Creatures Bizarre Eating Habits

From a bone eating bird to a creature that, believe it or not has a tendency to eat it's own mating partner, here’s some unbelievable eating habits that you’ll only find out in the wild.

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8. Great Skua (skyoo uh)

The joke that’s so easy to go with here is that these birds are like that roommate who’s always stealing everyone else’s food, which is kind of true. However, those sneaky roommates usually do the dirty deed when the owner of the soon to be stolen munchies aren’t around. Great Skua on the other hand are partial kleptoparasites, which means they chase off gulls and other seabirds to steal their catches. Not only that but they’re also known to kill and eat other adult birds, some as large as the mighty Grey Heron. Ok, so these birds go way further than most of those annoying roommates.

7. Red Squirrel

Just like other squirrels these adorable little critters gather nuts and grains. They store this haul in preparation for winter. But that’s not why they’re included on this list. They also have a really cool survival strategy that keeps them alive in the darkest of times. They bite into the sides of maple trees and wait for the maple syrup within to drip out. They let this dry on the tree bark and return to lick a tasty, sweet treat that doubles as what could be a much needed energy boost and food source when nothing else is readily available.

6. Vampire Ground Finch

These little Galapagos Island birds have an incredibly savage diet. They feed by drinking the blood of Nazca birds and blue footed boobies by pecking at their skin until blood is drawn. Now that would probably bother most humans and almost any other creatures but the other birds don’t seem to mind to much when this happens. People theorize that it's a behavior that grew out of the fact that the finch would clean parasites from the plumage of the birds in much the same way.

5. Tongue Eating Louse (lous)

What this parasite does will blow your mind. They enter fish through their gills and attach on to the fish’s tongue, with a female directly on the tongue and a male on the gill arches behind the female. Then they go to work. They sever the blood vessels in the tongue, causing it to eventually fall completely off. Then they attach to the stub, literally becoming the fish’s new tongue. The fish shows no further ill effects from this crazy parasitical procedure and can use the tongue eating louse just like a normal tongue.

4. Nursery Web Spider

Male nursery web spiders encounter a pretty serious problem that really no one ever wants to deal with. The female spider will often try to eat it right after they’re done mating, which is like the worst time to be bothered much less potentially eaten alive. To appease the tendencies of their mates, guys will often present their potential partners with gifts, such as flies, before mating hoping that this will satisfy her nearly insatiable hunger.

3. Honeybee

Unless there's a swarm of them attacking you and threatening your very livelihood, who doesn’t love the magical honeybee. They provide us with the delicious nutritious treat known as honey, making them the only insect to produce food available for us humans to eat. That’s so darn nice of them. Worker bees make the honey by evaporating water from nectar that’s collected by field honeybees. That process that worker bees go through involves eating and regurgitating the nectar over and over until vwa-la it becomes honey. What a process.

2. Zombie Worms

It wasn’t until 2002 that we knew of the existence of these strange, tiny deep sea creatures. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, using a submarine found them living on the bones of a gray whale carcass. They are microscopic and rely on lipids that are found enclosed in the bones of whales. So they bore into the bones of whale carcasses to reach the lipids, which they use as sustenance.

Man animals out there sure do have some weird eating habits. Then again so do us humans. We eat bugs, poop and even each other when we really have to. Thanks asw always for watching and stay full of Knowledge my friends.

1. Dung Beetles

You may have already known that dung beetles feed partly, or even wholly on dung. But did you know, that depending on the type of dung beetle, they use the excrement in different ways. Rollers roll it into round balls that they use as food or, sometimes, breeding chambers. Nice. Tunnelers on the other hand bury the dung immediately. Then there’s dwellers, who simply live in dung. Many of us know that one person who always smells bad or is just kind of a dirty person. For dung beetle’s that’s literally everyone.

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