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I thought it would be fun to open up a thread for people to share whatever random animal factoid they know. Maybe even give people a reason to challenge themselves and surf around looking for interesting interesting trivia.
Here is what I learned today.
Did you know that the Farmer's Almanac says that you can use crickets to find out the temperature ( Farenheit)?
Yup.
Just count how many chirps the lil bugger pumps out for the count of 14. Then add 40 to that and now you know how warm it is outside!
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30 chirps in 14 seconds plus 40 equals a nice even temp of 70 degrees farenheit at that moment.
Did you know that slugs are functionally reproductive hermaphrodites? In laymens terms when two get together to get a lil love on.....they both crawl away pregnant.
Did you know that even though giraffes have those incredibly long necks......they have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as we do?
Yup. It's true. It's just that their neck bones are longer.
Butterflies are born with their probiscus (tube mouth) halved. Yup. They have only 1 hour to get both halves to stick together properly. After that hour they are too dry and won't stick, so if they fail they will starve to death.
Did you know that slugs are functionally reproductive hermaphrodites? In laymens terms when two get together to get a lil love on.....they both crawl away pregnant.
And now you know.
C.S.
This is absolutely HYSTERICAL! You actually had me cracking up out loud!
Ants communicate by smell. They leave each other scent trails to follow. So if you have an ant problem just interupt their scent trail with something stronger ( like windex or simple green).
It's always worked for me.
An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.
I can totally relate to this one.
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Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.
Luckily I've never been that desperate.
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
I had an uncle who had the same problem.
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All porcupines float in water.
That's not odd, just creepy
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When a frog swallows a meal, his bulgy eyeballs will close and go down into his head. This is because the eyeballs apply pressure and actually push a frog's meal down his throat!
See-food, right?
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An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Same with my ex husband.
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Pigs are the only animal that will drink hard liquor voluntarily,
Yes you totally get xBox360 award for copynpasteness! !
Thanks for sharing those though. Many of those I did na know. YAY! I love learning new things!
Did you know that man is not the only animal to get a sunburn? You probably heard pigs do too ( because their skin is similar to ours ) and you are right. However did you know there is one other animal that could do with a good dose of lotion ( figuratively speaking) during those really bright n sunny days?
Can you guess who it is?
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The hammer head shark.
This was found out accidentally during some research on the critters. The ones that were captured to study had darkened ( even their eyelids) because the pools they were kept in were too shallow and they all had the equivalent of a sun burn.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Frogs and mosquitos have teeth.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Crocodiles never outgrow the pools in which they live. That
means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
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