30 Animal Facts That Sound Fake (But They're All True)

An animal with no working stomach. One that poos cubes. One that survived the vacuum of space. 🐙🦘🧪 Here are 30 animal facts that sound completely made up, and every single one is true (sources below). Which one did you think was fake? Tell me in the comments 👇 and subscribe for more weird facts. Chapters 0:00 Intro: facts that sound fake 0:18 Part 1: Facts 30 to 26 1:46 Part 2: Facts 25 to 21 3:13 Part 3: Facts 20 to 16 4:38 Part 4: Facts 15 to 11 6:07 Part 5: Facts 10 to 6 7:36 Part 6: The top 5 9:01 Which one sounded fake? Sources #30: Discover Magazine summary of conditioning studies (sound linked to feeding recalled ~5 months later) #29: Smithsonian's National Zoo 'Why are flamingos pink?' #28: Snopes fact check / standard mammal anatomy #27: standard ornithology (e.g. Audubon / Smithsonian) #26: Li et al. (2005) PLoS Genetics 1(1): e3 #25: e.g. Journal of Insect Physiology (2010) mid-leg taste responses in Vanessa indica #24: Watanabe, Sakamoto & Wakita (1995) J. Exp. Anal. Behav. (PMC1334394) #23: Johns Hopkins Medicine study (de Kok-Mercado et al., Science 2013), JHU Hub 31 Jan 2013 #22: San Diego Zoo; Tourism Australia #21: Henneberg, Lambert & Leigh (1997) Natural Science; New Scientist, 7 Dec 1996 #20: Vancouver Aquarium via Chilliwack Progress (2018); Monterey Bay Aquarium #19: Monterey Bay Aquarium 'Sea otter' #18: Caro et al. (2019) PLOS ONE 14(2): e0210831 #17: Mascetti (2016) Nature and Science of Sleep, PMC4948738 #16: Saikawa et al. (2004) Nature 429:363 #15: ABC News (28 Jul 2019); The Conversation; BBC Life of Birds #14: Marzluff et al. (2010) Animal Behaviour; Cornell et al. (2012) Proc. R. Soc. B #13: Patek, Korff & Caldwell (2004) Nature 428:819 #12: Lohse, Schmitz & Versluis (2001) Nature 413:477 #11: NOAA Ocean Service 'Heartless or hopelessly romantic?'; arm regeneration widely documented #10: Amamoto et al. (2016) eLife (PMC4861602); critically endangered, native to Xochimilco/Mexico City (IUCN) #9: Piraino et al. (1996) Biological Bulletin; can still die from predation/disease #8: Natural History Museum (London) 'Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline' #7: Nielsen et al. (2016) Science 353:702 #6: Jonsson et al. (2008) Current Biology; ESA #5: National Geographic 'Common wombat' #4: Anich et al. (2020) Mammalia; Australian Platypus Conservancy #3: Ordonez et al. (2008) Genome Biology 9:R81; Australian Platypus Conservancy #2: Biophysical Reviews (2018); Harvard Gazette (Oct 2020) #1: Yang et al. (2021) Soft Matter; National Geographic Image credits Images via Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and Openverse, used under their licences with crops, pans and text overlays. Each CC BY image is also credited on screen while it's shown. CC BY credits: Jason Pratt (CC BY 2.0); edenpictures (CC BY 2.0); JoshBerglund19 (CC BY 2.0); prilfish (CC BY 2.0); watts_photos (CC BY 2.0); robert.claypool (CC BY 2.0); magnetismus (CC BY 2.0); Bob Owen (CC BY 2.0); AcrylicArtist (CC BY 2.0); Andy Morffew (CC BY 2.0); Ed Townend (CC BY 2.0); zaimoku_woodpile (CC BY 2.0); Jenn Durfey (CC BY 2.0); webheathcloseup (CC BY 2.0); RG in TLV (CC BY 2.0); DIVA007 (CC BY 2.0); ahisgett (CC BY 2.0); kawanet (CC BY 2.0); Lenny K Photography (CC BY 2.0); sporkist (CC BY 2.0); uofigemd73 (CC BY 2.0); goingslo (CC BY 2.0); NH53 (CC BY 2.0); rumpleteaser (CC BY 2.0); ST33VO (CC BY 2.0); MashiurR (CC BY 2.0); D-Stanley (CC BY 2.0); Melburnian (CC BY 2.5); Ingrid Taylar (CC BY 2.0); Danny Chapman (CC BY 2.0); Christian Gloor (CC BY 2.0); FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (CC BY 2.0); laszlo-photo (CC BY 2.0); David W. Siu (CC BY 2.0); ZeWrestler (CC BY 3.0); Elias Levy (CC BY 2.0); M-Smith (CC BY 2.0); Maria (CC BY 4.0); NASA Goddard Photo and Video (CC BY 2.0); James Webb Space Telescope (CC BY 2.0); Phillie Casablanca (CC BY 2.0); Wairambar Rainforest (CC BY 4.0); Tim (CC BY 4.0). All other images are public domain or CC0. One graphic is original. Voice: AI text-to-speech. Music: original, generated for this video. #animals #animalfacts #weirdfacts #funfacts #nature #science #wildlife #didyouknow