10 Animals That Do The Strangest Things

From birds tricking others to raise their kids, to vampire butterflies, here are ten animals that do really weird things! Subscribe to Epic Wildlife 10. Vomiting Water Pufferfish are famous for their ability to inflate and their somewhat slow and clumsy swimming style! There are about 120 different species of pufferfish and since they are kind of slow, their only means to deter predators is to make themselves as big as possible. They don’t do this by sucking in air, but by quickly ingesting huge amounts of water and turning themselves into a big ball that nobody is able to swallow!! 9: Lazy Parent Cuckoo Birds It’s time to meet the planet’s laziest, and perhaps most clever, mother. She is of course the cuckoo bird, and she is probably one of the most creative parents alive. The phenomenon is known as brood parasitism, and basically it means that the cuckoo bird is a parasite. You see, when the cuckoo bird is about to lay eggs, she goes in search of another nest to leave her eggs in.