The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals III

 ...More amazing and bizarre facts about mammals...

1.) Sloth

• Sloths are hardy animals because the leaves they eat contain a kind of poison.
• They live completely upside down and move really slowly. The only time they come to the forest floor is when they defecate.
• Despite the fact that they move too slow, Sloths are good swimmers.
• There are Green Algae growing on a Sloth’s back.

2.) Weddell Seal

• Weddell Seals are great survivors. They live in the coldest waters in the world.
• Baby Weddell Seals are amazing animals. They hold the record for the biggest temperature change experienced by any animal from the womb to the ice.

3.) Giraffe

• Like Baby Weddell Seals, Baby Giraffes are great survivors. At birth, the young giraffe has to survive a six-foot fall because the mother cannot bend down and must learn to run just a few hours after being born to escape wild African predators.
• Giraffes are known to pick their nose with their tongue and they drool.

4.) Cheetah

• As everybody knows, Cheetahs are the fastest cats ever. They can attain speed of up to 70 mph or 115 km/h. They hunt and eat gazelle, impala and warthogs.
• Female Cheetahs teach their rambunctious young how to hunt and must deal with bad kids for two years.

5.) Aye-aye

• The middle finger of the Aye-aye is bone-like, in getting their food from inside a tree limb. They look like a collection of leftover body parts. The collection of body parts perfectly helps it adapt to its environment.

6.) Bharal

• The male Bharal are naughty animals just like many species. They will try to push each other off mountains above 14,000 ft. high where they could fall at any time. Only half of the Bharal born each year survive to their first birthday.
• Tibetan Bharals have amazing hooves. They have to be good jumpers to fight on the edge of steep cliffs or else they’ll die.

7.) Fox

• There are many animal stealers. One of them is the Fox. It steals eggs of different birds. What’s so amusing is that, it uses rocks to break the shell.

8.) Crested Black Macaque

• Male Crested Black Macaques have a way of finding out who is the hottest female around. They can determine it through the female’s buttock –the larger the red buttock, the hotter the female is.

9.) Shrew

• Shrews have such a huge metabolism, quite unbelievable but their heart beats 600 times a minute. They are the busiest predators in the world and some species need to eat three times their own body weight in one day to survive.

10.) Klipspringer

• Klipspringers are among the greatest jumpers in the animal world. They can jump ten times their own height. If we were like a klipspringer, we could jump over the torch of the Statue of Liberty from the shoulder.

See also

• Interesting Facts About the Amazing Elephants
• The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals
• The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals II
• Amusing Facts and Traits of 38 Different Mammals

The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals II

Some mammals are simply amazing.

1.) Tiger

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• Tigers are the strongest and largest of all cats in the world.
• They eat bears, birds, crocodiles, deer, domestic cattle, elephants, fish, frogs, gaurs, leopards, mice, monkeys, moose, pythons, rabbits, turtles, water buffalo, wild boars and wild dogs.

2.) Beaver

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• Beavers are great cutters and builders. They cut trees with their teeth and build their own huge dams.

3.) Mouse

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• Mouse is one of the scariest animals in the world. According to a survey, one out of three American women has a fear for mice.
• They are fast breeders and their population grow very fast because there can be 16 mice in a litter, which makes a swarm.

4.) Dog

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• Dogs are intelligent animals. They can understand a few hundred words and phrases.
• They are dangerous too. They bite 4,700,000 Americans annually.

5.) Elephant

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• Elephants are strong animals. Their trunk can hold up to 600 pounds and carry 20,000 pounds.
• Female Elephants get males to fight for them and she gives birth to a 140 kg baby after a 22-month pregnancy – the longest gestation period in the animal kingdom.

6.) Gorilla

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• Gorillas are strong creatures. They can lift 4,600 pounds which is equivalent to two family cars.
• In the movie King Kong, he is depicted as a carnivore but in reality, gorillas are strictly herbivorous.

7.) Naked Mole Rat

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• Naked Mole rat’s teeth are very tough. Its incisor bite can go through a cement wall little by little.
• Like ants and termites, one queen Naked Mole Rat, controls hundreds of Naked Mole Rats.

8.) Orangutan

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• Mother Orangutans are very caring and passionate mothers. They build beds every night for them and their youngster.
• They swings over 61 m high in the trees on a limb while baby Orangutan hangs on their mother for dear life.
• Orangutans are smart animals. They have found a way to escape the rain by putting a large leaf on top of their heads.

9.) Platypus

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• Platypuses have beaks of ducks, flippers of Otters and tails of beavers. 
• They can detect the electrical impulses given off by its prey.
• Male Platypuses hind limbs are venomous.

10.) Hippopotamus

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• Male Hippopotamuses are yucky animals. They fling dung or spread their poops everywhere with their tail.
• They are mighty biters. They can open their jaw up to 170° and snap a crocodile in half.

See also

• Interesting Facts About the Amazing Elephants
• The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals
• Amusing Facts and Traits of 38 Different Mammals

The Most Amusing and Bizarre Facts and Traits of Mammals

Here are some of the most peculiar and unusual facts about some mammal species.

1.) Musk Ox

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• Who’s got the toughest skulls in the world? Musk Oxen can repeat head bangs up to 20 times at 32 km/h. Ouch!!!
• The urine of this unusual animal produces a smell so revolting that it can water your eyes.

2.) Wolf

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• Wolves howling a night scare people but in reality they are more scared of us than we are of them.
• When people hear a wolf howling, they think the wolf is out to get them. That is why they believed in werewolves, even though there has never been a healthy wild wolf killing a human in North America.
• Wolves work as a team. They use teamwork strategy to slay prey eight times bigger than they are.
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3.) Vampire Bat

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• This bloodsucking has to drink more than its own weight in blood everyday just to survive. If a Vampire Bat is a human; it’s like a human drinking a bathtub's worth of blood.
• When they suck blood, they draw blood out of the toughest skin of animals such as horses and cattle.
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4.) Pig

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• Pigs are amazing animals. They can paint a picture and recognize different tastes because they have 20,000 taste buds.
• Although pigs are known in many cultures as a symbol of prosperity, in reality, it is a very greedy. They are voracious eaters but they have been known to be very picky eaters and actually have quite small stomachs.
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5.) Rabbit

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• Rabbits are known as symbol of luck. Rabbits are also associated to playboys because they can start a new family every month.
• Physically, they are amusing leapers. They can jump twice as far as the best Olympic jumpers.
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6.) Tasmanian Devil

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• Among mammals, the Tasmanian Devil is a multiple birth record holder. In a single litter, it can give birth to 30 pups, but only four usually survive.
• They are very aggressive and a mating Tasmanian Devils is more like fighting for a male and female.
• These animals are among the most voracious eaters in the animal world. They can eat 40% of their body weight in just half an hour.
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7.) Polar Bear

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• Polar Bears are amazing weightlifters. They can take down something three times their own weight.
• To experts, it is still a big mystery how Polar Bears survive the winter without answering to the call of nature.
• During hibernation, the female Polar Bear loses 30% of her bodyweight.
• The Polar Bear’s snout is one of the most sensitive. Its can catch the smell of a seal hiding under three feet of thick sea ice.

8.) Bear

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• Bears are popular animals because Teddy Bears are popular stuffed animals. However, they are campers’ worst nightmare.
• Brown Bears are the heavyweight champions of the mountains. They can lift as much as 450 kg.
• Bears are ridiculous animals. They will destroy cars for the smallest amount of food.
• Bears are among the most dangerous animals in the world. The odds of being killed by a bear are only 2 in 1.8.

9.) Elephant Seal

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• Male Elephant Seals fight a bloody battle for over 50 females.
• Female Elephant Seals will put on an extra 270 kg while being pregnant, and starves until the pups are born.
• Male Elephant Seals are five times bigger than a female.

10.) Lion

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• Male Lions are lovable and caring fathers despite their ferocious appearance.
• A male takes care of 20 cubs.
• For thousands of years, lions were a worthy opponent for even the strongest men.
• When the male gets lazy, the female does all the hunting.
• Lions are the only cat that hunts in groups. Among their prey include baboons, Cape buffalo, elephants, gerenuk, hippopotamuses, impala, kudus, ostriches, rhinos, warthogs, wildebeests and zebras.

See also

Interesting facts About the Amazing Elephants