Random animal facts you know

[NewDayNewLife]

There is a South American bird called the paradise tanager, Latin name Tangara chilensis. It's found in quite a few countries in South America... but not Chile.

Hummingbirds are indiscriminate breeders. They will breed with hummies of other varieties.

If an elephant is mock charging you its ears will be out/forward.

If it's charging with an intent to ram you its ears will be pinned back against its body.

Jelly fish can live forever.
A dung beetle is able to lift something 1000 times its only body weight.
Tarantulas can go without food for 2 years

The great barrier reef can be seen from space & it is made up of coral & it will support lots of other sea life

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Philippine Tarziers are the smallest monkeys

The pistol shrimp is the loudest animal in relation to its size.

@ThreeB

Rhinos ejaculate if you tickle the backs of their knees

Who the F found that out, and why? Oh and did they live for very long after finding out?

Sharks can't swim backwards. I didn't think any creature (humans included)
could swim backwards. I didn't think it was possible.
How creepy would that look.

Synchronized swimming?

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

I have drunk the most expensive coffee from

"Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected......"

Alex the grey parrot, was evidently the first animal to ask an existential question

What colour am I ?

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Whales can only be circumcised by four skin divers.

Jelly fish that were in space & came to earth had vertigo & this may have wider implications for other animals returning from space to earth

Due to their issues with gravity

@CassTheFox

There are no hedgehogs in America. Or in Australia 🦔

Also hyenas aren’t related to dogs, or cats. They are more like giant weasels

Hyenas are more closely related to cats than they are to dogs or weasels.

@Third3NewLife

Philippine Tarziers are the smallest monkeys

The smallest monkey is the pygmy marmoset. Philippine tarsiers and mouse lemurs are smaller but though they are primates they are not monkeys.

OMG how did I not know about pygmy marmosets? The cutest thing ever.

www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2010/10/tiny-baby-marmoset-fits-nicely-on-your-finger.html

An ostriches eyes are bigger than it's brain

Snails are the animals with the most teeth. They have a rasp like radula or tongue covered in teeth

Barnacles have the longest penis size of any animal in relation to body size (up to 8 times the length of their body)

If a Dodo was brought back from extinction (as is being worked on), it would be 3ft tall.

Warning - this is the stuff of nightmares:

There is a parasite that replaces some its host's tongue with itself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

Madagascar has its own versions of hedgehogike creatures called Tenrecs

Horseshoe crabs have blue blood

A duck can choose which male to be pregnant by.

If she doesn’t like the one currently mating/raping her, she will open up the entrance that leads to dead end.

If she does, she will allow herself to be mated through a different entrance to ensure offspring