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When you think of scary animals, what comes to mind? Maybe lions, hippos or snakes? But you might be surprised to know that the world's deadliest animal is actually a lot tinier...
Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths every year, according to several sources. The blood-sucking creatures are among the many things lurking in the animal kingdom that we should not underestimate.
People have been sharing the most terrifying animal behaviors and facts in response to a viral TikTok video. And many might make a great horror scene. From bees making honey out of meat, to crows having the ability to hate people, Bored Panda has put together a list of the most spine-tingling stories about all God's creatures, great and small. Feel free to refer back to them before your next stroll in the woods or swim in the ocean!
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#1
Manatees don’t have a defense mechanism other than swimming away so don’t panic if you see one approaching you. It’s literally a water potato
Nope 5 months ago
I carry around a wad of $10 bills and I give one to everyone I talk to who uses the word "literally" properly.
Blondie23 5 months ago
um no... they are water dogs! Like can I pet that dog?!?!?! ( don't worry I know I can't)
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
You can if they come to you first ! U just shouldn’t go to them ,
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Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
So, if a manatee approach me then I better start swimming in the same direction as fast as I can (not to fall prey to whatever the manatee is swimming from.)
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#2
This is finally getting more widespread: Dogs don't operate on an "alpha" or "dominance" model like wolves. Wolves don't even act like that. All of it was made up from one study done on one small wolf group in captivity.
Virgil Blue 5 months ago
And the guy who did the original study repealed it himself after he learned about new evidence, and not only that, he is actively trying to dispelled the myth that is now used by so many toxic gurus. That's scientist behaviour.
Panda Cat 4 months ago
Retracted it unless a law was made about it and then they would have to repeal the law. It’s funny that even when someone retracts what they said people still believe it. I’m thinking about “vaccines causing autism,“ and Christian purity culture being a good thing. Both of these as well as the dog dominance garbage cause a lot of problems.
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Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 5 months ago
Domesticated adult dogs have evolved the same temperment as wolf cubs. All dogs are basically baby wolves ☺️
K. LNU 5 months ago
I find it funny that the first use of “alpha” label appeared in 1921 and was found by anthropologist Monika Sumra. A researcher discussing chicken hierarchies, otherwise known as a pecking order, gave the top chicken the first letter of the Greek alphabet. So, all those “alpha males” out there are actually chickens. Lol
martymcmatrix 5 months ago
The pack structure of wolves living in the wild is different from that of wolves living in zoos and wildlife parks. A pack of wolves in the wild resembles a family. It usually consists of a mother, father and children. The parents, male and female, live in a monogamous partnership and stay together for life. They are the head of the family. Only they mate and make sure that no foreign wolf enters their territory. A hierarchy of “alpha”, ‘beta’ and “omega” wolves only develops where migration is not possible, i.e. in wildlife parks and zoos. Many wolves capable of reproduction are then forced to live together in a confined space and have to come to an arrangement...🐺🐺🐺
Wild Cream 5 months ago
As soon as someone tells me they’re an “alpha” or someone else is a “beta,” I’m done with that person 😂 so cringy and just makes them look uneducated. They care more about stroking their ego than learning and growing as a person, and that’s so cringy and pathetic.
marianne eliza 5 months ago
But watch out for the female dogs. They don't like any other female to have pups at the same time. Our German Shepherd killed every pup our Cockapoo had when someone left a door open. Then she ended up killing the Cockapoo. Female dogs can be like wolves, only 1 female is allowed to breed. The rest of the pack must help raise the pups.
Bi.Felicia 5 months ago
Oh my goodness, that's heartbreaking and I'm sorry that you experienced that. After the first puppy was attacked and killed by the GSD, shouldn't the mom dog and her pups be put in a safe area, away from and protected from the GSD? I understand that it's an instinctual thing but it's sad that multiple innocent dogs lost their lives.
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#3
Crows can hate you. they remember and recognize faces and voices. they can also like or love you.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Sometimes! Not always. I had a crow family in my backyard and the parents taught their baby to come get food from me :) if I was relaxing in the backyard they’d come down and hang around - even if I didn’t have snacks. Papa crow (called him Bart) and baby crow (Bart Jr) would take food from my hand. Sometimes they even met me at my bus stop a block away and walk home with me (aka, fly 10 ft ahead of me, stop and wait for me to catch up, and repeat until we made it home). Never got any gifts from them but their company and friendship was the best gift ☺️ I was so sad when I moved away.
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Blondie23 5 months ago
My daughter and I want to befriend some crows so bad!!!! They are so smart and we want them to hang out with us!!!!
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Do it! They’re fun to watch :) leave some snacks outside a window for them - like some crumbled brown bread or cooked chicken. Even if you don’t normally have crows, you’ll probably attract some soon. (Don’t leave the food out long enough to go bad though!)
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Mook The Mediocre 4 months ago
And some birds, such as Australian magpies, can teach their chicks to love or hate you too. Generations of birds may learn how to treat you. Treat birds with care.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
I feed all mine, having watched Alfred Hitchcock o c k s the bird when it was out n I was like 6 ! N grew on a farm ( uk ) I made it my mission to keep on the RIGHT side of them corvids lmao 60 now n I still feed em n talk to em , still not taking any chances ,
#4
Birds like ravens and crows can sound exactly like humans, I think story’s of skin walkers and voices in the forest could be birds mimicking their fav sounds
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
Someone in my neighborhood has one of those old car alarms that makes a series of different annoying noises. Also in my neighborhood, a mockingbird who mimics the car alarm sounds. All of them.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
They can actually sound terrifying when they speak 😆 not exactly like a human, but darker and more “evil” sounding. I kind of love it hahaha
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
Tell me about it , my jackdaws n crows , I feed sit on the telegraph wires n bark like dogs , ( I’m out in the sticks little village but lots of dogs ) also the other day I was upstairs n heard a car alarm n thought is that next door , I’m end of the village so could only be theirs lol nope it was a crow sat on their house op my bedroom window clear as day 😂there one jackdaws as also screams like human scream , no bloody idea where he got that from , other than the kids at the little village school I spose 🤷♀️but dam it was good lol
#5
Cats amygdala is nearly the same size as a humans. We have the same emotional range
martymcmatrix 5 months ago
My »emotional range cake« can be cut into three equal pieces, and I'm afraid that scorn and anger are definitely among them...🤷🏽 😤 🎂
Jaya 4 months ago
Isn't it quite a leap to assume that the same sized amygdala means the same emotional range? Couldn't they be the same size but work differently? Not saying cats don't have the same emotional range, maybe they do, just saying that I doubt that you can make a conclusion about that based on the size.
zak 5 months ago
Downvote if you want, but you can Google this to see it's incorrect. I'm not saying cats aren't emotional animals, just that the info provided is wrong.
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WindySwede 5 months ago
Of you've had cats, you realise they have a large range! Happy, sad, grudgy, etc. 😅
Wild Cream 5 months ago
My neighbour gifted me a lovely little baby spider plant. I put it HIGH up on a shelf that my cats can’t normally get to. Big mistake. Woke up 2 mins before my alarm today to the sound of a cat puking down the hallway. Got up and realized he had just massacred, devoured and then vomited up my baby plant 🥲 (it’s non-toxic to cats otherwise I wouldn’t have had it in the house but I was SO MAD. And sad. I still gave them their breakfast obviously but I was grumbling the whole time, I hope they felt a smidge of guilt but I doubt it 😂)
#6
Rats make amazing companions based on the fact they are affectionate, litter-trainable, intelligent, cuddly, caring, clean, and energetic. 🐁🐀 -Sincerely a rattie owner 💕
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
A rat makes as good a pet as a cat, but they require an equal amount of input. A cat kept in a small cage and dragged out by its scruff every day or two for a few minutes would be an angry, messed up, awful pet, and yet people expect rats (which are just as intelligent but even more social) to be different.
Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago
I had rats named Pinky and the Brain. I loved them so much, but was allergic to them, I would sneeze to much when I held them. I rehomed them to someone who could actually play with them. lol.
Kim Shannon 5 months ago
They are some of the most small animal pets I ever had. Sadly they only live about 2 years or so.
Panda Cat 4 months ago
Why would somebody downvote you? I’m incredibly allergic to rodents so whether or not somebody has one is a moot point for me.
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Surprising no one with this but Polar bears hunt humans. They are ABOVE us on the food chain. And the reason you always see them so calm around humans is because they are actively hunting them. They will hunt people for days and weeks on end, even following different cars and stalking outside facilities. They don't care if you run because they KNOW they will eventually catch up.
Owen 5 months ago
They will hunt you if you run. They will hunt you even if you have to drive slow because of the conditions. Take a helicopter.
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FlamingZombies 5 months ago
If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, goodnight
Ghostpotato 5 months ago (edited)
I don't remember all the details since it was a while ago I read about it, but polar bears have become more aggressive in recent times and it's been linked to a hightened level of testosterone, likely caused by mikroplastics and other pollution.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago (edited)
Come here let’s play , then ur DINNER !! they are the biggest apex predator on our planet now ! jimmy Doherty has just rescued two from a zoo in Sweden that’s closing down n no one wanted them so they asked him as he rescues wild animals that can’t be released in the wild , n built them the biggest polar bear enclosure in Europe, it’s stunning , n while these bears are unfortunately captive bred , (as they are at risk of becoming extinct) n kinda friendly lol you do not take any chances , they can and will EAT YOU !
#8
Bears can pause their pregnancy... if it has become time for hibernation and they have not stored enough fat but are pregnant, they pause the development of baby till next hibernation
Michael Largey 5 months ago
You just know the incels will be saying "If bears can pause their pregnancies, then women can pause their periods."
Lewis KR 5 months ago
I mean it happens automatically, it's not like it says 'pause' on their belly button and they push it if they're a bit skinny
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Sure but it’s incredible that their brains know when it’s time to hibernate and can pause the pregnancy
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#9
Crows will fiercely defend anyone who feeds and befriends them and that can be terrifying when they’re in a big flock. They also learn attack commands with surprising ease.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago (edited)
Should see the load as live op my house lmao n back of house n at farm two doors down this little village is full of crows n jackdaws , unfortunately very very few ravens pfft n n they all guard my garden with their lives n yup slightly scary to see em when they turn up in a flock of like 100 plus 😂😂
#10
Dolphins are intelligent enough to be capable of genuine malice and actual evil. Just like humans.
Family's_disappointment 5 months ago
Yeah. Saw enough videos to know they're actually far more worse than dolphins.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
As long as the dolphins don’t develop thumbs, we’re still the dominant garbage species on earth 😆
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Yup they are ! N stunning n cute as they are , they can and will if they so choose attack humans , !
Grm Moore 5 months ago
No, WE are no different to other species. All other species, we're too dumb to realise and too arrogant to accept that.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
We are actually incredibly different. Yes we’re still animals too - but we’re far more complex in both brain and social structure. We can understand and translate information in ways that no other living creature is capable of. Some are catching up, but there absolutely is something that sets humans far apart from other animals. If we were truly “no different to other species,” we’d still be swinging from the trees right now. No idea why humans are the only species to evolve to this advanced level (SO FAR), but while we are animals, there are MANY things that make us VERY different from other species on this planet. For better or for worse.
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#11
Touching an animals/birds babies will not cause them to abandon them. it’s a myth to keep children from touching wild animals
Lene 4 months ago
But adults should also not touch wild animals (unless they are trained for it or the animal is in need of help). Have seen too many adults touching and moving animals from their walking path when it was 100% not needed. So perhaps we should just keep this info a secret in general? People: do not touch wild animals.
#12
There’s a slime mold that’s so effective at navigating through mazes to find nutrients that it first grows randomly and then reorganizes itself to find the most efficient way to grow towards the nutrient in the maze. They designed a maze replicating the Tokyo subway system leaving nutrients within the maze that corresponds with major cities and let the mold grow. It ended up redesigning the subway system and showing the most efficient routes between the cities, the mold does not have a brain or any nervous system whatsoever, just cells with some sort of memory system somehow.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
I’ve read about this, it’s actually so cool. Need to find the most efficient way between point A and point B? Slime mold’s got your back.
Nope 5 months ago
This study blew my freaking mind when I first read it. Actually, it still blows my d**n mind.
Nope 5 months ago
Holy f*****g s**t, BP...censoring the word "d@mn". What are we, in kindergarten?
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Mantis shrimp has the fastest/strongest punch than any animal. So much force that it boils the water around it when it punches
SupaCab 5 months ago
Their eyes are also amazingly complex and studying Mantis shrimp eyes, particularly those of the peacock mantis shrimp, have inspired the development of new optical technologies, including potential improvements to CD, DVD, and Blu-ray players
Philly Bob 4 months ago (edited)
So there are shrimp inside my Blu-Ray players! Such wizardry! :) How do they get the discs to spin so fast, though? Seriously though... they have had instances where the "punch" has broken the glass on tanks.
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Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM "True facts about the Mantis Shrimp"
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
It doesn't truly 'boil' the water. I moves so quickly that the water can't fill the gap and forms bubbles (a process called cavitation). These cavities then slam closed and release quite a lot of energy.
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Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their “fist” and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.
BeesEelsAndPups 5 months ago
I'm fairness, a relaxed human hand is neither completely open nor completely closed.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
I think what they mean is that when humans “relax” our hands, the muscles go slack and we have no grip, regardless of what shape they happen to flop in. When sloths “relax” their hands, the hand muscles grip. :) (wait do you think that’s “paws” or “hands” when it comes to a sloth?)
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Not particularly scary but my dog rapidly developed dementia and it was like a switch flipped & he became EXTREMELY aggressive towards us. We could not even walk in the house w/o getting viciously attacked. I had no idea it could happen to dogs
Ace 5 months ago
That's so sad. I guess he'd just forgotten who you were and treated everyone as a potential threat.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
That’s heartbreaking :( poor pup just didn’t know what was happening and got scared
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Bookworm 5 months ago (edited)
My dog had a brain tumor. She didn't get aggressive. She simply didn't know where she was, who she was, or anything really. Her last day she kept walking into things because, I guess, her automatic system was telling her to walk. She couldn't recognize any objects, including walls. Day before she thoroughly enjoyed her walk and the park. That day we had to hold her or put her in her pen to keep her from hurting herself. It's horrible how fast they can go downhill.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
It’s just like humans with dementia forgetting faces and scents of other humans
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Brain tumours can have the same effect. I knew a St Bernard that went full Cujo on its family because of just that problem.
A Town 3 months ago
This sadly happened to me when my father's 18yo pitbull didn't recognize who I was while taking out the trash! She was there when I was born, and defended me as a grew up! We finally had to put her down shortly after, that was one of the first times I'd seen my father cry! 😭
#16
It's not a surprising fact, but the ability that mountain lions have to sound like screaming women has gotten to me a few times. Being in the wilderness and hearing it was terrifying
#17
Orcas, whales, and dolphins have many different cultures and languages across different pods and geographic locations in the same way that humans do.
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
I've heard of one dubbed the loneliest in the sea, because he sings in a different wavelength and none of the others understand him. Ah, here is the Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
LuckyL 5 months ago
But I just read, that he has a friend - they found another Whale communicating on the same frequenzy
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#18
Humans are more sensitive to petrichor than sharks are to blood in the water.
Owen 5 months ago (edited)
Petrichor is that smell of rain when there hasn't been rain in a while. (Not trying to be condescending, I had to Google it.)
Khavrinen 5 months ago
This video is old, but I still like to repost it when people bring up petrichor, because it explains how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8vHsY_QVHM
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
Those of us who live where it snows can also smell when it's going to snow.
Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
That wonderful fresh smell after a rainstorm, particularly when it hasn't rained in a while.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Some of us can smell the ozone before the rain too :)
Load More Replies... Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago
One of the best smells ever, just like falling snow is the best sound ever.
FlamingZombies 5 months ago
Petrichor - For the girl who's tired of waiting.
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When a butterfly or moth is in the cocoon/chrysalis they completely dissolve and reform. And they still have memory of being a caterpillar when they come out.
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
You can teach a caterpillar to associate particular chemicals (smells, tastes, etc.) with either positive or negative experiences (food, mild electric shocks).
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UncleJon_TheMadScientist 4 months ago (edited)
Perhaps it is just coincidence, my son had a butterfly that started from a caterpillar in a 3rd grade science project. It was the only one from the class that had a unique spot on one wing (all the others were solid bright yellow, his had a small blue spot on its right wing) He let it go in our back yard and it kept coming back to the same spot in the yard for weeks. Then for the next 3 summers around the same time one with the same spot would show up in our yard in the same place
Paulina 4 months ago
They might've been descendants :) Butterflies generally live only few weeks, so not the same one for sure.
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Ace 5 months ago
It's easier if you think of the cocoon as containing a gel-like mush rather than a free-flowing liquid, so some connections between individual cells can remain intact.
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JB 5 months ago
I can accept the first, factual, sentence. The second is pure speculation. There’s literally no way of scientifically confirming that a butterfly has memories of being a caterpillar. We can, however, prove some of them migrate.
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
You have that back to front. The body of the caterpillar does not completely 'dissolve', some structures and cell connections are retained. It is very easy to imagine experiments that confirm that memories have been retained. If a caterpillar associates a particular chemical or colour with a positive or negative outcome (food, mild electric shock) and the resulting butterfly retains that preference, then you have proof.
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We're not sure how big an anaconda can get. every time we've had an estimate it's around 3-4 years then we find one that's bigger than the estimate.
G A 5 months ago
Rubbish. Complete piffle. Pure mechanics prove a snake can't get much over 30 feet tops or the size of the muscles needed to shift its body would make it too heavy to do exactly that, and it would tear in half.
Justin 5 months ago
I love how generic this comment feels, like it could be applied to anything. "Hogwash. Complete bunk. Basic logic proves a dog can't get much over 30 inches or the size of its muscles would rip it in half."
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A couple primates, elephants, a few whale species and biological female humans are the only mammals that experience menopause. That extends life up to ten years after our male counterparts, leaving us available to teach and support our younger females.
superfluous 5 months ago
Thank goodness! (the part about menstruation ending - not so sure about the waiting to teach/support until beyond reproduction)
Wild Cream 5 months ago
“The existence of menopause in humans is often explained by the grandmother hypothesis, which suggests that older women, no longer able to reproduce, can enhance the survival and reproductive success of their grandchildren by providing care and resources. This, in turn, increases the likelihood of their own genes being passed on through their grandchildren.” I’ve always found this so interesting :) grandparents have been so important to our species that we even evolved our bodies around it. And only a few other creatures share that!
#22
Modern apes are still evolving. some chimpanzees in the wild have been seen using spears to hunt with, and orangutans have been seen using spears to fish with. there is an argument on whether they are going into a stone age timeline or not
Shary Bobbings 5 months ago
That is written like it is the chimpanzee's goal to evolve for becoming human, which is completely wrong. There is not any serious argument in whether apes are going into a stone age.
Lola Ugfuglio Skumpy 4 months ago
Too bad humans will put a stop to any evolution that could threaten their dominance to this planet.
#23
The "ugly" blobfish actually looks normal when it's in its natural environment near the ocean floor. The pressure change when its brought to the surface causes it to collapse from the inside out.
#24
Spiders can learn your routine and when your routine changes that’s why you see them
Owen 5 months ago
I had a large 'pet' spider. It was just a big spider that I lived with for a few months. I didn't bother her, she didn't bother me. My dog was cool about her, so I was too. No flies.
Bookworm 5 months ago
Sounds more like a roommate. (Promptly looks around for own roommate)
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Seagulls, vultures, crows and other carrion birds won't wait for you to die before they start eating you, they'll just wait until they think you can't move anymore, then they start with the soft parts like the eyes
#26
Vulture bees make honey from meat, rather than nectar. Their hives look like a mass of tumors.
Caitlin Youngquist 5 months ago
That honey is not for the likes of us. It is reserved for the Elder Gods. Let Cthulhu have it.
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Ace 5 months ago (edited)
"Out of the strong came forth sweetness". Look up the bible story, toe moral of which seems to be "don't mess with Samson, he's a bit gullible but will k**l you all" image-asset.jpeg 
#27
There are over 300 types of zombie fungus and due to global warming they are becoming more resilient to higher temperatures
#28
Many animals like some bird species, whale species, dolphins, can pass down hate genetically. Which is why we saw the rise in Orcas flipping boats!
Grm Moore 5 months ago
No they teach the young. It's not "genetic" that's a myth to perpetuate the only humans learn and teach myth
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Genetic tendencies towards aggression and fear can be passed down, but you’re right, “hate” as humans define it is not genetic at all
Load More Replies... superfluous 5 months ago (edited)
Genetically? How? Last I heard they said the (young) orcas were 'playing'.
#29
Humans used to just follow their prey for days until the prey died of exhaustion because humans have an amazing endurance and other animals need more rest.
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
Kalihari Bushmen do this even now. In college I saw a documentary about Bushmen tracking and killing a giraffe; took them a day and a half. We humans can run down just about any prey animal because we sweat to cool off. Sure, a deer or horse can run faster, but but they overheat and must rest. And that's when the human arrives.
#30
Not scary, but scientists claim that Elephants have the same reaction to us as we do puppies. They think we're cute! But you have to wonder if they get the cute aggression too?
Captain Kakapo 5 months ago
False. Not all elephants, but only baby elephants. And not to puppies but to any living thing as baby elephants are naturally curious and well protected, so they explore with little to no fear. Later (when turning into adult animals) they will learn that people are a-holes and will became less exited
Wild Cream 5 months ago
I got to feed a grandma elephant breakfast once at a sanctuary, just like this picture. I had a lil basket full of bananas and pumpkin slices. Every time I gave her a piece of pumpkin she’d just toss it on the ground 😆 she was there for the bananas. Their trunks are so dexterous, the way she could easily pluck a small piece of banana from my fingers and pop it in her mouth was the cutest thing 🥰 and their skin is honestly so lovely to touch!
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
Oh my God, Zaach - this is the best! I'm dyin'!!!!!!!!
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River Otters have a bite force of a Rottweiler
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
A famous wildlife presenter in the UK (Terry Nutkins) lost two fingers to an otter bite as a teenager. He was working with the otter when it turned on him suddenly.
Nope 5 months ago
Kotaro and Hana would bite you just for posting this. Actually, no they wouldn't, never mind. The Professor would sniff his paw considering this fact, though.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 5 months ago
I absoloutely ADORE Kotaro and Hana! ^.^
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Lynne Hammar 5 months ago
With all their practice on tree branches, our fingers must seem like Vienna sausages!
Ace 5 months ago
Are you confusing them with beavers? Otters aren't generally known for eating wood.
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Hyena birth is a horror movie in and of itself.
superfluous 5 months ago
"What makes the female hyenas so interesting is that they do not have a typical vaginal opening" https://a-z-animals.com/blog/hyena-birth-what-makes-it-so-unique/
Panda Cat 4 months ago
At least it’s a cute baby when they get it out. IMG_0983-6...6-jpeg.jpg 
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
They have a pseudop3n1s instead of a normal v4g1na and their birth canal is extremely narrow.
#33
Moray eels have about the same bite force as an brown bear💀
VikingAbroad 5 months ago (edited)
When an eel has a maw, with a pharyngeal jaw, it's a moray./ When it sulks in the reef, and has two sets of teeth, it's a moray./ When an eel bites your thigh, and you bleed out and die, it's a moray.
#34
The T. Rex had amazing eyesight with binocular vision- meaning not only could it see for miles, but if it was looking at you, it’s looking AT you
#35
There are ants that enslave other ants from different colonies
#36
Animals can see our skin marks, we actually have tiger like patterns in our skin. imo this would explain why cats see us as giant cats
Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago
They are called Blaschko's lines. And no, animal's can't see them.
Nope 5 months ago
WTF are you actually talking about? Not saying it isn't true, but as Hitchen's Razor dictates, that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Nope 5 months ago
Oh wait, I get it! They can see our tattoos! Ok, it all makes sense now. My "Mom" tattoo with the anchor under it is definitely a "skin mark" and obviously makes me a giant cat. I'm sorry I doubted you.
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Most cats are lactose intolerant so that whole thing about milk being their fav that we learned from old Disney movies and tom and jerry isn't true.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
Some cats do indeed like milk and cream, a la T&J. And many are not particularly sensitive to it, those that are mostly just getting a slightly upset tummy, perhaps diarrhoea, if they ingest a significant quantity. One of ours, Jack, who was not sensitive to it, used to get cream on a regular basis, as he was on liquid meds twice a day for the last two or so years of his life, so this was the easiest way to dose him. We started him with lactose-free cream but eventually just used ordinary UHT stuff, had the advantage of last for ages. Anyway, he used to get perhaps a couple of tablespoons worth every day. IMG_202104...ba188c.jpg 
Ginger ninja 5 months ago
My cat is particular to dairylea cheese spread, wont eat any other brand. Its how we get her to take her tablets
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There are more ants on Earth than any other animal. Estimated to be about 20 quadrillion ants.
Jonathan Stuart 5 months ago
Um, no actually not true (As land animals maybe), the highest population is North Atlantic Krill (insane biomass)
superfluous 5 months ago
Yes, but we outweigh them - they weigh 12 million tons, equal to about one-fifth of the total weight of humans. https://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/earths-20-quadrillion-ants-news.htm
#39
Corvids have been seen using tools. 🐦⬛ some as simple as placing rocks to raise water levels to using more complex like a branch as a fulcrum.
Zaach 5 months ago
There are fish near Krakatoa that swim upside-down holding a leaf to fool local flying predators
Nope 5 months ago (edited)
That's a d@mn cool adaptation. (sorry, BP won't let me use the forbidden, scandalous word d**n)
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RATS DIDNT CAUSE THE BLACK PLAUGE!!! The dang fleas and lice did. AND they are naturally very clean animals, despite popular belief to the contrary.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
I do hate it when people confuse The Plague (especially when they can't spell it) with The Black Death. The latter was one specific pandemic that killed up to half of the population of Europe over a five year period. But there were a number of other significant outbreaks through history, just not as well-known. Anyway, rats were implicated because the fleas that carried the disease lived on them, so yes, they were very much a part of the cause.
BeesEelsAndPups 5 months ago
Well both were caused by the same bacteria, Yersinia Pestis. It's just that the "Black Death" was a particularly nasty outbreak in the 14th century. And while rats might be clean animals, they were the carriers of the fleas and lice that carried the plague.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Every evening at playtime my ratties were given a tub with 1 inch of tepid water in it. Without fail they would all jump in and give themselves a thorough bath as the first order of business.
Captain Kakapo 5 months ago
also it is not fleas and lice, it is yersinia pestis if you so much want to point a finger
JP Doyle 5 months ago
Yes, but it was the fleas and lice from infected rats biting humans which spread the disease.
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There’s an isopod that severs the tongue of fish and effectively becomes the new tongue to the fish while feeding off of its blood and mucas
Owen 5 months ago (edited)
They are horrific. They eat the tongue, and then become the tongue, eating in place of the fish until the fish starves. Just don't Google it, they are awful.
Ace 5 months ago
They don't tend to starve the fish to death though, otherwise they themselves would also die.
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We are one of the few groups of animal to lose our ability to synthesize our own vitamin C. our fruit-dependent primate ancestors didn't need to make their own, and it ended up being lost and deactivated in our genome. scurvy is the result of our ancestors reliance on fruit.
#43
Chipmunks feed on newborn rabbits. Squirrels will eat hatchlings and bird eggs. Deer eat grown nesting species hatchlings and will snack on birds caught in mist nets if researchers don’t get to the site fast enough. Disney lied.
Jaya 4 months ago
Plenty of calcium in green leafy vegetables and certain nuts.
Load More Replies... Panda Cat 4 months ago
Deer and probably other “herbivores“ will eat meat. As an example, a deer was filmed on one of the forensic “Body Farms“ where studies of how bodies decay are done.. It’s so surprising to think of an herbivore helping along human decay.
Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago
Yep, they are called Opportunistic Carnivores.
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Worms don’t come to the surface when it rains because they love water, they come to the surface so they don’t drown as all the water pockets in the soil get filled with water
The danish woman 5 months ago
And to get the worms out of the ground, birds "tap dance" to imitate rain hitting the ground
Petra brown 5 months ago
It is a too much / not enough situation. Worms need a humid environment but at the same time they are skin breathers. They try not to drown ... naturally with mixed results when it rains.
#45
Bats aren’t blind, hippos cant swim, peanuts aren't a nut, camels don’t store water in their humps
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
It can't be. No one went to prison, drank himself to death, drove his pickup truck down the old dirt road to the lake accompanied by a woman wearing Daisy Dukes and cowboy boots.
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Narwhals are REAL CREATURES. they're not like aquatic unicorns, those things are real and swimming in our oceans with their SEVENTEEN FOOT HORNS
#47
Fox cries can sound like a woman screaming or baby crying. Same with cats that are fighting.
Nope 5 months ago
Cats fighting have produced some sounds I would have sworn were not possible for an animal to make. Especially right before they finally decide to scrap. Can almost forgive ancient folk for thinking they were the spawn of hell. (also, in the morning, when my cat jumps on my head while I'm asleep...definitely hell spawn behavior)
Kakashisith 3 months ago
I once argued with a neighbor, was it a cat behind the fence or a baby. She thought, it was a baby. I went to check- it was a cat.
#48
Some jellyfish can revert themselves back to babies. meaning some jellyfish can live indefinitely until something eats them.
Bell-icose 5 months ago
If we’re all tearing this one apart, I’d like to add that the word we’re looking for is “amortal” not “immortal.” Immortal canner die. Amortal just won’t die of natural causes. They still have to look both ways before crossing a road.
#49
Tarantulas have retractable claws like cats 🥰
#50
Komodo dragons dig up graves to eat human corpses. You’re also advised against visiting the island if you’re on your period or else they’ll track you down thanks to the smell
#51
a manatees skeleton is what humans would look like as mermaids
Panda Cat 4 months ago
This doesn’t seem accurate to me. The upper skeleton retains a bone where the feet would be but the lower one doesn’t. The angle of the neck is obviously different than a humans and the skull is very elongated. I could go on, although it’s difficult to examine a photo of the skeleton. A 3-D version would probably bring out clarify further differences.
#52
Chocolate milk does NOT come from brown cows.
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
Some chocolate milk does come from cows that are brown. But the chocolate that changes the color from white to brown is added later.
Johnnynatfan 5 months ago
NO one thought chocolate milk came from brown cows! It was a satirical article and people still think it was true.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Have you ever met a small child 😆 I’ve known a couple who believed this
Load More Replies... Jaya 4 months ago (edited)
Stop quoting nonsense surveys. It was a survey by a dairy promoting organisation that admits it wasn't scientific at all, they just wanted some "fun facts" to promote dairy. They asked people what cows chocolate milk comes from, and the answers they could choose from were: brown cows, black-and-white cows, and don't know. It doesn't mean people think the brown color creates chocolate taste, it only means that some people think dairy cows can be brown. Companies do this on purpose, they make a question that they know they can spin into a crazy sounding fact, because newspapers/magazines will publish it. It's just free advertisement.
Helen Rohrlach 4 months ago
However if a cow eats onions, they will have onion flavoured milk.🤮
Daniel Gómez 5 months ago
And yet, it's still necessary to explain this since a lot of people believe it to be true... some believe they can beat grizly bear in a fist fight, so...
#53
There’s a parasite called the Guinea Worm that gets up to 800mm long and crawls its way out of your feet
Ru Bee 5 months ago
Big shout out to the Carter centre for helping eradicate these parasites. Truly an amazing thing to do.
Sue Mullen Andersen 5 months ago
I wrote a paper about the work the Carter Center did when I was in college. Amazing to learn about.
Load More Replies... K Barnes 4 months ago
Weird to measure it as 800mm and not 80cm... 80cm is easy to visualize but 800mm is not.
Lorraine R 4 months ago
It's just a helpful reminder not to pull on the worm to get it out. That would have an unfortunate outcome.
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Chameleons don't actually camouflage into their environment like they do in media, but rather change different shades of green or sometimes yellow when stressed. (A bright green if happy!)
Becky Samuel 5 months ago (edited)
And it's not just chameleons that change colour. It's very common among lizards, they're just the most extreme example.
Nope 5 months ago
and don't get me started on some species of cephalopods...
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Rats can grind their teeth so intensely it wiggles their eyeballs in their skull, it's called boggling and it means your rat is happy. and in some cases distressed, but mostly happy
#56
Woodpeckers have a naturally long tongue, so the back of it curls up around the skull protecting their brain while they work their 9-5s
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Debunked. The tongue does curl up around the back of the skull, but only for storage reasons. The mechanisms for protecting the brain are entirely different.
#57
Out bodies are covered in tiny skin mites that eat majority of our dead skin and if we didn't have them we would all be really flakey. a symbiotic relationship if you will.
#58
Snail teeth (I think sea snails especially?) are considered the strongest natural material known, spider silk is second place. I didn't even know snail had teeth!
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
When it's quiet or you are close enough, you can hear snails munching the grass
Thee8thsense 5 months ago
I have heard them munching my flowers at night...little buggers.
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There’s a fly that can smell a dead body from a mile away, in just three minutes of the person dying.
JB 5 months ago
How exactly does one test this hypothesis scientifically? Are researchers going around asking for dying volunteers to drop in the middle of nowhere, watching them die and waiting for a bunch of flies they have under observation a mile away?
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
For scientific purposes, pig carcasses are usually the go-to as a stand-in for human cadavers.
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electric eels aren't actually eels
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
They are knife fish, Scientific classification closer to carp or catfish
#61
That like 80-90% of the ocean is unexplored and there’s large species under there we have never, and will never see. But they’re there, and that’s why the ocean gives me the heebs
RiceRiceBaby 929 5 months ago (edited)
That and the depths. I would never swim out in the ocean. I would never scuba dive 😖
Owen 5 months ago
Agreed. I have sailed all my life and worked on the water for 10yrs. I will not get in it.
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#62
Bulls don't see red. They charge the movement of what they perceive as a threat
Fire Singer 5 months ago
When I was young, I think like 5-6, I went to this old west themed amusement park thing with my grandparents and cousins. All the girls got these cute mesh cowboy hats, mine was red. When we went to look at the bulls (who were in corrals so you could just see them not interact with them) I was convinced I had to take mine off because it was red and I didn't want to make them mad. :P
#63
lions scavenge more than hyenas do hyenas eat their prey alive after running after it until it collapses. they will tear at any soft tissue they can get to, including the rear. hyenas can bite straight through bone
Lynne Hammar 5 months ago
I saw a documentary years ago about hyenas - I still remember that their testosterone levels are so high, they sometimes eat their siblings at birth 😫
Jaya 4 months ago (edited)
The worst form of toxic masculinity ;) (or femininity, the girls do it too)
Load More Replies... Ginger ninja 5 months ago
Their stomach acid is so strong they can eat meat thats been rotting for days
#64
Frogs aren't capable of vomiting so if they eat something they shouldn't have they throw their stomach out of their mouths and wait for it to empty before swallowing it again
#65
Alligators are technically immortal and usually only die due to conflict, disease, and lack in food to support their ever-growing size
Sara Shamsabadi 5 months ago
a dumb way to explain that they don't age in the same way so many other species do but ok sure go with immortal.
JB 5 months ago
Apparently, there’s multiple types of immortality. Alligators are an example of “ageless” immortality.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
If their size is ever-growing and that eventually kills them, then they are not immortal.
#66
horses sync their hearts. so if one senses danger it will sound their heart rate and warn the others
superfluous 5 months ago
Right? How close to each other do they need to be to hear heartbeats to sync them? With the wind blowing and other nature sounds?
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Day Andie 5 months ago
Awww, isn't that sweet?!! It's BS. The resting heart rate for an average adult horse is 35-40 beats per minute with foals averaging 80-100 bpm . In a lifetime of owning horses, one of the groups I had consisted of one old mare with health issues with a RHR of 65 bpm, 2 well-conditioned Arab geldings with RHR of 30 and 32 bpm, a teenaged QH with a RHR of 42 bpm, and an Arab mare and foal, with RHR of 40 and 100 bpm. When they were snoozing in the afternoon sun with five sleeping flat out, and the biggest dominant gelding dozing standing guard, they were never in 'sync.' Even if they had wanted to, they couldn't have had their heart rates in 'sync' because it simply wasn't possible for four of them them to drop any lower than below their normal resting heart rate to 30 bpm. When a herd of horses is relaxed, their heart rates are low with an average of 40 bpm. When they get all riled up and excited, their heart rates naturally go up. If you want to call that 'synced' --then whatever.
Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
Nope. If one senses danger it will alert the herd, but here is no data to support the syncing of heart beats.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Y’all need to google this before you claim it’s fake. There’s some evidence of this actually happening.
#67
Sometimes animals with Rabies will actually act overly friendly and timid. It’s called lethargic rabies I think
Nope 5 months ago
Fun fact: Rabies has very close to a 100% fatality rate in humans, once symptoms appear, even with treatment.
Petra brown 5 months ago
Rabies is 99.9% deadly for animals and humans. As soon as you are expierence symptoms you are dead. However, there where one or two people in Minnesota. The doctors cooled them down, brought them to the brnk of death and this killed the virus off, possibly, they think they might be on to something. They are still trying to figure out the mechanics. Two survivors does not a cure make.
Load More Replies... Jaya 4 months ago
Finally, one thing that Australians DON'T have to worry about.
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Also don’t hold rats by the tail as they have the ability to “deglove” aka lose the skin of their tail as a desperate attempt to escape
Panda Cat 4 months ago
Hey! That sort of happened to me. An SUV hit me while I was riding my bike and pulled off the end of my finger. The surgeon told me it had been degloved and wouldn’t reattach correctly. I really miss that finger. It was my left pinky finger. If you lose one you find out that they’re all pretty necessary, especially if you’re a flutist.
#69
Humans don’t come from monkeys. We both come from the same ancestor who there’s hardly any information about and we took different paths
Petra brown 5 months ago
You can try, but a person who wonders why monkeys are still walking around and why there are no human/ monkey hybrids, you are talking into the void ... put this person through a few more years of school and you might stand a better chance ...
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#70
The Tarantula Hawk Wasp immobilize Spiders with their sting and drag them to their Lair where they Lay a Egg that eats the spider Alive(it avoids the life preserving Organs. and the Spider is still feeling everything).
#71
Some moths drink tears of big animals (e.g. cows), and scientists are not sure what's the purpose of it, but the fact is that only MALE representatives of spieces do this. I find it very poetic and horrifying at the same time. It's called lachyrophagia.
#72
OMG YES! So. Hummingbirds don't have receptors to taste sweet like we do. They actually have a mutated umami (savory) receptor that responds to sugar. So nectar tastes like MEAT to them.
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
Right and wrong at the same time. According to the labbeled line pathway theory, if the information triggers the same part of the (sensory part of the) central nervous system, the sensory response will always be the same. Also, the umami and sweet receptors are closely related. In other words, if the hummingbirds feel the umami on the same receptos as the sweetness, then the two tastes are identical.
#73
Sea cucumbers expel their intestines as a defense mechanism
Panda Cat 4 months ago
I once tried to order sea cucumber in a Chinese restaurant. The waiter was convinced I wouldn’t like it and wouldn’t serve it to me.
#74
clown fish were born male then turns female when there's no female is around so in finding nemo, Nemo's dad's purpose on finding nemo is to find nemo to mate with him since they're the only clownfish there and no females
#75
Hamsters eat their own [poop] 🫶🐹
Panda Cat 4 months ago
Only the first pass poop. It’s green, soft and wet unlike their final poop that is hard, dry and brown. It makes rabbits treif, as in non-kosher, because it’s considered chewing the cud, and they have the wrong kind of feet.
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 4 months ago
Wolves do this too. I think it's pretty common for animals to eat, if not their own, other animals waste.
#76
Horses can tell whether a human has good or bad intentions. That’s why even the “craziest” horses are usually so gentle with children, they can tell they mean no harm, that they’re fragile.
Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
Most horses. Not all. Don't just go up and approach a strange horse. I have decades of experience with horses.
Day Andie 5 months ago
Not even most horses. The absolute most gentle kindest horse in the world can sling their head at a fly or stomp, and your innocent harmless fragile child is jelly compared to hoof and hard bones. They're big animals easily a 1000 lbs or more, and s**t happens, no matter what your intentions are.
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 5 months ago
I think most animals have this ability, but that doesn't mean you can just approach any animal because you have good intent. Otherwise I'd be petting tigers and stuff and well, so far, none of them have let me. And you definitely shouldn't just let your child approach one either.
#77
When Penguins in the South Pole were discovered by people they behaved so terribly that researches wrote about them exclusively in Latin so the general public wouldn’t be able to find out that they were deviants.
SleepyPoppet 5 months ago
This may be somewhat incorrect. A Google search only turns up descriptipns of how one researcher, Dr George Murray Levick, coded some of his observations about the sexual behavior of Adélie penguins using the Greek alphabet in his personal notes.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
They're so kinky that they'll only do it in tuxedos.
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Butterflies don’t have the chemical receptors in their brain that would allow them to get “high”. This is the only insect that does not possess cannabinoid receptors. 😁 Love this one
m0@nlight 4 months ago
I just learned about the Endocannabinoid System from Harvard....it's amazing that every species on earth including insects have one. Nothing else has ever done anything like this. So fascinating but it's crazy that it doesn't make it to any of the big name papers!! Corporations do Not want this talked about as I've tried to comment on it and I've been blocked from talking about......I've pictures as I was really upset that this scientific discovery could mean so much for humanity. Big forestry Really doesn't want this explored as hemp would pretty much destroy them. So sad. THANK YOU HARVARD. ;-)
#79
Snakes have legs! Well, old world snakes like pythons and boas do. They have vestigial hind legs that look like little claws or “spurs” near their cloaca.
Lynne Hammar 5 months ago
I am outraged that BP didn't censor c****a. This is a family platform!
#80
Bears don't actually sleep all winter long. Lemmings do not usually follow each other off of cliffs.
#81
Dragonflies stomachs are directly connected to their brains: making them the most efficient hunters on the planets with a 96% success rate. They are eating their prey before they have had the ability to process what’s going on.
#82
Cats are biologically programmed to forget who their families are. It's not "I'm cleaning my baby" to them it's just "ugh your dirty and you aren't insufferable."
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
There seem to be a lot of commenters here with little understanding of scientific method and no interest in finding out things for themselves.
Load More Replies... Bi.Felicia 5 months ago (edited)
For those asking, this is what a quick Google search told me- Mother cats are highly attentive to their kittens initially, but as the kittens are weaned and become independent, the mother's focus naturally shifts to her own survival and potential future litters. This is particularly true in wild or feral cat populations where resources are limited and survival is paramount. Scent and familiarity: Cats rely heavily on scent recognition, and as kittens grow and their scent changes, a mother cat may not recognize them as her offspring, even if they remain in the same environment. While she might still recognize them as familiar individuals based on lingering scents or other cues, the strong maternal bond weakens. Survival instinct: The ability to dissociate from motherhood is important for a mother cat's survival and reproductive success.
Lorraine R 4 months ago
However, mother cats, within a couple weeks of giving birth, will welcome and foster the young of other species, like rabbits, rats, puppies, skunks, etc.
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Wasps remember faces
Petra brown 5 months ago
That is actually the case. Wasps and bees recognize human faces.
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Scientists found that octopuses actually have really unique DNA, and one big theory they have for this is that their DNA could have been potentially brought here by an asteroid. Not very scary, but definitely interesting lol
#85
Butterflies will choose blood over nectar. Butterflies.
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Nectar is the nutritional equivalent of a candy bar. Blood is rich in salts, proteins and minerals.
Jaya 4 months ago
They also loved rotting stuff. I've been to "butterfly rooms" in zoos. They have the most amazing kinds of huge, colourful tropical butterflies. But it's kinda unsettling to see them guzzling on rotting stuff that smells so vile. There's such a difference between how pretty and lovely they look, and their taste in food.
#86
Our fat cells are more closely resemblant to marine mammals fat cells in comparison to land mammal fat cells. We're more closely related to salmon than a salmon is related to a tuna.
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Which part do you object to and why specifically? Just saying 'rubbish' is meaningless.
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Sharks have an organ to sense electricity so they always know where you are and can feel your heart rate to know if you’re scared
superfluous 5 months ago
Feel your heart rate to know if you're scared? They can tell the difference between scared and exertion? Does 'scared' exist for a shark? Why would a shark care about scared? Does the food taste better flavored with scared?
Philly Bob 4 months ago
Well, when you lose your śhit, I'm sure you'd taste better.
Load More Replies... Nope 5 months ago
This one is true. Sharks all around the world always know where I am, and how much it utterly terrifies me.
Jaya 4 months ago
Very convenient. If someone's missing, we just need to ask a shark.
Load More Replies... Kat Nt 5 months ago
Sharks can sense electrical pulses-like heartbeats, to detect if a prey is hidden nearby (such as hiding under the sand) through a sensory organ called the Ampullae of Lorenzini. It can only sense within a limited range, not miles away. Here's a great article: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/sharks-are-incredibly-powerful-proton-conductors-uc-santa-cruz-finds
#88
Manatees go to the ocean to die alone because they don’t want to pass away in front of each other
Bi.Felicia 5 months ago
Aren't manatees always in the ocean? This makes it seem like they drive across country in search of the ocean, when they sense that their time is nearly up.
Fire Singer 5 months ago
This made me laugh picturing an old manatee with a straw fedora driving an old station wagon to Florida to retire. :P
Load More Replies... Jaya 4 months ago
I assume it might be because of the risk of contagion. Groups that have the instinct to leave when dying, will have a lesser chance of the individual infecting the rest of the group with the disease that they might be dying from, than groups where they don't have this instinct.
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Each tentacle of an octopus has its own consciousness
Petra brown 5 months ago
No, they are not. They are talking to us loud and clear. If we listen, we eventually will know. Science, scientific method, the way we found out how to make cars drive and airplanes fly, that sort of thing ...
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Parasitic Wasps Turn Caterpillars into Bodyguards. Some wasps lay eggs inside caterpillars. After the larvae hatch and crawl out, they don’t kill the host. Instead, the half dead caterpillar stays alive and acts like a zombie bodyguard.
#91
Recent bug was discovered called the bone collector caterpillar! It builds a nest out of a bunch of different bug corpses!
#92
Koalas carry chlamydia. Armadillos carry syphilis
#93
The theory on how we can hiccup!! When our early ancestors were evolving out of water to live on land, we developed lungs as well as our existing gills. We later dropped our gills because we chose to stay on land, but a semblance of the ability to switch between gill breathing and lung breathing remains. So when the diaphragm contracts, we hiccup! my fav evolutionary tidbit ever!!
Petra brown 5 months ago
You are kidding, I hope to all of the gods we invented to make us feel better.
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Goldfish don’t “grow to the size of their tank,” the outside of their body will stop growing due to stress of being in too small of an environment, while their organs continue to grow.
Sylvia Baker 5 months ago
Goldfish do not strictly grow to the size of their tank, but their growth can be influenced by it. They can self-limit their growth based on their environment, which means that if kept in a small tank, they may not reach their full potential size. While common goldfish can grow to about 10 inches, stunted growth can occur in smaller tanks or poor water conditions. Therefore, while tank size is not the only factor, it plays a significant role in the overall growth and health of goldfish.
Panda Cat 4 months ago
I dreamed I swallowed a fancy goldfish. I was pretty hesitant, but did it anyway and then immediately realized it would be bad for the goldfish and I tried to pull it out. Are there any dream interpreters here?
Load More Replies... Jaya 4 months ago (edited)
Fun fact: goldfish can live for a couple of decades, when cared for properly. Fish bowls are basically animal tortúre: there's way too little oxygen (because of the smallness and the shape which makes the water surface even smaller), it can heat up way too fast because there's so little water, and they're bored out of their mind because they wanna swim for miles a day and need stimulation. So the goldfish you had as a kid that only lived a few weeks/months: your parents basically killed them by the way they kept them. Other fun fact: goldfish love digging through the dirt with their "snouts¨, the same way that pigs do. Oh, and we know they have a memory of at least 3 months.
#95
There are 5ft tall bats in Madagascar. I can’t even imagine seeing a FIVE FOOT TALL bat!!
Ace 5 months ago
I've seen them in several parts of the world, notably the Maldives. Yes, they look quite cute. But no, they are not "five feet tall" the largest species may have a wingspan of almost that, most are somewhat less, but their 'height', i.e. their body length, is rarely mor than 30cm or so.
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#96
The inside of a pig and the inside of the human body look almost the same except for the acing of the intestines...
#97
The harpy eagle. the largest predatory bird on earth , more than likely hunted humans at one point. that's why in Greek mythos there are creatures such as the Stymphalian birds, a roc , harpies and sirens. ( sirens are two creatures of the same name. one looks like a mermaid the other a harpy ) there is always some truth to myths , whether we like it or not. otherwise myths would not exist. for example dinosaurs were once thought to be myth not fact. and look how that turned out.
superfluous 5 months ago
And Aliens!!!! They are in myths and depicted in art! Wait, maybe we are misinterpreting? Nah! It's aliens 👽
FlamingZombies 5 months ago
Dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Wholly Babble, therefore they were put in the ground to test the faith of true believers!
Panda Cat 4 months ago
I do so love that modification of the title of a book of myths.
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Eels have a second jaw that comes up out of the inside of their mouth to drag their pray down their throat
#99
Hyenas and other animals have been documented eating their own organs after severe injuries: The pain makes them delirious and they panic, destroying any chance of survival.
Ginger ninja 5 months ago
I have had this urge myself during a migraine or a flare up of my ibd
#100
Elephants can hear the clouds move
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
Big puffs of fog. A cloud is just made of fog. I doubt their movement generate any wave in the air.
Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
Perhaps they mean the sound of wind, which is what makes clouds move.
Christine G 4 months ago
that's a weird and roundabout way to say they are sensitive to infrasound
#101
When fishes hit a hard surface above land it’s extremely painful. Their whole life is spent on in the softness of water.
Panda Cat 4 months ago
But they’re underneath it so they probably don’t go crashing into the bottom of the body of water.
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Piranhas are actually a pray animal and only eat dead stuff. Hollywood made them seem like savages but there not
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Not true. Piranha are *primarily* scavengers, but they most certainly can and do hunt and kíll live prey.
#103
Squirrels have the same amount of rods/cones in their eyes as we do - meaning - technically speaking they “see” the same as we do… Think about that next time one is staring at u & ur looking at it
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
That's nonsense. This doesn't take into account the types of visual pigments that determine what colours we can see, the level of ultraviolet protection offered by the cornea (surprisingly high in humans), or the fact that a lot of what we see is controlled by post-processing in the optic nerve and brain.
#104
Grasshoppers turn into locusts when they’re starving, and they don’t just eat crops - they eat EACH OTHER.
#105
If your dog is very old and it runs away, it died. dogs will try to run away from their owners before they pass away so they don’t have to see their body
Bookworm 5 months ago
BS. Individual dogs might do this but it's not true as a whole. They're just as likely to turn to their people for comfort and protection. That's what every single dog I've had has done. And if they're elderly be a responsible owner and keep them close for their protection. Don't give them a chance to run off.
Sylvia Baker 5 months ago
Dogs do not run away to die. This belief is a myth; dogs may leave their familiar surroundings due to instinctual behavior, but there is no credible evidence that they do so to die alone. Instead, dogs may seek out a quiet or hidden place when they are unwell or nearing the end of their life, which can be misinterpreted as running away to die.
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Cows lay down before a big storm because the change in barometric pressure gives them a tummy ache 😭
VikingAbroad 5 months ago
Cows are herd animals. They lie down because they want to. And when one does, the rest follows. It is a wife's tale that it has anything to do with barometric pressure.
Petra brown 5 months ago
PFFFT, If I had umpteens stomachs and had to chew my food twice I would lay down too, barometric pressure would not be high on my list.
Sylvia Baker 5 months ago
While cows can sense changes in the weather and may exhibit signs of stress or agitation before a storm, the notion that they lie down as a predictor of rain lacks scientific support. Their behavior is influenced by various factors, and it is essential to rely on more accurate weather forecasting methods rather than folklore.
Nope 5 months ago
A good portion of these posts have very little...what did you call it? "Scientific support"? Sadly, that does not seem to be any sort of impediment to people posting what they hope is true. I think this is how misinformation works, but I'm not a sociologist (as if THAT would stop me!)
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Ace 5 months ago (edited)
No. There is no evidence to support this theory or any of several other related ideas. about why they lie down when it's going to rain. In fact, they do not, they just lie down when they feel like it, so none of the theories could be true.
Load More Replies... Charlie the Cat 5 months ago
TIL. I always thought is was so they could have a dry patch of grass to lie on.
#107
We do know where all the eels come from, but we do NOT have any fking idea why THERE, or HOW TF THEY REPRODUCE
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
Eels are not a single species. This applies only to a single species.
#108
Axolotls live in groups and if they can’t find food they will eat each others limbs because they know they will regenerate the limb back
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
They 'know' nothing of the sort. The inhibition against cannibalising their siblings may have been lowered by evolution, but this has nothing to do with mental awareness of the facts.
#109
Humboldt Squids. Every single thing I learn about them is TERRIFYING. Like, for example, they hunt in packs of up to 1000… They have so many human k*lls under their belt, it’s insane.
Nope 5 months ago
What I'd pay to know, is how you got away with the VULGAR, universally OFFENSIVE word "kills"
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Becky Samuel 5 months ago
I saw footage of researchers attempting to work with Humboldt squid. They captured a mature female and fitted her with a GoPro. As soon as she was put back into the water the other squid tore her to pieces.
#110
Rams don't headbutt against a tree because they're shedding but because of a mental illness (don't know which, tho) they can't she'd like deers because their horns are pure bone and have no tissue on them
Nope 5 months ago
Holy c**p...one has to wonder if the OP actually believes this (which, distressingly, I bet they do)
Nope 5 months ago (edited)
My mother f*****g god, BP...the word cr@p is too god d@mned scandalous for you, BP? Are you a room full of nuns patrolling your site for forbidden words?? Jesus trumped up Christ on an upside down cross....
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Koalas have human fingerprints so when they’re near crime scenes, they don’t investigate. Which causes many cold cases.
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
Not sure that's quite true. Koalas do have human-like fingerprints and it is difficult to impossible to ascertain if a particular print is human or koala, but I doubt police "don't investigate" such cases.
meeeeeeeeeeee 5 months ago
That's why I bring a koala to every murder. You don't need tp be forensically smart to get away with it - just leave the koala beside the body and the police just notify the family and that's it.
#112
There's a slug(?) that takes over it's hosts brain and uses its body, basically possessed/zombie
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Susie Elle 5 months ago
(Nearly) All female mammals have a clitoris. Dogs, cats, horses, cows ... Kind regards, my ADHD-hyperfocus
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
And female hyenas have extra-large ones that are indistinguishable from the male pénis. They then have to give birth through it, which is exactly as physically traumatic as it sounds. Hyenas are tough.
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Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
There's more BS in this than you can shake the proverbial stick at !
Don Adams 5 months ago
There is a small fish in the Amazon River, the Candiru. It is one of the most feared fish in the area. While very slender and small, it is attracted to the scent of urine in the water, and will swim up the urethra of cattle, or humans. Once inside, it will extend it's fons, and the spines will puncture tissue and lock them in. Treatment is not pretty, often amputation of the tallywhacker.
Susie Elle 5 months ago
(Nearly) All female mammals have a clitoris. Dogs, cats, horses, cows ... Kind regards, my ADHD-hyperfocus
Becky Samuel 5 months ago
And female hyenas have extra-large ones that are indistinguishable from the male pénis. They then have to give birth through it, which is exactly as physically traumatic as it sounds. Hyenas are tough.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
There's more BS in this than you can shake the proverbial stick at !
Don Adams 5 months ago
There is a small fish in the Amazon River, the Candiru. It is one of the most feared fish in the area. While very slender and small, it is attracted to the scent of urine in the water, and will swim up the urethra of cattle, or humans. Once inside, it will extend it's fons, and the spines will puncture tissue and lock them in. Treatment is not pretty, often amputation of the tallywhacker.
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