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Animal Facts
Turkey vultures use defensive vomit as a method to repel potential threats and can project their vomit up to 10 feet.
The myotonic goat, also known as the Tennessee fainting goat, stiffens and may fall over when startled or excited due to a hereditary condition called myotonia congenita.
Bees have three tiny additional eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli, which collect and focus light to help them navigate.
In some parts of the world, spiked dog collars are still used for their original purpose: to protect shepherding dogs from predators like wolves.
With a 95% success rate, dragonflies are considered the most effective hunters in the animal kingdom.
The name “orangutan” is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang, meaning “person,” and hutan, meaning “forest,” thus “person of the forest.”
In 1996, researchers found a young orca with severe spine and fin injuries. Unable to hunt, the calf, called Stumpy, was cared for by up to five different orca pods.
After Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries on mermaids, the U.S. government issued a statement to clarify that mermaids do not exist.
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
Sirius is known as the Dog Star because it marks the nose of the Canis Major (Greater Dog) constellation.
The bumblebee bat, native to Myanmar and Thailand, is the world’s smallest mammal, weighing about as much as two paper clips and measuring about the length of a human fingertip.
Research shows that cow tipping is unlikely. Standing cows require up to 899 pounds of force (4,000 newtons) to tip, requiring up to fourteen people in a coordinated effort.
Eating bananas near bee hives may provoke aggression, as the banana scent resembles an alarm pheromone bees release when defending the hive.
When bumblebees flap their wings, they generate a positive charge, which transfers to the flowers they land on. This tells other bees not to visit the flower.
In Texas, the feral hog population is so bad that they’d have to kill 70% of all existing hogs each year in order to keep it from getting worse.
In the 1870s, 37 cats were trained to deliver mail in Liège, Belgium, but the experiment was short-lived due to inefficiency, with most cats taking up to a day for deliveries.
Parrots name their offspring with unique calls that the young birds learn and use throughout their lives.
Honey and items immersed in honey can be preserved for centuries. The long shelf life is due to an enzyme found in the stomachs of bees.
