An African grey parrot, N’kisi, has a whopping 950-word vocabulary that even impressed the famous primatologist, Jane Goodall.

Despite being much smaller in size, the wolverine can successfully attack much larger animals including caribous and elk.

There’s a fish called the black dragon fish that looks like the creature from the Alien movies.

Some non-venomous snakes, like the Tiger Keelback, will actually protect their babies by eating poisonous frogs while being pregnant. They then pass the poison onto their eggs which makes their newborns poisonous when they’re born.

The grasshopper mouse is carnivorous, immune to venom, eats scorpions, and howls like a wolf to claim its territory.