On average, bald eagle nests are 2-4 ft deep and 4-5 ft wide. However, one pair of eagles near St. Petersburg, Florida, earned the Guinness World Record for largest bird’s nest at 20 ft deep and 9.5 ft wide. The nest weighed over two tons. – WTF Fun Facts
Animals
Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
WTF Fun Fact – Goat Teeth
Goats have no upper front teeth – only lower. The upper front mouth is one big gum. In the back of their mouth they have both upper and lower molars. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – War Pigs vs War Elephants
“War pigs” were used during the siege of Megara in 266BC to combat “war elephants”. The pigs were coated in oil, set on fire, and sent towards the enemy’s elephants. The squealing pigs terrorized the elephants, causing them to panic and trample and kill anyone close by. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: War pig – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Starfish Eyes
Starfish or sea stars have crude eyes on the tip of their arms. Each of their arms has an eye that looks like a red spot. These eyes cannot see full details but can sense dark and light and crude images so that they can find their way back to coral reefs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Surprise! Scientists Find How Starfish See With Their Eyes (nationalgeographic.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Loyal Camel Walks 62 Miles
After being sold to a herdsman 8 months prior, an elderly camel “ran away” and walked more than 62 miles alone in the Inner Mongolian desert to find its previous owners. Another herdsman spotted it and contacted its former owners. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bayannur: Camel Walks In Desert For Days To Return To Former Owners (indiatimes.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Yellow-Billed Oxpecker’s Odd Sleeping Place
The yellow-billed oxpeckers nest in trees or similar when they lay their eggs. However, the rest of the time they can be found sleeping in a giraffe’s “armpit.” As many as seven birds have been seen clustered in a single armpit. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:Birds Sleep in Giraffe Armpits in Tanzania, New Photos Reveal (nationalgeographic.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Presidents Without Pets
Donald Trump was the first President in 168 years not to have a pet in the White House. The only other Presidents not to have a pet there were James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Birds Unihemispheric Sleep
Birds have the ability (unihemispheric) to let half their brain sleep while the other half is awake. Researchers found when ducks sleep in a row, those on either end sleep with one eye open to look for predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Half-Brained Ducks in a Row | Science | AAAS (sciencemag.org)
WTF Fun Fact – Arctic Fox’s Colorful Fur
Arctic foxes have beautiful white coats that act as very effective winter camouflage. However, they do not hibernate and their fur changes colors to brown or grey for the summer. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Arctic Fox | National Geographic
WTF Fun Fact – Meat Into Honey
Vulture bees (or carrion bees) feed on rotting meat instead of pollen in order to make honey. They eat and store the flesh in a special stomach compartment and then return to the hive. There the meat is regurgitated and processed by a worker bee. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: SCIENCE WATCH; Carrion Bees – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Bare-Hearted Glass Frog
The bare-hearted glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum) has the most transparent underside of all glass frogs, which allows for almost full visibility of their internal organs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalinobatrachium_colymbiphyllum
WTF Fun Fact – Gum-Leaf Skeletonizer Caterpillar Hat
The gum-leaf skeletonizer caterpillar wears its old molted heads on top of its head, which it uses to bat away predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat | New Scientist
WTF Fun Fact – Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a parasitic fungus, effectively turns ants into zombies. The fungus compels the ant to bite onto the underside of a low-hanging leaf where it dies, and the fungus then sends a fruiting body out through the ant’s head to disseminate spores. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Cordyceps zombie fungus takes over ants’ bodies (nationalgeographic.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Monkey See Monkey Do
A monkey was electrocuted as it walked on high tension wires in an Indian railway station, falling unconscious on to the tracks. Another monkey attempted to resuscitate the animal by repeatedly biting, hitting, and dunking it in water. The electrocuted monkey was eventually revived.–WTF Fun Facts
Source: Monkey Revives Monkey Unconscious at Kanpur India Train Station: Video | Time
WTF Fun Fact – Masha The Hero Tabby Cat
In January 2015, a tabby cat named Masha helped save an abandoned baby in Russia from freezing to death by staying beside him to give him warmth while meowing to alert someone. It didn’t take long for someone to hear and bring the baby to a hospital. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Masha the heroic cat finds baby who was cruelly abandoned in Russia (honesttopaws.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Hozhizuna no Hama / Star Sand Beach
Hoshizuna no Hama (“star sand beach”) is a small beach located on a remote island in Japan. The grains of sand found here are shaped like tiny stars. It’s not really sand but the exoskeletons of tiny one-celled organisms, called Baclogypsina sphaerulata. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Star Sand Beach of Hoshizuna-no-hama | Amusing Planet
WTF Fun Fact – Elephants Hear With Their Feet
Elephants can hear with their feet. They are specialists in seismic communication, relying upon sound waves that travel within the surface of the ground instead of through the air. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Elephants-can-hear-through-their-feet-2593114.php
WTF Fun Fact – An Unlikely Place To Incubate Eggs
The male Banggai cardinalfish fertilizes the females clutch of eggs and then immediately sucks them into his mouth where he stores them for a month. Scientists believe they don’t eat while doing so except for some of the eggs either accidentally or by “design”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.seattleaquarium.org/blog/creature-feature-male-mouth-brooding-banggai-cardinalfish