If there is a food shortage, pea aphids will climb on to their mothers’ backs and suck her blood in order to survive. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24513-zoologger-baby-vampire-aphids-drink-parents-blood/
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If there is a food shortage, pea aphids will climb on to their mothers’ backs and suck her blood in order to survive. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24513-zoologger-baby-vampire-aphids-drink-parents-blood/
A racehorse named Sham ran the Kentucky Derby with a time just under 2 minutes (1:59.90). His time was good enough to win any Kentucky Derby past or present except the one he was in. He lost to the legendary Secretariat by about 2 ½ lengths. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.liveabout.com/the-fastest-runnings-of-the-kentucky-derby-1880673
Scientist’s caught and radiocarbon dated a 112-year-old, female bigmouth buffalo in South Dakota, making it the world’s oldest age-validated freshwater bony fish. – WTF Fun Facts
The larvae of the beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) fart on the much larger termites to paralyze them before eating them. They can paralyze up to 6 termites with a single fart which paralyzes them for ~3 hours. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-immobilize-prey/
The map below shoes the movement of an eagle over a twenty year period. It had the tracker fitted in Russia and it died twenty years later in the “valley of the child” in Saudi Arabia. – WTF Fun Facts
In the late 17th-18th century a “cackler” was a chicken and a “cackling fart” was an egg. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://victoriablakewriter.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/historical-slang-cackling-fart/
Marius Els of South Africa adopted a baby hippo he named Humphrey after it was rescued from a river. Five years later, the hippo dragged him into the same river and killed him. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/pet-hippo-kills-its-owner
A recent study found that goats can differentiate between human facial expressions and prefer to interact with happy people. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-goats-happy-people.html
Crucifix Toads can exude a tacky “frog glue”, which is one of the strongest non-toxic adhesive known to man. They have been observed using glue to trap insects, and males also use it stick themselves onto females while mating. – WTF Fun Facts