-Elephants can’t jump.
-Starfish don’t brains.
-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don’t attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.
Most giraffe sex happens between two males.
Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.
Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.
I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.
But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.
Cheetahs sound fun until I consider how many cords my cats have chewed, furniture they’ve scratched, and litter boxes they’ve populated.
Then suddenly a giant tame housecat seems less appealing.
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only mammal that can make its own custard
Dolphins don’t dream. Their cortex is large enough to not need to
Sharks are older than the star polaris
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees and grass.
I learned a NSFW animal fact the other day. There are some fish that care for their young by holding them in their mouth, it’s called mouthbrooding. That’s not the new or NSFW part though.
The NSFW part is the fact that
for some fish, the fertilization occurs in the mouth. The female lays her eggs and scoops them up into her mouth. Then the male fertilizes the eggs directly in her mouth. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. A male fish cums into a female fish’s mouth, and that’s how they normally reproduce.
Ahh, nature. So beautiful. So like us.
Female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises and no vaginal opening. They instead dock and give birth through their dicks
the sounding community seems to leak again…
A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!
There are 25-million ants for every person on this planet.
I don’t want mine.
I’ma shock you.
Creatures don’t need brains. I mean, we have ample human evidence. But like, nervous systems can create thought (or whatever it is animals do) and reaction to stimuli without a central processing organ.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
So what do I do? I now have some meerkats following me home.
Dat ass
Meerkass
Meerkat got back.
Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.
Humans can throw objects in excess of 100 mph, and hit a target from over 60 feet away
But they still can’t take criticism.
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)
Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
