If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young.
Cattle branding was practiced 4,000 years ago. Old tomb paintings show Egyptians branding their fat, spotted cattle.
The king crab walks diagonally.
The blubber of a male elephant seal is considered superior to that of the sperm whale for lubricating machinery.
One Laysan albatross, tracked by biologists at Wake Forest University, flew more than 24,843 miles in flights across the North Pacific to find food for its chick in just 90 days — a flight distance equivalent to circling the globe.
If they are well treated, camels in captivity can live to the age of fifty.
Certain birds of prey (the African serpent eagle and the American kestrel, for example) have visual acuity 2.4 to 2.6 times greater than humans. They can see a 1 mm long insect from a treetop 18 meters above ground.
The kinkajou's tail is twice as long as its body. Every night, it wraps itself up in its tail and uses it as a pillow.
The kinkajou's tail is twice as long as its body. Every night, it wraps itself up in its tail and uses it as a pillow.
The blue whale is maintained by its blubber and can go up to half a year without eating.
The blue whale is maintained by its blubber and can go up to half a year without eating.
One peculiar behavior of dachshunds is that they often roll around in odiferous things when they encounter them. This odd habit has been attributed to the dog's hunting instinct. Doing this is the dachshund's attempt to "lose its scent" so that its potential prey cannot smell it.
One peculiar behavior of dachshunds is that they often roll around in odiferous things when they encounter them. This odd habit has been attributed to the dog's hunting instinct. Doing this is the dachshund's attempt to "lose its scent" so that its potential prey cannot smell it.
Iguanas of South and Central America and the Caribbean lay their eggs in February and March.
Chimpanzees crumble leaves in their mouths to make a type of sponge to sop up water from the hollows in trees when they can't reach the water with their lips.
The kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants, and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
One way birds learn is by trial and error. Scientists have discovered that many of their learned motor patterns are linked to appetite. For instance, young doves must learn to drink water. The pecking of domestic chicks improves about 30 hours after hatching. They snatch up a grain with increased efficiency. Simple trial-and-error learning is also believed to be very important in birds' nest-building.
In 1874, the first animal purchased for the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago was a bear cub, bought for $10.
Chimpanzees have been trained to have recognition vocabularies of 100 to 200 words. They can distinguish among different grammatical patterns.
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