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Animal Facts
Hugging your pets lowers stress levels and elevates levels of serotonin and dopamine that help you feel calmer and more relaxed.
There is a rare psychological disorder called boanthropy, which makes people believe they are a cow or ox.
The first European scientists to examine a platypus body thought it was an elaborate hoax created from several other animal parts, including a duck’s bill and a beaver’s tail.
A blue whale’s heart can weigh up to 400 pounds and is about the size of a small golf cart. During deep dives, its heartbeat can slow to just two beats per minute.
George Washington was a fan of hunting hounds and kept more than 30 of them. According to one of his journals, three of the hounds were named Drunkard, Tipler & Tipsy.
In Texas, the feral hog population is so bad that they’d have to kill 70% of all existing hogs each year in order to keep it from getting worse.
Male billy goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season.
Cats can hydrate from seawater because their kidneys efficiently filter out the salt, while humans and most animals risk dehydration from drinking seawater.
Dragonflies existed over 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs, with some prehistoric species having wingspans as large as 2.5 feet.
The first formal guide dog training school was established in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1916 to assist soldiers blinded in combat during World War I.
Bees have three tiny additional eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli, which collect and focus light to help them navigate.
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
Adult cats typically only meow at humans, not other cats. Kittens meow to their mother, but once they get a little older, they don’t meow to other cats.
The blue ghost firefly, a rare species in the Southern Appalachian forests, emits a blue glow lasting up to a minute each time.
The “London Underground mosquito” got its name for biting people on the Tube during the Blitz in World War II. However, these mosquitoes existed long before the Underground was built.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
Over 99% of the five billion species that have ever lived on Earth throughout the planet’s history are extinct.
“Bookworm” originally referred to insects such as beetle larvae, silverfish, or cockroaches that damage books, while paper lice feed on mold in poorly maintained books.
Octopuses and squids have beaks made of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans.
