12 Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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31 Animals Who Are Capable of Some Outlandish Behavior

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

October 22, 2023

31 Animals Who Are Capable of Some Outlandish Behavior

We’ve all seen the memes with animals doing something completely unexpected or outrageous. From a dog wearing socks to a cat playing the piano, these creatures can sometimes exhibit behavior that is far beyond our expectations. But what might surprise you is that many of these strange antics can be found in animals who share your home. Let’s take a look at some of the craziest things pets do and why they might be doing them…

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Dogs dream like humans.. Like humans, they apparently perform waking activities (pointing at birds, chasing burglars, and so on) in their dreams. Scientists think they probably get nightmares, too. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Spearfishing orangutans CRACKED.COM Orangutans in an animal sanctuary in Borneo have begun mimicking local fishermen, by hanging from vines and stabbing their prey with sharpened sticks. — 14 Brilliant Animals Who Found Themselves In Very Human Situations

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CRACKED.co COM Woodperkers have sreakishly long longues that wrap around behind their skolls — 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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Depending on the circumstances. a human can survive without water for approximately 3 to 5 days. A camel can last as long as 15 days. However, due to its highly specialized kidneys and ability to produce metabolic water within its own body, the Kangaroo Rat can live its entire life--up to 5 years-- without drinking a single drop of water. More importantly, OH MY GOD SO CUTE!!! CRACKED.COM — 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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African elephants can hear with their feet. They can produce low frequency noises which can travel for hundreds Of miles through the ground. Their feet are cushioned by pads that serve as sensory receptors. CRACKED.COM — 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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KIBALBANUS TULUMENSIS THE FiRST VENOMOUS CRUSTACEAN EVER DiSCOVERED. iS FOUND iN CAVES ON THE YUCATAN PENiNSULA iN THE CARiBBEAN SEA. THiS BLiND REMiPEDE LiQUEFiES THE BODY CONTENTS OF OTHER CRUSTACEANS WiTH A VENOM CONTAiNiNG DiGESTiVE ENZYMES AND A PARALYSiNG TOXiN. ttp://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/10/16/molbev.mst199.abstract http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/02/10/blind-cousins-to-the-arthropod-superstars/ CRACKED.COM — 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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Birds seem to pay more attention to speed limits than US. A study in Europe showed how birds observe traffic speeds and then calculate how long they can hang around on the road before getting hit by a car. Times when birds do get hit by cars are believed to be the fault of the driver exceeding the speed limit. CRACKED.COM — Phys.org, National Geographic

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KOALAS HAVE FINGERPRINTS THAT ARE VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THOSE OF HUMANS... Koala Human EVEN UNDER AN ELECTRON Koala Human MICROSCOPE. (MAYBE THIS ACCOUNTS U Daily FOR SOME OF THOSE The UNSOLVED (ASES...) Police Baffle 23 *In Dervach Robberies Class always shoost not MAY of tobbens Authorizes but something Investigators appearant stuch sendence Stupid humans... they will NEVER figure this out. Engeroments MWAAAAHAHA!!I CRACKED.COM — 28 Animals With Superhero Level Abilities

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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.co — Nature

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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.co — The Conversation, Smithsonian Magazine

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In North America, the most dangerous wild animal species are probably deer. They're involved in lots of car crashes, which sometimes kill drivers - plus, they carry deer ticks, which are very harmful to humans. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — SentinelSource.com

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When certain species of spiders want to pack up and take over new lands and resources, they use a process called ballooning They climb to a high point, spin a few strands of silk, catch some air and float away. Some have even traveled hundreds of miles overseas Mass ballooning events have led to horror scenes like this field in Australia, taken over by spiders and cobwebs CRACKED.COM — 29 Animals That Are (Secretly) Evil Geniuses

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Drongos their use deception skills to imitate the sound of a predator or the alarm calls of a species. They've been observed to follow meerkats with their food and sound false alarm calls to them scare away and steal their food. CRACKED.COM — 29 Animals That Are (Secretly) Evil Geniuses

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Bison almost went extinct a century ago, but the Bronx Zoo helped save them. In the early 1900s, there were only about 1,000 wild bison -- so the Bronx Zoo took 15 bison to a newly established preserve in South Dakota. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Welcome2TheBronx

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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. — 14 Weird Things Animals Can Do That You Can't

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Harriet the tortoise was collected by both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin. The 176-year-old tortoise was also one of the oldest animals at the time of her death in 2006. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NBC

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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. — 14 Weird Things Animals Can Do That You Can't

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CRACKED.C .COM Vampire bats have been shown displaying human-like levels of altruism. If a member of a colony is having trouble finding food in the wild, bats who roost near them will share by regurgitating blood directly into the hungry bat's mouth. What stands out about this is that they share between all members of a colony, not just members of their own families. — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Dolphins can not breath... to death. .CRACKED Your autonomic nervous system will force you to breath when you're not actively thinking about it. Dolphins, however, actively choose to take each breath. That means they can also choose not to breath, as in the tragic case of Kathy, the retired Flipper actress who grew depressed and died in her trainer's arms. — 14 Weird Things Animals Can Do That You Can't

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Squirrels regularly cause more blackouts than all hacking attacks combined. There have actually been no hacks of power grids, despite all the fearmongering - but squirrels have caused over 600 power outages since 1987. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Bloomberg

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CRACKED.co Dolphins mourn their dead seriously, hosting wakes that can last for days. — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Wolves understand fairness, and take it seriously. In one experiment, wolves who pushed a button that gave them a terrible reward, but gave another wolf a nice reward, eventually stopped cooperating. They even held grudges against the humans who conducted the experiment. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Dolphins wear plague masks CRACKED.COM About 200 years ago, dolphins figured out that they could wear sponges on their noses, to prevent stonefish attacks as they're scouring the ocean floor. — 14 Brilliant Animals Who Found Themselves In Very Human Situations

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Like humans, dogs have their own music preferences. Research shows that most dogs prefer listening to reggae and soft rock than to pop or classical music. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Grown chimps adopt orphans. Some scientists say only humans give help without expecting anything in return But chimps in the wild take in unrelated baby chimps who lost their parents, and raise them as their own. Sometimes, they care for their adopted kids for years. CRACKED.COM — Animals That (Eerily) Demonstrate Human-Like Behavior

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Boxer Crabs CRACKED .COM The boxer crab holds a sea anemone in each of its claws and uses them as stinging boxing gloves. Lose one? it tears the other into two parts, which regenerates into a new pair. — NPR

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Squirrels CRACKED If a squirrel knows it's being watched, it digs a dummy hole and pretends to spit the food it's carrying, then COVERS it up. Then it runs away to privately bury the food for real. — *Animal Behaviour*

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Caterpillars CRACKED.COM Some caterpillars disguise themselves as a bird poop to seem less appetizing. Birds are less likely to snap up ones that are curled like poop rather than straight like a living bug. — *National Geographic*

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