Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
The Clark’s Nutcracker bird can carry up to 80 seeds at a time and buries around 98,000 nuts over a 3 month period in up to 30,000 locations. They can then recall the location of many of them several months later, even when they are under snow. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Clark’s nutcracker – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
Yucca moths play an important role in the survival of yucca plants. Without the yucca moth, the yucca plant would lose its only pollinator, and without the plant, the moth would lose its food source. Each depends on the other for survival. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Yucca Moths | National Wildlife Federation (nwf.org)
Beelzebufo ampinga, also known as the Devil Frog, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. They grew to 16″ in length and weighed ~10 lbs. Its diet may have even included newborn dinosaurs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Devil Frogs, Devil Frog Pictures, Devil Frog Facts – National Geographic
Squids have a brain shaped like a donut and their esophagus runs through it. If the squid eats something too big, it could result in severe brain damage. – WTF Fun Facts
Humpback whales blow bubbles in a circle to trap fish in a “bubble net” and then swim up through the vortex to swallow them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Whale bubble-net feeding documented by UH researchers through groundbreaking video – YouTube
Félicette, is the first and only cat to make it to space and back. She was a stray Parisian cat and one of 14 female cats trained for spaceflight by the French space program. She was launched into space on 18 October 1963. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Félicette – Wikipedia
Dexter, the U.S. Navy’s very last working horse, was stationed in Philadelphia to haul trash, and upon his passing in 1968, he was buried with full military honors. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Dexter, the U.S. Navy’s last working horse, is buried in Philly (inquirer.com)
Vikings believed that there was a goat in Valhalla that supplied an endless supply of beer from its udders. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Dead Vikings Got Endless Beer from Goats | Food & Wine (foodandwine.com)
An octopus has 3 hearts. One pumps blood through its organs; the 2 others pump blood through its gills. When an octopus is swimming, the organ that delivers blood to the organs stops beating. This exhausts the octopus, which is likely the reason they prefer to crawl than swim. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Octopus Facts | Live Science
A tabby is any domestic cat with a distinctive ‘M’ shaped marking on its forehead. “Tabby” is not a breed of cat but a coat type seen in almost all genetic lines of domestic cats. Tabby originally referred to “striped silk taffeta” from the French word tabis. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat
A raccoon in Germany broke into a zoo exhibit which housed 7 other raccoons. Since the raccoon is considered an invasive species in the EU, the zoo could not legally remove the vagrant raccoon and had to let him stay in the zoo. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Wild Raccoon Moves Into Zoo, And Zookeepers Have To Let Him Stay | HuffPost Impact
During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by peeing on it. – WTF Fun Facts
Utah’s Great Salt Lake used to be the home of a single flamingo nicknamed Pink Floyd, who escaped from an aviary in Salt Lake City in the late 1980’s and would be seen wintering in Utah socializing with seagulls. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Pink Floyd and the Great Salt Lake — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org)
The pygmy hog is the world’s tiniest wild pig at 10″ tall and is the keystone species of the Terai grasslands in North India. It was once thought extinct but now several hundred are roaming wild. – WTF Fun Facts
Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerator with a diaper-wearing ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes and be rewarded with a snack. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Felicia The Diaper-Wearing Ferret Was Sent Into A Particle Accelerator For Science | IFLScience
In 2019, Brazilian pоlіce seized a parrot who had been taught to alert criminals to nearby pоlіce by shouting: “Mum, the pоlіce!” After being seized, the parrot was “uncooperative” and stayed completely silent. – WTF Fun Facts
Sheep, goats, octopuses and toads have rectangular shaped pupils. These animals need to have a defense both day and night, but they don’t have vertical slits like cats since they need to survey their surroundings more accurately. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.science20.com/variety_tap/evolution_rectangular_eye
A group of frogs is known as an army, chorus, or colony. A group of toads is a knot or a nest. A group of salamanders is called a band. – WTF Fun Facts