Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
The Antarctic Sun starfish, Labidiaster annulatus, is a two-foot wide sea star found in the waters around Antarctica. It starts out with five rays but can add over 40 arms in between as it grows. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Absurd Creature of the Week: The Two-Foot-Wide Sea Star That’s Basically a Bear Trap | WIRED
A group of zebras is called a “dazzle.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: ‘A Dazzle of Zebras’ and Other Collective Nouns for the Animals You’ll See on Safari (nathab.com)
In Lopburi, Thailand, on the last Sunday of November, the annual Monkey Buffet Festival is held which provides food and drink to more than 2000 local monkeys, thanking them for drawing tourists to the town.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: Monkey Buffet Festival – Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com)
Ostriches are pretty unique birds: they have three stomachs, are the only birds with two toes on each foot, and they are also the only ones who secrete their urine separately from their feces.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://bonamy.co.uk/posts/animal-facts-the-ostrich
Dairy cows spend almost 8 hours a day chewing their cuds for a total of roughly 30,000 chews daily. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://afs.ca.uky.edu/content/why-do-cattle-chew-their-cud
Thecacera pacifica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk. It is sometimes nicknamed Pikachu nudibranch due to its resemblance to the Pokémon character. – WTF Fun Facts
The Galápagos Tortoise spends roughly 16 hours a day napping and a very slow metabolism and large internal stores of water means they can survive for up to a year without eating or drinking. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/g/galapagos-tortoise/
Goldfish can see more colors than we can. Human eyes can see only three primary colors: red, blue and green. All other colors are mixtures of these. A goldfish, however, can see four, making it a tetrachromate. – WTF Fun Facts
If a female vampire bat is hungry, another female will regurgitate blood from their last meal as a “food donation” and then they will groom each other. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.popsci.com/vampire-bats-friendly-blood-sucking-monsters/
Researchers found that California ground squirrels and rock squirrels chew up rattlesnake skin and smear it on their fur to mask their scent from predators. – WTF Fun Facts
The Devilish Cunning Panther was a man-eating male Indian leopard which killed over 150 people, all women and children, in the Central Provinces of British India in the early 20th century. He would kill every couple days and sometimes travel 20-30 miles before the next attack. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_of_the_Central_Provinces
Up until 300,000 years ago, a giant ape named Gigantopithecus, which stood more than 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds, roamed around in Asia eating Bamboo and similar plants.–WTF Fun Facts
Farm-raised salmon are naturally grey while wild salmon are naturally pink due to their diet which includes astaxanthin, a compound found in krill and shrimp. Salmon farmers have to add astaxanthin to their feed to give them the pink color. It is the most expensive part of their food. – WTF Fun Facts
There is no antivenom for a blue-ringed octopus bite. The only treatment is to be hooked up to a ventilator for 15 hours while the tetrodotoxin wears off so your diaphragm is no longer paralyzed. – WTF Fun Facts
A group of penguins in the water is called a raft but on land they’re called a waddle. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark/news/10-cool-facts-about-penguins
“Cat Pawsitive” is a program to help animal shelters teach their cats how to do a “high-five” and other tricks with humans, making them more attractive for adoption. It appears to be helping as over 400 cats who participated were adopted during the first two semesters. – WTF Fun Facts
In January 2020, Peaches the therapy goat was returned to her owners and depressed companion Bunter the cow after being stolen in December from the Maungaturoto Hotel in New Zealand. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/therapy-goat-depressed-cow-new-zealand-a4336456.html
The “Teddy Bear” is named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear on a hunt in 1902 and candy shop and stuffed animal maker Morris Michtom created “Teddy’s Bear” after the story got out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/storyofteddybear.htm