Horned lizards can shoot up to 5 feet of blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism

oooooooo thank you for the wonderful, generous gifts!!! this is such a fun event thank you for holding it, i know it must be tons of work

Cats only use their meows to talk to humans, not each other. The only time they meow to communicate with other felines is when they are kittens to signal to their mother.

Polydactyl cats (a cat with 1-2 extra toes on their paws) have this as a result of a genetic mutation. These cats are also referred to as “Hemingway cats” because writer Ernest Hemingway reportedly owned dozens of them at his home in Key West, Florida.

A group of cats is called a clowder.

, Neither do I. I feel like I would probably throw my baby, too. "Here! Have this crying, innocent thing instead of me." Yep, sounds legit.

Calico cats are only female

Rats laugh when they are tickled and during playtime. Some researchers have also taught rats to play and seek with them and the rats love it!

Maned wolf urine smells very close to marijuana/cannabis that a zoo in Rotterdam had police called to search for pot smokers when it was in fact the wolf's piss.

Giraffes cannot cough

Animal fact: There are really pink dolphins! They can be found in the Amazon River.

Wolves (and I think dogs and possibly other animals/pets too) can sense/smell pregnancy in humans sometimes even before the person in question is aware of it themselves. I once read somewhere that there is a wildlife center where you can apparently meet a pack of wolves and they now ask people in the safety briefing “If you’re pregnant, do you want to know or not?” because they had an awkward situation in the past where the keepers could tell from the wolves' body language that a specific woman in the group was pregnant and they casually mentioned it, but it turned out she didn't know about it yet.. apparently the wolves get extra careful around pregnant people :)

ooh, fun animal facts?

🐹 Hamsters have five toes on their back feet and four at the front. 🐱 (Most) cats have five toes at the front and four at the back!

omg i had one actually do that to me,,,squirt blood way up into my face as i was doing something under a tree and bending over..i freaked out as i had never heard of this guy before. i truly believed we had a new species in our yard.hahahha

Although a giraffe’s neck is 1.5 – 1.8 meters, it contains the same number of vertebrae as a human neck. As always, thankies for the lovely item :) Hugs

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Here's some cute facts:

• Sea otters have a pouch where they store their favorite rock. They also hold paws when they sleep to keep from drifting away from each other.
• Crows are very intelligent- they know how to read traffic lights, can recognize faces and remember people, and some species use tools to catch insects. They also bring gifts to people they like. -Cheetahs can't roar, but they can meow. :3

I've got a lot of corvid facts: Ravens can be taught to speak the same way parrots can (and parrots are basically at the intellectual and emotional level of a 2yo human) Crows can hold grudges, even across generations to the point where crows in the same flock who never encountered the person who wronged the flock (or were born after the incident) can recognize the person. Crows can easily learn to use tools, and use US as tools. For instance: they can learn traffic patterns and how traffic lights work, and will drop hard to crack nuts in the ways of cars and wait until the light turns red to return to collect the nuts that we cracked for them. Magpies have a brain-to-bodymass ratio similar to that of elephants.

And my favorite: Crows have languages, and when a new crow joins a flock the flock will teach the newcomer their language first, and then have the new crow teach the flock its previous language, so they have a net-gain of knowledge and words for things.

Alligators have no definitive lifespan. Their aging is generally not understood well, but essentially, they'll live indefinitely until a disease/injury/starvation/etc kills them. Older ones do get weaker with time, so they're often killed by younger and stronger alligators.

They typically grow until they reach an unknown point in their life where things slow down. Their maximum size is likely reached at around 25-35 years of age. Females can continue to reproduce long after their growth period ended (with one female found to still be nesting at 68 yrs old.)