-Elephants can’t jump.
-Starfish don’t brains.
-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don’t attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.
Earwigs can fly…
I think I would have been a lot happier if I’d never learned that.
What the fuck?
Starfish don’t brains?
I like that cats know their own names, understand why we’re saying them, yet choose to ignore us on purpose.
A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!
“Bartender! I’ll have a toxicognath, thanks”.
Opossums are essentially immune to rabies and eat ticks.
Venom too… They hunt snakes
Penguins have a gland above their eye that converts saltwater into freshwater
Elephants think humans are cute
You can see a good portion of the back of many owls’ eyes if you look in their ears.
Cheetahs sound fun until I consider how many cords my cats have chewed, furniture they’ve scratched, and litter boxes they’ve populated.
Then suddenly a giant tame housecat seems less appealing.
Dogs are cool.
There are 25-million ants for every person on this planet.
I don’t want mine.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
Meerkat got back.
So what do I do? I now have some meerkats following me home.
Grooming them for parasites is probably a good start.
I learned a NSFW animal fact the other day. There are some fish that care for their young by holding them in their mouth, it’s called mouthbrooding. That’s not the new or NSFW part though.
The NSFW part is the fact that
for some fish, the fertilization occurs in the mouth. The female lays her eggs and scoops them up into her mouth. Then the male fertilizes the eggs directly in her mouth. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. A male fish cums into a female fish’s mouth, and that’s how they normally reproduce.
Ahh, nature. So beautiful. So like us.
The octopus has 9 brains, one central brain (donut shaped, around the esophagus), and one in each of the 8 arms.
And one arm is used especially for octopus sexy time. (hectocotylus)
Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
Platypuses are one of the few venomous mammals. Males have a spur on their hind legs, which can inject a venom that can make a human sick for several weeks.
Yeah Dr. Doofenshmirtz is just trying to catch a wild animal called Perry the platypus
