16 Facts About Wild Nature That Completely Changed Our View of It

There are over 7 million animal species in total on our planet. We have never seen most of them. But even the species we think we know well might still have some secrets. As it turns out, in some, milk oozes right from the sweat glands, others can fly backward, and some can even grow limbs.

We at CHEERY love expanding our horizons and that of our readers with facts about the animal world, which is full of unimaginable phenomena and even secrets.

Some albatrosses are lesbians. Same-sex pairing is widespread among females of Laysan albatrosses.

Pygmy short-horned lizard squirt blood from their eyes to protect themselves from predators.

Some snails have hairy shells.

Roosters tilt their heads back in order not to lose hearing from their own crowing. The ear canal is covered completely, serving as a built-in ear plug.

Rabbits do not have paw pads, only a thick layer of fur, functioning as a cushion.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.

Sea otters have the thickest fur in the world, with up to a million hairs per inch.

Axolotl can regenerate their own limbs.

Sloths might need up to a month to digest 1 leaf. These animals eat toxic leaves, and if they digested them faster, they would get poisoned.

Mantis shrimp can make the fastest punch in the world, and its eyes see more colors than any other creature on the planet.

Cows produce more milk when they listen to classical music, such as Mozart or Beethoven.

Killer whales can learn the dolphin language.

Lepidodactylus lugubris are only females and reproduce without males. All of them are clones of their mothers that were clones of their mothers and so on.

Swifts can fly for 10 months without landing.

Platypus has no nipples. The milk oozes right from their skin.

The black panther is not a species, but a color. In Africa and Asia, black panthers are black-coated leopards, and in Northern, Central, and South America — dark-coated jaguars.

How many of these facts did you know? What other interesting details about the lives or appearance of animals could you share?