Funny Facts About Animals

Did you know that goats have rectangular pupils?

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

Sloths only poop once a week, and it takes them up to a minute to do so!

Kangaroos can’t fart.

A study found that cows produce more milk when they listen to slow music.

Honey never spoils, which means you can eat honey that’s thousands of years old.

Pigs can’t look up at the sky.

Cats sleep for around 70% of their lives.

An octopus has three hearts.

Female ferrets will die if they don’t mate.

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.

Cows do have best friends and get stressed when they’re separated.

The fingerprints of a koala are very similar to those of humans.

Some birds can recognize themselves in a mirror, just like humans and dolphins.

Turtles can breathe through their butts!

A male anglerfish will fuse to a female and become a parasitic partner.

A group of jellyfish is called a smack.

Snails can sleep for three years straight.

The world’s smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, weighs less than a penny.

Goats have accents depending on the region they’re from.

The average chicken can live for five to ten years.

Kangaroos can’t walk backward.

The fingerprints of a chimpanzee are more similar to ours than those of any other animal.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open and half of their brain awake.

Funny Facts About Animals part 2

Gorillas fart when they’re nervous.

Cows communicate with each other using distinct moos.

Female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite. Males prefer fruit.

Anteaters can eat up to 30,000 ants in a single day.

Penguins propose to their partners with a pebble.

Hippopotamus milk is pink.

Male seahorses are the ones that give birth, not the females.

Rats laugh when they are tickled.

You can hypnotize a chicken by drawing a line in front of its face and then picking it up.

A newborn kangaroo is called a joey.

Beavers have transparent eyelids that allow them to see underwater.

The elephant’s closest living relative is the hyrax, a small furry mammal.

A zebra’s stripes are as unique as a human’s fingerprint.

Scientists have discovered that puffins fly faster than the speed of sound!

To tell the age of a ring-tailed lemur, you can count the number of black rings on their tail.

Sheep prefer to stay close to their flockmates because they feel safer in numbers.

The plural of mongoose is mongooses, not mongeese.

There’s a species of moth that feeds on the tears of sleeping birds.

Male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises.

Orcas are technically dolphins, not whales.

When bees swarm, they don’t have a leader. Instead, they make decisions together through a process called bee democracy. I hope you find these funny animal facts entertaining and enjoyable!