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The animal world contains so many amazing facts, misconceptions, and mysteries that we could write a list based on it every day. So it is probably a little surprising that we only have one list of animal facts on the site. So today we are doing something about it and presenting this, our second, list of amazing animals facts. Be sure to share your own favorites in the comments. Oh – and for those who are interested, here is the original list of 10.
Amazing Fact: Some millipedes (Apheloria Virginiensis) are able to secrete cyanide
Laboratory study of these millipedes (which are slow moving and feed on plants) are able to release clouds of hydrogen cyanide gas through small vents in their body. This is most likely to occur when being handled, or attacked by other creatures such as ants. It is essential that one wash ones hands after touching one of these millipedes. This large creature is found in North America and is also known as the Kentucky Flat Millipede.
Amazing Fact: Red Ants and Large Blue Butterflies work together
Large Blue caterpillars feed on wild Thyme or Marjoram flowers for the first few days of development. Afterwards, they seek out the nests of a specific species of red ant, and hibernate inside their tunnels. The caterpillar will spend a further 3 weeks transforming into the Large Blue butterfly adult. After its change from caterpillar to butterfly, the insect emerges from its chrysalis and leaves the red ant nest to find a mate. Usually, red ants will escort the newly emerged butterfly to the surface, taking it to a low plant or shrub nearby. The red ants will encircle the butterfly and ward off any predators that attempt to attack the butterfly as it dries out. After the butterfly is ready to fly away, the ants will retreat back into their nest. To make itself less of an intruder to the red ants, Large Blue caterpillars will adopt the red ant’s scent and mimic the ant’s sounds, in addition to providing the ants with honeydew. Once the caterpillar is inside its chrysalis, it will rub its head against the chrysalis walls to make a scraping sound that the red ants make. Failure to complete any of these disguises will often lead to the caterpillar being eaten by the red ants.
Amazing Fact: If a female ferret goes into heat but can’t get any sex, she will die
This is a female specific problem; female ferrets can go into extended heat – during which time they must breed or they can die of aplastic anemia – a condition in which the bone marrow stops producing enough new blood cells (caused by estrogen toxicity.) This is because female ferrets are induced ovulators, so mating is required to bring the female out of heat. Intact females, if not mated, will remain in heat, and after some time the high levels of estrogen will cause the bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells.
Amazing Fact: Dolphins, like humans, have sex for pleasure
Dolphin copulation happens belly to belly and though many species engage in lengthy foreplay, the actual act is usually only brief, but may be repeated several times within a short time-span. Dolphins are known to have sex for reasons other than reproduction, sometimes also engaging in acts of a homosexual nature. Various dolphin species have been known to engage in sexual behavior with other dolphin species, this also having resulted in various hybrid dolphin species as mentioned earlier. Sexual encounters may be violent, with male dolphins sometimes showing aggressive behavior towards both females and other male dolphins. Occasionally, dolphins will also show sexual behavior towards other animals, including humans.
Amazing Fact: Hummingbirds don’t walk
There is a popular misconception that hummingbirds don’t have feet. It is, of course, wrong. But while they do have feet, they don’t use them to walk because they are so poorly developed; this is due to the fact that they spend most of their time in flight and seldom need to walk. Hummingbirds also have an incredibly fast metabolism which means they are always just a few hours away from starvation.
Amazing Fact: The pistol shrimp makes such a loud noise with its claws, that it can kill other fish
The snap of the pistol shrimp’s claw is so loud that it competes with animals such as the sperm whale for the title of loudest creature of the sea. When it snaps its claws together, it creates a vapor bubble with pressure sufficient to kill nearby small fish; these are then eaten. Incredibly, when the bubble bursts it produces temperatures of up to 5,000 K, close to the temperature of the surface of the sun. This is not visible to the naked eye because of its low intensity.
Amazing Fact: The males of some species (including bees, baboons, rats, squirrels,scorpions, mice, and spiders) create a “mating plug” after sex which prevents other males from having sex with the same female
The mating plug is a gelatinous compound which is inserted in the female’s vagina after copulation. When it hardens, it prevents other males from having sex with the female. This is useful in the case of bee-hives where there may be thousands of males wanting to have sex with the queen. When a drone in the beehive has had sex with the queen, his entire genitalia detaches to form the plug – which also means that he dies shortly after. Future drones who wish to mate with the queen must forcibly remove the plug.
Amazing Fact: Some frogs hear with their lungs
Panamanian golden frogs don’t have outside ears – their lungs pick up sound waves and direct them to their eardrums. Interestingly, many fish hear in this same manner which supports the link between frogs and their evolutionary ancestors. Due to internal air-pressure controlled by the frog, it is able to largely ignore its own voice which is incredibly loud.
Amazing Fact: Octopuses (or octopi if you prefer) eat with their hands like humans.
With the suckers on its arms, an octopus seizes prey and pulls it up to its mouth, where a poisonous salivary secretion is immediately released from the beak. The secretion paralyzes the prey and partially digests it. Fortunately for the octopus, if it loses an arm, another one grows to replace it. Another interesting fact about octopuses is that one of the legs of the male is used for copulation and it is broken from the body in the act of sex.
Amazing Fact: A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes
Before you start pining to be a pig, remember, after the orgasm the pig eventually ends up on our dinner table! But that aside, it is true that a pig can have an orgasm that lasts up to 30 minutes – at least I have not been able to find any evidence to the contrary after extensive research.
This article is licensed under the GFDL because it contains quotations from Wikipedia.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Everything I wanted to know about animal sex*
*But was afraid to ask.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:49 am
amazing! i love the ferret sex thing its so sweet
April 13th, 2009 at 1:49 am
I knew a few on the list already,
But the Ferret one really got me O.o;;;
remind me to get my ferret speyed..
April 13th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I love this site…
April 13th, 2009 at 1:51 am
i wish i have 8 tentacles like octpopus
April 13th, 2009 at 2:08 am
When I watched the video on the pistol shrimp and it first showed where the claw cocked back, I thought it was used a sound effect from a gun…didn’t think that’s actually what it sounded like…haha wow it sounds just like a gun. D:
this is a sweeeeeet list.
lol @ ferrets
April 13th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Peeps> Totally approuved!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Gross!but informative
April 13th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Regarding number nine, unlikely mates – it doesn’t sound to me like they are working “together”, sounds to me like the butterfly is a parasite. What does the butterfly ever do for the ants?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:30 am
That pig orgasm never gets old…
April 13th, 2009 at 2:42 am
number 1 is incredible..hahaha!
April 13th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Hmm,
Impressive list, I love the butterfly one, It’s so cool when animals from completely different species work together. Despite the fact the butterfly is a con artist!
The david Blaine of the insect world…
April 13th, 2009 at 3:52 am
I knew a person who kept ferrets, and she mentioned to me that ferret breeders often keep a neutered male or two for stud service. I thought it odd, since obviously who would pay a stud fee for a fruitless breeding. But I suppose if you love your female pet ferret, and would like to breed her in the future, such a service is a necessity in the world of ferret husbandry.
Thank you for making sense of a small piece of dangling trivia that I’ve carried around for a while, Jamie.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Deziner – always a pleasure
April 13th, 2009 at 4:20 am
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that whoever made this list is a bit sexually frustrated and thinks about animals having sex far too often.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:32 am
So ferrets have the same problem with sex as Vulcans do. It’s a small galaxy.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Tonyr: I beg to differ!
April 13th, 2009 at 5:00 am
#9 Frank “Regarding number nine, unlikely mates – it doesn’t sound to me like they are working “together”, sounds to me like the butterfly is a parasite. What does the butterfly ever do for the ants?”
The ants “milk” the caterpillars for honeydew which they then feed on making the relationship mutually beneficial to the ants and butterfly.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:00 am
I think Tonyr is saying you beg to be different…
April 13th, 2009 at 5:11 am
I do have questions regarding item 1:
Which pig enjoys this 30 minute Big-O, the male or the female? Or is it mutual? If it is mutual, does that make it pleasurable? Only asking, because if it is pleasurable, doesn’t that kindof make item 7 kind of an incomplete fact?
Not trying to upset the applecart but I’m just sayin’….
(wink-wink)
April 13th, 2009 at 5:14 am
I had always been taught that octopodes was the correct plural for octopus and not octopi. That was because of the false assumption that octopus was a latin term rather than a greek one.
I thought I should probably research it before posting this and it turns out octopuses, octopi and octopodes are all accepted. Octopodes still makes more sense to me than octopi but I think perhaps I should start saying octopuses instead.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:30 am
H.birds are the only birds that can fly backwards under their own steam, and hover without any wind.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:31 am
that octopus video is so badass.
Nice list JFray
April 13th, 2009 at 5:35 am
I used to have a Jack Russell Terrier named Polka Dot Jones who would exhibit sexual behavior towards me on quite a number of occasions. If I happened to be walking by, he’s quickly hop in front of me a begin to hump my leg quite vigorously. Or if I was sitting in a chair, or lifting weights, or just getting out of the shower, or sitting on the floor he’d find something to hump.
Come to think of it, he’d try to hump anything that was nearby, small trees, table legs, the corner of my desk, fence posts, other larger dogs, my cat etc. Just about anything that was sticking out of the ground looked like a bitch in heat to him.
Additionally, I tried that mating plug thing one time, but as it turns out, I was much to attached to my genitals. I don’t think the gal I was with at the time appreciated my attempt to plug her up for good either.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Fun Facts.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Lol @ dolphins & humans.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Learned something new today….nice list
April 13th, 2009 at 6:26 am
always classy, buc.
I was watching a show about some really rare species of chimp (or ape?) that also has sex for pleasure. Including oral. So there’s that.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:26 am
I invented these animals to.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:36 am
28
that would be the Bonobo chimp. they also give eachother hand-jobs (excuse the crudeness) to calm fights down.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:42 am
24. bucslim – “If I happened to be walking by, he’s quickly hop in front of me a begin to hump my leg quite vigorously.”
I had one foster dog that liked to hump anyone wearing a big, puffy winter jacket. I was living in the mountains so during winter EVERYONE wore a puffy winter jacket.
…I was so embarrassed…
April 13th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Love this one! I only knew of 1 of these so this was great!
So, stay away from frisky dolphins, don’t be reincarnated as a female ferret but ok to come back as a pig.
(btw, it’s the male pig if I am correct)
April 13th, 2009 at 6:59 am
I watched The Sex Education Show the other day (UK) and it said that they can’t prove if pigs orgasm or not.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Dude! They took down the pistol shrimp video or something… Maybe it’s just me, because I haven’t been able to play certain videos here that I could in the states. Is there such thing as a YouTube embargo against Iraq? I wanna go home and watch the pistol shrimp video…
April 13th, 2009 at 8:05 am
#5 – I was of the opinion that it was the large groups of these that caused the deafening roar. They live in groups of trillions, and if they drift in towards land they can keep seaside towns awake!
They can also deafen sonar operators on submarines. They live in a band in the sea, and subs beneath this band can hear nothing above it and subs above the band can hear nothing below it.
I do doubt a single shrimp rivals the volume of a whale.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Still, I have been wrong before.
Once.
It was a thursday
April 13th, 2009 at 8:08 am
And yes wrong this time – wrong species! will find out which one I mean!
April 13th, 2009 at 8:40 am
#34, yes there are many countries that have videos from youtube blocked, I’ve noticed this more then once while travelling…when I’ve logged into youtube some videos will say this video is blocked (or cannot be viewed) by the country you are trying to access it from
Sometimes connecting through a proxy works but not always
April 13th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I am convinced…..Dolphins are AWESOME…..I hope I come back as a dolphin
April 13th, 2009 at 9:01 am
illegal_immigrant depending on what internet you are using it may be blocked the government. If you are a serviceman and using the military’s internet I’m pretty sure they block it. Having been in Iraq in the Army there weren’t any local connections that we were getting that blocked Youtube.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Yeahhh, #1 is true, a’nuff said!
April 13th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Who figured out number 1?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I cant see any of the videos because YouTube is blocked by Websense at work… I hate Websense.
Anyway, great list jfrater! I only knew the dolphin and the pig ones so itps nice to learn new things! The female ferret makes me a little sad… Poor, sex-starved things…
Oh, and EWWW!! on the mating plug thing!
April 13th, 2009 at 9:55 am
The myth that is only, although it was not stated that it is ONLY dolphins, dolphins have sex for pleasure is ridiculous. Animals have sex BECAUSE it is pleasurable not to produce offspring. It is the reverse of what is commonly believed. Why, I ask, would animals have sex with an intention to produce offspring when the desire for pleasure that appeals to an animals, including humans, selfish need for survival and self gratification is a much simpler reason to justify sex. It is an evolutionary step that has perpetuated our genetic passing on. Passing on our genetics is a by product of our desire for sex not our desire to pass our genetics that has given us sexual pleasure.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Good list JF I was just watching a clip on the net about an octopus that catches a shark and eats it, you dont see or hear of this very often.
I know its got nothing to do with animals – I just thought I would share.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
While the human male penis shape does not make a ‘plug’, it is designed to make a ‘plunger’, it pulls sperm from a previous encounter away from the uterous, then releases it’s own.
Thats why when you are trying to conceive it is not a good idea to have sex without a good few hours break between sessions.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
“But that aside, it is true that a pig can have an orgasm that lasts up to 30 minutes – at least I have not been able to find any evidence to the contrary after extensive research.”
Well in that case, according to my studies, pigs can sing the entire themesong to the HMS Pinafore, if tickled correctly. Prove me wrong.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Polecat is correct in that the correct plural form of octopus, if you are going to use the fancy one, would be octopodes not octopodi – although it is also accepted it is, I have found, considered bad form. For a non-fancy alternative, octopuses is a perfectly fine word.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I heard dolphins will rape people if the situation is right
April 13th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Jaime, I just saw an ad for your book on amazon but it said it’s not yet released. Any idea when this might happen?
April 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
frogs can hear through their lungs, that is so random.
What next? A bear that can hear out its anus
April 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
No.1 is true after all I experienced it first hand
April 13th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
#10 everywhere in my back yard, creepy little things too.
#8 I miss my ferrets
#5 pistol shrimp are Awesome! The benefits of being a salt water lover…
Great list.
H3000: I can’t prove you wrong, Your pig theory sounds completely reasonable, I once crapped and it looked like the Mona Lisa.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Great List–I actually didn’t know any of this. I have read where marine bioligists believe dolphins have an intelligence on a par with humans.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
mongoose – around November hopefully
April 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
interesting list. I especially liked the pistol shrimp
April 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
what an ugly pig you are
April 13th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
The animal world never ceases to amaze me. Nice list
# 2 “one of the legs of the male is used for copulation and it is broken from the body in the act of sex”
I have heard of guys that complain when they pay an arm and a leg for sex but I guess in the octopus’s world it’s literally half true.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Number 1, it’s a classic
April 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
“at least I have not been able to find any evidence to the contrary after extensive research”.
lol just how extensive was the research?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
now for humans to plug their mates LoL
April 13th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I’m still jealous of pigs even if they do end up as dinner.
#52 KEV – I really shouldn’t ask but how exactly have you experienced #1 first hand?
April 13th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Ok I have to ask, exactly does # 1’s:
” at least I have not been able to find any evidence to the contrary after extensive research.”
involve?
April 13th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Ok, I meant to say “.exactly what does #1’s:”
April 13th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
seems like intellect has something to do with sex for pleasure… someone should study this.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I wonder if the boar needs a cigarette after that–Probably so. And then he promises the sow he will call her–But,of course,he never does.He’s already moved on down the trough to the next one.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
#65 Call me crazy deepthinker but I find sex more pleasurable when I’m not thinking so much and my intellect is not working so well. Maybe that’s just me.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
octopuses are hella smart
April 13th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Little Pretty Piggy was down and out, big time.
All pink and blue and getting anorexic.
Sleeping too many a winky dink.
Poor Pretty Piggy.
Dance floor days are over.
Gave Pretty Piggy Clomipramine
And tossed Sad but Pretty Piggy in the mud pin with Boss Hog
Made for the best Head Cheese I ever had.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I often feel like the female ferret: I’m gonna die if I can’t get laid.
There was a woman who cracked her gum so loud in court, ppl thought shots were fired. She was arrested for something. Basically scaring the judge.
I knew about the pig. I consider myself an authority on orgasms.
And dolphins do have large brains and their own language. Many ppl do think their intelligence equals or surpasses that of humans.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
extensive research? haha, that’s horseshit.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
what do you think about dolphins that trap themselves in nets and when they are set free they come back and trap themselves again?
or the idea of the Ambasador Dolphin.
or the sick breaking off from the school.
or Dolphin telepathy?
yeh! DOLPHIN TELEPATHY.
what do you think about that?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Lucky pigs… *sigh*
April 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
What do you think about ppl who drink and smoke and do crack? And then go thru rehab and get clean then drink, smoke and do crack again? What do you think about pedophiles who can’t stop even with the threat of their ‘nads being removed.What do you think of serial kilers who do fine in jail, but then kill again within weeks of release? I could go on and on but I think you get my point.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
somethings for some folks are oft repeated and driven into the coffin lid to seal it shut
April 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
That’s what I meant in response to dolphins getting stuck in nets after being set free.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Deepthinker- it seems maybe a more developed nervous system would be the cause of both greater intelligence and a greater pleasure from sex. Maybe?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
by the way, the horeshit comment just happened to hit right after your comment, before i knew it existed.
Dolphin telepathy. I haven’t read anything on the topic, yet recall just slightly listening to an interview with a fisherman who had many odd experiences with dolphins. Maybe they were the same ones that played around and got to know him by the boat shape beneath. recognition is profound. especially when it’s among the other mammals among us.
The captive dolphin making air rings underwater and scooping it’s snout through the hole.
Is this a neurotic disorder due to being prison bound , like a preoccupation with not having the ocean to be free?
or a creative discovery?
Are dolphins lonely?
we teach them tricks.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
bucslime:
Additionally, I tried that mating plug thing one time, but as it turns out, I was much to attached to my genitals.
There’s a trick to it, but it’s difficult to pull off convincingly.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Diogenes… (et al)Are we having a dialogue? Im confused as to who you are. Are you all Diogenes_____? Or are all Diogenes_____ you? I mean no offense, offering only defense. Yet I am not even sure to whom I am speaking/chatting/writing with. I am Eugene but really Eugenie (ooh zhen ee).
Astraya (79) Do you mean to insult the humorous bucslim by calling him bucslime? I think he’s funny and you mis-keyed. You seem to be a fine young man. Not prone to provoking the “Wrath of Bucslim” (dun dun duun)
April 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
If we’re on the subject of animal genitalia, did anyone know that pigs have corkscrew-shaped penises? Completely true. Also, cats have barbs on their penises to encourage the females to ovulate. Cats are also induced ovulators, but instead of dying from aplastic anaemia, they just yowl for weeks/months until they get some
One of my teachers lived in northern Canada when she was younger and had an intact female that went into heat. Since there were no males in the vicinity, she and a friend had to use a Q-tip to simulate copulation so Kitty would shut up.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Courtney(81) So that would be a pussy dildo? Hmm interesting. Never heard that before. How did that solution come to fruition?
April 13th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
cool
April 13th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Kinda boring list this one, Jfrater.
Any chance of a “10 Ways To Defeat The Taxman” list?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Courtney: that is just so revolting! But fascinating nevertheless
April 13th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Another cool animal fact is that monkeys have fairly advanced societies for their species. In Jaipor (sic), India, monkeys in the town have banded together in street gangs. They pickpocket pedestrians and ransom their objects for food back to their owners (however, they usually keep the shiny objects for themselves) not only that, Monkey gangs have their own turf, often times they wage turf wars with other gangs. The gangs have leaders (usually with a female at the very top), within the gangs there are foot soldiers within the gangs. It’s really quite an advanced society they have going on. Not much different then human companies or organized crime gangs. They can communicate vocally (albeit their communication system is primitive) and it appears that they even have generals who organize co-ordinated attacks. Really interesting stuff.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Eugene: Astraya (79) Do you mean to insult the humorous bucslim by calling him bucslime? I think he’s funny and you mis-keyed. You seem to be a fine young man. Not prone to provoking the “Wrath of Bucslim” (dun dun duun)
(look of total innocence) Me? Mean to insult the humorous buclim? Why, no!
You seem to be a fine young man.
Yes, but appearances are deceptive, though, aren’t they? I’ve crossed paths with bucslim many times before, and will risk the wrath, and count it an honour.
(I’m slightly amused by the “young” bit. I’m older than the median age of LU members, according to the recent poll.)
April 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Well, I do think da faq that cat speak to human more than with its own species should be in ur list.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Imagine if Human females had the ferret problem =P
April 14th, 2009 at 5:52 am
“…the actual act is usually only brief, but may be repeated several times within a short time-span.”
Phew! Thought I was the only one.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:59 am
“…dolphins will also show sexual behavior towards other animals, including humans.”
Bush was right, “…human being and fish can coexist peacefully”.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:19 am
meryl streep
April 14th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Courtney (81):
That was mildly disturbing… How do you come up with that idea? “So, kitty´s still yowling… Let´s see if this Q-tip will do the trick!” ??
April 14th, 2009 at 10:06 am
The people on here that don’t have U Tube couldn’t you do what one person did in Japan? He went to a NBC news office of course at the time NBC was doing a news report about Japan blocking info about the rebellion in their country that time. You know the one where their tanks ran over a protester. Anyway on the Japan computers they couldn’t get the info, but when one man went to NBC News and got on the USA Verison the man was able to pull up the info. Or you try to get some USA Site like google and try that way to get U-tube. But if you try the news station routine ask for permission first.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I love these lists! Useless information for useless informations sake. It makes my day.
Of course, I already knew a few of them, but many were new to me. Oh, happy day!
I always did like dolphins. Now I know why I like them.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Eugene, jfrater, and GTT:
Here’s a video from National Geographic that explains the reasons behind the barbed cat penis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVw7cgv36A
I’m not adventurous enough to find anything on pigs. As for the “Q-tip method”, I’m a vet tech student, so my teacher is a VT too. That’s how she knew about the anatomy of female cats. She happens to be the anatomy teacher
April 14th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Wouldn`t it be easier to get the female cat spayed than simulate cat sex with a Q-tip?
Just asking.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Bigski….I agree about the spaying. Why on earth would you stick an object up your pets “privates”…that seems like creeping on craziness. The poor animal.
ugh.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
joliver: i wish i had eight arms too that would be sweet!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
That’s why I have sex with pigs, they appreciate it more.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/55/do-female-pigs-have-six-minute-orgasms
There’s your proof, this guy is never wrong, do with it what you will.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Bigski: This took place in northern Canada, in the winter, in a community with no vet. At the time, it was impossible to drive/fly out, but the cat wouldn’t get out of her heat until she was “bred”. Apparently the yowling went on for about 3 months before the Q-tip was brought in. Needless to say the cat was spayed at the first opportunity.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:00 am
a woodpeckers tongue is 2x the size of its body and has a form of nostril on the end
QI
April 15th, 2009 at 4:55 am
@100 Brilliant!
April 15th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
94. Pam-Doggirl3
Japan? You must mean China…
April 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Dude, the Navy should create a weapon like the pistol shrimp’s claws. Destroy those enemy battleships.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
102- Courtney~~ Sorry! Didn`t know the circumstances. Still not a job to look foward to. Kind of like a bull sperm collector.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
#44, please read a biology textbook before you embarrass yourself any further. Thank you.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Courtney:
Sorry, that cat story has kept me laughing until now. Cat sex with a Q-tip… Priceless!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
p@nd0ra: I’m pissed that I missed that comment. Funny quote from House MD; “Sex *could* kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you’re lifting three times your body weight. It’s violent. It’s ugly. And it’s messy. And if God hadn’t made it *unbelievably* fun, the human race would have died out eons ago. -Allison Cameron
GDBatman: You should stop getting your medical advice from your television. Laugh at the joke but don’t for one minute pretend to think that it came out of JAMA.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:44 am
110. Crimanon: For the actual lowdown on sex, read Jared Diamond, Phd, little book called “Why Sex Is Fun”.
Dr. Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, lecturer, and nonfiction author. He has also written Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel , Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed . He received the National Medal of Science in , The Third Chimpanzee and many more. He lectures at UCLA, and I’ve met him!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:46 am
110. Crimanon, of course I wasn’t telling you all that for you, but for the one you were answering…whoever that was. I have much more faith in your intelligence than that!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:55 am
segue: Not really interested in theory, I take the more hands on approach. I’ve been told that I should have more “seminars.” Really though they are just parties that degrade into me getting all serious and intellectual about sex. Everyone seems to enjoy. Glad they’re amused. I never get paid for it, not even a tip!
April 16th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Crimanon, while I’m always interested in theory, in this case I make sure I get in as much practice as possible!
April 16th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
wtf? this is mostly about animal sex? disgusting..
April 16th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
115. llama: wtf? this is mostly about animal sex? disgusting.
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They’d probably say the same about you.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
How is animal sex disgusting? That’s like saying “ew that animal is eating to survive” Disgusting!
Anyway, man I love this site; I really don’t know what I used to do at work before I found Listverse
April 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
A both interesting and disgusting list..i wish i hadn’t known about #1..it gives me the quirms
April 17th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I want to be a PIG!
I dont care if I end up in a frying pan on the table,
I want to be a PIG!
April 17th, 2009 at 9:25 am
119. Joanie Girl: I want to be a PIG!
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Joanie Girl, if you’d be satisfied with 30 minute orgasms, I grieve for you.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
thanks a lot I’m now really quite scared of octopi (and slightly scared of homosexual dolphins)
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
hey jfrater, if you do another one, i recently learned that female platypuses (platypi?) don’t have nipples, although their young do drink milk from them. the babies just lick their mom’s stomachs and stimulates milk to come out! weird eh.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I wonder how hummingbirds sleep? Flying? Their feet may not be well developed, but it has to have at least that function, so they can be able to stand still while sleeping, or lying eggs…
April 27th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Oh yes FaradayCage, I was scared of dolphins too, not necessarily of the homosexual ones, but of the fact that they have sexual behaviors with other species, including humans, **glup**, my imagination starts to wander, xD…
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:09 am
yo i really think you are bad people now STOP this crappy website
July 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I heard that shark sex can be fatal. Is it true?
July 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Really cool blog!!! I love tops xD….and information dispatched here is great too!
August 1st, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Happy orgasm to u
September 19th, 2009 at 9:23 am
hi i am ajith i like this web site very much it telling about amazing fact
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
The pig-orgasm thing is a myth.