Animals

Animals Has Anyone Tried Raising a Chimpanzee as a Human Child? June 4, 2021

Animals Male bovines are called "bulls," until they're castrated-then they're called "steers." Female bovines are called "heifers" until they have a calf, then they're known as "cows." April 27, 2021

Animals Hours after being adopted from an animal shelter, 21-pound cat Pudding with saved her owners life. While suffering a diabetic seizure, Amy Jung's newly acquired cat pounced his weight on her chest and began swatting her face and biting her nose until she gained consciousness. April 24, 2021

Animals Icelandic horses are not allowed to leave the country. If they do, they are banned from returning. This is because Iceland is an island so they have limited diseases, and this is another measure to prevent it. April 10, 2021

Animals All pandas are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1 million per year each for a minimum of 10 years. April 9, 2021

Animals Every fall, Alaska's Katmai National Park hosts "Fat Bear Week" and crowns the park's fattest brown bear. The aim is to highlight the park and wildlife conservation. April 7, 2021

Animals Fish eggs can survive and hatch after passing through a duck, providing one explanation of how seemingly pristine, isolated bodies of water can become stocked with fish March 25, 2021

Animals Meet the Moscow Water Dog, a now extinct breed commissioned for the Russian navy for the purpose of water rescues, that was so aggressive it would bite drowning victims instead of saving them March 24, 2021

Animals In 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel. March 16, 2021

Animals When a 400-year rare old Japanese bonsai tree was stolen, the bonsai master gave out instructions on how the thief could care for the plant so it doesn't die, as he felt it was his child. March 14, 2021

Animals In Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts March 7, 2021

Animals The oldest known domesticated dog remains are over 14,000 years old. The dog died young and is unlikely to have been much use to humans. Nevertheless, it was buried in an elaborate grave alongside two humans. February 19, 2021

Animals Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are able to fly across the Golf of Mexico, a distance of 500 miles, in one 20-hour non-stop flight. This requires more calories than the bird's weight, so they prepare by doubling their fat mass. They expend the entire caloric reserve during the flight. January 13, 2021

Animals Scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too. January 6, 2021

Animals If you grind a marine sponge through a sieve into salt water, it'll reorganize itself back into a sponge. It's the only animal that we know of that can do that. January 6, 2021

Animals European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison "votes" by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number. January 1, 2021

Animals In an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they'd do it without a reward December 11, 2020

Animals There are otter gangs in Singapore who fight for territories. It is well followed by the locals and the press. Each gangs has names and reputations. December 4, 2020

Animals Meet the symbiotic relationship of wolves and ravens. Ravens will lead wolves to prey so that they can take a portion of the leftovers, play games of tail chasing with each other, and develop individual friendships. November 22, 2020

Animals It took 75 years for 100 million people to get access to the telephone; the gaming app "Pokemon Go" hooked that many users in less than one month in 2016. That is how fast the digital revolution is compared to other transformations. November 20, 2020