Animal Facts

[Sierra85]

What are some of your favorite facts about animals? I'm thinking like ducks cant hear their own quacks or a cow can't walk down stairs but they can walk up!

[derpkitteh]

that opossums seem to be entirely contradictory animals.

kill your pet chicken, then go for months without even looking at trap full of meat, but then getting caught the first time i put peas and bread in it.

[Barbariangreataxe]

My favorite fact is probably that honey badgers don't give a fuck.

[Glnger]

cat's don't actually have 9 lives

more testing may be necessary

[Calfredd]

Cockroaches have teeth in their stomachs.

[sircaw]

Moray eels have a second set of jaws, imagine the xenomorph from alien.

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Whale milk is 50% fat.

[Sierra85]

Cockroaches have teeth in their stomachs.

do they have teeth in their mouths too?

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Rats can tread water for 3 days and can hold their breath for 15 minutes.

[Techno-Druid]

Manta Ray may be the only self-aware fish.

We're (humans) more closely related to gorillas and chimps than orangutans are.

[Deleted]

The neet.
It resides in your basement and feeds of your leftovers. A lazy scavenger.

[Reeve]

Duck-billed platypuses are the only furred mammal that's venomous, lays eggs. Also, because the babies have duck bills, they can't suckle like most mammals at their mother's teat, so the mother excretes the milk onto her fur and the babies lick it off.

Ducks have corkscrew shaped vaginas and penises in order to stymie the males who pretty much only have sex with females through rape.

[Kathandira]

What are some of your favorite facts about animals? I'm thinking like ducks cant hear their own quacks or a cow can't walk down stairs but they can walk up!

Porcupines cannot have physical sex. They have to ejaculate via projectile, and "hit the mark".

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Duck-billed platypuses are the only furred mammal that's venomous, lays eggs. Also, because the babies have duck bills, they can't suckle like most mammals at their mother's teat, so the mother excretes the milk onto her fur and the babies lick it off.

My favorite animal of all time.

[Theodarzna]

Ducks have corkscrew penis' up to 9 inches long, female ducks have corkscrew vagina's that corkscrew in the opposite direction.

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Sea Cucumbers spew their internal organs that they use to breathe through their butts at attackers.

[Queen of Hamsters]

Humans love to ignore facts. That's a fact about an animal.

[Reeve]

Sea Cucumbers spew their internal organs that they use to breathe through their butts at attackers.

They also sometimes have these really cool bony structures on the outside, and their "feet" are soft and luxuriant to the touch.

[Khadgar]

You can't snap an Owl's neck.

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Cows can't swin since they have no spincter and run full of water.

Okay, I am not sure if that's the truth.

Ducks have corkscrew penis' up to 9 inches long, female ducks have corkscrew vagina's that corkscrew in the opposite direction.

That seems highly unpractical.
Especially since Birds don't have that.

[Jakexe]

There's a parasitic fungus that is essential to the ecosystem as it only spreads and develops when insects hit a population target.

It does this: