Amazing and little-known facts about well-known representatives of the fauna (13 photos)

No matter how much we know about animals, it is simply impossible to know everything about them. Especially when you consider that behind the generally known information about representatives of the fauna there are many truly amazing facts hidden, some of which are difficult to believe.





And let's start with the roosters crowing in the morning. Why does their loud crowing harm them? It's simple. They are able to temporarily deafen themselves so as not to damage their own hearing.



In the animal world, you can also find females who ingeniously scare away suitors. For example, female dragonflies pretend to be dead to avoid unwanted advances.





We all know that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly after entering the pupal phase. However, how does this actually happen? She doesn't just grow wings. First, it turns into a liquid substance, from which it turns into that same butterfly.



Surely many would envy the hippopotamus’ ability to protect itself from the scorching sun. It does not need a protective cream, since the body secretes a reddish oil that works on the same principle.



It turns out that not only scorpions glow under ultraviolet light. Platypuses have the same ability, acquiring a blue-green hue.



You've all seen photographs of deep-sea anglerfish with a flashlight hanging over their heads, but few people know that there are no males among them. How then do they reproduce? They have dwarf males that are parasites. They attach their teeth to the female, gradually merging and turning into an appendage. At the same time, up to three males can be on her body, after which they detach and lose their independence.



Why do tigers gnaw meat off bones so easily? It's all about their tongue, which is equipped with sharp tubercles on the sides that resemble horns. It is due to them that the predator can easily remove meat from the skeleton.



But the next animal is not familiar to everyone. We are talking about binturongs or “cat bears”, which are similar in appearance to cats, bears and raccoons. What's unusual about them? Their odor when urinating is similar to the aroma of popcorn.



If anyone's memory can be envied, it's a crow's. These birds are able to recognize individual people after decades, even if they are properly camouflaged.



It is true that sloths are very lazy. This can be confirmed by the fact that they are even too lazy to look for a mate. Instead, the female usually just sits in a tree and screams loudly until some male gets over his laziness and decides to crawl over to mate.



Probably everyone can get a headache from regular knocking, but not woodpeckers. During high-speed beak strikes on wood, 99.7% of the energy from the impact loads goes to the body, while only 0.3% goes to the brain. It's all about their very long tongue, which wraps around the skull and provides protection.



Many people love pets, and tarantulas are no exception. True, they choose Amazonian frogs as pets, which eat beetles and parasites that threaten spider eggs. They, in turn, protect amphibians from attacks by reptiles and other arthropods. The most interesting thing is that even after the spider offspring are born, tarantulas continue to monitor the safety of the frogs.