“Unbelievable Animal Secrets: 78 Heartwarming Facts That Will Make You See Pets in a Whole New Light!”
Budgies will show signs that they’re about to sleep by:
Tucking one foot into their feathers, hiding it.
Tucking their head between their wings.
Chirping to themselves.
Kittens purr not just when they are happy, but also when they are frightened or in pain. This purring can have a calming effect on themselves and even promote healing.
Unlike most animals, who have a fixed upper jaw and a mobile lower jaw, flamingos have a completely mobile beak all the way around. The upper and lower portions of their beak can be moved independently with ball and socket joints. It was thought for a long time that flamingos could only move the upper part of their beak because of their feeding habits. When eating, flamingos keep their lower beak stationary to use as leverage.
Cougars (also known as mountain lions, pumas, and panthers) are the largest type of cat that can purr. Purring and roaring are thought to be mutually exclusive. Lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars are unable to purr but because of their flexible larynx, they can produce tremendously loud roars.
There’s no such thing as a black panther. The cats you see labelled as black panthers are leopards or jaguars with melanism. Melanism is a condition opposite of albinism where an animal’s body produces too much dark pigment (melanin), making the animal appear black. Other big cats with melanism have never been documented or confirmed to exist.
One way you can tell the gender of turtles is by the sound they make. Male turtles grunt, while female turtles hiss.
Baby shrews travel in conga lines.
When a mother shrew wants to take her babies places, one will carry her tail in its mouth, then its sibling will do the same to it, and so on. These “caravans” can comprise up to 7 or 8 shrews.
Another cool fact about shrews is that their brains shrink by 15% in the winter, so they can survive the food-scarce winter.
One of the wombat’s primary defenses is its toughened backside, which is mostly made of cartilage. When threatened, a wombat dives headfirst into a tunnel, blocking the entrance with its rump. This sturdy rump, and lack of a significant tail, make it difficult for a predator to grab on.
The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch at 50 mph, accelerating quicker than a .22-caliber bullet.
Aside from nesting, common swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on insects they catch in flight.
Tree shrews have the largest brain to body ratio as they are such small creatures. Despite this title, tree shrews are not considered very smart.
Male atlas blue butterflies hold the record for having the most chromosomes of any animal on earth: a whopping 452! Lots of genetic material for such a little thing.
The Etruscan shrew, the world’s smallest mammal, has a heart that beats 25 times a second. Do the math and that adds up to 1,500 beats a minutes. For comparison, an average human’s heart beats 60–100 times a minute (while resting). It takes a lot less time for blood to pumped through the Etruscan shrew’s two gram body.
Giraffes, like many other hoofed prey animals, only sleep standing up to stay safe from predators. They take multiple quick, five minute naps and can get by on just half an hour of sleep a day.
Male greater frigatebirds inflate their throat sacs to display masculinity to mates.
If you have a lonely/anxious horse, put a chicken or pig in the stable with it to calm it down.
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