I commented this a bit before, but Tigers actually lack the ability to purr, they do something called “chuffing” in replacement for that. I think tiger sona owners should at least be aware!

Female kangaroos have 3 vaginas, 2 uterus's and 1 cloaca.

The knot on dogs is designed to inflate inside the vagina, not inflate outside the vagina and then be "popped" in.

female hyena psudo-penises exist as a sexual deterrent, so being unerect is the sex signal and an erection is the no-sex signal

that being said: i don't think artists and owners of funny cartoon animals should be 100% beholdant to how their real-life counterparts work unless they're into that themselves, i ain't here to rain on anyone's parade of cis-girl-hyena-dick

chaser said:
The knot on dogs is designed to inflate inside the vagina, not inflate outside the vagina and then be "popped" in.

And urethra is at the very tip, not the center like on human tip.

Don’t smile at most primates. Smiling is seen as an act of aggression from primates and they will get agitated and can attack. Tragic.

Speaking of, crazy sex fact: Turtles have bigger equipment than gorillas

Horse sweat has a surfactant in it, they foam when it's hot.

kora_viridian said:
Most female scalies - lizards, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, etc - don't have boobs.

I mean Elder Scrolls yada yada'd this away too.

I've got a bunch of these things. :p

The easiest way to tell the difference between a wolf and a domestic dog is the tail. Due to domestication, dog tails curve upwards towards the tip. Wolf tails do not.

Wolves also don't bark, nor do wild dogs. Barking is a learned behavior a domestic dog must learn from others.

Snakes are deaf. Snake charmers get a snake to "dance" through the movements of the flute, not the music.

Domestic cats are the only felines who hold their tails vertically when walking. All other cats keep theirs held straight out behind them or tucked between the legs.

Most kangaroos, hares, and rabbits can't walk and must hop instead. Marsh rabbits do walk instead of hop, and a jackrabbit disturbed from its rest was observed to walk when it was initially too stiff to hop off.

Lemmings don't habitually commit mass suicide as the old Disney films claimed. In reality, their population booms cyclically, causing mass migrations as large numbers look for fresh areas to find food. Occasionally, some might get clumsy and fall into water, but lemmings are also excellent swimmers. But this wasn't exciting enough for the director, who staged lemming suicides to "spice up" his nature films.

Duck quacks do echo.

lankylank said:
I commented this a bit before, but Tigers actually lack the ability to purr, they do something called “chuffing” in replacement for that. I think tiger sona owners should at least be aware!

This is true of several of the big cats – tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars – but they can roar. All other cats, from snow leopards to domestic cats, can purr, but not roar. Also, two species of genet purr, and many other mammals make purr-like sounds, though it's not proper purring.

thehuskyk9 said:
Don’t smile at most primates. Smiling is seen as an act of aggression from primates and they will get agitated and can attack. Tragic.

Basically, don't show your teeth and don't stare. Some younger apes will shield their faces with their hands rather than risk triggering an older ape.

Speaking of, crazy sex fact: Turtles have bigger equipment than gorillas

Further, among the apes, it's humans who are the swaggering, well-endowed winners. Gorillas are about the size of a pencil when erect. On the other hand, there are a few monkeys whose equipment is prehensile.

kora_viridian said:
Most female scalies - lizards, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, etc - don't have boobs.

In fact, no scalie does. Mammary glands are a mammalian trait while the sexually attractive breasts we like to stick on furries are exclusive to humans. Other mammal breasts are little more than swollen bags of tissue.

I feel like several of these aren't animal facts so much as pedantics and kinkshaming.

Yeah, nonhuman animals don't have humanoid genitalia.
Nonhuman animals can't talk, either.

Anthro felines shouldn't be able to masturbate, unless they want a bloody hand.

lendrimujina said:
I feel like several of these aren't animal facts so much as pedantics and kinkshaming.

Yeah, nonhuman animals don't have humanoid genitalia.
Nonhuman animals can't talk, either.

And we're not talking about fictional anthropomorphic animals here, either. Technically, evolution and/or genetic engineering would make some of the above facts irrelevant as anthro animals are not their real life feral counterparts. Artists are perfectly free to ignore any and all of the above or even reinterpret them creatively as they wish. Anthro snakes with arms and legs can have breasts and hear perfectly well if so desired. A wolf can certainly learn how to bark, especially if the wolf is intelligent. Intelligent non-human primates can develop a culture where smiling is perfectly fine. Anthros can definitely be shown with humanoid genitals, especially since most artists aren't going to want to go to the bother or deal with any squick to look up the real animal's genitals, and mammary glands on non-mammals is definitely something that's okay to depict if you like them that way.

Part of making fiction is knowing which things to keep, which things to discard, and which things to mangle into funky origami shapes. But an artist can't discard things as unuseful for their purposes if they don't know what those things are. For example, cats, llamids, and camels are the only animals who walk by swinging the legs on one side of their bodies forward at once instead of alternately (ie. left front and left rear at the same time then right front and right rear instead of left front/right rear then right front/left rear). How the honk is anyone supposed to depict that with a bipedal anthro? Heck, I doubt it would make a hill of beans of difference for depictions of ferals. Fans aren't likely to care, nor are most artists. An artist can include it as a fun extra touch if they want to, but they can't choose to do that if they don't know about it. It would be nice if the artist kept in mind some of these things, but to shame them for it or insist they follow any of these things or else? I have no right to do that.

clawstripe said:
ook up the real animal's genitals

I wonder does anyone has a quick way to find the real animal's genitals? I find it's hard to find some.

watchdog22 said:
I wonder does anyone has a quick way to find the real animal's genitals? I find it's hard to find some.

This is tricky, I must admit. It's not something we can just casually discuss on this forum because it could conceivably veer into certain taboo and illegal avenues by its very nature. I honestly don't want any of us to get clobbered for it.

kora_viridian said:
A few decades on the Internets has made me shy of absolute statements. :D

Touché. :p

clawstripe said:

Snakes are deaf. Snake charmers get a snake to "dance" through the movements of the flute, not the music.

Most kangaroos, hares, and rabbits can't walk and must hop instead. Marsh rabbits do walk instead of hop, and a jackrabbit disturbed from its rest was observed to walk when it was initially too stiff to hop off.

The former is not technically correct; snakes lack exterior ears unlike other squamates have, but are fully capable of picking up on sounds through bone conduction. They react to loud noises just the same as any other reptile.

The second can also be expanded further to include the comedy that is Dragonflies. The nymphs can move about pretty decently, but the adult forms are extremely rare to see walking due to their leg structure making flight a far less awkward means of locomotion. I personally think I've only ever witnessed them moving backwards while on the ground.

Most species of bats are also not capable of taking off from the ground. There are exceptions, but the majority require a static drop of at least one metre. Still, even if they can't jump at you, don't handle bats unless you're vaccinated against rabies and other diseases in the same family (you can ask your doctor if you frequently come into contact with bats, work in zoological, vet tech, or animal control fields. It's expensive, though.)

watchdog22 said:
I wonder does anyone has a quick way to find the real animal's genitals? I find it's hard to find some.

Google, Bing, Wikipedia, scientific journals regarding the organism. These will often be dissection or disease photos or sketches, so be forewarned.

Rabbits don't have beans

Lynx go eehhh
Foxes go eh eh eh
Cheetahs go chirp

Topic: What are some animal facts you think more furries should know?

That the whole idea of Anthropomorphism, is that we as humans imagine (as of today) fictional beings with a mixture of animals and human characteristics.

One of these recourses, and I believe the most popular, is to imbue these fictional creatures with a human-level language, and values and thoughts similar to our own.

But even if an animal can feel, think, vocalize and communicate to a level not very clear to us.... they are NOT like us. Not by far, at least.

They mostly do not have developed concepts like art, morality, eroticism, cuisine, etc. And although it is possible, in extremely rare occasions, that you could develop a kind of friendship with a wild animal, in more of 99.99% of the cases, they will see you as a threat, if not as a potential meal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man

I agree in like extent with most of what @Clawstripe says above. Animals deserve respect... and part of it, is trying to know them, as most profoundly as you could, as they are, and given.

eeveesbeingassholes said:
Rabbits don't have beans

I hate this fact. Can we change it? Can we rewrite history and make bunny paws anatomically correct?

lendrimujina said:
I feel like several of these aren't animal facts so much as pedantics and kinkshaming.

Yeah, nonhuman animals don't have humanoid genitalia.
Nonhuman animals can't talk, either.

It’s less shaming and more you should at least know these facts.

dubsthefox said:
Lynx go eehhh
Foxes go eh eh eh
Cheetahs go chirp

I’m not sure about the chirp part that could be fake, cheetahs do in fact meow though. I think there’s is the most similar to a house cat’s meow.

https://youtu.be/0tmCIsSpvC8

lankylank said:
I’m not sure about the chirp part that could be fake, cheetahs do in fact meow though. I think there’s is the most similar to a house cat’s meow.

https://youtu.be/0tmCIsSpvC8

cheetahs make a lot of cute sounds in general

oozeenthusiast said:
I hate this fact. Can we change it? Can we rewrite history and make bunny paws anatomically correct?

"Anatomically correct"?
IK you're likely joking, but Padless paws for bunnies are anatomically correct, because the skin on their feet and in general on their bodies are thin. At least in irl bunnies. Rabbit's feet are at high risk of splayed legs (a disability keeping rabbits from walking correctly, due to them not having a grip on hard surfaces like cats and dogs do due to their pawpads and whatnot. It's like running around without socks on hard flooring, to put it that way.), and sore hocks and probs at that. It's actually why scruffing a bunny is highly unrecommended. They got a roll 1 in the skin thickness department unlike us.
Sorry for the tangent but I really like rabbits. (Never actually owned one tho. u.u) So it's kinda a pet peeve. I want more rabbits and lagomorphs in general drawn more "correct" so to speak in furry art stuff. This actually goes for stuff like the broken in the middle ears and the fact they're plantigrade, or having cat noses and not V shaped twitchy ones. Bugs Bunny ruined bunnies for the most part, I think we can agree there. Literally the only thing he got right is that he's plantigrade. lol

So yeah, rabbits with pawpads aren't correct :P, it never ever was, and I admit do wish more people knew this. People can wish for rabbits to have pawpads all ya want, but there is a good reason for it. :P Rabbits don't need beans when their peets are adorable without them.

Besides, do ya'll not like the cute fluffy rabbit paws they have? Like, at all? D: Rhetorical question btw. Rabbit paws are still paws and adorable.

jayfiregrowlithe said:
"Anatomically correct"?
IK you're likely joking, but Padless paws for bunnies are anatomically correct, because the skin on their feet and in general on their bodies are thin. At least in irl bunnies. Rabbit's feet are at high risk of splayed legs (a disability keeping rabbits from walking correctly, due to them not having a grip on hard surfaces like cats and dogs do due to their pawpads and whatnot. It's like running around without socks on hard flooring, to put it that way.), and sore hocks and probs at that. It's actually why scruffing a bunny is highly unrecommended. They got a roll 1 in the skin thickness department unlike us.
Sorry for the tangent but I really like rabbits. (Never actually owned one tho. u.u) So it's kinda a pet peeve. I want more rabbits and lagomorphs in general drawn more "correct" so to speak in furry art stuff. This actually goes for stuff like the broken in the middle ears and the fact they're plantigrade, or having cat noses and not V shaped twitchy ones. Bugs Bunny ruined bunnies for the most part, I think we can agree there. Literally the only thing he got right is that he's plantigrade. lol

So yeah, rabbits with pawpads aren't correct :P, it never ever was, and I admit do wish more people knew this. People can wish for rabbits to have pawpads all ya want, but there is a good reason for it. :P Rabbits don't need beans when their peets are adorable without them.

Besides, do ya'll not like the cute fluffy rabbit paws they have? Like, at all? D: Rhetorical question btw. Rabbit paws are still paws and adorable.

I believe I was mistaken. So it's still called a paw even without pads? Weird, I would've thought it'd just be called a foot without them.

What I meant was, it's a shame that bunnies don't have pawpads because toe beans are really really cute and bunnies would look so nice with them. I haven't seen accurate bunny feet that don't look weird yet, but maybe I can still be convinced...

dubsthefox said:
Lynx go eehhh

Lynxes can do lots of sounds too! They can meow, but it's extremely rare. As most small cats they purr and hiss as well. Lynxes like to keep their silence, but when they speak up, it's either to stand their ground, or to show appreciation (which is a big deal!)

lankylank said:
I’m not sure about the chirp part that could be fake, cheetahs do in fact meow though. I think there’s is the most similar to a house cat’s meow.

https://youtu.be/0tmCIsSpvC8

Either they do, or it is a common troll, I fell into. But there are more videos of this.

perkwombo said:
Lynxes can do lots of sounds too!

I know. One of my friends sends a lot of lynx videos.

oozeenthusiast said:
I believe I was mistaken. So it's still called a paw even without pads? Weird, I would've thought it'd just be called a foot without them.

With my anthro characters, I go with the rule of thumb of "paws have claws but hands have nails", although this distinction is for mammals. An anthro horse would have a hand, be it with five fingers or one, because a hoof is just a big, ol' fingernail or toenail, but an anthro fox would have paws because they have claws. Further, claws and nails are two different structures. Nails are special growths of keratin that come out of digits. Removing one would be painful, but wouldn't affect the structure of your body that much. On the other hand, claws are the tips of fingers and toes. Remove a claw and you are effectively chopping off the tip of their finger, bone and all.

Still, hands can still be sometimes be referred to as "paws". As an example, take the horror short story, "The Monkey's Paw", in which the titular disembodied simian hand grants three wishes but with twists that'll make you regret wishing. The story calls it a paw even though my (personal, which nobody is obliged to even care about) rule of thumb would call it a hand. Trying to define what exactly a furry means by "paw" varies all over the place, which is why e621 pretty much avoids the issue by usually using hand and feet instead.

As for the rabbits with "paw pads" issue, I've shrugged that off as shaving fur for practicality or fashion, just as humans can shave body hair. It might not be the smartest thing to do for a rabbit, but humans will do far worse things in the name of fashion (for example, foot binding which has thankfully mostly died out). Similarly, if the quills of anthro porcupines, hedgehogs, spiny mice and rats, tenrecs, certain bandicoots, and echidnas bother you on how they'd work with clothes, you can (if you want) safely remove them from your characters. Quills are simply modified hairs, so a de-quilling won't hurt a porcupine, for example, any more than shaving your head is going to hurt you. Sure, it'd mean less opportunities for humor, but you could safely hug that porcupine buddy of yours. But again, that's only a thought and not even a suggestion.

Young deer make a loud meeeh noise that sounds like a goat when they’ve lost sight of their mother.

Bulls don’t have giant flared horse cocks they have skinny tapered cocks with a corkscrew tip.

neepokra said:
Young deer make a loud meeeh noise that sounds like a goat when they’ve lost sight of their mother.

And if they're comfortable with you, and you pick them up, they'll make the same noise if you DARE to put them down and they're not done being carried around.

Male rodents, such as rats and squirrels, don't have nipples.

Turtles' mouths are beaks; some turtles, like sea turtles, and have spines inside them, like this one, while others like the read-eared sliders don't.

Keep that in mind when drawing the Ninja Turtles, who are based on red-eared sliders, giving blowjobs.

clawstripe said:
Further, among the apes, it's humans who are the swaggering, well-endowed winners. Gorillas are about the size of a pencil when erect. On the other hand, there are a few monkeys whose equipment is prehensile.

Fruit bats are just freaks, then. :D

perkwombo said:
Lynxes can do lots of sounds too! They can meow, but it's extremely rare. As most small cats they purr and hiss as well. Lynxes like to keep their silence, but when they speak up, it's either to stand their ground, or to show appreciation (which is a big deal!)

https://www.google.com/search?q=maine+coons+talking

In certain species of bat, such as the Dayak fruit bat, the males regularly lactate. Think of the possibilities!

clawstripe said:
Male rodents, such as rats and squirrels, don't have nipples.

If memory holds, this is also true of equids.

Domestic cats use their whiskers to measure the diameter of holes that they can squeeze through. It doesn't work if they are overweight, though.

vulpes_artifex said:
In certain species of bat, such as the Dayak fruit bat, the males regurlarly lactate. Think of the possibilities!

I was specifically thinking about a different part of the males. Hint: What do elephant, human, and whale males have in common?

It is interesting that peacocks spend all that effort making that huge display, only to shed damn near all of those feathers every mating season. For some reason carrying around useless weight is a disadvantage (sarcasm).

alphamule said:
It is interesting that peacocks spend all that effort making that huge display, only to shed damn near all of those feathers every mating season. For some reason carrying around useless weight is a disadvantage (sarcasm).

Putting the sarcasm aside for a moment... it is fascinating those phenomena of sexual selection. The female evaluates unconsciously (but correctly, since it goes on since millennia) that a male capable of such display, is so healthy to resist parasites and avoid predation... besides, being simply "that sexy" (and therefore, the offspring could be too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

alphamule said:
I was specifically thinking about a different part of the males.

Oh, I wasn’t replying to you, sorry. I just really like the idea of anatomically correct bustyboy fruit bats.

vulpes_artifex said:
Oh, I wasn’t replying to you, sorry. I just really like the idea of anatomically correct bustyboy fruit bats.

Hehe, no problem. Figured either way might want to clarify.

If female ferrets go through heat without mating, they can die of anemia. Could make for an interesting story about a ferret lady desperate to get laid.

vulpes_artifex said:
If female ferrets go through heat without mating, they can die of anemia. Could make for an interesting story about a ferret lady desperate to get laid.

Oddly, there's a DMFA fanfic like this, but it's Mab, not Wildy.

vulpes_artifex said:
In certain species of bat, such as the Dayak fruit bat, the males regularly lactate. Think of the possibilities!

And the Bismarck masked flying fox. Honestly they sound like great babysitters. :D

On the notion of lactation. Did you know Monotremes 'sweat' milk? Their babies feed from pores on their skin. These are known as Milk Patches and they don't breastfeed.

Why is this related to this thread? it basically means that Monotremes basically don't have nipples or breasts. :P Now I don't expect people to draw a wholesome mom and child platypus where the latter is licking milk patches off the former lol. It comes off as weird in hindsight. Tho it might work for those doing feral art and want to draw something accurate while still being wholesome(???).
If y'all thought Monotremes were funky enough as is? You now got that to think about lol.

jayfiregrowlithe said:
And the Bismarck masked flying fox. Honestly they sound like great babysitters. :D

On the notion of lactation. Did you know Monotremes 'sweat' milk? Their babies feed from pores on their skin. These are known as Milk Patches and they don't breastfeed.

Why is this related to this thread? it basically means that Monotremes basically don't have nipples or breasts. :P Now I don't expect people to draw a wholesome mom and child platypus where the latter is licking milk patches off the former lol. It comes off as weird in hindsight. Tho it might work for those doing feral art and want to draw something accurate while still being wholesome(???).
If y'all thought Monotremes were funky enough as is? You now got that to think about lol.

As a matter of fact, mammary glands evolved from sweat glands, making milk a form of highly modified sweat.

Red pandas have a thick layer of fuzz on their paw pads and are plantigrade. They should always be drawn like a plush toy basically. <3

Foxes are excellent fathers who feed, teach, and play with their young. (I don’t like incest, but I love SFW art of fathers and their children.)

Reptiles lay eggs.

breech_loader said:
Reptiles lay eggs.

Not all of them! Many lizards and snakes bear live young. One species of skink, Trachylepis ivensii, even has a true placenta very similar to that found in most mammals.

I just now noticed OP's avatar, and am wondering how long a list might be of the zoological sins committed therein.

The New Mexico whiptail is a species of lizard in which all members are female. There isn't a single male in the species. They reproduce by either hybridizing with two similar related species (a hybridization that can't produce a viable male embryo) or through parthenogenesis. When breeding season rolls around, they shift between two behaviors: a male mode in which one of the females goes through the motions of topping another but no actual penetration happens (because no equipment for it) and the regular female mode in which they bottom and their partner's motions trigger the release of ova which develop into clones of their mother.

vulpes_artifex said:
As a matter of fact, mammary glands evolved from sweat glands, making milk a form of highly modified sweat.

Isn't sweat based on blood? More gross biology lessons.

kora_viridian said:
Snake penises - hemipenes - have been studied for decades.

But the female sex organ had been "overlooked in comparison", researchers said.

There's a joke here somewhere, I just know it.

vulpes_artifex said:
As a matter of fact, mammary glands evolved from sweat glands, making milk a form of highly modified sweat.

Actually there is still debate about that. It could have been derived from a normal sweat gland, like those that helps humans to control temperature (disipate heat), or the ones that abound in hands (some people have "humid hands" when nervous). But this kind of liquid is not very rich in anything. I have always tought that it was more probably a sebaceous gland (those associated with body hair), that at least, are rich in lipids (therefore calories)... then you just have to enrich it with proteins, and other stuff, and you have milk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactation#Evolution

But nobody knows yet for sure. It is still a mistery of evolution.

That article title is kind of funny for another reason: I'm fairly sure they've known about reptiles having clitorises for years, and in fact, don't they often refer to the males having them instead of a penis because you know, cloacas and no external genitals (i.e. no penis to penetrate in the first place)? Ugh, overthinking it a bit?

alphamule said:
That article title is kind of funny for another reason: I'm fairly sure they've known about reptiles having clitorises for years, and in fact, don't they often refer to the males having them instead of a penis because you know, cloacas and no external genitals (i.e. no penis to penetrate in the first place)? Ugh, overthinking it a bit?

Depends on the reptile, keep in mind that's as broad a class of animal as "mammal" or "fish". Lizards and snakes have hemipenes, for example. I believe there is even a species of snake known for having three rather than than the usual two. I'm trying to think of a reptile variety that doesn't engage in penetrative intercourse, but cannot find one of the top of my head, perhaps some lizard species. It's avians that more typically lack exterior genitalia, although exceptions exist with ratites and some waterfowl.

Antlers are shed and regrown every year. Thus in S&M contexts, removing antlers is not a permanent body modification. And in my view, it being temporary (although temporary here might mean "for one year") is a cooler concept to exploit in art.

Felines lack the receptors in their taste buds to be able to detect sweet tastes.

kora_viridian said:
Snake penises - hemipenes - have been studied for decades. They are forked and some are embedded with spikes.

But the female sex organ had been "overlooked in comparison", researchers said.

watsit said:
There's a joke here somewhere, I just know it.

Women frequently complain men don't really know what they're doing when it comes to female genitals. Considering how clueless men are when they struggle with their tullynessles, maybe women are right.

tullynessle, n. An honest attempt to track down a clitoris. ~ The Meaning of Liff

I think I should mention this too.

Some bats can pollinate. In fact, the lesser long nosed bat, is the main source of pollination for the blue agave, which is used to made Tequila.

Without this bat, there would be no Tequila!

Anglerfish have more than just the one glowing headlamp, they have glowing tendrils all over it's body https://i.imgur.com/Zv5js8L.jpg

Many, but not all, Rain Frogs do not have tadpoles; their young hatch as fully-formed, miniature "froglets".

The monkfish, while delicious, is fucking hideous as it is in the same vague classification as anglerfish.

Pigeons are fatally allergic to high-velocity lead. Unfortunately, even with a punt gun, you would not be able to put more lead into the air than there are fucking flying rats.

Salamanders have teeth, if you see a child picking one up you have the power to stop them, or let them learn a valuable life lesson about harassing wildlife.

Armadillos enjoy being gently rolled about by trusted human caretakers, and will run up to you, curl into a ball, wait for you to gently roll them away, then run back.

In spite of how much they may look alike, Ctenophores (Comb Jellies) are (with a few exceptions) completely harmless, unlike Cnidarians (Jellyfish). Ctenophores capture prey with adhesives, rather than venom, or by simply engulfing them, though be aware some may absorb nematocysts from consumed jellyfish and accidentally sting you. This comparison point holds true of crinoids that, while they may resemble anemones, are only harmful to your dignity if touched as they may adhere and make it look as though you have particularly clownish body hair. Regardless... try to avoid bumping into anything frilly or gelatinous in the ocean if you don't know what it is, just to be safe.

About half of all cats are unaffected by catnip.

Insects don't have cloacas.
The genital opening in spiders is located at the front of the adomen between the lungs, not at the back tip. Neiter is there a hole between the spinnerets, as the anus is behind/above them. And male spiders don't have dicks, they transfer sperm with modified pedipalps.
Insects and arachnids have feet, their legs don't end in pointy tips.
Bony fish don't have cloacas, either. Curiously, their arrangement is the opposite of a mammals: anus at the front, genital opening in the middle, urethra at the back.
Tardigrades are only tough when in tun form.

ramul said:
Insects don't have cloacas.
The genital opening in spiders is located at the front of the adomen between the lungs, not at the back tip. Neiter is there a hole between the spinnerets, as the anus is behind/above them. And male spiders don't have dicks, they transfer sperm with modified pedipalps.
Insects and arachnids have feet, their legs don't end in pointy tips.
Bony fish don't have cloacas, either. Curiously, their arrangement is the opposite of a mammals: anus at the front, genital opening in the middle, urethra at the back.
Tardigrades are only tough when in tun form.

Don't forget scorpions reproducing via cum bombs and erotic dancing.

votp said:
Don't forget scorpions reproducing via cum bombs and erotic dancing.

Ok, THAT I definitely needed to know.

votp said:
Don't forget scorpions reproducing via cum bombs and erotic dancing.

I can beat that, when bedbugs mate the male doesn't use any orifice at all—instead, he pierces the female's abdominal wall and inseminates her that way. A few other species do something similar. It's called traumatic insemination.

vulpes_artifex said:
I can beat that, when bedbugs mate the male doesn't use any orifice at all—instead, he pierces the female's abdominal wall and inseminates her that way. A few other species do something similar. It's called traumatic insemination.

Twistwings/Stylops (Strepsiptera) have the most horrific version of that.

From Wikipedia:

In the Stylopidia, the female's anterior region protrudes out between the segments of the hosts abdomen. In all strepsipterans the male mates by rupturing the female's cuticle (in the case of Stylopida, this is in a deep narrow fissure of the cephalothorax near the birth canal). Sperm passes through the opening directly into the body in a process called traumatic insemination, which has independently evolved in some other insects like bed bugs.

Strepsiptera eggs hatch inside the female, and the planidium larvae can move around freely within the female's haemocoel; this behavior is unique to these insects. The offspring consume their mother from the inside in a process known as hemocelous viviparity. Each female produces many thousands of planidium larvae. The larvae emerge from the brood opening/canal on the female's head, which protrudes outside the host body.

Elephants are not actually scared of mice. They can't see under themselves so they rely on vibrations. They feel these vibrations through their feet. They'd rather not squash a smaller animal by accident so when they feel these vibrations they attempt to avoid the creature making them.