Weirdest Things Animals Do

Anyone who has a pet knows that

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can be pretty weird sometimes, but some members of the animal kingdom get a lot weirder than your dog eating its own poop, from creatures with the creepiest fashion senses to some mating rituals. completely crazy. john on some of the

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do bone defense Generally when animals defend themselves they are trying to avoid damage to their own bodies, but for the Spanish newt their main line of defense involves doing a little damage to themselves in favor of increasing its damage against predators strangely when the newt is agitated it tenses its body swinging its ribs outward with enough force that they pierce its skin and its ribs now protrude, they function as defensive spikes and not only make the food new and prickly, but they also bring The risk of piercing predators makes mice more vulnerable to milky poison.

The newt also secretes from its skin. Meanwhile, the newt is immune to its own venom and can quickly recover from defensive practice with no ill effects to many predators. This strange act of oneself. -mutilation makes this new overly complicated, but if you're looking for something that's always easily digestible, do yourself a favor and subscribe to be amazed with fascinating content published daily on a wide range of fact-based topics, there's something for everyone's tastes . Now back to These eyebrow-raising animals are lunatic crows, although they are often associated with negative

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like evil and death. Crows are actually an incredibly intelligent species at times, although their intelligence takes some really strange forms to begin with, it turns out that crows and other corvettes have remarkable mimicry abilities. and we will use them to solve problems, for example, if a crow comes across a dead deer but cannot get through the thick skin to access the juicy entrails, the crow can imitate the name of a wolf or a fox, this attracts the predators to the scene.

With teeth large enough to tear open the carcass once the predators have had their fill, the crow digs into the newly opened buffet, but imitation is not the strangest crow behavior. Crows are often seen lying on anthills encouraging ants to climb onto their bodies, but they are not looking to eat the ants, they are just looking to bathe in them, which may seem crazy, but it actually serves an important purpose. Most ant species have a certain amount of formic acid in their bodies, which is an effective chemical for killing parasites. and bacteria the crows will press the ants against their feathers and skin as they climb up their body releasing formic acid and giving themselves the feathered equivalent of a squirt of hand sanitizer.

Some research has suggested that birds may also enjoy the stinging sensation of acid. on your skin, although this is inconclusive if it turns out to be true, although I certainly hope the ant massage trend doesn't catch on with humans, feed us mother deer, take a look at this creature it looks like a worm, well, I don't is. and it is not a snake or an eel either, this is an amphibian similar to frogs and nudes, except that most c-sections do not have legs. These slimy amphibians live mainly underground and dig tunnels by banging their hard skulls into the ground with the support of their strong spines.

The kaecilian's worm-like appearance isn't the strangest part, although when the species' mothers give birth they grow an extra layer of skin rich in nutrients and fats that their young eat with small sharp teeth. This practice continues. until the young are old enough to hunt their own food, fortunately the mother is not completely eaten by her children, although the skin grows back every three days to continue providing the Kcillian young with plenty of their favorite medium-rare food. amphibian mother mother of the year if you thought casillians gave up a lot for motherhood wait until you hear about the desert spider of the species stegodiphislinitis when the mother spider's eggs hatch she begins to digest her own body decomposing and regurgitating her insides as food for her offspring she continues like this As long as she can, she saves the vital organs until the end.

Eventually, once almost everything has been digested, the mother begins to beat her legs against her net, which triggers a predatory instinct in her children and, like a starting gun, encourages them all to get into the body. from her directly. Inject her with poison to liquefy her remaining insides and feast on her until nothing remains but an exoskeleton. I once cursed in front of my mother and felt guilty for days, but after learning about these horrible mother-eating spiders, I feel sane compared to the killer suit. No one takes fashion to the extreme like the assassin bug. Certain species within the assassin bug family have a very morbid tendency to use the corpses of their fallen enemies as disguises.

They begin by grabbing their prey with their long jaws and injecting them with paralyzing toxins. that liquefy their insides, then slurp up the unfortunate creatures and stick the exoskeletons on their backs with a sticky secretion and continue piling up corpses until they have accumulated a disturbing variety, but why, well covered in corpses, the assassin bug is well camouflaged That is, as long as it stays still, predators will have a hard time detecting it. Its macabre outfit also smells like the insects it feeds on, meaning it can sneak into ant nests and colonies without being detected once inside. , it's just a matter of pouncing on unsuspecting residents, sucking them dry, and punching them. in the pile pure nightmare fuel just thankful these things aren't human-sized cocoons of mucus these colorful creatures known as parrotfish spend much of their time using their beak-like teeth to nibble on coral reefs and have quite the routine. unusual at bedtime on an An hour before going to sleep, they expel a large amount of thick mucus through their mouth, forming a kind of cocoon halfway between a transparent sleeping bag and a mosquito net, and they work by surrounding themselves with this mucus, mask their scent from predators and repel parasites.

In addition to feeling at home with the parrotfish while it sleeps, the mucus is also believed to help repair bodily damage thanks to its antioxidant properties while also serving as an early warning system if any predators come sniffing around, something that Not bad for a fortress made of penguin saliva. poop bombs the noble penguin is a much loved creature around the world, but that's only because most people haven't seen penguin poop when these little guys have to go, they really go like most birds, the waist The penguin comes out of a single opening called a cloaca.

When penguins feel the call of nature, pressure begins to build up in their rectum to a point where once they finally unleash the beast within, it shoots out with impressive speed. , in fact, in what was undoubtedly one of the most important scientific studies of all time. Researchers found that Humboldt penguins send poop flying at nearly five miles per hour, while penguins may be flightless, their dooku bombs regularly fly distances exceeding four feet, although unfortunately, although the high-pressure poop distance is intended To keep the pooper's nest tidy, the other penguins are rarely taken into account. in the area resulting in a surprisingly common penguin-on-penguin-poop crime, although to be fair, take a look at how much fecal coding this guy already had beforehand, or he needs to learn his lesson and get out of the way or probably be involved in that. and now you will never look at pingu, the same playful ferrets that many humans feel incomplete without a romantic partner, you might even be one of them, but no matter how strong your desire for companionship, it has nothing to do with a feared woman and Heat When a female ferret reaches sexual maturity and goes into heat, she will remain in heat until she can mate with a male.

In this constant state of sexual readiness she takes a severe toll on the ferret's body if her needs are not met at the elevated level. The levels of estrogen in her body cause a reduction in the number of blood cells produced by her bone marrow. This lack of blood cells or anemia can prove fatal until she is allowed to get dirty, so yes, despite what her evangelical aunt insists on doing sometimes. The act can save lives, so feel free to incorporate female ferret physiology into your next pick-up line, just be sure to post it in the comments below.

First sensual sounds from the shell, as cute and innocent as turtles seem to be, they procreate like the rest of us filthy animals, while you may think of turtles as calm and peaceful creatures, this is mostly true, except when they mate, When the turtles attack it, each push is accompanied by a noise from the male unique to each type of turtle, we emit a small and strange screech. by guys with smaller shells, then we have these disturbing, thunderous bellows of giant turtles. Amusingly, these types of noises even occur when a turtle has mistaken a tree stump for a potential mate.

It may sound like I'm doing karate, but it's completely natural as long as the jury is still out. The exact purpose of the noise seems to be a simple matter of asserting dominance, not because it makes it any less disconcerting. Virgin births for humans are primarily religious territory, but for certain members of the animal kingdom, reproducing with a single parent is a reality. Take as an example the fearsome Komodo dragon, when a female Komodo dragon wants to reproduce but there is no male around her, she has the amazing ability to fertilize her own eggs thanks to a process called parthenogenesis for which the female modifies their reproductive cells.

It fulfills the role of mother and father, allowing it to reproduce completely alone, what's more, a Komodo mother can even mate with her own offspring once they reach sexual maturity, all in an attempt to maximize the survival of her bloodline, for example. Of course, there's a reason most animals prefer not to. keep it in the family like this, breeding with your own offspring decreases the genetic diversity of a population, increases the chances of hereditary diseases, and reduces the chances of new positive traits being inherited, but when profits are slim and the desire to create life arises a vocation.

The Komodo dragon can always depend on number one, saves having to put up with useless baby dragon daddies. I guess the old change, aside from being the colorful star of Finding Nemo the clownfish, doesn't seem too noticeable at first glance, but honestly, the clownfish shows it off. One of the most intriguing behaviors in the aquatic world. Clownfish live in small colonies consisting of a few juvenile males and a mature breeding male and female. The breeding female is always the head of the colony, but if she dies something really strange happens, the breeding male takes her place.

Helm changes her sex to become the new matriarch while one of the juveniles takes on the newly available role of breeding male. It turns out that all clownfish are born male, but their sexual organs can transform to meet the needs of their social hierarchy as only the male and female that reproduce in a colony reproduce, there is no competition between the other males, which guarantees an unusually harmonious existence, as long as everyone remembers the correct pronouns, the imitation game, while it is quite rare that an animal can change sex a surprising number of times. Species pretend to do it to make their lives easier.

Male snakes, for example, occasionally use a female disguise to improve their own chances of reproduction by emitting a strongly scented pheromone usually emitted by females who are ready to mate. Male snakes finish. Being harassed by dozens of other males by putting up with these males who try to mate with them without success, the deceptive male steals their body heat, this heat allows him to move faster and with more energy and in turn increases his chances of mating. successfully mate with a real female. At least once it has escaped the nasty swarm of horny males, the male scorpion fly uses an even more daring tactic to secure a mate.

Scorpion flies usually attract suitors by bringing them prey as gifts. The larger the gift, the more interested the female tends to be. But male scorpion flies, who are not very good at receiving praise, skip that step and ask someone else to do it for them, imitating thebody movements that females usually exhibit. The male tricks other males into bringing him food when it arrives in disguise. The man tries to fly with him and introduce him to a real woman. This only usually works about one in five times, as the robbery attempt usually ends in a fight, but these female impersonation attempts are even more successful than brute force robberies without the woman.

Mimicry, meaning male scorpion flies shake their butts the right way, can make Valentine's Day much more affordable. Fencing to master, as you've probably already realized that reproduction can get pretty weird in the animal world, but no one does it weirder than the flatworm. Many species of flatworms are hermaphrodites, meaning that they are in possession of both male and female sexual organs. When it's time to mate, the worms use their penises to try to stab each other, impregnating the loser in an act known as penis fencing. I'm not kidding. The winner is free to continue wandering the world stabbing babies while the loser absorbs winter's sperm and must bear the offspring alone.

How rude, not even a phone call. Goodbye, Joey. Remember earlier when I was talking about the most selfless animal mothers. Well, the kangaroos of the kingdom are quite the opposite, when a mother kangaroo carrying a baby in her pouch is chased by a predator like a dingo, the mother will sometimes make a shocking decision to save herself if the outcome of the chase looks particularly grim. , the mother kanga will throw out her baby Joey for the predator to eat while she escapes, although this may seem like a terrible thing, it actually makes sense in terms of kangaroos physiology, since females have three vaginas. channels two uteruses and a pouch are capable of raising up to three young at a time in overlapping states of gestation and lactation with this ability to easily raise multiple young simultaneously sacrificing a child in order to continue reproducing is often the most sensible evolutionary choice, which which is all well and good, but try telling the joey who gets kicked out of the basement apartment, the sea cucumber is a strange tube-shaped organism that crawls the sea floor, takes large amounts of sediment into its mouth, and eats the organic parts. the rest is expelled out of his butt, but the stuff doesn't just come out of the sea cucumbers behind.

You see a species of ray-finned fish known as pearlfish. They have a very strange taste in apartments, they specifically like to live inside the back ends. Sea cucumbers pearlfish use the sea cucumber spoils as hiding places for predators and some pearlfish will even mate inside the cucumber cavity, although I doubt the sea cucumber will be as happy with the bed and breakfast arrangement, there are There is little I can do to oppose that. Unless it is one of the species that can expel its entrails to trap or scare away predators in any way, the sea cucumber clearly drew the straw in the evolutionary lottery, love bite, the deep-sea angler fish are peculiar creatures, In fact, this spooky variety of fish is known for using bioluminescent bacteria that live inside their bodies as lures to catch prey.

In many species of anglerfish, the females are much larger and more impressive looking than the males and when it comes After mating, the anglerfish gets creative, the male attaches his jaws to the female and releases an enzyme. which begins to digest the skin of its mouth as well as that of its body gradually its flesh fuses together with its circulatory systems with the male providing a constant supply of sperm for reproduction the female provides all its nutrients through their shared circulatory system some anglerfish species even see several males clinging on for a free ride talk about clingy boyfriends clearly size doesn't matter for these strange little swimmers that draw the attention of birds around the world people who own ostriches have to deal with some behavior very strangely displayed by their feathered friends who tend to be a bit flirtatious, male ostriches are regularly seen performing the ritual mating dance that is usually reserved for female suitors of their own species and aimed directly at humans.

It is not that this flirtatious dance can be provoked by ostriches mistaking the similar height or posture of humans for members of their own species. In other circumstances ostriches may perceive humans perhaps because of our fancy clothing as romantic competition and may dance. to assert their dominance in any way I don't know how anyone could resist those tear-drinking moves for some people the sight of a moth flapping its big dusty wings around a dark room is enough to send a shiver down your spine but there are Something really creepy about moths that most people aren't aware of is that certain species of moths will encounter when their usual sodium sources are depleted. salt in another form drinking the animals up to the ears, usually targeting large mammals such as deer, but occasionally sleeping birds do so.

The moss will hide its long, nose-like proboscis under its target's eyelids and begin to slurp. Fortunately, it's painless for tear donors, but still terrifying for the rest of us. A slimy mouthful, these strange slippery creatures are known as hagfishes with mouths lined with bones and teeth, they feed on corpses on the sea floor. from the inside out, but when a predator with a taste for the hackfish arrives, they are in for a nasty surprise. When a predator holds it or even just touches it, the hagfish releases mucus that reacts with the water forming a thick gel that helps them Escaping mucus can also suffocate fish that are unlucky enough to get caught between their gills, something the hagfish used to its advantage.

For both defense and hunting hackfish, the slime is so thick and slippery that when a truck carrying the creatures crashed in Oregon in 2017, firefighters needed to use 5,000 gallons of water to clear the road, but I said they should have. left and turn onto the road. road to the slipperiest slide in the world beautiful camels when it's time for the arabian camel to mate he dresses for the occasion but not enough like a tuxedo this hoofed desert inhabitant attracts his mates by inflating his palate which hangs at one side from its mouth surrounded by a thick layer of slime, foamy saliva around the mouth drips as the camel emits a low gurgling noise, part of the attraction process that culminates when the camel urinates on its own tail, the pee enriched with female hormones. of attraction, but with a face as fresh as this and who will need extra help, try before you buy, while humans can meet a new romantic interest by asking questions about each other's lives over a meal, giraffes are a bit More direct, when a male is interested in a woman, he will approach her and begin to rub his face against her butt until she urinates.

When he does, he will lick a bite and it will taste like some kind of deranged wine connoisseur. By doing this, the man can taste if the Sharon woman contains the hormones that are normally present during ovulation, if he detects the hormones and considers her a suitable mate, he will continue the mating process. It's a pretty easy way to evaluate whether or not a potential partner is a good fit, but I personally think I'll keep asking. Do you like pineapple on pizza? Bad gas, as a wise ogre once said, but while that saying may sometimes be true for humans, it's not true for anyone near an angry bombardier beetle, these insects, despite being less than an inch long, they pack a big punch.

When it becomes severe, the beetle opens a valve inside its body, triggering a chemical reaction that quickly generates heat and pressure. The resulting chemical cocktail containing 1,4 benzoquinone, an irritant to the eyes and respiratory system of vertebrates, is then sprayed out of the beetle's rear end at a temperature close to boiling. of water, the chemical spray is ejected in a pulsed pattern at a rate of approximately 500 pulses per second, preventing the beetle from burning its own body. Anything that is close enough to take a hit from the beetle, which can rotate its spray at a 270-degree angle for highly accurate targeting.

You quickly learn that bombardier beetles should not be bothered with bulging eyes. The defensive abilities of some animals really do. leaves you scratching your head and thinking really this is how you evolve to defend yourself, for example the horned lizard several different species of these horny little dinosaurs shoot streams of blood from their eyes in self-defense to confuse and scare predators when they see each other threatened. Lizards can restrict the flow of blood out of their heads and the increased blood pressure ruptures the blood vessels around their eyelids with enough force to squirt attackers. Thanks to the presence of chemicals in the lizard's blood that naturally taste unpleasant to canine and feline predators, this strange tactic can save the reptiles from becoming lunch despite how strange and downright terrifying it seems, the squirt.

The horned lizard's defensive blood flow is actually a surprisingly effective defensive measure. especially against dizzy humans, what's the strangest animal behavior you've encountered? Let me know in the comments below, thanks for watching.