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Animal Facts
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.
From 1953 to 1957, NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee co-host named J. Fred Muggs. It is estimated he brought in the network around $100 million.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
Chinese scientists observed that snakes exhibit erratic behavior before earthquakes, such as leaving their nests, even during cold weather, and sometimes crashing into walls.
Rats trained to detect landmines in Cambodia can clear 200 square meters in 20 to 35 minutes, a process that usually takes human de-miners two to three days.
Polar bears often hunt walruses by causing panic and targeting those injured in the chaos, as direct attacks are too risky due to the walruses’ size and sharp tusks.
Roughly 33% of cats are not affected by catnip. The euphoric reaction commonly associated with catnip is hereditary.
Male billy goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season.
The first living creatures to orbit the Moon weren’t humans but tortoises! They spent seven days there in 1968 before returning safely to Earth.
A beekeeper in South Australia taught his dog Bazz to sniff out an infectious disease that wipes out bee colonies, then invented a dog beekeeper suit for Bazz the Beekeeper.
The sport of squirrel fishing involves participants trying to catch squirrels and lift them into the air by using a fishing pole with a nut as bait.
At the start of the 20th century, “chicken spectacles” were popularly used in the U.S. to prevent chickens from feather pecking or eating each other by restricting their vision.
There are two species of African spiders named after “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski. They are called “Anelosimus biglebowski” and “Anelosimus dude.”
From 1948 to 1958, a Florida man tricked locals into thinking a 15-foot-tall penguin had visited their local beach by wearing giant cast-iron shoes shaped like penguin feet.
Puma, cougar, and mountain lion are names for the same animal. The scientific name is Puma concolor, but they are more commonly referred to as cougars.
The blue ghost firefly, a rare species in the Southern Appalachian forests, emits a blue glow lasting up to a minute each time.
In some parts of the world, spiked dog collars are still used for their original purpose: to protect shepherding dogs from predators like wolves.
Bees have three tiny additional eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli, which collect and focus light to help them navigate.
Emperor penguins have been recorded diving as deep as 1,850 feet (550 meters) and can hold their breath for more than 20 minutes.
