Animals

Amazing facts about pets, wildlife, and creatures from across the animal kingdom.

Cats Have Right or Left Paw Preferences. This is Similar to How Humans are Left or Right Handed.

Animals Cats Have Right or Left Paw Preferences. This is Similar to How Humans are Left or Right Handed. December 31, 2022

Animals Animals were Routinely Jailed, Tried, Convicted, and Executed in Medieval France. December 31, 2022
Animals The Peregrine Falcon was Save from Extinction When Scientists Invented the Copulation Hats to Mimic Female Mating and Collect Semen. December 31, 2022
Animals Humans Have Trained Rodents to Sniff Out Land Mines in Vietnam. December 31, 2022
Animals Squash Bees are Bee Species That Sleep Inside Pumpkin Flowers. December 31, 2022
Animals Conservationists in South Africa Have Been Injecting Rhino Horns with Red Dyes and Toxins to Prevent Poaching. This Mixture Makes the Horns Useless to Those Trying to Sell Them. December 30, 2022
Animals Bees Dance to Each Other in the Hive to Tell Each Other Where to Find Good Pollen. December 24, 2022
Animals In 36 BCE Marcus Varro, a Roman Statesman, Wrote About Germs and Described Them as Minute Creatures Which Cannot be Seen by the Eyes. 1,900 Years Later, the Germ Theory was Widely Accepted. December 23, 2022
Animals In 2017, a Dog Named Odin Refused to Leave a Flock of Goats Behind During the California Tubbs Fire When His Owners Fled to Safety. Days Later, the Owners Came Back to Find Odin and the Goats Alive. December 19, 2022
Animals A Polish Environmental Charity Placed a GPS Tracker with a SIM Card on a White Stork to Follow Their Migratory Pattern. They Lost Track of the Stork and Received a Phone Bill for $2,700. December 15, 2022
Animals Male Black Widow Spiders Tend to Select Their Mates by Determining if the Female has Eaten Already. This is to Avoid Being Eaten Themselves. December 8, 2022
Animals A Fisherman from the Philippines Found a Pearl Weighing 34 Kilograms. It is Estimated to be Worth $100 Million. The Fisherman was Unaware of its Value and Kept the Pearl Under His Bed for 10 Years. December 4, 2022
Animals Of the Eight Known Polar Bear-Grizzly Bear Hybrids, All of Them are Descended from the Same Mother Polar Bear. November 28, 2022
Animals The Capuchin Monkey and the Cappuccino Style of Coffee are Both Named After the Same Shade of Brown Used in the Habits of the Franciscan Friars of Minor Capuchin. November 28, 2022
Animals Scientists in Australia were Studying Birds and Fitted Them with Tracking Harnesses. A Group of Magpies Helped Each Other Take the Harnesses Off. November 24, 2022
Animals In 1822 a stork arrived in Germany with an arrow through its neck. The wood was from central Africa, over 3000 miles away. This convinced zoologists that birds migrated in the winter, and disproved other theories such as underwater hibernation, or transformation into other animals (like mice) November 24, 2022
Animals In Brazil, Bottlenose Dolphins Actively Herd Fish Toward Local Fishermen and Then Signal Them Where to Throw Their Nets. November 17, 2022
Animals Fire Ants are an Invasive Species in the United States. The FDA Estimates About $5 Billion is Spent Annually on Medical Treatment, Damage and Control in Infested Areas. November 16, 2022
Animals Botswana Researchers Discovered that Painting Large Eyes on Cows' Butts Reduced the Number of Lion Attacks. November 15, 2022
Animals When Tigers Escaped from a Zoo in Georgia and Killed a Man, Advice was Issued on What to Do If You Meet a Tiger. Among the Rules were; Don't Approach It, Don't Run Away, and Don't Urinate. November 14, 2022