People Are Sharing Their Favorite Animal Facts That Never Cease To Amaze Them

There is a species of Zombie Worm called the Bone-Eating Snot Flower.

Yes, zombie worms and bone-eating snot flowers are real animals.

Foxes use the earth's magnetic fields.

"Like a guided missile, the fox harnesses the earth's magnetic field to hunt. Other animals, like birds, sharks, and turtles, have this "magnetic sense," but the fox is the first one we've discovered that uses it to catch prey.

According to *New Scientist*, the fox can see the earth's magnetic field as a "ring of shadow" on its eyes that darkens as it heads towards magnetic north. When the shadow and the sound the prey is making line up, it's time to pounce. 

Giraffes chew on bones to give them extra calcium.

Leopard pee smells like buttered popcorn.

A group of zebras are called a dazzle.

A cat slowly blinking at you means they’re relaxed and comfortable in you company.

Sharks have electric sensors in their noses that help them locate prey. If you ever feel you’re about to be attacked, rub their noses. This sends them into a natural high where they float around like a dead fish.

Shark attacks are incredibly rare. They aren’t vicious animals at all. They’re actually very shy and curious by nature.

Guinea pigs can die from loneliness.

A goldfish’s natural lifespan is around 30 years. Common causes for early death are stress and inadequate housing such as a dirty filter or an unbalanced acid and bacteria ratio in the water.

A pig’s body structure is uncannily similar to a humans. Scientists study pig corpses to give a strong educated guess as to our decomposing would work. It’s also apparent that human meat would taste very much like pork.

A chinchilla’s hair a so fine, you would need 5 hairs to match the thickness of a human hair.

The mantis shrimp, while also having the ability to see 16 primary colours, it has a punch so hard string that it creates a vacuum inside the water between its leg and the prey as well as boiling the surrounding water.

Dogs can see farts.

The difference between a turtle, tortoise and terrapin is in the legs and their environment. A turtle is large, has 4 flat flippers and lives in salt water. A tortoise is land dwelling and has 4 stubbly legs. A terrapin is about the size of a tortoise, has 4 legs with webbed feet and lives in fresh water.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny and is the only bird who can fly backwards. And is always two hours away from starvation.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Humans over long distances can outrun all other land animals.

Owls can sit crossed legged, the big cat with the strongest bite force(PSI) is the jaguar(1700 PSI), male anglerfish are much smaller than the females and when the female is ready to mate she excretes a pheremone which makes the male hungry. He will then try to eat her, but he then gets stuck to her, dissolves until the only thing that remains are his testicles.

An immortal species of jellyfish! They can revert back to a sexually immature polyp to start its life over once it becomes old or sick.

Axolotl facts:

1. The "ferns" on an Axolotl's head are actually its gills!
2. Axolotl is a Mexican word that translates to "Water dog"
3. Xolotl was a dog-headed "god" from Aztec mythology. Xoltol would lead the souls of the dead to the underworld. Some believe that Xolotl was scared of being killed by an angry king and transformed into an axolotl to hide. The salamander is trapped in the water of Xochimilco, unable to transform and walk on land due to forgetting how to transform back into the "god" it once was.
4. They can regenerate parts of their body! If they lose a limb it will grow back.
5. Axolotls are resistant to cancer, over 600% more than us humans.
6. They have no eyelids and prefer it where it's dark
7. They also have no teeth! But they have ridges similar to velcro to grip their food and vacuum it down to their stomachs
8. They have a characteristic called Neoteny, meaning that they keep their juvenile traits even if they're full grown.
9. They have a chance of evolving into a tiger salamander but this is a rare occurrence that only happens if the axolotl's parents have the gene in them. (Usually due to crossbreeding)
10. They're critically endangered in the wild, with only a couple of their habitat lakes existing.

Only female mosquitoes bite humans for blood. Males drink nectar like butterflies.

If frogs vomit, they vomit out their stomach, scraping out their contents, then swallowing it up again without dying.

this is probably more disgusting than amazing

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oh well.

In clownfish, each 'school'( tribe whatever) has one female, and a head male and the others ( all males) , if the female dies, the head male turns into a female.. And the next in line to the ( leadership throne?) would be the male leader and bang the former male leader.
Yeah clownfish are Wacky.

The closest living relatives to the Tyrannosaurus Rex are chickens.

Turtles can breath through their butts. And Owls keep little snakes as pets.

Wasps pollinate figs and may be trapped inside while doing so. That means fig Newtons are not technically vegan.

Sperm whales in the carribean have an accent.

When a specific species of carpenter ant (Colobopsis saundersi) realizes it's going to lose the fight it's having with another insect, it latches onto them and then *blows itself up.* Membranes along the ant's body can be activated that'll lead to combustion. Special enlarged glands in its head mean the explosion sends a glue-like substance shooting out that will very likely entrap the previously presumptive brawl victor.

Polar bears fur is actually clear.

There is an extinct species of bee that we only know exists because there is an orchid whose naughty parts mimic the bee in order to trick them into pollinating it!

Wolfs only have one mate for their entire lives.