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Know more about wildlife: Animals that aren't as friendly as you might think
In cartoons and fairy tales, lots of animals and birds are portrayed as intelligent and friendly, often demonstrating some human qualities. Meanwhile, real life is often far from cartoons – so these animals might not be as friendly as you might expect them to be.
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Chimpanzees: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
Talk, joke, solve math problems, understand words, lie, be sad, swear, love, fry fish? Monkeys can do this too.
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Cow: Evolution – Interesting Facts
The ancestor of the wild cow is considered to be the aurochs, which became extinct in the seventeenth century - a primitive wild bull that lived in the steppes of Africa, Asia and Europe. At first, the domestication of aurochs was carried out solely for the purpose of obtaining meat.
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Unusual donkey facts: Nature is amazing
Even the most common animals can have some amazing features and skills that might surprise you. For instance, donkeys can be way more than just farm animals, and they can be way smarter than you might think.
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Zebras: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
In fact, a zebra is black with white stripes, and not vice versa. Since black stripes are caused by the genetic process of selective pigmentation (the presence of pigment), therefore black color is the main pigment, and white stripes are the absence of it.
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Giraffe: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
The giraffe is the tallest living mammal: its height from the ground to the forehead reaches 4.8–5.8 m, the height at the withers is 3 m, while the body length is only 2.5 m! The weight of an adult male is about 800 kg, females are smaller and weigh 550–600 kg. On the forehead of both males and females there are small horns covered with hair.
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Nature is amazing: Learn more about wallabies
Being one of the most recognizable symbols of Australia, wallabies aren't that well-known around the world. These animals might be pretty much like kangaroos, but they also have some unique features helping them to stand out.
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Elephants: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
Elephants are natural eco-warriors and carbon sequesters, so protecting their populations is vital for both the environment and the species.
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Lemurs: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
The Madagascar name is Varika. It lives in southeastern Madagascar from the Mananara River near Vangaindrano, south to Fort Dauphine.
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A new discovery: Long faces – why does evolution do that?
Horses have long faces because they can, according to evolutionary biologists. Large mammals often have longer faces compared to their smaller relatives due to adaptations for feeding.
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Beagle: Breed Features
The Beagle is a good-natured dog. They get along well with people and most other dogs and love children.However, they need to interact with cats from a very early age so that a good relationship is established between the animals. The Beagle is a good guard dog.
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Cows: Interesting Facts – You Didn't Know About It
The ancestor of the wild cow is considered to be the aurochs, which became extinct in the seventeenth century - a primitive wild bull that lived in the steppes of Africa, Asia and Europe. At first, the domestication of aurochs was carried out solely for the purpose of obtaining meat.
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Badger: Interesting Facts – Amazing Animal World
The color of the head is recognizable: the white muzzle has two dark stripes stretching from the nose (the vibrissae area on the upper lip) to the ears, the tips of which are also white. The badger is omnivorous, but prefers animal food.
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Interesting Facts: Evolution of Horses - You Didn't Know About It
The evolution of horses began in the Eocene, about 55 million years ago.
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Crows: Interesting Facts – Amazing Birds
The crow plays the role of an orderly, destroying carrion and reducing the number of insects and rodents.
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Wildlife: Which Animals Play Dead – Interesting Facts
Many animals pretend to be dead when in danger. This is done, for example, by Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) and common grass snakes (Natrix natrix). This behavior is also common among insects, including ants.
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Interesting Facts: Animal Brains – Biggest and Smallest
Functions Brain functions include processing sensory information from the senses, planning, decision making, coordination, motor control, emotions, attention, memory.
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Deer shedding antlers: Learn more about wildlife
You've definitely heard about deer that have to shed their antlers, but why do they have to do it? In fact, not all deer do it, and there are plenty of things that affect it.
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Bats: Interesting Facts – You Didn't Know About It
Bats are amazing creatures, very different from others. Unlike almost all mammals, they can fly like birds, while they are animals, not birds, they see with their ears, they can hear with their nose.
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Amazing Nature – Glowing Fireflies: Interesting Facts
With regard to adult fireflies, this issue has long been resolved. The dance of these lights fluttering in the dark is just a mating ritual, nothing more. It has reproductive value, that is, it helps fireflies reproduce and thereby survive.
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