Animal Fun Facts

[Cinnebuns]

I love animals and I love fun facts so animal fun facts are extra exciting. Let's list some!  Here's some I remember:

There are 650,000 vertebrate species. This includes all mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. This only accounts for 3% of all animal species in the entire animal kingdom. The other 97% consists entirely of invertebrates. There are 400,000 beetle species alone!

A sloth (I forget which kind, 3 toed maybe? All maybe?) only goes to the bathroom about once a week and loses 30% of its body weight when it does. 

A blue whale's heart is the size of an elephant. 

A mantis shrimp can see 12 different colors compared to our 3. 

Edited April 25, 2022 by Cinnebuns

[Katherine]

Wombat poop is cube shaped.

[Widgets]

Koalas have fingerprints almost identical to human.

[Cinnebuns]

On 4/25/2022 at 5:34 PM, Widgets said:

Koalas have fingerprints almost identical to human.

Oh yeah that one!  Infact at crime scenes there have been times a koala finger print was used before it was recognized to not be human. 

[nabokovfan87]

Sharks have something like 8-9 senses (it can vary from shark to shark).

Great whites have the normal senses, the also sense pressure, EMFs, they have Ampullae of Lorenzini, and their lateral lines.

....and....
 

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Sharks also possess a row of pores around the pectoral fins and gills, known as pit organs. These contain neuromast-like cells that are believed to aid the shark in the detection of temperature changes.

https://www.elasmodiver.com/shark_senses.htm

Edited April 26, 2022 by nabokovfan87