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Animal Facts that are surprising/amazing/weird

Forest Cat said:
The sea otter use rocks to crack open mollusks and clams they gather for food. So they use tools. And otters have favorite rocks, the otter will have a favorite rock it picked out and carry it around in a pouch in its fur, usually under their left arm. So they carry a tool around with them in a pouch. That's pretty advanced. They also juggle rocks but no one knows for sure exactly why they do that.

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Maybe they just find juggling the rocks fun.🙂
 
@Forest Cat My first memories of both otters and seals are seeing them at the zoo when I was quite young. They both seemed so happy and playful. One of the seals kept swimming over to me on the other side of the glass. It looked like it was smiling at me and I believe that it was. 🙂 🦦 🦭
 
FayetheAspie said:
@Forest Cat My first memories of both otters and seals are seeing them at the zoo when I was quite young. They both seemed so happy and playful. One of the seals kept swimming over to me on the other side of the glass. It looked like it was smiling at me and I believe that it was. 🙂 🦦 🦭
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I saw harbor seals and bearded seals when I was at Svalbard years ago, that was special. A lot of seal. 🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭
 
Those would have been actual wild seals ,right.
 
The foxes on my friend's farm are always playing tricks, although often the cleverest one they can think of is taking a dump on a garden tool. One killed a chicken, but got a stern lecture before being allowed to leave with it, and never killed another. I wonder if the urban foxes ever get to know individual humans.
 
Speaking of skunks; I recently built a skunk den in my back yard. My next door neighbor had a family of skunks living under her back deck. She was planning on having them exterminated because their dogs kept getting sprayed.

I built the three room den and placed a trail of food bits from her deck to the new den. We now have a family of skunks happily living in our back yard. They are so adorable and friendly.
And, NO, there is no smell. They can project a spray of liquid stink as a defense, but that only happens if they are attacked. Since we got them to move to the new den, no smells at all. just a family of happy skunks. And I get to watch them frolic around in our backyard every evening when they wake up and start their new day - which is actually night. :)
 
Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name".

"Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other.

A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland found that when the animals hear their own call played back to them, they respond.

Dr Vincent Janik, from the university's Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "(Dolphins) live in this three-dimensional environment, offshore without any kind of landmarks and they need to stay together as a group.

"These animals live in an environment where they need a very efficient system to stay in touch." "


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Dolphins 'call each other by name'
 
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Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name".

"Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other.

A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland found that when the animals hear their own call played back to them, they respond.

Dr Vincent Janik, from the university's Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "(Dolphins) live in this three-dimensional environment, offshore without any kind of landmarks and they need to stay together as a group.

"These animals live in an environment where they need a very efficient system to stay in touch." "


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Dolphins 'call each other by name'
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Thanks for that.

By the way, so do elephants. And I'm sure there are many, many more. Unfortunately, science does not have the methods nor the umwelt to conduct such test on most animals.

Elephants Found to Have Names for Each Other.

I'm currently reading a fascinating book titled The Edge of Sentience. A book I highly recommend. It is about 400 pages and costs $40.00 (hardback), but it is also free for download in PDF form. Apparently, the author is more interested in the knowledge than the money. :) Very impressive.
 
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"An animal's trunk is the hub of its body, and there are lots of ways it has to keep warm and cool; however, they have a unique problem. Their feet are far away from the main trunk of their body, blood has to travel a ways to get there, and their limbs are often not as furry or as thick as the main body. What's an animal to do to keep those limbs warm in the winter and cool in the summer without toes inconveniently dropping off? It would be easier if they could just Mr-Potato head their limbs on and off but they can't. The answer is to warm and cool those extremities efficiently while maintaining the minimum or maximum temperature for tissues to survive. To do this many animals use countercurrent exchange."

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Additional explanation with diagram and examples in article.

Countercurrent Exchange: Why Animal Feet Don't Freeze - The Infinite Spider
 
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