Animals and Creatures

Bizarre Fact #431:
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The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

Bizarre Fact #432:
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The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to sleep.

Bizarre Fact #433:
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The silkworm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication.

Bizarre Fact #434:
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The silkworm's silk comes out of its mouth as a thread of gooey liquid, so that nice silk blouse you spent a fortune on is really just worm spit.

Bizarre Fact #435:
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The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.

Bizarre Fact #436:
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The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.

Bizarre Fact #437:
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The social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk: a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.

Bizarre Fact #438:
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The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.

Bizarre Fact #439:
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The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.

Bizarre Fact #440:
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The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.