Here's Your Weekly Dose Of Incredible Animal Facts You'll Want To Share

It's easy to take it for granted, but our planet is an amazing place. Every week, we will bring you fresh amazing facts about animals you probably didn't hear about and which we think will blow your mind and make you the smarter person in the room. Let's start.   

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    Insect - did you know? Scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that ants return to their nests by counting their steps. The ants with stilts overshot their nest by roughly 50% due to the new length of their steps. normal legs stilts stumps MightyFacts.com
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    Hair - Did you know? Male orangutans can be attracted to women with red hair. One male, Hsing Hsing, has even ripped pictures of Nicole Kidman out of magazines and placed them in his enclosure. MightyFacts.com
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    Adaptation - Did you know? At birth a Blue Marlin is less than an inch long. However when fully grown a Blue Marlin can be 14 feet long (4.3m). MightyFacts.com
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    Organism - did you know? The 'Horror Frog' breaks its own bones and pokes them through its skin to create a spiky, retractable claw that helps it fight off predators. PHOTO: N. IWAIWIKIMEDIA COMMONS DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
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    Organism - Did you know? There's a rare breed of chicken where the entire chicken is solid black. The meat, skin, organs, bones, bone marrow, tongue, and eyes are solid black. Each one costs $2500. MightyFacts.com
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    Organism - did you know? This is what a sheep that hasn't been sheared in 5 years loolks like. The sheep, who likely escaped and got lost in the Australian wild, was rescued and finally sheared under anesthesia. He yielded 89 pounds of wool. PHOTO: RSPCA/GETTY/AFP DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
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    Adaptation - did you know? didyouknowblog.com Species that live in the deep sea can become giants compared to their shallow-water relatives, but nobody knows exactly why Deep-sea gigantism affects many species, including giant isopods, giant squid, and deepwater stingray. didyouknowblog.com egon Fims Coters News
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    Text - did you know? didyouknowblog.com Ball's Pyramid kept a secret for almost 100 years. The 7-million-year-old rock has a small bush that's been home to 24 giant stick insects, aka 'tree lobsters," which were thought to be wiped out by rats in 1920. No one knows how they got there, but they were the last known survivors until scientists began breeding them to save the species. didyouknowblog.com Photo Credit: thealate/dailymail
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    Insect - did you know? When the Cyana meyricki caterpillar is ready to turn into a butterfly, it doesn't build an ordinary cocoon. Instead, it uses its own spiky body hairs to create a mesh cage for protection, then suspends itself in the midd le. PHOTO: SANDI BUTLER DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
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    Text - did you know? Platypuses are often seen as goofy due to the fact that they're fuzzy, duck-billed, egg-laying mammals, but in reality they can be pretty vicious. Male platypuses have venomous barbed hooks on their rear feet. If you happen to get speared by one, you'll have to yank it out while suffering a pain so intense, not even morphine will dull it. PHOTO: MICK TSIKAS, REUTERSIE. LONNON DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.cOM
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    Wildlife - did you know? Wolves can shape the ecosystem and physical geography of the land they live on. When wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in '95 after a 70-year absence, trees grew faster, animal populations increased, and rivers even changed their behavior because new vegetation helped reduce erosion. DIDYOUKNOWFACTS.COM PHOTO: OSU.EDUu
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    Bird - did you know? DiaYouknowEacts com Employees at the Amsterdam zoo found an abandoned griffon vulture egg that none of the other vultures would adopt, so they placed it with a gay couple that had been nesting, bonding, and mating for years. The two males immediately took turns lying on the egg, cared for it until it hatched, and are now a happy family of three. DIDYOUKNOWFACTS.COM PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA CC
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    Galápagos tortoise - did you know? didyouknowblog.com In Jurassic Park, the barking sounds the Velociraptors make when they're communicating with each other are actually the sounds of a mating tortoise. didyouknowblog.com Photo Credit: movieclips/freerepublic
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    Terrestrial animal - did you know? Omo is an extremely rare white giraffe in Tanzania. She's now old enough to avoid the threat of lions and hyenas but faces the risk of being taken down as a rare prize for hunters and poachers. PHOTO: WILDNATUREINSTITUTE.ORG DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
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