11 Creepy Facts About Cute Animals That'll Make You Say "Why Did You Ruin This For Me?"Skip To ContentHomepageSign InSearch BuzzFeedSearch BuzzFeedlol Badge Feedwin Badge Feedtrending Badge FeedCalifornia residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2022 BuzzFeed, Inc PressRSSPrivacyConsent PreferencesUser TermsAd ChoicesHelpContactSitemapPosted on 27 Oct 2017 11 Creepy Facts About Cute Animals That ll Make You Say Why Did You Ruin This For Me I'm so sorry. H/T AskReddit by Natalya LobanovaBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink 1 Ladybirds are so cute right Usercce650b4_975 / Getty Images Well turns out they like to eat their own young Ashraf Tayeh / BMC Evolutionary Biology / Via bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com It's like a form of self-culling, it reduces competition and food shortages – individual larvae are more likely to survive when they have fewer siblings to compete with. 2 Dolphins are definitely cute though right Aniroot / Getty Images Actually they are aggressive predators and males will regularly participate in gang rape View this video on YouTube youtube.com Groups of male dophins will single out female dolphins and rape her repeatedly. If she tries to escape, they will make threatening noises, smack, bite, and body-slam her. 3 Snails are cute though Gi15879022 / Getty Images They re also super kinky and like to stab each other with love darts during sex Peer_marlow / Getty Images These "love darts" are pointy calcium structures that remain attached to the shooter and bind the two slimey lovers together. As you might expect, shooting pointy things as foreplay can be dangerous, and these love darts often pierce the internal organs of fornicating snails. 4 Otters are definitely cute though look at them holding hands Kugelblitz / Getty Images Well they also rape baby seals which usually results in the seal s death TW The source article contains images some may find distressing Len Jellicoe / Getty Images Male otters are known to mount baby seals. Because otter copulation involves the male holding the female's head under water, this act often also results in the drowning of the baby seal (and sometimes that of the female otter, too). Sometimes, the male otters are known to continue mounting the body of the dead seal for up to a week after its death. 5 Koalas are soft cuddly babies yes Windzepher / Getty Images Sure but they re also riddled with chlamydia and they pee poo and reproduce with the same orifice known as a cloaca Woodstock / Getty Images They can also pass the infection onto humans through their urine. And baby koalas can t digest the poison in eucalyptus leaves – the only thing that koalas eat – the same way adult koalas can so they eat their mothers poo Appfind / Getty Images Well, not poo exactly, but a slightly less digested waste – fecal pap. Right from her cloaca. 6 Pigs are cute though Balwan / Getty Images They are but they re also very unfussy eaters who will eat an entire human body Daydreamsgirl / Getty Images There have been multiple, gruesome stories involving pigs eating human flesh. They don't lust after human flesh or anything, they will just eat almost anything. 7 Deers are beautiful and harmless creatures that wouldn t hurt a fly right Tmphoto98 / Getty Images Well they re beautiful but they know the taste of human bone Lauren A. Meckel / Journal of Forensic Sciences Deers have been known to eat all sorts of animals – including birds, rabbits, and even human remains, as pictured above. The reason they do this is likely because they're lacking in certain nutrients such as phosphorus and salt. They're not really the harmless herbivorous we perceive them to be, but opportunistic omnivores. 8 Armadillos are cute and harmless and the closest thing we get to real-life Pokemon right Belizar73 / Getty Images Wrong They carry leprosy and if you touch an infected one you could catch it Joesboy / Getty Images Few animals carry leprosy as it is a pathogen that can only survive at a very specific temperature – i.e. human body temperature. Armadillo body temperature is remarkably close to that, which is unfortunate for them, because that's how humans actually passed the disease onto them some 400 years ago. They're returning the favour. 9 Bunny rabbits are surely the cutest creatures in existence yes Floriana / Getty Images Yeah okay but they re also nutritionally required to eat their own poo Getty Images They digest food so quickly that not all nutrients are absorbed, and some of their waste still contains nutrients. So rabbits start their mornings with a nice helping of soft and nutritious feces, directly consumed from the anus. Frankly, it's pretty clever – they're just recycling their food. 10 Look how cute wallabies are Mojoeks / Getty Images But wallaby mothers will toss their joey out of their pouch if they re being chased or threatened by a predator because it makes escape easier Australiancamera / Getty Images 11 Okay but surely the beloved clown fish can t have a sinister side Aneese / Getty Images Well sorry to ruin everything you hold dear but it does If the sole dominant female in a school of clownfish dies the most dominant male will develop female reproductive organs and reproduce with the other male fish in the school that are often its own offspring View this video on YouTube youtube.com All clownfish are hermaphrodites, meaning they are born male and later may develop into females. Also male clownfish will eat any damaged or infected eggs after a female lays them Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Buena Vista International That would have been a totally different ending to Finding Nemo. CORRECTION Oct. 27, 2017, at 13:53 PM Hansen's disease/leprosy is a bacterial infection. An earlier version of this post said it was a virus. Share This ArticleFacebook PinterestTwitterMailLink Want the best of BuzzFeed Animals in your inbox br Sign up for a newsletter today This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.