Writer's Block: Nature Gone Wild

Nov 13, 2008 18:35

Octopuses have three hearts and can fit through a hole the size of a quarter because their bodies are mostly water.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

Cat urine glows under black light.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

There are almost as many chickens as humans in the world.

There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

Iguana's can end their own lives.

A pig's orgasm can last 30 minutes.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

Armadillos have four babies at the same time and they are always the same sex.

Animals that lay eggs don't have bellybuttons.

Slugs have four noses.

Fish cough.

Shrimp can only swim backwards.

Fish can drown.

Anteaters walk on their knuckles.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

A shrimp's heart is in it's head.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

nature, weird facts, writer's block, animals

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