Wacky Animal Stuff

Randomly surfing the internet as I do when I am bored out of my mind; which means I was somewhere besides my mind or something however that's possible; I found an article about having hedgehogs as pets. Which obviously fascinated me because even though I can't remember my dreams I'm sure I've had one involving a pet hedgehog. Europe and Africa has mainly been home to hedgehogs, although they are also found in Asia and New Zealand. I thought New Zealand only had enough room for sheep? So I saw this on the site "Shelter: Hedgehogs can be kept in cages as well as aquariums". I didn't know hedgehogs could live in aquariums; can they breathe under water? Also they say a few times that exercise is important. It's too bad my local Petsupermarket doesn't sell hedgehog leashes or I'd take mine for a walk every day to show it off to neighbors. "When in danger, hedgehogs roll into a ball"... so then you can use them for bowling. Okay I'll stop bashing hedgehogs now although I really love their name because I think of a bush shaped like a hog.

Now for Unusual Animal Facts with Jessica. "All polar bears are left-handed and their livers are extremely poisonous as they contain too much of Vitamin C." So if you ever need a liver transplant don't ask Aunt Tabitha the polar bear for hers. "Sharks are immune to every known disease including cancer" which I take to mean that we should all evolve into being sharks. "Slugs have four noses, but none of them are visible" maybe because they're really small animals? You can hardly see their body in the first place! "Duck quacks do not echo" which is actually really weird. Because that means that the sound waves they make don't reflect off of walls. "A cow can be led upstairs, but it can't be brought downstairs" which I totally needed to know to further enhance my knowledge of cows. Those were the weirdest ones that I saw because I only skimmed the article.

And no post about animals would be complete without something dealing with llamas so here ya go: "In the United States and Canada there is an estimated 65,000 llamas"

I leave you with a Fun Fact: The bat and the blue whale are both taxonomically related to monkeys.