A king penguin in Japan was rescued and nursed back to life. He refused to leave, and now lives with the family. He has his own extra cold room, and he goes out on walks around the neighborhood to pick up groceries.
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Weirdo
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SirPeckerish
Owls are found in all different habitats and there are different owl species found on all continents except Antarctica.
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Weirdo
In 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
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Weirdo
The world’s largest parrot is also flightless and nocturnal. There are only 126 left in the world, and they spend their days hiding from giant eagles that went extinct hundreds of years ago.
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Weirdo
1 in 10000 chickens develops as female on one side and male on the other.
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Dneel
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists. But few know that he killed every bird he painted.
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Weirdo
Horse-sized ducks lived in Australia 50,000 to 20,000 years ago. And if we’re going back in time, you might want to look at Hyracotherium, which was an early ancestor of modern horses. About 2 feet long and 8-14 inches tall; the size of a large duck. So we have historical evidence of both Horse-sized ducks, and Duck-sized horses.
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Weirdo
Students studying crows at the University of Washington wore wigs and masks because the crows would remember their faces and harass them for the remainder of their college career.
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Weirdo
Hollywood has had a population of feral chickens living under a freeway since the 70s. Nobody knows how they got there and all efforts to remove them have failed.
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Weirdo
A Dutch scientist watched a dead duck being raped outside his window for over an hour, saved the body, and published a prize-winning paper on the first ever case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
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Weirdo
A species of bird known as the Shrike impales all of its prey so that it can return and feed whenever it wants.
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Weirdo
Female ducks have evolved a complex vagina with several dead-end pockets and tunnels in order to confuse unwanted mates and prevent fertilisation from the wrong male.
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Weirdo
The last words of Alex the Parrot to his caretaker was “You be good, see you tomorrow, I love you”.
