Please tell me animal facts!

Post Reply New Topic

This is a Little Barrier giant Weta (Deinacrida Heteracantha), a relative of grasshoppers and the like. They are they heaviest insects in the world (a record female carrying eggs weighed in at 71 grams, or 2,5 ounces) and are capable of being deep-frozen and thawed out again with no ill effects.

Those things live on a little island off of New Zealand.

Islands often get both giantism and dwarfism among animals.

Hummingbirds are tiny birds, who can fly forwards, hover, and are the only known birds to fly backwards as well.

Jellyfish do not have brains per se, but they have enough of a nervous system to actually be able to see through four clusters of eyes spread around the rim of their bells. They can avoid obstacles and actively hunt prey, they don’t always just drift aimlessly and eat whatever happens to get caught in their tentacles.

Pretty sure the one that got my dad and me across the back of the knees in South Carolina when I was about four was aimlessly drifting, though, not trying to attack us. Don’t know what kind it was, but it was not one of the dangerous ones - though I still sure remember how much it hurt. I harbor no ill will toward the creatures, though, I find them fascinating.

I was down by my creek a few minutes ago and spotted an unusual turtle. It was about 12 inches long head-to-tail. What immediately caught my attentions was how flat the shell was. It was very round and flat. The shell had a shimmer to it almost like plastic. As it moved, it appeared that the shell was also somewhat flexible. I wondered if turtles regrow shells as they age, like a snake grows a new skin.

Well it looked a little like this "Soft Shelled Turtle".


I should have paid more attention to the shape of its head.

Not all house cats hate water. Some really enjoy it, and I’ve even heard of cats who will hop in the shower with their humans.

Neither of the two cats we’ve had are/were that kind of cat, though. I’ve had both of them accidentally fall in while I was taking a bath, and boy, did they scramble to get out!

KC, our old cat, was one of the rare cats who are completely unaffected by catnip. We even brought some fresh catnip from a neighbor’s garden, and not even that affected her behavior at all. Arthur, our new cat, rubs his face in it for a little bit and then just tries to eat it.

Relative to its body size, the barnacle has the largest penis in the world.

inspite of ferocious appearance , believe it to be a fact that tyrannosaurus Rex was a herbavore.?

Star-nosed moles are excellent swimmers. Despite their poor vision, they regularly hunt underwater. Emerging from tunnel mouths below the waterline, they find prey by using their nose-tentacles to produce a directed stream of tiny bubbles. They then sniff the bubbles back up, inhaling scent molecules from them in the process. The main purpose of the 22 tentacles is as touch receptors- they're covered with tens of thousands of ultra-sensative touch sensors called "Eimer's Organs," which are only found in moles.

There has been some debate as to whether T.rex was actually a predator, or merely a scavenger (predator all the way, eye positioning!). The only ones saying it was a herbivore that I've seen were christian fundamentalists who believed all animals were herbivores before the fall or something like that.

I'd agree, but the reasoning was something along the lines of it habitually stealing fresh kills from smaller predators, thus explaining the teeth. While the eyes of the T-rex are relatively small (and so probably didn't rely heavily on sight), they are still the forward-facing binocular vision of an animal that hunts.

Also, your examples are both highly specialized; the bushbaby for night vision and the hammerhead not even for vision at all but rather for sensing the electric fields of potential prey via Ampullae of Lorenzini.