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-Elephants can’t jump.
-Starfish don’t brains.
-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don’t attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.
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Cheetah’s went through a genetic bottleneck somewhere between ten and twelve thousand years ago. There may have been less than ten left at one point. Dating the Cheetah Genetic Bottleneck
My totally silly theory is that humans in fact where adopting kits at that time and help saved the species, and that’s why they’re so almost domesticated.
1 monthThere is almost no genetic diversity among them. You can skin graft or transplant organs between any two cheetahs without fear of rejection.
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Wouldnt that also result in inbreeding or is there enough diversity to this being of no concern?
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I never knew for ages they’re part of the house cat branch of the feline family rather than the big cat branch with the lions and tigers, so that explains why they’re just floppy doofuses.
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Or how it happens with african tribes; aggressive lions get killed by the whole tribe. And at some point there were almost no cheetah…
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Pigs can’t look up. Sharks are older than trees. The duck billed platypus has no nipples; milk just oozes from the skin. All mammals have the same number of cervical vertebrae.
Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.- 1 month
That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.
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It should be just platypus. And ducks are really platypus billed ducks. The platypus had it’s bill first way before ducks came along
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At some point a horny platypus fucked a chicken, and invented the duck.
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They have weird butt muscles and use the poop as trail markers if I remember rightly.
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And their primary defence is crushing the skulls of their enemies against the roof of their burrow. Using their butt.
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-Starfish don’t brains.
Starfish ALL brain! Decentralized nervous system means it’s brain all the way down, baby!
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Starfish don’t brains?
I like that cats know their own names, understand why we’re saying them, yet choose to ignore us on purpose.
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Wild bees (often solo) will sometimes “bed down” in cactus flowers. The flowers close in the evening providing protection for the sleeping bee.
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You can see a good portion of the back of many owls’ eyes if you look in their ears.
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The octopus has 9 brains, one central brain (donut shaped, around the esophagus), and one in each of the 8 arms.
Penguins have a gland above their eye that converts saltwater into freshwater
A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!
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Ant-Man summoning all the ants would be way scarier than Spider-Man summoning all the spiders.
Female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises and no vaginal opening. They instead dock and give birth through their dicks
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It’s a retractable pseudo penis tho, they shrink it so it’s easier for the male to penetrate her even if her vagina isn’t very conventional.
