Amazing and Little Known Facts About Animals and Insects
Published by The world around us holds many odd and unusual facts that most of us have never heard about. Below is a list of ten interesting facts about animals, insects, and crawly things that you will probably never need to know.
Below is a list of ten interesting facts about animals, insects, and crawly things that you will probably never need to know.
Animals and Crawly Things
- A giraffe is able to go longer without water than a camel.
- A mother kangaroo keeps a back up embryo inside of her after her first baby enters her pouch. This is in case the first one dies.
- Elephants can remain standing after they die.
- Baby tiger sharks fight each other to the death before they are born. The winner is the one who will be born.
- An albatross can sleep while in the air. Riding air current while asleep allows them to stay in the air for several days.
- Honey bees use the sun as a compass to navigate.
- Orchids can make a bee drunk. The bee then becomes disoriented and drops its collected pollen into the flower pollinating it.
- Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up much the same as humans.
- Elephant sound waves used in communicating are at such a low frequency that humans are unable to hear them.
- Putting a small amount of liquor on a scorpion will cause it go crazy and stinging itself to death.
Bonus Fact
Slime Molds begin life as an amoeba type cell that commonly multiplies once they have eaten. They are made up of half bacteria and half fungus and hunt their food by slithering along the ground like an animal. Although Slime Molds can live in many places, they love to live on the damp South American rain forest floors scattering spores as they hunt for food.
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On January 8, 2008 at 11:57 am
And I always thought bees led a humdrum workaholic type life, and instead I now discover that they party every day! Very interesting and entertaining article – not sure about the bonus fact though. That’s creepy.
On January 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Very interesting, and some facts are just too hairy to think about…
On January 8, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Dee, those bees do seem to have a good time. I always thought of them as industrious, no nonsense little fellows…now we find they are party animals too.
On January 8, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Icy, I agree with you. Some facts are hard to believe. It’s amazing what goes on unbeknown to us, isn’t it?
On January 8, 2008 at 2:40 pm
wow! very intersting. I think I will keep #10 in mind about the scorpion
On January 8, 2008 at 3:49 pm
OK, this may sound nasty, but I`d like to get a scorpion drunk….just to watch. Nice article.
On January 8, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Lots of interesting facts about animals. I once helped to rob some bee hives, and it was fun.
On January 9, 2008 at 6:12 am
I was born in South America. I’ve been to the rain forest, the slime molds are revolting!
Interesting stuff.
On January 9, 2008 at 7:52 am
Anne, I always wanted to go to the rain forest in South America. After doing research for this article, I have changed
my mind. Just reading about slime mold is disgusting and I am allergic to many types of mold.
On January 9, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Interesting article. I was enjoying it and then you put me off my cream cake with your ‘bonus fact’. Tut tut! LOL
On January 10, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Cool Facts.
The story about bees is pretty cool. Sunlight bounces off molecules in the sky — that’s what makes the sky blue. The scattered light is polarized in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the Sun. Bees can see that, so they know where the Sun is even if the aren’t looking at it.
- Cool Cat
On January 10, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Great article, I think that’s pretty funny that a scorpion will sting itself if you pour liquor on it.
On January 10, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I learn so much here. Thank you for providing the fascinating lesson.
On January 10, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I did not know that about the giraffe…It is always interesting to learn new things. Very well put together Darlene.
On January 11, 2008 at 4:55 am
Very interesting.
On January 12, 2008 at 4:02 am
The things you learn in a day! That was interesting stuff, thanks Darlene.
On January 12, 2008 at 11:01 am
Very interesting. The baby tiger shark one had me saying “Wow, no way.” I enjoyed this article and these interesting facts. Thankyou
On January 12, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Hi Darlene. I enjoyed your article. Did you know that if you sprinkle salt on a snail that it would wiggle around and die? Snails don’t like salt.
On January 27, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I really liked this article, I think it is interesting how the honey bees actually can get drunk off of the orchids. It is also interesting how the ants stretch and yawn like us when they get up. I never realized some insects did some of the things that we do.
On January 27, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I thought this blog was very interesting…I didn’t know a lot of these facts, and I just love learning little facts like this.
On February 22, 2008 at 12:47 am
This site is a hit! There are many new things I knew. I’ve got to tell others.:)
On April 29, 2008 at 11:11 am
Darlene, thank you for this article, take care!
On April 29, 2008 at 12:24 pm
very informative article, i didn’t knew that ants do the same thing as human when they wake up..thanks Darlene
On May 3, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Well, maybe I didn’t need to know any of these things but they certainly are interesting! Especially the standing dead elephant and the yawning, stretching ants!! That’s just too cool!!
On May 6, 2008 at 12:20 am
Please remind me to draw a cartoon featuring a family of ants stretching and yawning much like humans. That would be a hoot!
On May 14, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I like #10. We have such big scorpions in our place I’d like to test it. Should it be 40 proof or higher?
On June 5, 2008 at 10:44 am
it is very intrested that aelephant can stand also after it die. iwas amazed by it
On June 21, 2008 at 9:53 pm
This set of facts totally rocked my world! I mean ,my intelligent mind
On June 29, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Some of the facts are interesting but I have often read that ants don’t sleep so was amazed to read the fact #8
On July 9, 2008 at 6:59 am
It is a fantastic and interesting article and i used it in my research.
On July 13, 2008 at 9:47 am
ITS VERY VERY NICE I LOVED IT VERY MUCH AND I SHARED IT WITH MY FRNDS AND RELATIVE
On December 15, 2008 at 9:53 am
i have heard about minoter his face is like wolf and body like a man he eats mans ,boys or a gentle man isnt it intresting
On March 13, 2009 at 10:13 am
i love these facts, i want to be a vet so much! did you know that zebras are actually white with black stripes!
On August 26, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Hi.
I have just realized your article by Shetoldme.
This is one my articles published in Scienceray.
Have a nice time.
http://scienceray.com/mathematics/the-fibonacci-sequence-in-nature/
On January 20, 2010 at 8:00 pm
i cant believe ants dont sleep it was a great article
On January 20, 2010 at 8:01 pm
your a jack butt ashley.