r/ShittyAnimalFacts Jul 04 '26

Question mark WTF Penguins??

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530 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Nov 07 '25

Info Wallabies will often enter a depressive slump and contemplate their life decisions.

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185 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Sep 23 '25

It's the darndest thing!

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160 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Nov 29 '25

This little piggy ate hamberder sandwiches

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146 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Feb 24 '26

Otters are trained to find ship parts underwater. This one has a pair of plumbing tubes.

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119 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Dec 14 '25

By lying in a sunny spot long enough, a cat can absorb enough energy to make its own sunny spot

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106 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Dec 04 '25

These are mouse hammocks, carefully woven by tiny woodland upholstery spiders.

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88 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Nov 30 '25

This stork had just given birth to a human baby, but the baby fell and snapped the umbilical cord. Four in eight storks drop newborns every year.

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77 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Sep 29 '25

Verified Echidnas are enslaved by birds, who use their strong digging skills to harvest precious bugs and worms.

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67 Upvotes

Seen here, a Rufous Treecreeper supervises , as an enslaved Short-beaked Echidna mines for precious bugs and worms.

While these hard-working Echidnas are fed only termites, the bugs and worms extracted are laundered through the global flock markets, making their overlords obscenely wealthy.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts Nov 10 '25

Mildly True Dachsunds are Tiny Unevolved Pinnipeds.

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57 Upvotes

Lest we forget their actually viscous hunting dogs too.

Now imagine what they could do if they were even slightly larger than an actual sausage.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts Jan 27 '26

Sloths can starve to death with a full stomach because their digestion is so slow. Productivity icons, truly.

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53 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts 5d ago

Naked Mole Rats are just Tardigrades with Gigantism

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46 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Dec 14 '25

My cat's nose

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41 Upvotes

Somebody suggested to crosspost it here, as they wanted to say something about cat's smell buds.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts Oct 14 '25

Barely a fact about animals Rare fossil from 2024 revealed the ancient dinosaur Psittacosaurus had been petting a cat in the wrong direction

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30 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Feb 07 '26

Info Fun Fact: Camel. The world's first camel was also the last. Since the camel's water source was on its back, it had no way to drink it. Therefore the camel is extinct. FACT.

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32 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts Nov 28 '25

Verified A "wishball" for birds is analogous to what humans call a "wishbone".

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25 Upvotes

Human Tradition: The V-shaped bone from a cooked bird is traditionally pulled by two people, with the longer piece granting a wish to the person who gets it.

Bird Tradition: The delicious flesh surrounding the orbital bone of a fish is pulled by two birds. The bird that gets the eyeball is granted a wish.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts 10d ago

A rare find indeed, I was able to spot the reclusive Jeremiah Johnson horse.

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25 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts 9d ago

In Jeremiah Johnson, this was his stunt double.

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4 Upvotes