Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays a single egg which averages 15% of its body size (about 1 lb). It is the only bird known to consistently have both a left and right ovary as most birds have only a single ovary. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi
The American Zoo Association has a “matchmaking site” known as the Population Management Center. It was started in June 2000 to help conserve species by facilitating matchmaking between zoos. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/13/match-com-for-animals/
Baby rats are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is called a mischief. – WTF Fun Facts
An asthmatic otter named Mishka has learned how to use an AeroKat inhaler to help deal with asthma attacks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/52288-mishka-otter-asthma.html
When squirrels have spare nuts they bury them, digging a separate hole for each. However, researchers found that up to 20% of the time they are elaborately faking burying nuts to trick would-be thieves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726395-400-squirrels-fake-it-to-fool-would-be-thieves/
Cockroaches can live for several weeks without their heads because their brains are located inside their body. However, they would eventually die from being unable to eat. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/can-a-cockroach-really-live-without-its-head/
There are silverfish in the desert that don’t need to drink as they can absorb moisture from the air through their anus. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://australianmuseum.net.au/blog/amri-news/dna-barcoding-sheds-light-on-cryptic-silverfish-species/
Some animals and insects, like squirrels and bumblebees, use a “mating plug” to prevent other males from inseminating females they have already mated with. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170419-the-largest-and-smallest-sex-cells-on-the-planet
Uganda is home to more than half of the world’s total population of mountain gorillas. Approximately 400 mountain gorillas live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gorillatrips.net/uganda-gorilla-families/
The killers of Eden or Twofold Bay killers were a pod of orcas in SE Australia which helped local whalers kill baleen whales between 1840 and 1930. The arrangement became known as the “law of the tongue” because the whalers would leave the carcass for the orcas to eat the lips and tongues. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_South_Wales
Researchers found during the 2017 North American eclipse that bees don’t buzz during an eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up until the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison. – WTF Fun Facts
One bite from a Lone Star tick can cause alpha-gal syndrome, which makes you allergic to red meat. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20428608
Birds eat up to 550 million tons of insects each year or as many as 20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000) individual bugs. – WTF Fun Facts
During WW1, many dogs were trained as ‘casualty’ or ‘mercy’ dogs. They would seek out the injured and carry them medical supplies, or wait with the mortally wounded. – WTF Fun Facts
Since most meerkats “mobs” have only a single dominant pair reproducing, they have eating (or growing) contests to establish who is the next dominant female in the hierarchy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/meerkats-settle-rivalries-eating-contests
In 2013, the town of Brunete near Madrid had volunteers watch for dog owners who didn’t pick up their dog’s poop, gather the owner’s information by petting the dogs, and then sent the poop to their home in a “lost property” box. – WTF Fun Facts
Roosters have “built-in” earplugs, which prevents them from damaging their hearing as they crow. When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals close completely.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-roosters-dont-deaf-loud-crowing.html
Researchers recently demonstrated that twig-mimicking caterpillars of the peppered moth can sense a twig’s color with their skin. Caterpillars that were blindfolded changed the color of their bodies to match their background. – WTF Fun Facts