Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
Japanese honeybees kill hornets by enclosing them in a ball of bees and then vibrating their flight muscles so fast that the carbon dioxide levels increase and temperature in the ball raises enough to kill the hornet (~115°F). – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Native_honey_bees
The scientific name for the Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla meaning “anteater” and “three fingers” respectively. However, the Giant Anteater has five toes on each foot. – WTF Fun Facts
A newborn giant panda cub weighs 3-5 ounces and is roughly 1/900th the size of their mother or about the size of a stick of butter. They are born pink, hairless, and blind making them practically helpless. – WTF Fun Facts
Eugene Schieffelin was an American amateur ornithologist who wanted to bring all of the birds in Shakespeare’s plays to North America. He released a total of 100 European starlings in 1890 and 1891, which have grown into a population of ~200 million. – WTF Fun Facts
A recent study of worker ants found that up to 40% of them are lazy and don’t actually do much work. After further research, scientists found that they may act as a replacement workforce if the active workers were unable to carry out their tasks for some reason. – WTF Fun Facts
If there is a food shortage, pea aphids will climb on to their mothers’ backs and suck her blood in order to survive.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24513-zoologger-baby-vampire-aphids-drink-parents-blood/
A racehorse named Sham ran the Kentucky Derby with a time just under 2 minutes (1:59.90). His time was good enough to win any Kentucky Derby past or present except the one he was in. He lost to the legendary Secretariat by about 2 ½ lengths. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.liveabout.com/the-fastest-runnings-of-the-kentucky-derby-1880673
Scientist’s caught and radiocarbon dated a 112-year-old, female bigmouth buffalo in South Dakota, making it the world’s oldest age-validated freshwater bony fish. – WTF Fun Facts
The larvae of the beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) fart on the much larger termites to paralyze them before eating them. They can paralyze up to 6 termites with a single fart which paralyzes them for ~3 hours. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-immobilize-prey/
The map below shoes the movement of an eagle over a twenty year period. It had the tracker fitted in Russia and it died twenty years later in the “valley of the child” in Saudi Arabia. – WTF Fun Facts
In the late 17th-18th century a “cackler” was a chicken and a “cackling fart” was an egg. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://victoriablakewriter.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/historical-slang-cackling-fart/
Marius Els of South Africa adopted a baby hippo he named Humphrey after it was rescued from a river. Five years later, the hippo dragged him into the same river and killed him. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/pet-hippo-kills-its-owner
A recent study found that goats can differentiate between human facial expressions and prefer to interact with happy people. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-goats-happy-people.html
Crucifix Toads can exude a tacky “frog glue”, which is one of the strongest non-toxic adhesive known to man. They have been observed using glue to trap insects, and males also use it stick themselves onto females while mating. – WTF Fun Facts
Tigers have ‘false eyes’ on the back of their ears to discourage predators from attacking them from behind. They are also thought to be used to make themselves appear more alert and aggressive when threatened. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://seaworld.org/animals/all-about/tiger/characteristics/
In 1999, the Philippine island of Luzon, home to the capital, Manila, and ~40 million people lost power for an entire night due to jellyfish. Roughly 50 dump trucks’ worth of jellyfish had been sucked into the cooling pipes of a coal-fired power plant, causing a cascading power failure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jellyfish-the-next-king-of-the-sea-679915/
Male hummingbirds often woo females by climbing to between 5 and 40 meters before diving past perched females. They pull up at the last minute and spread their tail feathers which produces a loud chirpy song as the feathers vibrate from the air rushing past them. – WTF Fun Facts
Vienna is famous for its horse-drawn taxis, called Fiakers. Normally worked by family-run organizations, they go back to 1693 and are an iconic piece of the city’s rich heritage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.virtualvienna.net/the-fiaker-a-taxi-with-tradition/