Zoo Employee Reveals 16 Most Interesting Animal Facts She Learned At Her Job And We Can’t Get Enough

Reindeer also sometimes eat fly agaric mushrooms, which are hallucinogenic. The story goes that the Lappi used to collect the reindeer's urine as the active component is excreted unchanged, and with the nasty form that causes nausea removed, for recycling. Hence the flying reindeer associated with Christmas, as well as the traditional red-topped mushrooms...

Wait, you mean Rudolf is trans?

However, Rudolph canonically uses he/him pronouns, so he’s a trans boy, not a girl.

Fer cripe's sake BP, "raindeers"???

So Rudolph is transgender?

they also think humans are cute in the way that we think kittens are cute. i love elephants.

Elephants are extremely intelligent animals.

Birds in the crow/raven family (such as the magpie), are SO intelligent...they actually prank each other! purely for entertainment purposes!!

Pigs are really good at understanding mirrors and to be self aware. Pigs are better than dogs at pretty much everything, except two things: looking cute and hunting. Even their meat tastes better, according to those who have eaten both species. According to cannibals from the pacific, pigs' meat is very similar in taste and consistency as human meat. Pigs are actually so similar to humans that they are used to test drugs and harvest organs compatible to humans. Dogs fail miserably on this one. But hell, dogs are cute and pigs ugly so lets keep on eating pigs and being slaves to dogs.

Wow! I knew they were one of if not the smartest animal on the planet but wow! Even I throw myself off sometimes HAHA

These the SuperMoms of the animal kingdom! Wow, three at once with the third on pause??? That's so crazy! Imagine what us human mom's could do with a baby on pause!

I didn't know that kangaroos were this limber.

That's a super cute picture

KINDA CREEPY

wow

Here's another fact. Flamingos are not naturally pink... "Actually, flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that they obtain from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. " -Google BOOM!

I believe this is true for all birds. Correct me if I'm wrong

I think this is also true of many animals. Cats, dogs, horses... they all have ankles where we would think their knees would be.

This one I actually knew, but no one I told believed me.

And their poop stinks. It’s worse than the elephants.

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The most terrifying sound I've ever heard was when my husband and I were hiking around Jasper. We were on a trail and heard purring. About fifteen feet above us there was a large male mountain lion lying on a ledge in the sun, purring to himself. /// You have to realize that these are CATS. They aren't like wolves or coyotes that leave humans alone out of fear. To a mountain lion, you are protein and nothing else. They WILL attack humans.

I got too close for comfort to a mountain lion a few years back. I'll never forget that sound.

But don't lions groan, more than roar? I've never heard a lion roar. Fun fact: The roars from Lion King are actually tiger roars.

So the cheetah is smaller than a mountain lion..

I'd love to hear a cheetah purr.

and the vast majority are left handed

I think it's translucent. Isn't it?

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So it's just like snow, which also is transparent and not white. It's just that it reflects all light, which our eyes interpret as white.

No. Their skin is grey.