-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.
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.
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees and grass.
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.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
Dat ass
Meerkass
Meerkat got back.
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.
Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
Humans can throw objects in excess of 100 mph (40 m/s), and hit a target from over 60 feet (20 m) away
But they still can’t take criticism.
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.
Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)
Spider web microphones. Or antennas. Someone should build one. Someone competent in the area. :)
Opossums are essentially immune to rabies and eat ticks.
Venom too… They hunt snakes
Cheetah’s went through a genetic bottleneck somewhere between ten and twelve thousand years ago. There may have been less than ten left at one point. Dating the Cheetah Genetic Bottleneck
My totally silly theory is that humans in fact where adopting kits at that time and help saved the species, and that’s why they’re so almost domesticated.I never knew for ages they’re part of the house cat branch of the feline family rather than the big cat branch with the lions and tigers, so that explains why they’re just floppy doofuses.
There is almost no genetic diversity among them. You can skin graft or transplant organs between any two cheetahs without fear of rejection.
Wouldnt that also result in inbreeding or is there enough diversity to this being of no concern?
Yes it has. But species survival is more important.
Could have been the egyptians lol https://egyptfuntours.com/blog/cheetah-in-ancient-egypt/
You can see a good portion of the back of many owls’ eyes if you look in their ears.
Pigs can’t look up. Sharks are older than trees. The duck billed platypus has no nipples; milk just oozes from the skin. All mammals have the same number of cervical vertebrae.
Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.
It should be just platypus. And ducks are really platypus billed ducks. The platypus had it’s bill first way before ducks came along
At some point a horny platypus fucked a chicken, and invented the duck.
pigs can very obviously look up
