The black heron uses a hunting method called canopy feeding, where it creates a canopy with its wings generating shade. The shade attracts fish and makes them easy prey. – 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 – Spider Fighting
Spider fighting is a popular sport in the Philippines, Japan, and Singapore, especially among children who can make money off it. The fights that occur in the Philippines and in Japan are staged between females of various species of web weavers. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Hypnotizing A Chicken
A chicken can be hypnotized by holding its head down and drawing a straight line away from its beak on the ground. It will then wake up immediately if the line in front of it is erased. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bitten By A Shark Or Human
In the 1980’s, you were 10x more likely to be bitten by another person in New York City than you were to be attacked by a shark at the beach. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/nyc-biting-injuries/
WTF Fun Fact – Viggo’s LOTR Horse
Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse he rode in the Lord of The Rings movie. The horse had a hard time adjusting to the lights and sounds on set and it took a while for them to get in sync but they developed a strong bond in the end. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/03/04/ign-inteviews-viggo-mortensen
WTF Fun Fact – Dog Owners Live Longer
Researchers found that dog ownership is associated with longer life, especially among heart attack and stroke survivors. Compared to non-owners, dog owners experienced a 24% reduced risk of all-cause mortality and a 65% reduced risk of mortality after a heart attack. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bats Communicate Directly
Bats are one of a few species besides humans that communicate directly to one another instead of just broadcasting to all. A lot of the time their communications are arguments about food, sleeping position, or another bat being too close. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Eyes On The Behind
Farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows’ butts to trick Lions into thinking they have been seen. This prevents them from ultimately attacking the cows as Lions rely on the element of surprise. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Fake Baby Elephants
When going to battle, Rajput clans would armor their specially bred horses with fake elephant trunks, making them appear to be baby elephants which the enemy’s adult elephants instinctively would not attack. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/play/horses-bred-fight-elephants-630647/
WTF Fun Fact – Cougars Planting Seeds
By eating and excreting doves, a single cougar can plant nearly 100,000 seeds in a year providing a valuable service to their ecosystem. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://world.edu/big-cats-play-bigger-role-plant-preservation-knew/
WTF Fun Fact – Dragonfly Wing Destroyers
Dragonfly wings kill bacteria on contact by ripping apart their cell membranes with sharp nanopillars as they move across the surface of the wing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newatlas.com/dragonfly-nanostructures-anitbacterial-properties/53331/
WTF Fun Fact – Gyoza The Pug
Gyoza the pug was hired by 343 Industries to help make the alien noises in their next game Halo: Infinite. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – No Elephants For US
President Abraham Lincoln had to write a letter to the King of Thailand politely declining his gift of elephants and stating his preference to use steam engines instead.–WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Where Do Hummingbirds Come From?
Hummingbirds are currently only found in the Americas, but the oldest known fossil (at 30 million years old) of a hummingbird-like species was actually discovered in Germany. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Temperature Dependent Sex Determination
The sex of all baby turtles depends on the temperature at which the eggs are incubated, this is called temperature dependent sex determination. A group of eggs laid at the same time is called a ‘clutch’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Alligator snapping turtle facts
WTF Fun Fact – Towser The Mouser
A long-haired tortoiseshell cat called ‘Towser’ is credited with killing an estimated 28899 mice in 24 years of work as the pest control expert at the Glenturret whiskey distillery in Scotland. She holds the Guinness World Record for catching mice. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Soundscape Ecology
Bernie Krause, founder of the scientific field called “soundscape ecology,” believes that bird songs, wolf howls, and even insects footsteps have become quieter over the last 50 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151006-nature-sounds-science-animals-music/
WTF Fun Fact – Chameleons’ Long Tongues
A chameleon can stretch its tongue more than twice the length of its body with smaller chameleons able to reach 2.5x their length. Scientists call the mechanism used to achieve this elastic recoil. – WTF Fun Facts