"The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (European) is roughly 11m/s or 24 mph.v"
"Owls bob their heads up and down to help improve their depth of perception. You can try it out yourself. Focus on an object and bob your head. It doesn’t work for us, but you do look like an idiot. "
"A group if dolphins is a pod, a group of Falcons is a cast. When you watch the Miami Dolphins play the Atlanta Falcons you are watching a pod-cast on TV."
"Gorillas, along with other primates, can learn sign language to the point where even if they do not know a specific word for a specific object they can use their previous vocabulary to describe the word accurately.
Koko the gorilla never learned the word for “ring”, so one day she pointed at a ring and signed the words; “finger-bracelet”."
"Crows will see how you look like and how you act and tell other crows about you."
"The nautilus has remained essentially unchanged for 400 million years. They just evolved to their current form and stayed that way. The first dinosaurs didn’t even appear until 230 million years ago."
"When a male octopus is ready to mate it rip’s off its ding dong and throws it at the female so she can do whatever she wants with it. the reason they do this is because they’re a lot smaller than the female so she’ll eat the male but on the plus side the Male octopus will grow his ding dong back eventually. "
"Ravens can mimic sounds and speech like parrots can."
"Bald eagles don’t sound like they do on TV. They dub over the call of a redtail hawk. Actual bald eagle calls sound more like a seagull."
"A bat’s immune system is so strong it could withstand viruses that could be highly damaging to other species."
"Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s *tongue*."
"Zebras’ stripes are as unique as finger prints, and they can tell each other apart."
"Wombats have cubic poops. They literally sh#t bricks!"
"A horses teeth takes up more space in their skull than their brain."
"In a fox couple, if the vixen dies, the male fox will become single for the rest of his life. Now if the male fox dies, the vixen goes off to find another partner."
"An octopus can fit through any opening large enough for its beak to pass through."
"Giraffes chew on bones to give them extra calcium."
"A cat slowly blinking at you means they’re relaxed and comfortable in you company."
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