What strange animal behaviors can you share?
Feathers, fins, or fur, what bizarre behaviors can you tell us about here?
Behaviors can be attributed to a species, such as strange mating dances of a bird species, or something amazing about a single animal, such as finding out a fish is three hundred years old.
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They say that animals like watching their owners having sex.
I would not know that though. I am usually facing the other way.
strange mating dances of a bird species
Besides that, sloths go down from trees only once a week, to poop.
Elephants sport rituals similar to human funerals. They also have a matriarchal system: the leader of the herd is the oldest female.
Pigs can’t look above themselves (not a behaviour, but an interesting fact)
Cows, while way more docile that their males, are known to kill more people annually than bulls.
Rabbits have a habit of castrating each other, in order for themselves to have more females.
Crows are known to have excellent memory, recognize faces, and even know to make tools for themselves, which puts them among more intelligent animal species.
Some frogs can freeze completely solid,then thaw with no problems. They say it’s some glucose that acts like antifreeze (ethylene glycol. )
Scientists hope that studying them will one day lead to suspended animation,for space travel.
“No glare” screens are modeled from insect eyes.
Nature is AMAZING. I could go on,and on.
I don’t no if it was actually strange, but I’d never seen anything like it before.
I was kayaking in a bay off an out island beach when I was watching an Osprey dive for fish. He caught one and flew right toward a clump of mangrove where a racoon—this was midday—came out from the cover of the mangrove and onto the beach and the Osprey dropped the fish right on top of her. All her baby coons came out and she grabbed the fish and led them all back under cover. Never seen anything like it in my life.
@Sneki95 Elephants are amazing. Check the out You can’t see it from the angle this was shot from, but in the longer version that is shot from across the pond, the whole herd shows up and the ones in back with nothing to do are pacing frantically and roaring. And after it’s over, check out how the little glues his ass to his mama. It is a really beautiful thing to watch..
@Espiritus_Corvus Yeah, I’ve seen it before. Great rescue of the lil’ one. I always found elephants amazing and gracious.
My 18 and half year old white chinese goose “Marwyn” masturbates with the garden hose. I call it “gooseturbating.” haha
When his pool is filling he grabs the hose and maneuvers it between his legs then starts humping it. He holds it in position underwater and has to come up for air and makes the most hilarious little squeaking and snorting sounds as he exhales.
Once he attains satisfaction he lets out a shriek, tips over in his pool then stands up and gives a post orgasmic victory flap of his wings. You’d have to see it to believe it.
My Ragdoll cat “Myles” caches his toys in his food bowl. This morning there was a green tinsel ball, a stuffed shrimp, a red toy mouse and one of my pony tail bands.
He will pull the pony tail holder out of my hair in the middle of the night.
I once had another cat that went nuts for Cantaloupe and a pet rat that would scale the kitchen cupboards and drag a loaf of bread across the counter. lol
The horses here Cayuse, Windwalker, Cracker, Diamond, Mozie, Kiwi and Profe flip and bang their grain buckets in unison that hang on the gates to their paddocks. Drives you insane but very effective if you are one fucking minute late in serving breakfast or dinner. lol
- Bonobos solves most of their conflicts with sex. If someone makes you angry you can just have sex with them to solve the problem.
- Male angler fish have no disgestion organ. The purpose of their life is to latch on and merge their bodies with a much larger female to impregnate her with their dangling sperm sack.
- Male Antechinus love sex more than anyone else.
I also like how Vultures will vomit on potential predators and defecate on their legs to help stay cool. I guess evaporating shit works as a mini AC unit for these guys. haha
We have a lot of Turkey Vultures around here and I have always liked them.
Maybe it’s not strange behavior, and totally normal for crows to do this, but here’s something amazing I saw crows doing once. And only once, which is why it seems weird.
I was eating lunch outside at work in the evening on Summer, and there was some crap on the ground, like french fries or a piece of chicken or something, don’t remember what. A seagull came and landed and was slowly going for it. I was close so it was wary. Then this crow shows up and lands some ways behind the seagull and starts wobbling really fast towards the food on the ground. (you’ve ever seen a crow walking really fast, it’s hilarious) It goes passed the seagull, grabs the food and flies off.
But as it flies away, on the other side of the parking lot, a shit load of crows fly off at the same time and scream like mad as they do. The poor seagull was scared shitless (as well as me) and flew off like a maniac. I never even knew they were there until they did that.
It was easy to think that the crows were encouraging their buddy or something, or being all like, fuck yeah you got it man! My guess is they wanted to scare the seagull so it wouldn’t attack the crow as it took off with the food.
I’ve once seen a seagull attack a crow in the air. The crow had something in its beak and the seagull just wouldn’t give up, trying to peck at the crow or whatever. They were flying, was hard to see, but seagulls are some vicious birds.
So I got to witness what I believe to be crow teamwork. If someone who knows about animals wishes to elaborate on what I saw and what it was about, that would be cool.
Crows are neat. Yet again I’m sitting there at work, eating outside, and there were two crows on top of a building. They were just sitting there, and I wasn’t hungry anymore, so I took the rest of my sandwich and left it at the foot of the building. I didn’t even have time to go sit down again that the two crows descended and grabbed my sandwich and then were off with it.
Crows are crazy smart. They have been proven as successful tool users, even planning their way through an assortment of steps using multiple tools to accomplish a single task.
@Berserker, I would say your crows at work have formed a gang, like street gangs. I doubt they planned a particular attack against a particular seagull, but the brotherhood kicks in when they saw one of theirs make good, with a potential enemy on his tail.
I was done shopping and waiting for a cab once. I had an eclair to munch during the wait. I heard a single “ha” above me. There was a crow, seated on the edge of the roof, looking right at me. His “ha” was much like “ahem”. I plucked a bite with my fingers, held it up, and declared it was his share. I then tossed it to the ground. He swooped it up and went back to his spot, and we quietly enjoyed our snack together.
My daughter loves Crows and has always wanted one. They are illegal to keep in CA. but, the irony, you can shoot them with a depredation permit if they are eating your crops. Lots of Crows in the central valley here that live in the fruit and nut orchards. I have been tempted over the years to nab an older nestling and keep it but have never acted on my little crow fantasy and probably never will. Yes, they are crazy smart. Geese are very intelligent as well, imprint on you if raised from goslings and have long memories. My goose knows about 20 words and phrases.
Here is a fascinating Nature documentary on crows. They’re smarter than @rarebear!
My husband had a pet crow once. Its name was Cheep. My husband tells this hilarious story of Cheep escaping during a thunderstorm once. He was driving around the neighborhood, in the pouring rain, screaming “CHEEP! CHEEP!” out his car window!
^ Haha, reminds me of standing out in the yard at 4 o’ clock in the afternoon calling out “BREAKFAST!” The catch all phrase for canned cat food, to lure my cats in the house before dark. My old neighbors must have thought I was insane. lol
^ true, I’ll own that. haha
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