Results: All These Years We Thought These Animal Facts Were True...But Turns Out They Are Not!
Published on 08/03/2015
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Don't touch a frog, or you'll get a wart! Bugs Bunny loves carrots! Bulls see red and want to attack! How many times did you hear these and many other facts, assuming they must be true? It turns out that so much of what we hear turns out to be urban legends, passed-down stories or information perhaps made up or passed down by generations. How many of these now busted facts did you always believe to be true?
Bulls see red and want to attack--totally false. Bulls get worked up by the general excitement and movement in the ring
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Don't help a baby bird or its mother will abandon it--birds don't use scent to recognize their young
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Opossums hang upside down from their tails--they just use their tales for support
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Rabbits love carrots--actually carrots are bad for their teeth and health
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Lemmings commit mass suicide--just unconventional migration patterns that cause their population to fluctuate
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Camels store water in their humps--no, just fat, which can fuel them
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Ostriches bury their heads in the sand--when threatened, they actually lie flat on the ground, which may appear like they are in the sand
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Touching a toad can give you warts--warts come from a human virus, but toads skin can give you an irritation
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Koalas are a type of bear-- actually they are marsupials
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Goldfish have a 3-second memory--studies have shown that goldfish are capable of learning and remembering and may be just as smart as birds and many mammals
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However, some of the truly unbelievable things we've been told about animals have turned out to actually be true. How many of these did you think were totally made up stories?
Dogs can detect cancer--turns out they have an 98% accuracy rate for sniffing out colorectal cancer in humans
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Animals can predict earthquakes-- animals are capable of detecting small tremors that precede earthquakes and that they can sense changes in the atmosphere and oxidization due to impending quakes.
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An elephant never forgets--Studies have shown elephants never forget a face
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Chickens can change their sex--Female chickens have only one functional ovary, on the left, and a nonfunctional gonad on the right. If the chicken develops a tumor or cyst, or other similar medical condition, the functional left ovary can regress
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Crocodiles cry like babies--crocodile tears. The term comes from the belief that crocodiles cry while eating their prey. Turns out it's true due to the jaw muscles squeezing moisture out of the lacrimal glands, or the result of too much hissing
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Here are some really strange animal facts. How many of these surprise you? I was completely surprised by all of them to be honest!
Male koalas have two penises, and female koalas have two vaginas
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The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside-down
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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
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One species of jellyfish can revert back to it's child stage after becoming sexually mature, effectively making it immortal
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There are 1,000,000 ants for every human in the world--actually this one I can believe!
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Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years
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A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes
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Only half of a dolphin's brain sleeps at a time. The other half makes sure it comes up for water so it doesn't drown
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A snail can sleep for 3 years at a time
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You're right--they all surprise me!
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