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What is one of the main functions of a cat's tail?
What is one of the main functions of a cat's tail?
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Aside from making them look majestic when walking across high or narrow things, tails are essential for your cat’s daily life. They provide balance for leaps and jumps as well as sensory input. Cats love to climb up high and traverse narrow walkways which make even experienced cat enthusiasts have their worries. Yet on the rare occasions when they do fall, somehow cats always seem to manage to land on their feet. How do they do it? Their tails! Cats use their tails as a counterweight. When they walk on top of something narrow, jump, or climb, cats can position their tails to provide more stability. Actually, it’s a lot like the way that we spread our arms when walking along a balance beam. Cats keep their reflexes sharp through play, so that if they ever do fall, their tail will automatically help them find their feet.
Source: East Valley Animal Hospital
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What do giraffes eat?
What do giraffes eat?
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Giraffes use their height to good advantage and browse on leaves and buds in treetops that few other animals can reach (acacias are a favorite). Even the giraffe's tongue is long! The 21-inch tongue helps them pluck tasty morsels from branches. Giraffes eat most of the time and, like cows, regurgitate food and chew it as cud. A giraffe eats hundreds of pounds of leaves each week and must travel miles to find enough food.
Source: National Geographic
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Which of these foods do squirrels typically eat?
Which of these foods do squirrels typically eat?
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Acorns make up a considerable percentage of a squirrel’s diet. They enjoy both red and white acorns and gnaw off the cap to eat the insides. Squirrels usually devour white acorns immediately and store red acorns, as they last longer when squirrels bury them. Acorn kernels can sustain a squirrel throughout the winter when other food becomes scarce.
Source: Skedaddle Wildlife
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Which of these body parts can lizards grow back?
Which of these body parts can lizards grow back?
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Many lizards, including geckos and skinks, are capable of shedding their tails (autotomy). The detached tail, sometimes brilliantly colored, continues to writhe after detaching, distracting the predator's attention from the fleeing prey. Lizards partially regenerate their tails over a period of weeks. Some 326 genes are involved in regenerating lizard tails.
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What is a baby chicken called?
What is a baby chicken called?
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A baby chicken is called a chick. A young female chicken is called a pulley, while a young male chicken is called a cockerel. Typically the young chickens are considered pulleys and cockerels until about one year old. An adult female chicken is called a hen while a male is called a rooster. Just like most other birds, groups of chickens are called flocks.
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What do giant pandas eat almost exclusively?
What do giant pandas eat almost exclusively?
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Giant pandas almost exclusively eat bamboo, and they've been doing that for about 2 million years. So it's quite curious that their gut bacteria isn't really equipped to process all that plant matter. In fact, the animals only digest about 17 percent of the nearly 30 pounds of bamboo they eat throughout the day.
Source: Washington Post
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What special sense do dolphins use to hear underwater?
What special sense do dolphins use to hear underwater?
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Toothed whales (including dolphins) have developed a remarkable sensory ability used for locating food and for navigation underwater called echolocation. Toothed whales produce a variety of sounds by moving air between air spaces or sinuses in the head. Sounds are reflected or echoed back from objects, and these are thought to be received by an oil-filled channel in the lower jaw and conducted to the middle ear of the animal.
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What is an eagle's strongest sense?
What is an eagle's strongest sense?
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Eagles have a highly developed sense of sight, which allows them to spot prey easily. Eagles have excellent 20/5 vision compared to an average human, who only has 20/20 vision. Eagles have fixed eye sockets that are angled 30 degrees from the midline of their face. That gives eagles a 340-degree visual field that allows for both excellent peripheral and binocular vision.
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Which of these animals' teeth never stop growing?
Which of these animals' teeth never stop growing?
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Rabbits, squirrels, and rodents have teeth that never stop growing. They have to chew on tough foods like nuts, leaves, and bark to wear down their teeth and keep them from growing too long. Every animal has its own dental problems and quirks, and some of them can be downright weird. One thing is sure, no matter who the teeth belong to, man or animal, healthy teeth are important!
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What do koalas usually eat?
What do koalas usually eat?
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Koalas eat a variety of eucalypt leaves and a few other related tree species, including lophostemon, melaleuca, and corymbia species (such as brush box, paperbark, and bloodwood trees). They consume around 500 grams of leaves each day (approximately the size of a small lettuce) and obtain most of their water requirements from the leaves. Koalas have poor vision and rely heavily on their other senses. They have excellent hearing, which helps them detect predators and other koalas. They also have an acute sense of smell, which helps them detect their favorite food trees.
Source: Queensland Government
11/20
Where do dogs have their sweat glands?
Where do dogs have their sweat glands?
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Dogs have a type of sweat gland called merocrine glands, which are located in dog paw pads. Overall, dogs have far fewer sweat glands than people do, making their other natural mechanisms for cooling off more important than sweating. Rarely, a dog will sweat through its paws. Dog sweat glands, in addition to being few in number, are also inefficient. Therefore, dogs rely on other mechanisms to keep their body temperatures under control.
Source: Pet MD
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What sense do most migratory birds have to help them navigate?
What sense do most migratory birds have to help them navigate?
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Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals with this sense include some arthropods, mollusks, and vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). The sense is mainly used for orientation and navigation, but it may help some animals to form regional maps. Experiments on migratory birds provide evidence that they make use of a cryptochrome protein in the eye, relying on the quantum radical pair mechanism to perceive magnetic fields. This effect is extremely sensitive to weak magnetic fields, and readily disturbed by radio-frequency interference, unlike a conventional iron compass.
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What is a baby bison called?
What is a baby bison called?
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The American bison is the largest mammal in North America. It grows to 7 to 11.5 feet long from head to rump, and its tail adds an extra 20 to 23.5 inches. They weigh 930 to 2,200 lbs. A baby bison is called a calf. American bison calves weigh a massive 30 to 70 lbs at birth, according to the U.S. Department of Interior. A calf is protected not only by its mother but also by the whole herd. They are weaned at 7 to 13 months and typically become sexually mature at 2 to 3 years of age. Adult bison live around 14 to 24 years in the wild.
Source: Live Science
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What sort of diet does a hyena have?
What sort of diet does a hyena have?
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Hyenas are carnivores who eat a diet of other animals like zebras, gazelles, giraffes, birds, rabbits, warthogs, snakes, insects, wildebeests, antelopes, wild dogs, and others. They are also scavengers who feed on leftover carcasses by other predators in the wild. Contrary to popular belief, hyenas are highly-skilled hunters who can take down prey larger than them, such as wildebeests, antelopes, and sometimes even lions. They have powerful jaws and teeth. Hyenas may possess an appearance that looks like those of wolves and dogs, but these carnivorous mammals are much closer to felines than they are to canines.
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Which type of animal has trotters?
Which type of animal has trotters?
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Trotters and pettitoes are other names for pig’s feet. Different communities around the world eat this visually striking cut of meat in different ways. What you might not be aware of are the various health benefits and potential health risks associated with eating pig’s feet. Trotters have an abundance of tough connective tissue and thick skin. Consequently, many preparations involve long cooking processes over low heat. This process helps break down the tissues and makes the meat more tender.
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Which of these domesticated animals is nocturnal?
Which of these domesticated animals is nocturnal?
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Hamsters are nocturnal and best suited to households that are active after dark, without any early risers. This is because hamsters are one of the louder nocturnal pets—they like to run on their wheels for long hours and chew noisily at anything they can. Do not place hamster cages where people sleep. A place that’s also quieter during the day (when the hamster wants to sleep) is ideal. Hamsters are often very grumpy when awakened, so if it’s necessary to wake up your pet (for example, for a trip to the vet), it’s best to do so slowly. When possible, it’s best to leave a sleeping hamster asleep.
Source: Pet MD
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Regarding their diet, what type of animals are porcupines?
Regarding their diet, what type of animals are porcupines?
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Porcupines are herbivores with a varying vegetation diet that changes with the season and location. During the summer they eat twigs, buds, leaves, roots, tubers, grass, berries, fruit, inner bark, and other vegetation. Apple trees are a favorite food source, as well as maple, oak, ash, and aspen. In autumn, porcupines eat hard tree masts such as acorns, hickory nuts, and beechnuts. They don’t wait for their meal to fall to the ground; they climb into the tree, snip off a branch, and carefully extract the nut from the husk.
Source: Mass.gov
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Which body part do snakes use to smell other than the nostrils?
Which body part do snakes use to smell other than the nostrils?
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Snakes and humans have a lot of things in common. We both have eyes to see the world, mouths to eat our meals, and nostrils to breathe and smell the air. Snakes also have things we don’t, like a special, super-charged smell sensor called the Jacobson’s organ that “smells” chemicals gathered by their forked tongue, helping them hunt.
Source: California Academy of Science
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Coyotes often team up with what animal to hunt?
Coyotes often team up with what animal to hunt?
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Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together and can even be more successful hunting prairie dogs and ground squirrels when they work in tandem. Studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species. The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems. Each partner in this unlikely duo brings a skill the other one lacks. Together they are both faster and better diggers than the burrowing rodents they hunt.
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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What part of the body are elephants tusks?
What part of the body are elephants tusks?
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Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors. Elephants use their tusks as digging and boring tools. Elephant tusks are sexually dimorphic, being on average larger in males than in females, and entirely absent in female Asian elephants.
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