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Fact-based Weird Facts
Under ordinary light a platypus is plain brown, but under an ultraviolet lamp its fur glows blue-green, and scientists still disagree about whether the glow does anything at all.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Nine fresh molehills appeared overnight on a prize-winning lawn, and the mole responsible has explained, from just below the surface, that the earth simply had to go somewhere.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Woken by a blackbird at the end of April, a hazel dormouse has filed a formal request for three more weeks of sleep, on the grounds that he had only just got comfortable.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Given a clear path to food and a side area scattered with small wooden balls, bumblebees in a London lab kept wandering off to roll the balls, with no reward in sight.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Back over the rooftops after ten months away, a swift has declined the spot the sparrows saved for her on the gutter, explaining that she is still in the middle of something.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A shark's skin is covered in tiny tooth-shaped scales, and copying their fine ridges gave engineers a film of grooves, no deeper than a scratch, that helps hulls and wings meet less drag.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A spade went into the vegetable bed at ten past nine, and four seconds later a robin was on the wheelbarrow, checking the work and removing anything that wriggled.
Fact-based Weird Facts
The internet loves sleeping otters holding paws, but in the wild it is a rare sight, and the anchor most otters trust for a nap is a strand of kelp.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A tawny owl in the old oak by the playing field has asked the neighbourhood to stop reading so much into her stare, which she says is just how her face works.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A chameleon is not a living copy machine for whatever it sits on: its most dazzling colour changes are messages to other chameleons, made with tiny crystals in its skin.