re: Tell me an interesting random fact about an animal species...

Wild Turkeys will eat crawfish.

My 8 year old kept telling me stories about a crow named John. Turns out he is feeding a crow and the damn thing follows him around the yard.

As a kid I use to feed ant lions. I had no idea what they were called so I named them graboids. My very own tiny tremors that lived in the yard. Things took a bit of a demented turn when I started digging them up with a stick and feeding them to each other lol I spent countless hours feeding those things to watch them attack

Cormorant (aka: Cormorant)
All species have gland that secretes oil that makes the cormorant feathers waterproof that helps the birds to stay warm and dry in cold conditions even when they must dive and swim to feed.
Cormorants are expert divers, a skill they use when catching fish. Some have been known to dive as deep as 150ft

Elephants, rhinos, hippos and sloths can’t jump.
Hippos can out run a human in short distances
A group of crows is called a murder
Mountain lion, puma and cougar are the same name for the same animal
Giraffes don’t lay on the ground to sleep.
Ants can stay underwater for 24 hours and not die due to the way they breathe
Most of the dust in your house is dead skin and dust mites eat dead skin
Your bed weighs more when you get rid of it because of all the dead skin and dead dust mites
Polar bear hair is clear and their skin is black. The way light travels through the hair makes it look white.
Polar bears roll in snow and swim in freezing water because they get hot and want to cool down
Whales have finger bones in their fins. Bats have arm and finger bones in their wings.
Whales have bones that are remnants of hind legs. Th egg y are now needed for reproduction

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Turkey's can swim.

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But they can't fly. So don't drop a bunch out of a helicopter.

As God as my witness they sure can, but I called one across the Congaree river that swam the whole way with a broken wing. I let him ride and hope he is running the whole tribe today.

Armadillos are scavengers. We found a dead cow a long time ago that had been dead for a few days. As we approached to investigate we scared off buzzards and an opossum or two. When we got up to it there was movement and crunching sounds coming from inside it. My buddy (expecting another opossum) kicked the carcass and out came two armadillos. My whole life I believed they survived on worms, grubs, bugs, acorns, etc. I was quite surprised and won’t forget it.

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The Candiru fish swims into your pee hole and up your dong, then has barbs so it can’t back out.

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Well, that's a dick move.

Polar bears have two layers of fur. An outer or guard layer, and an undercoat. The guard coat is hollow, the under coat is not. Neither are white in color.
They’re transparent.
Light scattering and reflection create white appearance as no spectrum of light is absorbed. Because of this Polar bears look white like the snow they live in.