25 Amazing Animal Facts You Might Not Know

the animal kingdom is full of amazing facts it's a world that never ceases to amaze us with all sorts of wonder and incredible feats there are animals that can do seemingly impossible things such as traveling faster than a sports car having the ability to kill someone with the mere brush of its hairs on today's list I've searched high and low to find some of the most interesting animal facts out there there are so many but I have narrowed them down to 25 these are 25 amazing animal facts you might not know 25 if you enter into a boxing match with the peacock mantis shrimp you'll lose this little guy can throw a punch at an average speed of 50 miles an hour and holds the title of the world's fastest limb movement the shrimp accomplished this incredible feat thanks to a small saddle looking structure and it's arm when the arm is cocked this structure is compressed and acts like a spring which when released expands and provides the energy for the punch 24 the peacock mantis shrimp may hold the title for the fastest limb movement in the animal kingdom however it has nothing when you compare it to the speed of a trap-jaw ant's jaw this Central and South American ant can close its jaws at a staggering speed of a hundred and 15 to 207 feet per second that's about 78 to 145 miles an hour 23 did you know that flamingos feathers are naturally white the feathers turned pink thanks to the flamingos diet which is high in beta-carotene a red orange pigment that's found in the algae larvae and brine shrimp that flamingos eat 22 you might have heard that all clownfish are born male this however is not entirely correct clownfish are born with immature male and female sex organs however the truly remarkable feat is that these brightly colored fish can change their sexes depending on their environmental conditions if for example a female within the clownfish group dies the largest remaining member of the group will become female and the second largest individual become the breeding male after its male sex organs fully develop 21 you might have heard the expression blind as a bat well guess what that's mark blind even though bats in general do use echolocation to navigate and catch prey that's aren't entirely without sight depending on the bat species they could have excellent sight and smell or maybe be slightly colorblind 20 oh I know some of you're gonna have some serious doubts about this animal fact but here it goes cats can't taste sweet stuff I can see those comments already however it's true rather than sweets cats prefer meats this is because cats lack two hundred and forty seven base pairs of the amino acids that make up the DNA of the TAS 1r2 gene and as a result in simpler terms this lack of base pairs hinders the creation of the protein that would permit cats to taste sweets though there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to the contrary scientists are pretty confident of cats inability to taste sweet things with that said scientists also know that cats can taste things that we can't such as adenosine triphosphate also known as ATP which is the compound that gives energy to living cells 19 if you think humans are the only ones who have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases think again these yes bees can suffer from STDs as well no Sima is a unicellular fungus that leads to the STD no samosas the most widespread disease of honeybees symptoms of the STD include dysentery disjointed wings and absent sting reflexes 18 you're probably aware of the sloths famous aptitude for speed their lack thereof but I bet you've never considered how much time it takes for a sloth to poop well now that you have that picture in your mind you're welcome and the sloth can take anywhere between one to two weeks to digest its food with some meals even taking a whole entire month for others who talked about a major case of constipation 17 what is probably one of the cutest microscopic animals is also one of the most indestructible tardigrades aka water bears are microscopic animals that average about half a millimeter in length that's roughly the size of a period at the end of a sentence these eight-legged pandas can be found all over the world in some of the most extreme and harshest of conditions tardigrades have been known to survive exposures to 300 degrees Fahrenheit negative 458 degrees Fahrenheit the vacuum of space and pressure six times stronger than the ocean floor 16 do you know the true color of a polar bear if you said white well you're not entirely correct polar bears may appear white but underneath all that fur lays a cover of black skin which helps them soak up the sun's warming rays ah but their fur is white right technically wrong again polar bears fur is transparent are clear but thanks to the hairs characteristics such as their hollow core filled with air and the fact that they have light scattering particles inside them the polar bears hair appears white to the human eye 15 humans are highly political beings and one of our political exercises is the ability to vote however voting is not a strictly human action did you know that African Buffalo's vote as well African Buffalo are herd animals and they often make group decisions about when and where to move by voting the way they do this is by standing up staring in one direction and then lying back down this denotes what direction the buffalo is voting for another interesting aspect of this is that only female Buffalo's vote 14 can you dance you probably can in fact most humans can to some degree whether they can do this well or not that's another story but I digress did you know however that there is another mammal that can dance a dancing sea lion has shocked scientists and has become the first non-human mammals ability to keep a beat Ronin as the sea lion is named was first trained by researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz to keep a beat today Ronin can dance to just about any song you throw at her 13 you may not believe this but some animals don't need to mate in order to have offspring you can literally say these animals can have virgin births in something called parthenogenesis the mother provides both sets of the DNA necessary to create an embryo this kind of reproduction has been observed in animals such as the leopard shark pythons whiptail lizards salamanders and even turkeys twelve one animal do you think has the thickest fur in the animal kingdom the answer might surprise you if you said bear you're mistaken the correct answer is otters yep those small little cute as a button swimming darlings have fur that has as many as 1 million hairs per square inch on the densest parts of their body 11 it's a well-known and obvious fact that humans laugh but what about animals do they laugh as well apparently some do researchers at Germany's Humboldt University have observed that rats giggle when tickled these researchers have shown for the first time that laughter can be elicited by stimulation the Laughing rats were so excited that they were jumping around and chasing the hand of one of the researchers simply adorable 10 music is powerful and can elicit strong responses from people like crying dancing head banging etc however musics power can extend well into the animal kingdom enter cows it's been recorded that cows produce more milk when they're exposed to slow music according to researchers at the University of Leicester School of Psychology cows produce one point five or more pints per day when slow music was played for them versus more upbeat tunes of course the experiment is a bit controversial and there isn't a strong scientific consensus 9 how would you like to control animals with your mind well you just might be able to research students in China have been able to create a brain-to-brain interface technique which allows them to control cockroaches with this interface students have been able to guide a living cockroach along s-shaped and z-shaped paths can you imagine all the cockroaches under your control oh I just imagined and nope and I'd rather kill them tell them a fire aid when you think of a dangerous animal a caterpillar is probably the last animal to come to your mind unless you're Tristan but it shouldn't be the caterpillar known as la no Meah oblique kills more people than snakes in some parts of the world this caterpillar has a powerful defense mechanism via its hairs which contain venom that keeps human blood from clotting any person that brushes against these hairs will experience extreme uncontrollable bleeding which can and has led to death 7 bats are extremely beneficial to our environment especially when it comes to bug control one bat can eat up to a thousand mosquito sized bugs per hour that's 1,000 mosquitoes and other types of bugs you won't have to worry about biting you and transmitting some crazy disease go bats 6 we all know that whales are large animals in fact you may even know that the blue whale is the largest animal today but did you know that the blue whale is not only the largest animal alive today but is the largest animal to have ever lived that's larger than dinosaurs or any sea creature ever it's estimated that the blue whale's tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant blue whales can reach sizes of up to 100 feet long and can weigh upwards of 200 tons 5 you may be aware that cheetahs are fast but how fast may just blow your mind cheetahs have been documented to go from zero to 60 in just 3 seconds that's faster the most sports cars some scientists believe that in the wild cheetahs may even go faster this incredible speed makes the cheetah the fastest land animal alive today for the cheetah may be the fastest land animal alive today but there is one animal that can travel faster than the cheetah the sailfish this bizarre-looking fish has been clocked at speeds reaching 68 miles an hour Michael Phelps whoo 3 though the cheetah and the sailfish have pretty impressive speeds they can't match the speed of this avian creature the peregrine falcon can reach speeds of up to 200 miles an hour that's 200 no that's not a typo also that's 321 km/h 89 point 4 1 m/s for our metric friends while diving for prey this makes the peregrine falcon the fastest animal on the planet while diving - the Brazilian Wandering Spider bite has a very interesting side effect this spiders bite gives its victim a painful four-hour erection now before you start tossing your viagra pills away let me warn you the Brazilian Wandering Spider is officially the world's most venomous spider and is known to kill its victims in just 2 hours 1 hummingbirds are amazing you've probably seen a couple in your backyard or maybe on your hummingbird feeder generally there are very small birds in fact you might even mistake them for a large insect however these incredible birds hold a special record in the animal kingdom they are the only birds that can fly backwards they use this incredible feat to help them get in and out of flowers as they go about gathering nectar so what's one of your favorite animal facts let us know in the comments below or tweet your answer to us at Liz twenty five enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button on the bottom right on the notification bell so you don't miss out on new ones every Monday through Friday share them with your friends and help us consistently conciliate curiosity and if you want even more lists check out these videos here or just head to our website at least 25 comm while you're there make sure to join our newsletter for exclusive lists prizes and so much more you really don't want to miss out on this [Music]

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Length: 13min 39sec (819 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 07 2019