10/05/2023
Facts from the animal world:
The small bat is very voracious; within one hour it catches and eats as many as 1000 mosquitoes;
A duckling hatched from an egg considers the one it saw first to be its mother. Scientifically, this phenomenon is called “imprinting” or duckling syndrome;
While in the water, while sleeping, otters often hold on to their paws so that they are not scattered by currents or strong waves;
A dying ant attracts its fellows by releasing a pheromone. Ants, catching the smell, come to hide the body in the ant cemetery;
A clumsy-looking hippopotamus, weighing up to 1800 kg, gets scared and runs away, demolishing everything in its path. His speed is equal to that of a 100-meter sprinter;
Science has proven that the ancestors of domestic chickens are dinosaurs;
The starfish's eyes are located at the ends of its legs;
Octopuses have blue blood, 3 hearts and 8 arms (not tentacles).
One of the turtle's respiratory organs is the a**s;
The frog does not drink water, but absorbs it through the surface of the skin;
Mangalitsa pigs are very similar in appearance to sheep;
The skin of polar bears is black and the fur is transparent;
The striped color of zebras is a means of camouflage from predators, and such camouflage also reflects sunlight differently, which is why horseflies and tsetse flies do not see zebras;
According to scientists, jellyfish of the species “Turritopsis dohrnii” are considered “biologically immortal”; they die only from illness or injury. They have the power to turn time back, returning to the early stage of their own life cycle.
