STRANGE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Added on: 25th Jan 2016
ANIMAL-EATING HERBIVORES
Plants aren’t the only unexpected carnivores in the world. Some
herbivores like cows and sheep will also turn on their fellow
farm animals if their food is low in nutrients.
COMPENSATION FOR UGLINESS
Zebra finches have been known to lay slightly larger eggs when
their mate is considered to be less attractive. Supposedly the
extra nutrients and room to grow are meant to compensate
for the father’s poor genes.
SQUIRTING BLOOD
Squirting blood as a defence mechanism would be bad enough
but Horned Lizards take it a step further by squirting it
out of their eyes!
GRIEF AND BURIAL
Elephants have several seemingly human rituals concerning
death and the dead. For example, they have been known to visit
gravesites regularly, to bury their dead, and even spend time in
“grief” around the body of a fellow dead elephant.
RUNNING BACKWARDS
Completely blind and in the dark, naked mole rats can run just
as fast backwards as they can forwards.
UNDERGROUND BULLY
On the subject of naked mole rats, the queen mole rat is the
only female in the mole rat colony that can actually have
offspring. Why? Because she pushes the other females around
so as to cause them stress and prevent them from procreating.
HOLDING GRUDGES
Crows have the ability to remember human faces, and apparently
if they don’t like you they won’t forget you either. Scientists who
trapped some crows for research made this discovery when the
crows would constantly heckle them whenever they walked into
the lab. By using masks they came to realize that the crows actually
held a grudge against the people who had trapped them.
Interestingly enough, the children of the crows would later
carry on the same grudge.
WAR DANCE
Ferrets will perform a series of frantic sideways hops
whenever they get excited
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