what is an interesting animal fact that you know, most interesting gets 10 points?

Question

you can have more than one, i don't care

Answer 1

rats are incapable of vomiting
elephants cannot jump

Bat facts:
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand which weighs about as much as a dime.
Tiny woolly bats of West Africa live in the large webs of colonial spiders
Bats are more closely related to humans than they are to rodents. Several studies indicate that the Old World fruit bats and flying foxes may actually be descended from early primates.
The pallid bat of western North America is immune to the stings of the scorpions and centipedes upon which it feeds.
Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
An anticoagulant from vampire bat saliva may soon be used to treat human heart patients and stroke victims.
Tequila is produced from agave plants whose seed production drops to 1/3000th of normal without bat pollinators, such as the Mexican long-tongued bat.

Answer 2

I love how most of the ones people posted aren't even entirely factual.
Alka Seltzer will not cause a Seagull's stomach to explode, killer whales do not "torpedo the underside of the shark so that it 'explodes,'" etc.

But - is anyone else amused by the picture associated with the "Fish Facts" portion of this website?
http://www.funshun.com/amazing-facts/animal-facts.html

How retarded..
Anyways, here's an interesting fact for you:
Horses have nearly 360 degree vision while grazing without having to move their head - their blind spot is directly behind them, which is why people say you should never run up behind a horse and surprise it.

Answer 3

rats can chew through steel and have over 1500 offspring per year.

cats pee glows under a blacklight.

elephants aren't afraid of mice

There is mention of a unicorn in the Bible

the bombardier beetle has two chemical chambers filled with useless chemicals unless they both come together AND a third chemical catalyst is added to make an explosive acid that shoots out of the back end of the beetle. Any of these three chemicals without the other would would be of no use to the beetle's health/defense.

cave centipedes hang from the ceiling and catch large bats as they fly by. These centipedes are 13" long and eat the bats right there in the cave.

Men backpacking in Africa have had both ears and nose eaten by centipedes. They never felt a thing.

Mosquitoes inject yeast under your skin before they fly away and this is what makes you itch.

Punkies/blackflies have three chemicals that they inject into you as they drink your blood. First is an anesthetic so you can't feel them bite you. Next is an anticoagulant so the blood just pours out of you. This is because their probiscus is just like a long lapping tongue. Last, they inject a venom so that after they have left, and the anesthetic wears off, you get a nice itchy welt. Stinkin' punks!

There are 9 inch wide tarantulas in South America that can distribute their body weight so that they don't break the surface tension of the water when they WALK ON IT!

Frogs have a seat patch on the under side of their body so they can taste the water when they hop into it. If they don't like the puddle they are in, they can hop to the next one and take a sip!

Dust mites feed off of dead skin cells. If there was no such thing as a dust mite(and you ignore weather effects), then we would be walking around through 7 feet of human skin cells that have sloughed off on people over the ages.

That was fun! I have more, but its time for my 14 month old to go to bed.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

dragons are considered a mythical creature but is so popular in DEAD cultures that scholars are beginning to think that they were actually REAL

for example
dozens of variations of European dragons

Chinese dragon

and even an Aztec and Mayan dragon (debatable)

these cultures developed their idea of a dragon even though they had no influence from each other
and how is it that dragons are used so much in folklore

they are depicted in many scenes of glass mosaics in Europe

the Chinese dragon is on hundreds of different embroideries

and the Aztec dragon(debatable) was painted on sacred walls

just something to think about

Answer 6

How are you to decide the most interesting, and how can you tell if its actually true.

Answer 7

There are a few species of whiptail lizards in which there are no males in their species. The females have offspring all by themselves, no fertilization needed. They do need to go through the mating process with another female of their species in order to enhance fertility.