28 Uncanny Things Animals Can Do That Shouldn’t Be Allowed

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28 Uncanny Things Animals Can Do That Shouldn’t Be Allowed
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Laws of nature are fundamental principles that describe how the universe behaves, encompassing patterns observed in physical, chemical and biological processes. Google searches of nature’s laws aside, what we’ve learned here is that we’re actually sticklers for the rules. We believe that everything should follow these laws, and we’re not afraid to tattle on these defiant Earthly creatures who just think they can do their own strange things.

We’re not exactly sure who to tattle to, but when we do, these animals are in big trouble!

Meerkats

Meerkats can naturally deflect bright light to see better. Those black circles around their eyes are basically built-in sunglasses. CRACKED.COM

African Spiny Mice

The African spiny mouse is the only known mammal that can lose up to 60% of its skin, and grow It all back. Their skins are brittle and can easily tear to help them escape their predators. While mammals will grow scar tissue when their skins are removed, spiny mice can fully regrow skin, hair follicles, sweat glands, and even cartilage. CRACKED.COM

Amazonian Ants

An Amazonian ant species has evolved to reproduce without sex. The females basically clone themselves to produce an all-female ant colony. It's the first time this behavior has been recorded in ants. While diversity and the longevity of the species could be an obvious problem here, it's fascinating to note that these female colonies grow a greater number of crops than other ant species. CRACKED.COM

Reindeer

Reindeer can change the color of their eyes. Their eyes turn from golden brown to blue during the dark Arctic winter months to help them catch more light. This happens by putting pressure on the eyeball to reduce spacing between its collagen fibers, making it reflect blue light. Such a dramatic shift has never been seen in mammals before. CRACKED.COM

Bees

Bees do not suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. A (challenging) study was done to determine whether bees would take the risk and perform a task they knew would be difficult to do. The bees opted out of the choice and performed better in the task overall, suggesting that they do not overestimate their abilities. Scientists aren't sure whether it's a true cognitive reflection, but this awareness definitely helps bees survive. CRACKED.COM

Sharks

Sharks can replace a lost or broken tooth in a matter of days. Thanks to stem cells in their jaws, sharks' teeth are constantly being grown. When they lose a tooth, the jaw works like a conveyor belt and pushes the new tooth out. They go through around 20,000 teeth in a lifetime. CRACKED.COM

Chickens

Hens can eject sperm. That's right, chickens are better at natural birth control than us. Hens will eject the sperm of a male if he is deemed less desirable or if mating was forced. Given that both sexes are quite promiscuous, this happens a lot. GRACKED COM

Rats

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Jumping Fleas

Fleas can jump 220 times their own body length That's like making a human field goal from three stadiums away CRACKED.COM

Woodpeckers

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Crave Crayfish

CRACKED.COM Cave crayfish are a lot like their surface relatives, minus the eyes and pigment. But while normal crayfish live for 6 to 7 years... ...cave crayfish live to be 175.

The Black Swallower

You are a mackerel, meet a black swallower. It's much smaller than you... Well, a stretchy stomach can do wonders. GRAGKED.COM

Wood Frogs

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Migrations

Birds fly south for the winter? So what? Did you know that some of these things can remember up to 25,000 miles round trip, just to find the same roosting spot? CRACKED.COM

Sea Hares

meet the see hare... a venomous see slug, that is also a hermaphrodite. Both Both Female Male when meting, they have 30 orgy where some of them set as both Kind of gives new meaning to genders at get it any way you can... the same time. CRACKED.COM

Ground Squirrels

GRACKED COM The ground squirrel has been known to hide their scent from their most dangerous predator, the snake, by chewing an outer layer of snakeskin and rubbing it all over their fur.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish can regress to infancy. CRACKED.COM How sweet would it be to just shrink out of society and drop some goo's and ga's in your old crib? Immortal jellyfish do just that: once they've had kids of their own, they shrink and sink back to the form and location of their infancy, and start it all over again.

Pit Vipers

Pit vipers see temperature. CRACKED.COM Pit vipers' eponymous pits are little receptors under their nostrils that detect infrared light. These guys have night vision goggles built into their faces.

Vampire Bats

Vampire bats smell heat. CRACKED.COM They can sniff out the juiciest vein to chomp into using heat sensors located inside their nostrils.

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes smell carbon dioxide. CRACKED.COM These little sh*t stains are so good at finding your head because they can detect carbon dioxide, and ride the wave of breath right back to your mouth hole.

Moths

Moths can speak bat. CRACKED.COM Some moths have evolved the ability to detect bats' ultrasonic emissions, thwarting echolocation.

Elephants

Elephants yell silently. CRACKED.COM They can communicate infrasonically, below the range of human hearing. A horny elephant could bellow about how horny he is, in an attempt to contact a potential mate up to 10 miles away, and we'd be none the wiser.

Platypuses

Platypuses can hear electricity. CRACKED.COM They have a 6th sense, electroreception, that's probably most similar to our sense of hearing. They can sense electric fields generated by muscular contraction.

Mantis Shrimp

Mantis shrimp can pretty much see God. CRACKED.COM If there is a God, even Не can't escape the mantis shrimp's freaky gaze. On top of the spectrum of light we can see, they also pick up ultraviolet, infrared and polarized light.

Beetles

Jewel beetles can feel infrared. CRACKED.COM They have receptors in their chests that can detect a forest fire dozens of miles away. While you or I might run in the opposite direction, they get all horned up and fly toward the fire (a charred, desolate wasteland is the perfect place to copulate in peace).

Birds

Birds have some kind of GPS. CRACKED.COM Some birds have an uncanny ability to navigate the globe, possibly using the Earth's magnetic field. Scientists have put tiny little magnetic helmets on pigeons to study them, but still don't really know how they do it.

Jumping Spiders

Jumping spiders see four primary colors. CRACKED.COM Primary is in the eye of the beholder: we can pick up red, blue, and yellow, but these bad boys see an entire 4th primary color that we, quite literally, can't even dream of.

Spiders

Spiders can see your iPhone's invisible lasers. CRACKED.COM When you tap your phone's screen to focus the camera, it's actually emitting a LiDAR beam that's invisible to the human eye. But you can see a spider react if you tap them through your screen.

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