The Science Of Snot
Think snot is just gross? Think again. Humans are now donating it, fish are sleeping in it, and snails are gliding across it like pros.
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Poop, Lies, and Love: A Dating Game
If you think romance is complicated, imagine if your dating success depended on how well you could roll a ball of dung! And then you discover the lies!
Why does my dog eat its poop?
One frequently asked question posed to veterinarians and searched on Google is, “Why does my dog eat its poop?” We think it is disgusting but clearly they don’t!
Poop eating is a common animal behaviour
Dining on poop is common if you are an animal. And sometimes it’s poop from another species. Why do they do this?
Sprung! Aye-aye’s are now on the nose pickers list.
Digging for gold, pick and flick, picking a winner….we all have different names for it, but the formal medical term used to describe the act of picking one’s nose is “rhinotillexomania”. Humans do it. And so do many animals! If there was an award for the #1 nose picker in the animal kingdom, we’re vote the […]
Wombats Have A Very Unique Skill
Only wombats produce cubed-shaped poop! And they cleverly stack them up on top of each other, as the higher they are the more likely it will be found which means more chance of finding a mate.
Wasps can blow bubbles!
These incredible photos show wasps blowing bubbles or at least that is what it looks like! The photographer Lim Choo How spotted several of the industrious insects with droplets dangling from their mouths and realised it was time to take some macro photos! The wasps were flying around a nest, in a factory in Malaysia […]
Snails that look Gothic
What an incredible looking snail! This stunning looking snail is endemic to a very specific mountainous forest area on the Malaysian Peninsula. The Fire Snail – named after its bright red foot – is one of the rarest, most sought after snail species in the world. The Platymma tweediei has a distinctive black shell that […]
Elephant dung uses. Yes there are uses!
Elephants produce a lot of dung! Up to 220 pounds or 99 kilograms a day! That’s a lot of poop! Let’s get a perspective here. A newborn elephant can weigh between 90-100 kgs! A giant panda average weight is 100 kgs. Humans can be so resourceful and have found many things to do with all […]
Cockroaches are really quite interesting!
Cockroaches are actually quite helpful! Cockroaches are very useful scavengers eating decaying vegetation and pretty much anything already decaying. So without cockroaches (and termites and dung beetles) the world would be piled high with trash. Did you know that only 12 out of the 4,000 species of cockroaches are pests. They can live without a […]