Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
A 400 lbs. loggerhead turtle named “Yoshi” swam ~23,000 miles from Cape Town to Australia to nest after being in captivity for 20 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Loggerhead turtle’s journey tracked 37,000km from Cape Town in South Africa to Australia – ABC News
In 2010, biologists found a healthy shark egg case dropped by an adult bamboo shark, who spent nearly 4 years isolated from males. Their results mark the longest documented case of sperm storage in any species of shark. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Longest-ever case of sperm storage in sharks documented — ScienceDaily
Pablo Escobar’s 4 pet hippos were unable to be removed from his Colombian estate and were left to fend for themselves. They have since thrived in local rivers and grown to a population of ~100 hippos. The are the only wild hippos outside of Africa. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072903214/the-debate-about-pablo-escobars-hippos
When attacked, Bombardier beetles eject a hot noxious chemical spray from the tip of their abdomen, which can be fatal to other insects. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bombardier beetle – Wikipedia
A study found bumblebees were able to recognize objects by sight that they’d only previously felt (cross-modal object recognition) suggesting they have some form of mental imagery; a building block for consciousness. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bumblebees can create mental imagery, a ‘building block of consciousness’, study suggests – ABC News
Queen Elizabeth II’s 150+ dairy cows sleep on water beds and are milked at their own leisure by robots at her farm Windsor Great Park. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/queen-elizabeths-cows-sleep-on-waterbeds-2018-6?r=US&IR=T
In 2004, A Malaysian women spent over a month in a glass box at a shopping mall with over 6,000 scorpions. She was only stung 7 times. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3675556.stm
Most people with chocolate allergies aren’t actually allergic to cocoa or any official ingredients but rather the cockroach parts contained in it, which the FDA deems safe up to a certain limit. Removing insect parts entirely would require pesticide use which is unhealthier. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Chocolate allergies linked to cockroach parts (nbcnews.com)
In Switzerland, rabies was virtually eliminated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with the live attenuated vaccine in the Alps, which the foxes (the main carriers of the virus) ate thus immunizing themselves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Rabies – Wikipedia
“Crab Mentality” is a line of thinking best described as “if I can’t have it, neither can you.” It is named that because when a bunch of crabs are trapped in a bucket and one is trying to escape, the others will pull it down. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Crab mentality – Wikipedia
Some chicken farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks due to climate change and more frequent sudden flooding. Ducks can swim and survive the floods while chickens cannot. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bangladesh Farmers Are Raising Ducks to Adapt to Climate Change – The Atlantic
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends avoiding drinking camel urine to prevent contracting Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) (who.int)
During the Florida water snake mating season, part of a park near Lake Hollingsworth was shut down for a snake orgy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Florida snake orgy: Authorities shut down park area because of annual snake mating season – CNN
In ancient Africa, women drank the foam from a camel’s mouth as a means of birth control. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The 7 Weirdest Birth Control Methods Throughout History (yahoo.com)
In Mozambique, Africa, African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) have been trained to smell Tuberculosis and land mines.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:Giant Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis in Africa | National Geographic Society
In 1997, a pot-bellied pig named Lulu saved her owner who was having a heart attack. Hearing her owner in distress, Lulu forced her way out of the yard and played dead on the road. Lulu successfully stopped a car and guided them to her owner, who survived.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:Lulu – The Pig That ‘Played Dead’ To Save Her Dying Owner. – Vault50
A dolphin named Kelly received fish for bringing her trainers litter/dead gulls to help clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she traded for more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who then taught more calves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Animal behaviour | The Guardian
In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings date back roughly 15,000 years. – WTF Fun Facts