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What Is Most Intelligent Animal In The World?
In a rain forest in Indonesia in the 1990s, a group of scientists attempted to teach sign language to orangutans.
According to recent research, orangutans are the world’s most intelligent animal other than humans, with higher learning and problem solving ability than chimpanzees.
Orangutans regularly use tools for activities such as feeding. They have also been known [...]
Why Does The Chipmunk Store Food In Its Nest?
The chipmunk, like the squirrel, has a habit of burying enough food to last all winter. Although Chipmunks hibernate, they periodically dip into their stash of food throughout the winter instead of storing fat.
Chipmunks are wonderful collectors of nuts, berries, and grain. A chipmunk never makes the mistake of trying to store something that will [...]
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2 CommentsHow Big Is a Baby Bear?
When a baby brown bear or grizzly bear is born, it weighs about a pound and
a half and is eight inches long.
Fully grown, they are nine feet tall and weigh over 500 pounds. These huge animals live in wild mountainous areas and in forests and wander about either in family groups or singly.
They can be [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Is The Cacomistle Known As the Miner’s Cat?
This is the charming, cute little animal called the cacomistle, which is a Mexican word meaning “half mountian lion.”
This furry little creature is a relative of the raccoon and has the same kind of eye rings. A cacomistle can be as long as 30 inches, but half that length is taken up by a bushy [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Do Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Fight Each Other?
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep use their curled horns as weapons in epic battles across the Rocky Mountains.
These fights are for dominance or mating rights and can very loud as they clash their horns. Of course, what you hear is not their voices, but the clang their horns make when they bang against one another.
Each year [...]
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Leave a commentIs There Really a Summer Camp for Dogs?
If people have summer camps, why shouldn’t dogs? As a matter of fact, they do.
And lots of dogs get a chance to go there if their owners can afford it. Of course, their owners have to know that there is such a place as a dog’s
summer camp.
Camp Lindo is located in Margaretville, New York, and [...]
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Leave a commentHow Did G.I. Joe The Pigeon Win The Dickin Medal For Gallantry?
The Dickin Medal for Gallantry is awarded to brave beasts in Great Britain. Before World War 1I, it had never been given to an animal that wasn’t English. But that was before the English met G. I. Joe.
In October 1943, the English and Americans were fighting the Germans. English soldiers were trying to capture a [...]
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Leave a commentWhy Does The Jackal Stay Home Even As It Gets Older?
Jackals are fast, wiry little animals that grow to the size of an Irish terrier. Because they are so fast, they are unafraid of animals even six times their size.
Jackals live in Africa and are closely related to dogs. They are one of the few mammals that mate for life and share their food with [...]
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Leave a commentWhat Animals Know How to Heal Wounds?
Some female elephants seem to know what to do when a member of their family has a bleeding wound.
Two scientists, Oria and lain Douglas-Hamilton, reported seeing an old female elephant being doctored by a young daughter. The mother had been jabbed with a spear, and the would in her side was bleeding badly.
The daughter packed [...]
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