Did you know that hippos attract mates by peeing, elephants only sleep two hours a night, and male bees are locked out of the hive during winter?

I’m a writer and illustrator living in the Netherlands, and I draw sad animal facts. I’ve spent the last three years researching and illustrating sad facts about adorable animals and sharing them online.

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    Sadness Is Contagious Mice Feel Your Feels Empathy in Small Packages When Sadness Spreads Tiny Souls, Big Hearts Can We All Hug?

    Illustration of a mouse with a speech bubble saying can we all just hug, highlighting sad animal facts about mice sensing sadness.

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    Nutty Nature Hacks

    Illustration of a sad gray squirrel with a fact about animals planting trees by forgetting nuts, highlighting sad animal facts.

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    Dat.One_guy
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean this one isn't that sad.. They plant the nuts they grow into, lack of a better word, but tree and the squirrels get even more nuts. Win win

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    Selective Attention Experts

    Illustration showing a cat ignoring a human voice with text about sad animal facts and cat behavior.

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    Aunt Messy
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not true. Cats have definite preferences for various people, and I know for a fact that one of ours likes men because of their deeper voices. Plus, mine come running when I talk to them.

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    Unconditional Love, Duck Style

    Illustration of a duckling explaining imprinting behavior, a sad animal fact about its parent bonding within minutes.

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    Survival Odds Are Hopping

    Illustration showing sad animal facts about bunnies, stating only 1 in 7 survive to adulthood in the wild.

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    Creepy Snack Time

    Illustration of a moth with yellow wings drinking the tears of sleeping birds, highlighting sad animal facts.

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    Underneath the Surface

    Illustration of a sand tiger shark with text about sad animal facts on shark babies eating each other in the womb.

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    Chew on This Snack Debate Teeth Never Quit Squirrel Expectations Snack Time Letdown Biting Truth

    Illustration of a sad squirrel explaining it must chew constantly because its teeth never stop growing, sad animal facts.

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    Lost in Translation

    Cartoon elephant explaining humans can't hear most sounds that elephants make, highlighting sad animal facts about communication.

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

    But they have learned what tones we can hear, so when they trust us and want to communicate with us, they actually use those tones! Elephants are incredibly smart animals (and very very interesting)

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    Always Sniffing, Always Soft

    Illustration of a hedgehog with wet nose sniffing, highlighting sad animal facts about their behavior and sensitivity.

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    Empathy Means Extra Scoops

    Illustration of a sad purple vole showing stress behavior with a speech bubble about stress-eating ice cream, sad animal facts.

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

    That is called "solidarity". Wished humans had more of it.

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    Gravity Has Opinions

    Illustration showing a giraffe with text about sad animal facts on giraffe babies falling six feet at birth.

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    Birds of a Strange Feather

    Green white-fronted parrot on a branch with text about sad animal facts related to mating behavior.

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

    Just think about it: these male birds can puke on a female and the female will STILL mate with them. Meanwhile, you're single and scrolling through sad animal facts on bored panda.

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    Food Over Fellowship Hungry and Unbothered Solo Snack Mode Friends Can Wait Single-Minded Feeder Stripes and Snacks

    Sad animal facts show numbats are solitary animals spending all their time searching for food, often alone.

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    Whale Woes and Sad Movies

    Blue whale illustration with text about its loud cry, highlighting sad animal facts in a simple cartoon style.

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    Faceless Fish Problems

    Cartoon of a deep sea faceless fish with sad animal facts about its appearance and rediscovery in 2017.

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    Mastering the Art of Excuses

    Illustration of a killdeer bird pretending to be injured, highlighting one of the sad animal facts you probably didn’t know.

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    Close But Not Quite

    Sad animal facts illustration showing a crying rabbit in a red shirt with a fact about rabbit vision limitations.

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    Outcast Problems

    Sad animal fact cartoon showing an unpopular baboon with no one to clean it, highlighting sad animal facts.

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    Blending Into Nothingness

    Illustration showing a sad leopard with text about animal facts and its invisibility in trees.

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    Solo Lunch Club

    Illustration of a sad bee with text about solitary creatures, highlighting sad animal facts and lonely behavior in animals.

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    Suzi Gauthier
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, have you seen their crowded living quarters? I'd want some alone time too!

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    As I've spent years uncovering sobering truths about the animal kingdom, I've discovered fascinating tidbits, such as the fact that while elephants barely sleep, giraffes are also minimalist snoozers.

    For more charming insights into these quirks, check out this collection of amusingly tragic animal facts.