisses me off when people walk their dogs here, in Phoenix Arizona, without booties in the middle of GODDAMN SUMMER.

#120

Puffins talking with each other Puffins use twigs to scratch their bodies.

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There's a kind of ant that only lives in a small area of Manhattan.

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Tigers have striped skin.

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

All cats' skin has the same patterns as their fur, in variations of the same colors. (There's actually a very big problem with "fake sphinx cats", regular cats that have been shaved, Naired, or in other ways depilated and sold for hundreds of dollars only to have their fur grow back after the transaction has gone through with no way to locate the sellers)

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Platypus swimming The duck-billed platypus has no nipples to feed their offspring. Instead, milk oozes from the skin.

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

Mammary glands are just modified sweat glands, after all.

#127

Crocodiles can live up to 100.

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The lesula, discovered in 2007, has giant human like eyes and a blue bottom.

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Orangutans are the heaviest tree-dwelling animals.

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Brown yak in the field Yaks are specially adapted to high altitudes, with a huge lung capacity and small red blood cells.

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Lungfish are the only fish that have both lungs and gills.

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The most venonmous fish in the world is the 30 cm Stonefish.

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

I once met it in Egypt. I was snorkeling in shallow water and I almost touched one. It was very well-camouflaged.

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A type of "immortal" jellyfish is capable of cheating death indefinitely.

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

They "Benjamin button" themselves back to polyps, grow up again, and repeat the process all over, infinitely

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#135

The spur-winged goose's diet makes it poisonous.

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Cuvier’s Beaked whales are one of the deepest diving mammals and can collapse their lungs to survive the high pressure.

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Emperor penguins are the world’s biggest penguins, and they trek 50–120 km (31–75 m) across the Antarctic to reach breeding colonies.

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#140

white husky standing and looking The earliest found depictions of dogs come from 8,000 years ago.

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#141

Cuckoo birds hide their eggs in the nests of other species.

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#142

The Japanese Spider Crab has the longest leg span of any arthropod.

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

Their claws look really comical, they look so tiny at the end of those looooooong legs;

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#143

The box jellyfish is considered the most venomous marine species in the world.

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#145

Giraffes walking in the field Giraffes are the tallest land animal in the world, reaching heights of 19ft (5.8 m).

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Humpback whales use bubbles to hunt.

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#149

Deer can run up to 35 miles per hour.

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

And the can't perceive that a car goes faster. They assume the car traveling at 65mph is moving at 35mph so they think they have time to avoid the incoming car.

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#151

The shoebill stork can swallow baby crocodiles whole.

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#152

The blood ‘Dracula ant’ has the fastest recorded animal movement when it snaps its mandible.

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#153

The aptly named colossal squids eyes are as large as a basketball.

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#154

Grasshopper on the branch There are 1.4 billion insects per person on this planet and we need (almost) every one of them.

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The Inland Taipan (also known as, the Western Taipan) is the most venomous snake in the world. A single bite contains enough venom to kill at least 100 fully grown men, and can kill within just 30 minutes, if left untreated.

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#157

Meerkat parents train their offspring to hunt scorpions.

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#158

The yellowhead jawfish incubates its eggs in its mouth.

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#159

The Alpine Swift is able to stay airborne for over 6 months without touching down.

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Giant squid swimming in the sea Little is known about the elusive Giant squid, however the largest squid ever found measured over 50 feet and weighed nearly a tonne.

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