10 Times Animals Acted So Weird They Ended Up On The “Not My Animal” Page

We love animals for their ability to provide us with comfort and for their cuteness. What better way to unwind than watching videos of pandas slumping down from trees and rolling over as they stumble over their own feet? Cute animals are the tonic of the Internet.

But cute isn't the only way animals can be. They're just as capable of silliness and absurdity as we are. The "Not My Animal" Instagram page captures this quality very well, as it features a plethora of pics of pets and other critters doing weird stuff. If you're ready for some animal kingdom nonsense, scroll down and check out our newest collection of pics from the page!

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"Not My Animal" is an eight-year-old page on Instagram with just a little over 200k followers. After 2020, the creator(s) of the page came out with a photography book of the same name, featuring the pics that were shared by the account from 2017-2020.

It seems that the creator(s) of "Not My Animal" credit its beginnings to the tumultuous cultural landscape of 2016, especially in America. The Instagram page provided comic relief to people, a stress-free place from the constant barrage of bad news. The posts made people "laugh, cry, and question [their] human reality," highlighting how similar and imperfect both the audience and the animals were.

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The page may contain loads of animals photographed from weird angles or captured in some compromising positions, but there are also pics of them acting weirder than we would expect. Animals do some pretty strange things, and I'm not just talking about your dog giving you the side-eye.

For example, did you know that sloths, who spend most of their waking time up in the trees, go to relieve themselves on the ground? And how about the fact that owls can't move their eyes? Let's explore these and more interesting things that animals do that we might find at least a tad strange.

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The fact that sloths go down to the ground to poop is strange for at least two reasons. First, there are more predators down there, so the trip to take a poop only can be quite dangerous. Second, sloths have very slow metabolisms and only eat leaves, so they use up a lot of energy by going down to the rainforest ground.

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