Random Unusual Facts About Animals Part 2

This one is the follow-up post about the Random Unusual Facts that ive been keeping for some time now. They might be strange, but they are true. Enjoy guys!

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A snail can sleep for three years.

An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.

Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.

The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

In his book, The Insects, naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

All porcupines float in water.

When a frog swallows a meal, his bulgy eyeballs will close and go down into his head. This is because the eyeballs apply pressure and actually push a frog's meal down his throat!

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

The pudu, a native of Chile's temperate rainforest, stands just 18 inches high, making it the world's smallest deer.

Pigs are the only animal that will drink hard liquor voluntarily,

A whale's penis is called a dork.