-Elephants can’t jump.
-Starfish don’t brains.
-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don’t attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.
Elephants have a prehensile penis that they sometimes use for a fifth leg.
That’s their nose buttmaster
Some scorpions can drop their tail if in danger. But afterwards they can’t poop anymore and die of constipation months later.
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only mammal that can make its own custard (plus the enchidna which can also do the same)
Dolphins don’t dream. Their cortex is large enough to not need to
Sharks are older than the star polaris
Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.
Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.
I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.
But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
Cheetahs sound fun until I consider how many cords my cats have chewed, furniture they’ve scratched, and litter boxes they’ve populated.
Then suddenly a giant tame housecat seems less appealing.
You can see a good portion of the back of many owls’ eyes if you look in their ears.
Earwigs can fly…
The octopus has 9 brains, one central brain (donut shaped, around the esophagus), and one in each of the 8 arms.
And one arm is used especially for octopus sexy time. (hectocotylus)
All that hentai led me to believe otherwise
Chimps will gang up and murder tyrannical leaders, we could learn so much from them. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/
Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)
I learned a NSFW animal fact the other day. There are some fish that care for their young by holding them in their mouth, it’s called mouthbrooding. That’s not the new or NSFW part though.
The NSFW part is the fact that
for some fish, the fertilization occurs in the mouth. The female lays her eggs and scoops them up into her mouth. Then the male fertilizes the eggs directly in her mouth. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. A male fish cums into a female fish’s mouth, and that’s how they normally reproduce.
Ahh, nature. So beautiful. So like us.
Wobats poop cubes.
They also have an armored butt
are their assholes square?
They have weird butt muscles and use the poop as trail markers if I remember rightly.
Starfish don’t brains?
I like that cats know their own names, understand why we’re saying them, yet choose to ignore us on purpose.
Female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises and no vaginal opening. They instead dock and give birth through their dicks
