Amazing facts about animals. (World of Biology)
1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
World of Biology
2. Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.
World of Biology
3. When playing with female puppies, male puppies will often let them win, even if they have a physical advantage.
World of Biology
4. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
World of Biology
5. Cows have best friends.
World of Biology
6. Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.
World of Biology
7. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program. It seems to be a pretty wonderful thing for both the inmates and the cats.
World of Biology
8. Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.
World of Biology
9. Norway knighted a penguin.
World of Biology
10. In China, killing a Panda is punishable by death.
World of Biology
11. Rats laugh when tickled.
12. Spiders can’t fly.
13. Sweden has a rabbit show-jumping competition called Kaninhoppning.
World of Biology
14. Pigs’ orgasms last for 30 minutes.
World of Biology
15. Dolphins have names for each other.
World of Biology
16. Puffins mate for life. They make their homes on cliff sides and set aside room for their toilet.
World of Biology
17. A study measuring the effects of music found that cows produce more milk when listening to soothing music. They produce the most when listening to R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts.”
World of Biology
18. Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.
World of Biology
19. Japanese Macaques make snowballs for fun.
World of Biology
20. The closest relatives to the elephant shrew are actually elephants, not shrews.
World of Biology
World of Biology
21. A cat version of the corgi exits: the munchkin cat.
World of Biology
22. There is a program that makes prison inmates responsible for training and raising seeing-eye dogs. Many reported that they felt like they were making amends for their past actions by working with the puppies.
World of Biology
23. Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails.
World of Biology
24. Before chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.
World of Biology
25. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.
World of Biology
26. Turritopsis nutricula Immortal jellyfish is the only species known to live forever.
World of Biology
27. Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent they can play pranks on each other.
World of Biology
28. Butterflies taste with their feet.
World of Biology
29. There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.
World of Biology
30. Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
World of Biology
0 comments:
Post a Comment
World of Biology.