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

Cows dont fart like the media and our full of shite government want you to believe. I can work cattle all day and may only here one. frick them.

I've greatly enjoyed all the cool facts in the responses

Female cheetahs raise their cubs on their own. Male cheetahs do not assist with raising their cubs. The only reason male and female cheetahs even interact is to mate.

After the cubs are born, the male will go back to live in its coalition and leave the babies with their mother. The female cheetah will then take over raising the cubs, hunting for them, and keeping them safe from predators.

Koalas have chlamydia and stay high as a kite eating eucalyptus

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Sloth's aren't extinct even though they can barely move or defend themselves

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And they only take a dump once a week and actually lose up to one-third of their body weight in a single dump!

Wild Turkeys can fly, run fast and swim. The wild turkey was put up to be the national bird of USA by Ben Franklin.
The roost in trees at night for protection.
The big feathers spread out look is the mating dance of the older male turkey called a Tom. It’s very similar to peacocks he goes to his strutting zone and struts back and forth gobbling calling the hens into mate and fighting any other male that comes into his area. They actually have well established borders in territories during the mating period, at least ones I hunt too. Young male turkeys until they reach their second breeding cycle are called Jake’s. Female turkeys are called Hens. And babies are called pulps. One of the pulps defense system is too roll up in a ball and stay still and they look like a rock.

There are 4 main sub species of North American Turkeys in USA. The Eastern which in SE and Eastern US etc, the Rio which is in the SW, the Merriam which is in the Central and West, etc and the Oceola which is only in South Florida.

The Creature From The Black Lagoon was an invasive species.

I’ve seen these kayak fishing , they are impressive

Bonobos are the alphabets of the ape family and live in female dominate social structure with a lot of tribbing going on. Females roam more while males stay closer to group. Females usually eat first. Females can coerce mating from unwilling male.

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Bonobos are unusual among apes for their matriarchal social structure. Alliances between males are poorly developed in most bonobo communities, while females will form alliances with each other and alliances between males and females occur.

… injuries may also occur when a male threatens the high ranking females and is injured by them, as the larger male is swarmed and outnumbered by a female mob.

They also do not seem to discriminate in their sexual behavior by sex or age, with the possible exception of abstaining from sexual activity between mothers and their adult sons. When bonobos come upon a new food source or feeding ground, the increased excitement will usually lead to communal sexual activity

More often than the males, female bonobos engage in mutual genital-rubbing behavior, possibly to bond socially with each other, thus forming a female nucleus of bonobo society. The bonding among females enables them to dominate most of the males. Sexual bonding with other females from other groups establishes new females as members of the group.

Bonobo clitorises are larger and more externalized than in most mammals; while the weight of a young adolescent female bonobo "is maybe half" that of a human teenager, she has a clitoris that is "three times bigger than the human equivalent, and visible enough to waggle unmistakably as she walks".

female bonobos rub their clitorises together rapidly for ten to twenty seconds, and this behavior, "which may be repeated in rapid succession, is usually accompanied by grinding, shrieking, and clitoral engorgement"; he added that it is estimated that they engage in this practice "about once every two hours" on average.

Bonobo males engage in various forms of male–male genital behavior. The most common form of male–male mounting is similar to that of a heterosexual mounting: one of the males sits "passively on his back [with] the other male thrusting on him", with the penises rubbing together because of both males' erections. In another, rarer form of genital rubbing, two bonobo males hang from a tree limb face-to-face while penis fencing.

Another form of genital interaction (rump rubbing) often occurs to express reconciliation between two males after a conflict, when they stand back-to-back and rub their scrotal sacs together

Tongue kissing, oral sex, and genital massaging have also been recorded among male bonobos.

Adult male bonobos have sex with infants, although without penetration. Adult females also have sex with infants, but less frequently. Infants are not passive participants. They quite often initiate contacts with both adult males and females, as well as with peers. They have also been shown to be sexually active even in the absence of any stimulation or learning from adults.

Because of the promiscuous mating behavior of female bonobos, a male cannot be sure which offspring are his. The strategy of bonobo females mating with many males may be a counterstrategy to infanticide because it confuses paternity. If male bonobos cannot distinguish their own offspring from others, the incentive for infanticide essentially disappears. This is a reproductive strategy that seems specific to bonobos;

female bonobos can have hostile rivalries with each other and a propensity to carry out infanticide.

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Cats kill just for the hell of it.

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very underrated invasive species