Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
The oceans are filled with giant tubular organisms that grow to the size of sperm whales. They are known as Pyrosomes or unicorns of the sea and can be nearly 60 ft in length. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/12-reasons-pyrosomes-are-my-new-favorite-terrifying-sea-creatures/278316/
The puffin’s beak is specialized to hold lots of fish. They can carry roughly 5-20 fish back to their nest at a time. Astonishingly, a puffin in Britain once carried 62 fish in his beak! – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://projectpuffin.audubon.org/birds/puffin-faqs
One of the largest and oldest organisms on Earth, the ‘Trembling Giant’, is slowly dying to mule deer. The 106-acre pando quaking aspen colony in Utah, which is nearly 80,000 years old, is being thinned by the deer eating its new stems. The mule deer are thriving as they currently have no natural predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/63852-failing-aspen-clone-utah.html
Flatworms have male and female sets of genitalia, and if they can’t find a flatworm to mate with, they will inseminate themselves by stabbing their head with their needle-like copulatory organ, a practice known as selfing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/this-flatworms-freaky-sex-life-will-freak-you-out/
Nematode’s (also known as the roundworm) sperm does not swim but crawls using its cytoskeleton instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/115/2/367
A study found that each year arthropods (like millipedes, spiders and ants) eat over 2,100 pounds of junk food discarded in New York City’s Broadway/West St. corridor in Manhattan. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3039379/new-york-ants-eat-the-equivalent-of-60000-hot-dogs-a-year-in-food-we-drop
An endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people’s heads, so they made as ‘ejaculation helmet’ for people to wear which would collect the bird’s rare semen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seduced-rare-parrot-180962855/
The hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) uses a vacuum in its mouth to suck in prey that is as large as it is in just 1/6000th of a second. Despite having only 5mm palatal teeth, it has the fastest ‘bite’ in the animal kingdom. – WTF Fun Facts
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Tigers are orange in color because their main prey, deer, see them as green. Deer are only capable of seeing blue and green light, which makes them color-blind to red. – WTF Fun Facts
Some slaughterhouses use a ‘Judas goat’. It’s a trained goat that will calmly lead livestock to their slaughter while its own life is spared. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
The ancient murrelet is the only bird known to migrate across the entire North Pacific. Many migrate 5,000 miles from Canada to winter near Japan and China, even though the climate is nearly identical. – WTF Fun Facts
In the early 20th century, the Prussian rulers prohibited the Danes in the area from displaying the Danish flag. In protest, they bred and displayed Husum Red Pied pigs that’s coloring resembled the flag of Denmark. – WTF Fun Facts
The Western Winter Wren can sing 36 notes per second, more than double the 16 notes that the Eastern version can sing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/how-does-a-tiny-bird-like-a-winter-wren-manage-to-sing-so-many-sounds-so-quickly-and-so-loudly/
Sarah the cheetah holds the planet-wide record for the fastest 100-meter dash, finishing in 5.95 seconds at a speed of 61 mph. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-cheetah-death-idUSKCN0UZ2UP
The aptly named Goliath frog, which can weigh over 6 lbs, use their muscles to lift rocks over half their bodyweight to build small nursery ponds for their spawn. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/09/africa/goliath-frog-intl-scli-scn/index.html
Komodo dragons are protected from attack by an intricate chainmail armor made of tiny bones beneath their skin that develop in adulthood.– WTF Fun Facts
The blue-banded bee (Amegilla murrayensis) head-bangs flowers 350x a second in order to obtain pollen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/australian-blue-banded-bees-headbanging-flowers-03518.html
A dead gecko can stick to a surface for up to 30 minutes after its death. Research has shown their sticking force is passive and just as effective dead or alive. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/death-will-not-stop-geckos-sticking-walls/