-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.
Female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises and no vaginal opening. They instead dock and give birth through their dicks
A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!
There are 25-million ants for every person on this planet.
I’ma shock you.
Creatures don’t need brains. I mean, we have ample human evidence. But like, nervous systems can create thought (or whatever it is animals do) and reaction to stimuli without a central processing organ.
Meerkat mobs are led by a dominant female. She’s identifiable by looking for the biggest butt.
Dat ass
Meerkat got back.
Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.
Humans can throw objects in excess of 100 mph (40 m/s), and hit a target from over 60 feet (20 m) away
But they still can’t take criticism.
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)
Spider web microphones. Or antennas. Someone should build one. Someone competent in the area. :)
Opossums are essentially immune to rabies and eat ticks.
Venom too… They hunt snakes
You can see a good portion of the back of many owls’ eyes if you look in their ears.
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.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.
Could have been the egyptians lol https://egyptfuntours.com/blog/cheetah-in-ancient-egypt/
Some scorpions can drop their tail if in danger. But afterwards they can’t poop anymore and die of constipation months later.
The octopus has 9 brains, one central brain (donut shaped, around the esophagus), and one in each of the 8 arms.
And one arm is used especially for octopus sexy time. (hectocotylus)
All that hentai led me to believe otherwise
That’s why that’s just fantasy 😄
Pigs can’t look up. Sharks are older than trees. The duck billed platypus has no nipples; milk just oozes from the skin. All mammals have the same number of cervical vertebrae.
Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.
It should be just platypus. And ducks are really platypus billed ducks. The platypus had it’s bill first way before ducks came along
pigs can very obviously look up
