70 Weird Animal Facts That’ll Leave You Amazed

by Anusha MH2 years ago

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An Unbelievable Fact About Snails Is that they Have 14,000 Teeth

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Snails have 14000 teeth

A garden snail has 14,000 microscopic teeth. The teeth run along a flexible structure called a “radula.” However, they use their teeth just to grind the food and use their tongue to pass their food. When the teeth become weak they fall out and regrow.

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Armadillos Can Fill Their Stomachs and Intestines with Air and Float Across the Water

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Armadillos float across the water

Armadillos can cross water bodies in two ways. One way is by inflating their stomach and intestine with air. The other one is by sinking deep down in the water and using their sharp claws to walk across the bottom. Moreover, they can hold their breath for six minutes or more!

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The Woodpecker’s Tongue Is So Long and Extended, that it Can Wrap its Tongue on its Skull to Protect its Brain from over 1,000 g(force) While Hammering Wood.

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Woodpecker tongue protect its brain

The woodpecker uses its tongue as a helmet to protect its brain from injury. Due to frequent wood pecks, there are chances of brain damage to their skull. So because of their extraordinary tongue, which is nearly three times longer than their beak, they wrap their tongue on its skull to protect their head.

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Pandas Defecate up to 50 Times a Day

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Panda defecate upto 50 times a day

Since pandas spend around 10-16 hours of the day just eating food, they defecate up to 50 times a day. Pandas are 99% vegetarian and the diet consists mainly of different bamboo species and leaves. The other 1% are eggs or meat. The food stays in their stomachs for only eight to 12 hours. Also, Pandas need two different species of bamboo to avoid starvation. Most of their time is spent eating or sleeping.

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When Ready to Mate, the Male Giraffe will Taste the Urine of the Female Giraffe to Confirm Whether the Female is Ovulating

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Giraffe mating

Male giraffes are usually not interested in mating all the time. They wait to see if their mate is fertile. The mating ritual begins only when he realizes that his mate is in the heat after tasting her urine. During this period, the male giraffe will try to keep other males away from the female ones as he decides to pursue her. On the other hand, the female tries to get a better male to become interested in her so that she can leave the current male.

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Cows Have No Upper Teeth Pattern

Cows Have No Upper Teeth Pattern
Cows Have No Upper Teeth Pattern

Cows are called as ruminants. Their upper teeth are not visible like other animals because they have a dental pad and lower incisors. Moreover, they have premolars and molars that are located in the upper and lower jaws. When they chew foods like grasses, the upper premolars help them to break their food into smaller pieces.

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Wolverine Frogs Break Their Own Bones to Create Claws as a Defense Mechanism

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Wolverine Frogs break their bones

Wolverine frogs, also known as ” horror  frogs,” have got some bizarre defense mechanism strategies. When the animal is threatened, it contracts a muscle that pulls the claw downwards. The sharp point then breaks away from the bony tip and cuts through the toe pad, emerging on the underside.

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Droppings of Bats Can Be Used to Make Gunpowder

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Bat Guano

Gunpowder made from bats, known as “bat guano,” was used as an important resource during the American Civil War. Guano is rich in potassium nitrate (saltpeter). Saltpeter is especially used in explosives and to preserve fossil fuels.

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Ducks Can Half-sleep While Keeping One Side of Their Brains Awake

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Duck can half sleep

Researchers have come to the fact that ducks can trick their predators by half-sleep. By shutting one eye, they can keep their half-brain in sleep mode while the other is in awake mode. The whole mechanism is called “unihemispheric.”

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When an Anglerfish Male Finds a Suitable Mate, He Bites into Her Belly and Latches on Until His Body Fuses with Hers

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Male Anglerfish bites into his mate’s belly

Anglerfish are just weird deep killers of the sea. When a male encounters a female, he latches the female angler with his sharp teeth and physically fuses with her by connecting to her bloodstream. But he loses his eyes and other organs except for the testes. He feeds from her blood and then becomes like a sperm factory. A male anglerfish will die if he doesn’t find a suitable mate within the first few months of his life.

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