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Interesting animal facts
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Unbelievable! What Japan's monkeys are able to do:
www.dailystar.co.uk
Orphan monkeys forced to serve beers and play air hockey with kids in 'bar jobs'
Baby macaques, whose parents are being killed to order by angry farmers, are being snatched from the streets and made to become human entertainers
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According to the Youtube description, the monkeys have been doing the waiters' job for "29 years" and are rewarded with bananas:
This Japanese tavern has trained monkeys instead of waiters. Monkeys deliver the orders, tidy up the tables and have their pictures taken with visitors. They’ve been “working” there for 29 years already...and get paid in bananas.
"Monkey Business" with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe:
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This worked very well until they formed a monkey union and went on strike for proper wages.
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A radical faction even formed, which wanted to enforce its demand with violence, but then ended up as experimental animals in Japanese laboratories.
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The bed bug is one of the most beloved of animals; respected and appreciated as a household companion the world over.
In case your image of this animal wasn't already rosy enough, you'll be charmed to hear about their mating habits. Like mammals, bedbug eggs are fertilised internally and, also like mammals, male bedbugs have an intromittent organ used to deposit sperm inside the female.
Unlike mammals, they don't waste time locating the female genital opening. The male organ is sharp and pointy, you see, so they take the more direct approach of simply stabbing it directly through the abdominal wall of the female.
Birds do it, bees do it, even bed bugs do in (but in a horrifyingly traumatic way).
In case your image of this animal wasn't already rosy enough, you'll be charmed to hear about their mating habits. Like mammals, bedbug eggs are fertilised internally and, also like mammals, male bedbugs have an intromittent organ used to deposit sperm inside the female.
Unlike mammals, they don't waste time locating the female genital opening. The male organ is sharp and pointy, you see, so they take the more direct approach of simply stabbing it directly through the abdominal wall of the female.
Birds do it, bees do it, even bed bugs do in (but in a horrifyingly traumatic way).
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Artist Shows What Would Happen If Humans Flirted Like Animals, And It’s Hilarious
Telling someone you're interested usually involves quite a few corny pick-up lines and awkward glances. Wouldn't it be easier if we, humans picked our partners the same way animals do? For example, female Galapagos tortoises hit on males that can stretch their neck out the farthest. And in many...
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Most animals try to find somewhere quiet. But cats can go great lengths with this.
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That goes to show that desiring & pleasuring at being intoxicated & high probably isn’t unique to our species alone, which if I understand correctly was historically assumed to be.
I do often find it odd how prosimians, along with the tree shrews, colugos & lagomorphs, which are still quite very different from us, are much more closely related to us than our best friends, dogs & other domestic animals. Goes to show that man’s closest relatives aren’t the same as man’s best friends, & vice versa.
I do often find it odd how prosimians, along with the tree shrews, colugos & lagomorphs, which are still quite very different from us, are much more closely related to us than our best friends, dogs & other domestic animals. Goes to show that man’s closest relatives aren’t the same as man’s best friends, & vice versa.
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Mother Nature seems real happy when humans back off:
thehill.com
Flamingos flock to Mumbai as India shuts down
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The last Tasmanian Tiger footage:
www.huffpost.com
Last Known Footage Of A Tasmanian Tiger Shows What The World Has Lost
The "precious" video hasn't been seen publicly for 85 years and is believed to be the last footage of the extinct marsupial.
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A male bear kills a female bear with a cub. Then proceed to feed from the flesh of the mother, hidding the carcass with earth and grass. The cub remains around, and the cannibalistic male bear try to get it, but the little bear escape to a very difficult cliff, surviving the attack. Nobody knows what happened to the cub then
A male bear kills a female bear with a cub. Then proceed to feed from the flesh of the mother, hidding the carcass with earth and grass. The cub remains around, and the cannibalistic male bear try to get it, but the little bear escape to a very difficult cliff, surviving the attack. Nobody knows what happened to the cub then
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The origin of the domestic chicken seems to have been deciphered:
phys.org
Origin of domesticated chicken identified
A very large international team of researchers has identified the origin of the domesticated chicken. In their paper published in the journal Cell Research, the group outlines the extensive genetic study they conducted and what they learned from it.
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Andean Condors, with research on their soaring:
www.sciencealert.com
These Giant Condors Can Fly For Hours Without Flapping Their Wings Even Once
Andean condors are the heaviest soaring bird in the world, with a single individual weighing up to about 16 kilos (or 35 pounds).
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