They don’t teach you this stuff in school.
Female dragonflies will sometimes fake their own death to avoid mating with a male.
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Male giraffes will smell and drink a female giraffe's urine to tell if she's ready to mate.
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Flatworms contain both male and female reproductive genitalia, and two flatworms will "penis fence" until one has successfully jabbed and inseminated the other.
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Male garter snakes will imitate a female garter snake in order to attract males that will cuddle and keep them warm.
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To avoid being eaten by the female, a male argonaut octopus may detach its mating arm and leave it in the female before swimming away to safety.
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During mating, male pigs can ejaculate continuously for approximately 6 minutes.
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Drone bees die immediately after mating because their penis and abdomen are completely torn from their bodies during the process.
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Kinkajous, which have the ability to rotate their feet, can run equally as fast forwards and backwards.
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A chameleon's tongue is approximately twice as long as its body.
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Female lobsters attract a male by squirting urine from nozzles on their face directly onto their selected mate.
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A wombat's poop is cube-shaped, and the digestive process can take anywhere from 14 to 18 days.
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Sloths live the majority of their lives in trees. They only come down to the ground once a week to poop.
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Flamingos aren't actually born pink. They turn pink from eating algae, larvae, and shrimp daily.
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Starfish can regenerate arms that have been severed in an attack or have been voluntarily removed for protection.
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A narwhal's husk is actually a really long front tooth, not a "unicorn" horn.
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An otter's poop is technically called "spraint" and can smell like violets.
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Flying tree snakes can soar as far as 330 feet.
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Spring peepers have biological "antifreeze" in their blood, making them very resilient in freezing temperatures.
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Manatees use flatulence to regulate their buoyancy by holding in farts to float and releasing farts to sink.
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The bottlenose dolphin can make half of its brain go to sleep while the other half remains awake and alert.
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The white-throated snapping turtle can actually breathe through its butt.
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The hairy frog, a.k.a. horror frog, can break the bones in its front feet to create claws that penetrate through the skin.
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Unborn sand tiger sharks fight to the death and consumer their siblings inside their mother's womb, with only one baby shark being born.
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The hog-nosed shrew rat uses its long pubic hair to feel the ground beneath it.
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And finally, a peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that is equivalent to the speed of a .22 caliber bullet, despite being only several inches long.
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