When tigers that kill their keepers are put down, it’s traditional to give them a last meal of kippers, which are a favourite food of tigers.
Tigers have a taste for human foetuses and can smell if a woman is pregnant. They will often kill a pregnant woman, rip out and eat the foetus and leave the woman otherwise untouched.
Apart from humans, dolphins, and chimpanzees, sheep have the largest vocabulary of any animal with over seven hundred forms of baah.
The Himalayan mouse cat, although only two inches high is technically a big cat as it has the ability to roar.
Female gorillas in captivity will often try to mate with their keepers but only if there are no anacondas nearby.
If a mirror is placed in front of a cobra the snake will hypnotise itself.
The female manhole spider is 1400 times larger than the male. The male inseminates the female by climbing inside her vagina and spitting sperm at her ovaries from several times his body length away.
Despite having a sense of smell millions of times more powerful than ours, dogs are completely unable to smell their own faeces.
Pet mice and other rodents can detect if a human being has recently had sex and will squeak to be fed, realising that their owners will likely be in a good mood and more likely to feed them after sex.
A blue whale’s fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse. The forward thrust generated with each fart can propel the whale fifteen metres.
Many people know that a rhinoceros horn is made of the same substance as human nails. It is less widely known that the horns do not naturally grow perfectly horn shaped and have to be sharpened by the rhino by rubbing them against stones. If there are no stones available they sharpen the horn by rubbing it against their own bottoms.
If an albatross flaps its wings more than three times in succession it passes out from exhaustion.
Humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure. In the wild dolphins have been known to practice safe sex using their blow holes.
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