Weird And Disturbing Animal Facts

Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort just like human babies suck their dummies and thumbs. Whilst it is most common in baby elephants, Adult bull elephants suck their trunks at times when they feel nervous or unsure.

This penguin population has made a sanctuary on a minefield in the Falkland Islands. The penguins are light enough to go about their business without setting the mines off.

This beetle is a flesh eating beetle called Dermestids. These beetles will eat the flesh off carcasses but leave the skeleton clean. Wildlife law enforcement agents sometimes use these beetles when chemicals might damage evidence. Museums and taxidermists also use the bugs for research and displays.

Reindeer in Eastern Europe purposefully forage for the Amanita muscaria msuhroom (fly agaric) which is highly toxic and hallucinogenic. It makes the Reindeer high and act almost drunk like. Siberian natives would also feed the reindeers the toxic mushrooms so they could drink the Reindeers urine to get high, without any of the nasty side effects.

Spiders live on every continent except for Antarctica and it is estimated that there are 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

Also many spiders can be seen at night by shining a torch, you will see the eyes reflect a blue colour like little jewels.

Tigers have striped skin just like their fur and their patterns are unique like a fingerprint.

In 1924, a Labrador named Pep was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Pennsylvania for killing a cat owned by the Governor. The dog ended up doing about 10 years in Eastern state penitentiary.

On another note, a Labrador named Bosco won an election in 1981 for honorary mayor of Sunol, Calif and remained in that position until his death in 1994.

Bats give birth upside down, they have to be quick to catch the babies with their wings before they fall.

Koala's fingerprints are almost identical to humans. Even with careful analysis under a microscope it is difficult to distinguish the difference between the two.

Cats lack the taste buds to detect sweetness. Humans have about 9,000 taste buds yet cats only have about 480, which can differentiate the various tastes except for sweet as their taste receptors can't detect sugar.

Manatees have fart storage pouches that they use to control their buoyancy and balance. Storing or releasing gas helps them sink or float. Farting is extremely important to the Manatees coz if they don't they become constipated which means they are unable to dive properly and struggle to keep their balance.

The Greater Short Horned Lizard squirts blood from it’s eye when threatened. It is real blood that squirts like a water gun and can splatter up to 4 feet away.

It appears that Dolphins get high from Pufferfish. A BBC documentary shows a small pod of Dolphins passing around a pufferfish and behaving as they are in a trance like state.

Most Nine Banded Armadillos give birth to identical quadruplets. A single egg is produced but once fertilized it then splits into 4 genetically identical embryos attached to the same placenta.