Once You Realize How Terrible Nature Really Is, You’ll Never Go To A Zoo Again
Nature can be a beautiful thing to observe. The majesty of seeing a caterpillar emerge from its cocoon as a graceful butterfly, for instance. These facts we recently uncovered, however, are pretty much the opposite of beautiful.
Each of these animals found in the wild are hiding disgusting, terrifying, or down right spooky secrets.
1.) Certain horned lizards defend themselves by squirting blood from their eyes. Uh, neat?
2.) Great white sharks have great senses of smell: they can smell blood up to 3 miles away.
3.) But don’t be too afraid of the ocean, bees kill more people than sharks.
4.) Talking about deadly animals, hippos kill more people in Africa than almost any other animal.
5.) India’s Ganges River is a famous burial ground for Hindus, which also makes it pretty polluted. To combat this, snapping turtles were introduced to consume the bodies whose families couldn’t afford cremation.
6.) Snow leopards can cover as much as 50 feet in one leap.
7.) Think NYC’s rat problem is big? Try Tehran, Iran, where rats can weigh as much as 11 pounds.
8.) Koalas are cute, cuddly-looking, and most of them have chlamydia.
9.) Beavers need to chew on trees in order to file their teeth, which never stop growing.
10.) This adorable little golden poison dart frog can kill 10 adults with its venom.
11.) For every single human on earth there are 200 million insects.
12.) Snakes can fly. Well, sort of. Flying snakes can glide across the sky for up to 330 feet, and they can even change directions mid-flight!
13.) Warning: threaten a sea cucumber and you could get a face full of its internal organs, shot out from its anus. That’s a hell of a defense mechanism.
14.) Vampire bats aren’t just fictional. They really do live on blood. Yum!
15.) Think you’re hungry like the wolf? Bet you can’t eat 20 lbs of meat in one sitting.
16.) Golden eagles can dive in at 150 miles per hour.
17.) Tarantula poison liquefies internal organs; once their prey is basically soup inside, they drink it.
18.) Indiana Jokes was right about snakes. This little guy has enough poison to kill 20 people.
19.) Meerkat groups follow the orders of a main leader who chooses who mates, and when. Get pregnant without permission and you could be punished.
20.) Look up! Crocodiles can climb trees.
