-Elephants can’t jump.
-Starfish don’t brains.
-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don’t attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.
uhh i’ve seen a cheetah attack a lady some years ago, tbf it was a pissed off one, on a leash, that she wanted to pet or pose with for a photo
Chimps will gang up and murder tyrannical leaders, we could learn so much from them. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/
Most giraffe sex happens between two males.
Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.
Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.
I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.
But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.
Wasps and bees are closely related to ants, ants really go crazy for honey.
Cheetahs sound fun until I consider how many cords my cats have chewed, furniture they’ve scratched, and litter boxes they’ve populated.
Then suddenly a giant tame housecat seems less appealing.
Cheetah are extremely anxious animals, most other felines are very “lazy” animals but cheetah are active. Their hunting strategy is an outlier in felines, they don’t stalk and surprise, they outrun their prey.
Another issue is that even tho they’re more tame than other cats including the Serval they still can pretty much kill you. Tamed cheetah don’t usually harm their owners but there have been catastrophic incidents with kids.
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only mammal that can make its own custard (plus the enchidna which can also do the same)
Dolphins don’t dream. Their cortex is large enough to not need to
Sharks are older than the star polaris
Echidnas?
Thank you. TIL
I learned a NSFW animal fact the other day. There are some fish that care for their young by holding them in their mouth, it’s called mouthbrooding. That’s not the new or NSFW part though.
The NSFW part is the fact that
for some fish, the fertilization occurs in the mouth. The female lays her eggs and scoops them up into her mouth. Then the male fertilizes the eggs directly in her mouth. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. A male fish cums into a female fish’s mouth, and that’s how they normally reproduce.
Ahh, nature. So beautiful. So like us.
Female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises and no vaginal opening. They instead dock and give birth through their dicks
It’s a retractable pseudo penis tho, they shrink it so it’s easier for the male to penetrate her even if her vagina isn’t very conventional.
the sounding community seems to leak again…
A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!
“Bartender! I’ll have a toxicognath, thanks”.
There are 25-million ants for every person on this planet.
Ant-Man summoning all the ants would be way scarier than Spider-Man summoning all the spiders.
I don’t want mine.
Where do I go to claim them?
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees and grass.
Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
So what do I do? I now have some meerkats following me home.
Grooming them for parasites is probably a good start.
Dat ass
Meerkass
Meerkat got back.
Cheetah’s went through a genetic bottleneck somewhere between ten and twelve thousand years ago. There may have been less than ten left at one point. Dating the Cheetah Genetic Bottleneck
My totally silly theory is that humans in fact where adopting kits at that time and help saved the species, and that’s why they’re so almost domesticated.Or how it happens with african tribes; aggressive lions get killed by the whole tribe. And at some point there were almost no cheetah…
I never knew for ages they’re part of the house cat branch of the feline family rather than the big cat branch with the lions and tigers, so that explains why they’re just floppy doofuses.
There is almost no genetic diversity among them. You can skin graft or transplant organs between any two cheetahs without fear of rejection.
Wouldnt that also result in inbreeding or is there enough diversity to this being of no concern?
Yes it has. But species survival is more important.
Could have been the egyptians lol https://egyptfuntours.com/blog/cheetah-in-ancient-egypt/
