40 Unusual Facts about Animals 🐖🐘 Animal General Knowledge
ADDucation’s list of unusual facts about animals collects together surprising facts about animals we’ve been told. We can’t 100% vouch for their accuracy so if you know better or have other fun facts about animals please add your comments and we’ll take a look.
- ADDucation’s unusual facts about animals list compiled by Robert Junker, last updated 18 Aug 2024.
| Animal | Unusual Facts about Animals |
|---|---|
| Whale 🐋 | The heart of a blue whale is about the size of a VW Beetle. |
| Oyster 🦪 | An oyster changes its sex several times in life. |
| Silkworm | Silkworms have 11 brains. |
| Octopus 🐙 | An octopus has three hearts. |
| Snail 🐌 | Snails are hermaphrodites and can fertilize each other. |
| Hen 🐔 | A hen lays about 300 eggs a year. |
| Woodpecker | Woodpeckers hammer their beak’s into trees up to 20 times per second. |
| Fish 🐟 | Fish don’t drink water, they absorb it through the skin. |
| Cockroach | Cockroaches can live for nine days without a head before starving. |
| Duck 🦆 | A duck’s quack is said not to generate an echo – we have our doubts! |
| Beetle 🐞 | Being able to carry 850 times its own body weight makes rhinoceros beetles the strongest animal in the world. |
| Earthworm | The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet / 6.7 m long. |
| Mole | Moles can dig tunnels totaling up to 75 feet / 23 m in one night. |
| Elephant 🐘 | Elephants can take up nearly 9 liters of water with their trunk. |
| Puma / Cougar | Pumas / cougars can jump as far as 60 feet / 18 m. |
| Mouse 🐁 | A mouse has more bones (225) than people (who have 206). |
| Grasshopper 🦗 | A grasshopper will only jump in temperatures above 63 F / 17°c. |
| Pig 🐖 | Pigs aren’t able to look at the sky. |
| Red deer 🦌 | Red deer sleep no more than 5 minutes a day. |
| All creatures | 90% of all living creatures live in the sea. |
| Parrot 🦜 | Chocolate is deadly to parrots. |
| Condor | A condor can soar for up to 9 miles / 15 km without flapping its wings. |
| Fly | Flies take off backwards. |
| Elephant 🐘 | Elephants eat up to a ton of grass daily. Imagine a herd of elephants. |
| Mite | An average of 6 billion dust mites live in a normal mattress. |
| Rat 🐀 | Rats find their way out of a maze more quickly when plays Mozart’s music is playing. |
| Cockroach | Cockroaches are said to eat anything except cucumbers. |
| Ostrich | An ostrich egg requires 40 minutes of cooking before it is hard. |
| Mosquito 🦟 | Only female mosquitoes bite, but they all love the color blue. |
| Albatross | An albatross can sleep while flying. |
| Dolphin 🐬 | Dolphins can hear sounds underwater from over 15 miles / 24 km away. |
| Insects 🐜 | On 2.5 km² of forest floor there are as many insects as there are people on Earth. |
| Shark 🦈 | Sharks never get sick. |
| Kangaroo 🦘 | Kangaroos can not jump backwards |
| Mussel | Mussels can change their gender. |
| Leech | Leeches are said to have 32 brains. |
| Tapeworm | Tapeworms eat themselves if they can’t find food. |
| Aphid | Aphid females are born already pregnant. |
| Rabbit 🐇 | Rabbits love licorice. |
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