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Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals....
16/01/2023

Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.
Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals. Most sloths will only have a bowel movement once a week, and it can take them up to 30 days to completely digest a single leaf. For comparison, it takes the average human 12 to 48 hours to ingest, digest, and eliminate waste from food.

Alligators will let manatees swim ahead of them.In busy waters, manatees will nudge alligators to get in front, and alli...
16/01/2023

Alligators will let manatees swim ahead of them.
In busy waters, manatees will nudge alligators to get in front, and alligators generally oblige.

Bottlenose dolphins are even more right-handed than humans."Most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed,...
14/01/2023

Bottlenose dolphins are even more right-handed than humans.
"Most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed," according to Scientific American. And the same holds true for bottlenose dolphins. In fact, the savvy swimmers are even more right-handed than we are. A team led by Florida's Dolphin Communication Project took a look at the feeding behavior of bottlenose dolphins and found that the animals were turning to their left side 99.44 percent of the time, which "actually suggests a right-side bias," according to IFL Science. "It places the dolphin's right side and right eye close to the ocean floor as it hunts."

Koala fingerprints are so close to humans' that they could taint crime scenes.Koalas might not seem to have a lot in com...
12/01/2023

Koala fingerprints are so close to humans' that they could taint crime scenes.
Koalas might not seem to have a lot in common with us, but if you were to take a closer look at their hands, you'd see that they have fingerprints that are just like humans'. In fact, they're so similar when it comes to the distinctive loops and arches, that in Australia, "police feared that criminal investigations may have been hampered by koala prints," according to Ripley's Believe It or Not. Any koalas who want to commit crimes would be wise to do so wearing gloves.

Hurricanes release the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs.If you measure the kinetic energy of its wind velocity alone, a si...
09/01/2023

Hurricanes release the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs.
If you measure the kinetic energy of its wind velocity alone, a single mature hurricane can equal about half of our entire planet's capability of producing electricity. If you measure it in terms of rainfall, though, a hurricane releases the force of 10,000 atomic bombs over an area about 413 miles wide.

The difference, of course, is that the energy is spread out over the entire area instead of radiating from a single point. Still, that much sustained force can do some heavy damage, as all too many Floridians, Texans, Louisianans, and North Carolinians know.

There's a kind of ant that only lives in a small area of Manhattan.If you're ever in the area of "the Broadway medians a...
07/01/2023

There's a kind of ant that only lives in a small area of Manhattan.
If you're ever in the area of "the Broadway medians at 63rd and 76th streets" in New York City, keep an eye on the ground for crawling critters and you might spot something rare. That's where the "ManhattAnt" can be found, an ant that only lives in the one small area of the city. "It's a relative of the cornfield ant, and it looks like it's from Europe, but we can't match it up with any of the European species," Rob Dunn, a biology professor at North Carolina State University, told the New York Post. Dunn and his team discovered the isolated ant variety in 2012.

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