Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
Bats are a key player in the production of tequila. The agave plant is pollinated by bats.
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Source: https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/991/bws/tequila-how-is-tequila-made-and-what-from
Australia’s largest lizard, the Perentie, can run as fast as Usain Bolt. They can grow to over 8 ft in length and have been clocked moving at nearly 25 mph.
A new study found that Horseshoe Crabs are a member of the arachnid family tree and are genetically more closely related to spiders than to other crabs.
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/horseshoe-crabs-related-to-spiders/
The mice infestation in the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament is so bad they keep track of the sightings. It’s gotten worse in recent years due to renovations and the sightings have tripled. They spent over $150,000 in pest control in 2016.
A conflict between chameleons is more likely to be initiated and won by the one with the brighter stripes. Additionally, there are rarely physical conflicts as the brighter/quicker color display is usually enough to win the duel.
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Source: https://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2014/02/03/chameleon-changing-color.aspx
Seahorses beat their dorsal fin (30 – 70 times per second) nearly as fast as hummingbirds beat their wings.
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Source: https://www.visitsealife.com/paris/en/discover/sea-life-creatures/seahorses-and-pipefish/
Research has found that chimpanzees recognize the butts of their relatives just as well as humans recall familiar faces.
Source: https://www.livescience.com/57127-chimps-can-recognize-butts.html
Despite their diet being composed of 99% bamboo, pandas are part of the order Carnivora, because physiologically they are made to eat meat. Thus, they are essentially vegetarians.
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Source: https://animals.mom.me/giant-panda-herbivore-1608.html
There are beetles named after Darth Vader (Agathidium vaderi), Kate Winslet (Agra katewinsletae), Adolf Hitler (Anophthalmus hitleri), and several other celebrities.
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8 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin of the guinea pig (phoberomys pattersoni) was the size of a cow and is the largest rodent to ever roam the world.
Queen Elizabeth I was gifted a unicorn horn which she believed could identify poison and cure diseases. It was a crown jewel and became known as the Horn Of Windsor. In actuality, it was a tusk of a narwhal.
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Reindeers eyes change to a blue color in the winter to help gather light during the dark arctic months and return to a golden color in the spring and summer.
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Gray whales always mate in a threesome: two males and one female. The non-dominant male braces the female and helps holds her next to her mate.
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The daddy-long-legs “flosses” after meals by pulling each of its eight legs through its pincers in order to keep parasites off them.
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Feeding silkworm larvae mulberry leaves sprayed with fabric dye results in the dye being transported along the biochemical pathways of the silkworm to produce a colored cocoon and colored silk fibre.
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Source: https://gizmodo.com/silkworms-fed-dyed-mulberry-leaves-to-produce-colored-s-1476655497
During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from a USSR naval admiral).
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Jellyfish born on the space shuttle Columbia in the 1990′s suffered from vertigo when they returned to Earth. They had abnormal pulsing and movement which lead to difficulty swimming in normal gravity.
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The largest dam built by beavers is over twice as long as the Hoover Dam. The busy beavers have been building it for over 40 years in Northern Canada.
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