Jaguars have such powerful jaws that they kill their prey by biting into the brain directly through the skull. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.northernjaguarproject.org/ecology/about-the-jaguar/
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 – Stomachless Horse
Seahorses don’t have stomachs, just intestines for the absorption of nutrients from food. As such, food passes through their digestive system rapidly and they must eat almost constantly. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Camel’s Empty Hump
Camels can drink 30 gallons of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel’s bloodstream and not in its energy-rich fatty hump. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/09/18/how-much-water-can-a-camel-store-in-its-hump/
WTF Fun Fact – The Strength Of A Dung Beetle
One dung beetle can drag things that weigh ~1,141 times its own weight. That would be like an average human pulling six double-decker buses! – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Liberia Caterpillar Emergency
In 2009, Liberia had to declare a state of emergency in 3 counties because of an African armyworm caterpillar invasion. Tens of millions of the larvae appeared and began eating through their green crops and contaminating the water supplies with their feces. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/28/liberia.caterpillars.emergency/index.html
WTF Fun Fact – Assassin Bug
The assassin bug wears the exoskeletons of its prey as removable armor. The armor is multi-purposed as it is used to intimidate larger predators and if another bug does try to attack, the bodies will peel off allowing it to escape. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31132/bug-wears-its-victims-armor
WTF Fun Fact – Poison Dart Frogs Diet
Poison dart frogs derive their toxicity from eating poisonous ants and termites in the wild. A captive-bred dart frog is essentially harmless, as its diet does not include any poisonous prey. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Tardigrades
Tardigrades, or “water bears”, are semi-aquatic, microscopic animals typically 0.5 mm in length which can survive virtually anything like an active lava field or even the cold, dark vacuum of space. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/what-tardigrade-ncna1065771
WTF Fun Fact – Poronkusema
There’s an old Finnish measurement unit called a poronkusema, which translates to “reindeer’s piss”. It describes the distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop to pee which is roughly 7 – 7.5km. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Trap-Jaw Ant
The trap-jaw ant can bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Their jaws snap shut at a record-setting speed of ~62 mph. By biting the ground, they can launch themselves in the air to avoid danger. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5272094.stm
WTF Fun Fact – Wild Horses No More
There aren’t any true wild horses in the US any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming mustangs that are descendants of domesticated colonial Spanish horses and therefore are technically feral and not wild. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – A Week with Willie Worm
The children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle was originally titled A Week with Willie Worm. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – World’s Fastest Punch
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast that it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Honeyguides
Honey hunters in Mozambique use special calls to recruit the services of birds known as honeyguides. The birds lead the humans to bees’ nests and in return, they get the leftover beeswax. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Most Smuggled Commodity
Wildlife trafficking, worth an estimated $10 billion a year, is thought to be the third most valuable illicit commerce after drugs and weapons. Birds are the most common contraband with anywhere from two million to five million wild birds smuggled yearly. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/wildlife-trafficking-149079896/
WTF Fun Fact – Castoreum Beaver Scent
Castoreum is a warm, carnal, and leather-like scent used in perfume. Now synthetically replicated, it originally came from the castor sac of the mature North American Beaver which was used in combination with urine to mark their territory. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Castoreum-102.html
WTF Fun Fact – White Bellbird Fire Alarm
The White Bellbird, found in the Guianas, Brazil and Venezuela, is known as the world’s loudest bird. Their mating call sounds like a fire alarm and can reach up to 125 decibels. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/6066393/loudest-bird-bellbird-song/
WTF Fun Fact – Insulin And Rainbow Trout
Insulin used to be combined with protamine, obtained from rainbow trout milt/semen, to prolong the effect. – WTF Fun Facts