Animal

Aha, The First Mammal, To The Best Of Known Records, An Australian Bramble Cay Melomys, A Brown Rat, Has Gone Extinct! The Rat, Which Inhabited A Small Coral Island On The Great Barrier Reef, Is Said To To Have Gone Extinct Due To Ocean Flooding Of Its Habitat, Associated With Sea-level Rise From Climate Change.

Australian m…

[Reference]

A Bird, Cardinal, Has Been Observed To Be One-Sided Male And The Other Side, Female—A Condition called “Gynandromorph.” This Sexual Split, Though Not Yet Confirmed In The Bird, Has Been Reported In Reptiles, Butterflies, And Crustaceans. Scientists Are Curious As To How This Would Make Them Different From Conventional Cardinals.

…

[Reference]

Some Animals, From Previous Studies, Can Solve Basic Math. And Now, Researchers Have Discovered That Bees, With Their Small Brains, Are Also Capable Of Rudimentary Math Of Addition And Subtraction. This Discovery Could Imply That Advanced Non-Human Animals May Be Capable Of Complex Math. This Result Could Also Help In AI Advancement.

…

[Reference]

A Bird, The Madagascar Pochard, Believed To Have Been Extinct After Not Seen In 15 Years Was Rediscovered In 2016. 25 Of The Discovered Birds Are Said To Be The Rarest Birds In The World. Apparently, Conservationist Are Doing A Great Job Restoring The Species After 21 Of Them Were Recently Released At A Lake In North Madagascar.

…

[Reference]

Talk About The Animal With The Fastest Snap Jaw On The Planet. I know, Names Like Trap-Jaw Ants And Mantis Shrimp May Come To Mind. But No, The New Kid On The Block, From Asia And Australia, Is The Mystrium Camillae, Otherwise Known As The Dracula Ant. The Ant Is Said To Snap Its Jaw At Speeds Of More Than 200 mph

Dracula…

[Reference]

This Could Be, For Now, The Biggest Cow In Austrailia. The 7-Year-Old Holstein-Friesian Cow, Named Kicker, Is Said To Be 6 Ft 3 inches Tall. Most Holstein-Friesian Cows, For Comparison, Are 4 Ft 8 Inches. The Cow Will Live Out The Rest Of Its Life On The Pasture, Thanks To Its Uniqueness.

A cow in Australia is almost as tall…

[Reference]

One Of The Biggest Structures And Apparently The World\’s Most Extensive Bioengineering Effort By A Single Insect Species, To Safely Gain Access To Leaves From Forest Floor, Has Been Discovered In Northeastern Brazil. The Structure Are Termite Mounds, Said To Cover Area The Size Of Great Britain And About 4000 Years Old.

Cubic Structures Are Essential For Construction Purposes. And So Scientists Are Hopeful That By Studying How The Intestines In Wombats Make Cubic Excrement, They Could Discover Another Way To Make Cubic Structures, Aside From The Usual Moulding Or Cutting Of Materials Into Cubes.

Scientists unravel secret of cube-shaped wombat…

[Reference]

If You Think That Being An Animal Exempts You From Being Arrested When Drunk, Then Think Again. A Racoon, Intoxicated On Crab Apples, Was Taken Into Custody By The Police After Neighbours Suspected The Raccoon Of Having Rabbies. The Raccoon Was However Release, Afer Sobering Up, And Being A First Time Offender =)

A New Study Is Indicating That Plants May Have Evolved A Means To Mutually Benefit From Ants. The Ants Would Defend The Hollow Spike Shelters Provided By The Plants While, Unintentionally, Protecting The Plants. The Ants Would Also Protect Plants By Defending Their Food (E.g. Plant Nectar) From External Aggressors.

Plants e…

[Reference]

The Biggest Spiders In The World Do Not Build Webs To Trap Their Prey. They Rather Hunt Their Preys, Hence Their Name, The Huntsman Spiders. These Fast Spiders Are Distributed In The Warmer Climates Of The World. The Giant Spider Was Discovered In A Cave In Laos In 2001.

https://www.livescience.com/41428-huntsman-spide…

[Reference]

Researchers Have Observed That Bees Go Silent During a Total Solar Eclipse, Which Is Really Not Weird As Bees Usually Cease Activities At Night. But What Was Really Strange Was The Speed At Which The Bees Went Quiet During The Totality Of The Eclipse. I Guess Bees Also Observe “Lights Out.”

Bees went silent during the 2017…

[Reference]

The World’s Largest Animal To Have Ever Lived On Land Has Been Discovered In South Africa. And No, It Is Not The Plant-Eating Sauropods , But A New Species Of Dinosaur Named A Giant Thunderclap At Dawn. The Dinosaur Is Said To Have Lived About 200 Million Years Ago. They Keep Finding Them!!

New 26,000 pound species of dinosaur…

[Reference]

Another Rare Freak Of Nature: A Two-Headed American Copperhead Snake Was Discovered In A Garden In Virginia, USA. Talk About Twice The Danger For The Price Of One. The Snake Is Also Said To Pose A Danger To Itself Because The Heads Could Attack Each Other.

Hopefully, The 75-Year-Old Fight Is Over After Scientists Classified The Contentious Dickinsonia And Other Bizarre Fossils Of The Ediacaran Biota Into The Animal Kingdom. The Ediacaran Biota Is Said To Have Appeared Around 600 MYA, And Flourished For Tens Of Millions Of Years, Making Them The Oldest Animal Fossil On The Planet. Cool!

…

[Reference]

Finally, Dogs And Cats Get To Have Apartments Soley Built Because Of Them. Yes, One Must Be A Dog Owner To Be Able To Rent These Apartments In A Municipality, Frederikssund, In Northern Zealand, Denmark. This Initiative Was Started After Many Apartments Had Refused To Rent To Dogs And Cats Owners. Okay!!

https://www.thel…

[Reference]

The Most Populated State In The USA, California, Strikes Again By Becoming The First State In The USA To Ban Cosmetics That Have Been Tested On Animals. The State Joins 40 Other Countries In The World, Like India, Israel, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan To Banned Or Limit The Use Of Cosmetics Tested On Animals.

Victory!…

[Reference]

Goats May Have Joined Animals Like Dogs And Horses In Recognizing Human Emotion. A New Research Has Shown That Goats May Associate More With People Who Expressed Happy Emotions. The 20 Goats, Used In The study, Were Found To Sense Positive Emotions, Possibly, By Using The Left Hemisphere Of Their Brain. Hmm!

Goats prefer happy…

[Reference]

Here Is Something That You Don’t See Or Hear of Every day: Not Your Typical Animal Being Put To Work. At A French Park, Puy du Fou park, in France, Crows, Specifically The Rook, Are Being Trained To Pick Up Little Bits Of Trash, Like Cigarette Butts, In Exchange For Nuggets Of Food. Cool!

These…

[Reference]

Yep, There Are Apps That Can Identify Plants And Animals In The Wild From A Picture; Another Claims To Be Able To Identify Recipes Of A Dish From A Picture, And Shazam, Which Can Identify Any Song. And Now, There Is A New App, Doggzam, Which Can Identify Dog Breeds From A Picture. Pretty Cool!