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todayilearned
Jul 20, 2020
TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant
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bbc one
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spy robots
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todayilearned
Jul 14, 2020
TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.
africa
animals
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todayilearned
Jul 07, 2020
TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.
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todayilearned
Jun 25, 2020
TIL the Japanese Fire-bellied Newts are able to regenerate body parts including the limbs, the tail and spinal cord, parts of the eye (such as the retina and the lens), the brain, the heart and the jaws.
aging
amphibians
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animal behaviour
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salamanders
todayilearned
Jun 18, 2020
TIL Bees can sense the Electric fields of Flowers. Videos show that when the positively charged bee arrives at the negatively charged flower...pollen literally jumps from the flower to the bee. The bee may fly over to the flower but at close quarters, the flower also flies over to the bee.
animal behavior
animal behaviour
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todayilearned
Jun 18, 2020
TIL that as they became domesticated (in a remarkably short time), dogs evolved specific muscles that allow them to raise their inner eyebrows to manipulate human emotions. Dogs who made the facial movement enabled by these muscles are more likely to be adopted from a shelter than those who don't.
alexandra horowitz
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senior research fellow
short snouts
siberian husky
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todayilearned
Jun 18, 2020
TIL that about 40 of the 200 squirrels in Charlie and the chocolate factory are real, trained squirrels.
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todayilearned
Jun 16, 2020
TIL that a toxin in bee venom called melittin may prevent HIV. Melittin can kill HIV by poking holes into the virus's protective envelope. Bee stings may also ease pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists found that molecules in bee venom increase your body's level of glucocorticoid, an anti-
animal behavior
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todayilearned
Jun 06, 2020
TIL there's a Japenese diver who tends an underwater Shinto shrine and has been greeted by the same fish for the past 25 years
animals
can fish be friends with humans
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do fish have feelings
fish
friendly asian sheepshead wrasse
hiroyuki arakawa
hiroyuki arakawa fish friendship
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japan
japan fish friendship
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ocean
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yoriko
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todayilearned
May 31, 2020
TIL There’s a newly discovered Pygmy Seahorse Species called Hippocampus Nalu—nalu referring to “here it is” since it was known to locals prior to its scientific discovery
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todayilearned
May 30, 2020
TIL that a 99-million-year old fossilized Daddy Longlegs was found with an erection.
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todayilearned
May 27, 2020
TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.
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todayilearned
May 22, 2020
TIL Jaguars once roamed throughout the Southwestern US and as as far east as Arkansas and Louisiana. In 2016, one was spotted in Arizona.
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todayilearned
May 18, 2020
TIL grad students in the Netherlands have created lab-grown venom glands from 9 species of snake embryos: 1mm long white blobs that produced venom in a petri dish. It paves the way for creating antivenom without milking adult snakes for venom and without injecting into a horse to produce antibodies.
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todayilearned
May 14, 2020
TIL that the seventh most populous city in the world, Mumbai, also has one of the highest densities of leopards (41 leopards) in a forest inside the city and the leopard population saves Mumbai US$18,000 by keeping the stray dogs population in check.
animals
cities
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india
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south and central asia
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todayilearned
May 14, 2020
TIL a 20-pound Himalayan house cat went batshit crazy and held a family hostage in their bedroom
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todayilearned
May 08, 2020
TIL The NYPD has a beekeeping unit with 2 full time officers whose job it is to focus solely on any issues related to bees in the city.
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todayilearned
May 08, 2020
TIL that Mishka, the first sea-otter to be diagnosed with asthma, was taught to use an inhaler originally designed for cats!
animals
asthma
otter
todayilearned
May 08, 2020
TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.
animals
big questions
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hidemsn
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todayilearned
May 06, 2020
TIL that hagfish can eat by simply sitting inside a corpse and absorbing nutrients directly through their skin and gills. Their skin is actually more efficient at absorbing nutrients than their own intestines.
animals
backboned vertebrates
bottlenose dolphin
bunch of mucus
calli freedman
colleague sarah boggett
deep ocean
douglas fudge of chapman university
ewoldt’s colleague gaurav chaudhury
first glance
fossil show
hagfish
hagfish produce slime
hagfish slime
hand
intermediate form
italian researcher daniela silvia pace
lebanese quarry
liter of slime
little amount
loose end snags
main components
microscope image of a hagfish
move of your hand
mysterious ocean blobs
new fossil
new methods
own intestines
own tiny cell
pink-grey skin
primitive precursors
protein threads
proteins threads
randy ewoldt
simple anatomy
single continuous loop
single knot
slime
slime glands
slime thread
south korea
such work
taste buds
tetsuto miyashita
thread cells
threads
tubular animal
urbana-champaign
vincent zintzen
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