Random Fun Facts about Animals

le crystal

Hmm. Was bored and decided to create this thread. If it breaks any forum rules feel free to close it or whatever.

Anyway the purpose of this thread is to share random fun facts about animals, because nature is just that awesomely random. My favourite type of animals are reptiles :wub:

I'll start with an octopus one. Octopuses have neurons on their arms, so their arms have a mind of their own, and therefore the arms are able to react to surroundings and even attempt to search for food once it is severed.

KageKageKing

Turkey raised comercially cannot reproduce by themselves.

Was this a random fun fact?

le crystal

@KageKageKing:

Turkey raised comercially cannot reproduce by themselves.

Was this a random fun fact?

Yep it counts. Didn't know that btw.

Robby

Jabberwok

The common side-blotches lizard of the Western U.S. has three polymorphs in which color and behavior correspond in a rock-paper-scissors cycle:

Orange-throated males are ultradominant and maintain both large territories and harems. They bully blues and are cuckolded by yellows.

Blue-throated males are dominant. They maintain smaller territories and guard only one female. Vulnerable to oranges but not yellows.

Yellow-throated males are sneakers and maintain no territory, instead opting to mimic females. Can fool oranges but can't infiltrate blues.

Because the colors and behaviors are highly heritable, populations experience cycles as a strong generation of one color engenders a different dominant color the next generation.

KageKageKing

Mr M

Nobodyman

Ekila

Fun fact about clownfish. They are all born male, and the dominant one becomes female. If the female dies, the next dominant male becomes the new female.

KageKageKing

@Ekila:

Fun fact about clownfish. They are all born male, and the dominant one becomes female. If the female dies, the next dominant male becomes the new female.

That is what makes Finding Nemo disturbing.

le crystal

@Ekila:

Fun fact about clownfish. They are all born male, and the dominant one becomes female. If the female dies, the next dominant male becomes the new female.

Your ruining my childhood, damn you

My favourite true facts video. I miss zefrank.

le crystal

Fun fact: Portuguese men-of-war are not jellyfish, but a colony of individual organisms working together.

sanji''s_dad

Fun fact Koala's (drop bears) will not drop out of trees and bite you since they don't even eat meat just tree leaves lol.

benjamminbrown

They're also very stupid and very territorial and kind of nasty little fuckers, so I wouldn't put it past them.

Katzztar

Devoted to Anacondas=

Jabberwok

The shrike, aka the butcher bird, is possibly the most metal thing in nature.

It's a cute little songbird that catches lizards and insects and then impales them on thorns or fences in order to rip them apart and eat them. It's also crazy territorial and will leave the carcasses of prey on spikes to mark its territory, as well as the heads of other birds.

Ubiq

Hey, remember how a Xenomorph has two sets of jaws?

Those are based on the pharyngeal jaws eels have.

Katzztar

Dedicated to Pell

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/how-the-fastest-animal-on-earth-attacks-its-prey/48758?an=featured

le crystal

@sanji''s_dad:

Fun fact Koala's (drop bears) will not drop out of trees and bite you since they don't even eat meat just tree leaves lol.

The only tree leaves that they eat, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing that they eat) are poisonous by the way. So most of their energy is spent digesting them. So baby koalas eat mama koala's poop first to get used to it.
Thug life at its finest.

KageKageKing

Dolphins are the biggest assholes in the sea. They gang up to rape other dolphins and kill for fun.

Jabberwok

Crows are people too.

Katzztar

@KageKageKing:

Dolphins are the biggest assholes in the sea. They gang up to rape other dolphins and kill for fun.

huh Old animal myths are being busted… I thought that ducks and orangutans were only animals that raped.

benjamminbrown

Darwin's Theory of Evolution may just be a specific case of a more general property of thermalized matter subjected to organized/predictable forms of energy. Are we really the only lifeforms in our local universe? Could there even be "living" creatures inside the Earth? On other planets? Inside stars? In interstellar space?

A New (2014) Physics Theory of Life

le crystal

^this
We know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the sea floor. There could be an entire civilisation down there that we don't know about. Kinda scary.

Dolphins also wrap live eels around their penis for masturbation. Creative…

le crystal

The most stoned creature in the world.

My dream of having a pet rock is about to come true.

Katzztar

Ekila

A fun fact about cats is that their noses all have a unique print to them. Kinda like a human's thumbprint.

KageKageKing

Bees are actually evolved Wasps.

Mastello

A tapir's penis is shaped like a shovel!

Katzztar

Katzztar

KageKageKing

Polar Bears are apparently Left-Handed.

Katzztar

Pachylad

@Katzztar:

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Ooof .

Katzztar

@Pachylad:

Ooof .

Thanks for the correction .

Angelos17

@Katzztar:

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Would have been somin huh [emoji15]

Katzztar

We may say a "flock of birds" but when we talk about specific bird species, the group can be called something different than 'flock'.
Some already know of a murder of crows, a colony of gulls, colony of penguins and gaggle of geese, but what about other birds?

A group of chickens is called a flock, brood (of hens), clutch (of chicks), or peep (of chicks).
A bevy, cote, dole, dule, and "flight" of doves.
A cast of falcons.
A convocation of eagles.
An exaltation of larks.
A parliament of owls.
A congress of ravens.

Is it no wonder the last two are seen as both intelligent yet aggravating, they've got their own government! joking

Wagomu

Goat facts:

! * Goats were one of the first animals to be tamed by humans and were being herded 9000 years ago.

Goats' pupils are rectangular. This gives them vision for 320 to 340 degrees around them without having to move, and they are thought to have excellent night vision.
Baby goats (kids) are standing and taking their first steps within minutes of being born.
Goats feed on insects, and their favorite food is hairy caterpillar.
Goats can be taught their name and to come when called.
They have eight legs and each leg has four to eight claws that resemble the claws of a bear.
Many species of goat lay two eggs, but the older, larger kid frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched. Adults do not intervene.
Goats, being mountain animals, are very good at climbing; they've been known to climb to the tops of trees, or even dams!
The most distinctive feature of the goat, worn by females, is a piece of dorsal spine that protrudes above their mouths like a fishing pole.
Goats do not build their own nests, because they are brood parasites. That means that the female goat uses other animals' nests to lay her own eggs.
Goats are herd animals and will become depressed if kept without any goat companions.
They fly using their wings and their bodies are covered with scales, as are their long tails.
Goats are sometimes placed in the rafters of barns to keep an eye on animals and feed stores.
Goats have a gestation period of five months and the average birth rate for goats is 2.2 kids per year.
Goats are an intimate symbiosis, in which two species live together as a type of composite organism.
Goats are small, actually micro animals with segmented bodies. They are usually water-dwelling creatures but can be found in a myriad of places like Antarctic ice.
Goats are beings of enormous intellectual and psychic powers that once dwelt on the dying world of Yith. They escaped the destruction of their home planet by transferring their minds to the bodies of a species native to Earth, far in the distant past.
It is said that at Ragnarök, the goat will break free. He will join forces with the enemies of the gods and will then eat Odin.
Goats are very intelligent and curious animals. Their inquisitive nature is exemplified in their constant desire to explore and investigate anything unfamiliar which they come across.

Katzztar

@Wagomu:

Goat facts:

! * Goats were one of the first animals to be tamed by humans and were being herded 9000 years ago.

Goats' pupils are rectangular. This gives them vision for 320 to 340 degrees around them without having to move, and they are thought to have excellent night vision.

Baby goats (kids) are standing and taking their first steps within minutes of being born.

Goats feed on insects, and their favorite food is hairy caterpillar.

Goats can be taught their name and to come when called.

They have eight legs and each leg has four to eight claws that resemble the claws of a bear.

Many species of goat lay two eggs, but the older, larger kid frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched. Adults do not intervene.

Goats, being mountain animals, are very good at climbing; they've been known to climb to the tops of trees, or even dams!

The most distinctive feature of the goat, worn by females, is a piece of dorsal spine that protrudes above their mouths like a fishing pole.

Goats do not build their own nests, because they are brood parasites. That means that the female goat uses other animals' nests to lay her own eggs.

Goats are herd animals and will become depressed if kept without any goat companions.

They fly using their wings and their bodies are covered with scales, as are their long tails.

Goats are sometimes placed in the rafters of barns to keep an eye on animals and feed stores.

Goats have a gestation period of five months and the average birth rate for goats is 2.2 kids per year.

Goats are an intimate symbiosis, in which two species live together as a type of composite organism.

Goats are small, actually micro animals with segmented bodies. They are usually water-dwelling creatures but can be found in a myriad of places like Antarctic ice.

Goats are beings of enormous intellectual and psychic powers that once dwelt on the dying world of Yith. They escaped the destruction of their home planet by transferring their minds to the bodies of a species native to Earth, far in the distant past.

It is said that at Ragnarök, the goat will break free. He will join forces with the enemies of the gods and will then eat Odin.

Goats are very intelligent and curious animals. Their inquisitive nature is exemplified in their constant desire to explore and investigate anything unfamiliar which they come across.

I…. was about to question one thing but then another came up that made me wonder if anything in that was true..... then another and another until I was laughing too hard.

Jabberwok

I've heard that each year goats will travel hundreds of miles to lay their eggs on a certain beach.

I've also heard of a few instances where goats will take over farms and rule as the "more equal" leaders of the other animals. Truly one of nature's most awe-inspiring creatures.

xan

@le:

^this
We know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the sea floor. There could be an entire civilisation down there that we don't know about. Kinda scary.

That's quite interesting when you consider that many theories suggest that life itself started in the oceans and moved on to land. So technically, land is our second home so who knows as to who stayed back down there

Biologically immortal animals

le crystal

A goat can swallow a shepherd whole and may eat as many as 150 kids in a six-month period.

Goats expel their internal organs towards enemies as a form of self defense.

All goats in the world are linked together as a single living organism, and reality is warped and shaped by the combined will of every goat. They started out as simple microorganisms, whom orchestrated the downfall of the dinosaurs and took a form they deem fit to plot the destruction of mankind, to prepare for the commencing of the Golden Age of Farm Animals. All hail goats.

Katzztar

The very poisonous Blue Ring Octopus is small enough to climb inside a tennis ball.

https://weather.com/news/trending/video/deadly-octopus-found-in-kids-tennis-ball-in-australia

inthemiddle

True fact: Giraffes sleep upside down.

KageKageKing

Horses and Sheep's reproductive cycle are affected by the ammount of melatonin produced by the contact of light into their eyes.

Katzztar

Many women's favorite marine animal is the seahorse for its the male that gets pregnant.

Femme

So cuuuuuute aaaaah

Cyclone_Baroness

Omg….She's named Lolipop! So cute!

Femme

@Cyclone_Baroness:

Omg….She's named Lolipop! So cute!

I knowww <33 they're like kitties! Lollipop was like de-skunked so she could be an ambassador skunk so she's essentially a cat.

Best animal channel on YouTube.. or perhaps second only to Brave Wilderness.

Jabberwok

Caecilians are crazy cool and one of the least-studied groups of vertebrates on the planet just because they're so rare. They're the third, little-known family of amphibians in addition to frogs/toads and salamanders, and they're crazy hard to find because they live underground exclusively in tropical climates. One of the professor's at my university was a leading expert on them but I never got the chance to handle a specimen myself.