People Share Interesting Wildlife Facts That Not A Lot Of People Know, Here Are The 40 Best Ones

Rats also grieve. I had a pair of them who were brothers, and when one of them died of cancer his brother gave up on life. He had two other rats to play with, but he didn't care. He lost all interest in socialising and spent most of his time just sitting in the corner of the cage staring at nothing. And then one day he just lay down and died.

Elephants are the best!!!!!

I read this as cute, but I doubt I would feel that cue if I was the one being BURIED ALIVE BY AN ELEPHANT!

This is just beautiful. I don't know why it makes me feel emotional.

Gorillas also have rituals for the dead as observed in zoos when one passes.

Another "fun" fact: Vultures are deliberately and massively poisoned by poachers that hunt big prey such as rhinos, elephants and lions. With less vultures that react on a fresh carcass by descending from the sky, it is much harder for park rangers to spot a fresh kill, thus poachers get away easier then they do with the vultures around. Carnivores know this trick: keep on eye on the vultures in the sky. Once they descend suddenly, there has been a kill. That's why predators that have just made a kill must eat quickly, before competition arrives.

Another proof that "nature doesn't need human, but human needs nature"

Google John Finnemore Vulture Sketch, he's a very funny and clever comedian and I learned a lot about vultures as well as having a good laugh

I've read about people who when their relatives die they carry the bodies up to the vultures and let them eat their corpse. If my religious beliefs allowed it i think I'd like this to happen to me.

In case you were wondering, the turkey vulture is my favorite bird.

That only works for owls. Humans turn down the radio.

It's because they can't move their eyes. Their eyes are long cones that go deep into their skull unlike round human eyeballs

Actually something like this does work for us a bit because moving left to right gives your brain more to worth work with. F.i. Brain scans and stuff like that are often are 3D rendered on screen and given a little repeating rotation from left to right because our visual cortex can extrapolate some depth from a moving image. This helps analyzing the image for any abnormalities.

And they have long legs! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/448811919128999943/

You just look like you're listening to rock music

Key word is "released". Rehabilitation of babies=great. Keeping one as a pet=not so much. It makes me angry seeing videos of "pet" raccoons. They are not pets, you cannot domesticate them. I love raccoons but even I understand they're wild animals and should remain so. Thanks for reading my rant, will climb off my soapbox now.

Um, yes, please! I would love to care for some orphaned baby raccoons. Yeah, it'd be better to maybe not murder their mom, but I would treasure an opportunity to do that.😍

My ex was on the porch in the dark, and "cat" began licking his feet. He turned on the light, and it was a very fat raccoon. It kept coming back each night for scraps and pets, so we named him. One day Vlad stopped showing up. It was sad for two weeks, until SHE showed up with three babies! They all came around for about a year, until the male became too aggressive. They were the highlight of my nights.

This is lovely <3

Why would you want to poison something? I don't get it. Kill something to eat it. Don't just kill it for the sake of killing it.

I read (probably on FB) that elephants have a call that means, "There are bees here. Let's leave immediately." Someone replied with, "I wish we had a call like that." The response was, "We do. It's, 'There are bees here. Let's leave immediately.'" :D

I also have a warning sound for humans

Human = gun = poacher = chinese traditional aphrodisiac hunter

As they should. :-/

Do they have a specific warning call that means "Human lying down, let's check if it's dead."?

William Wonka's Fizzy Lifting Drinks!

"What's that up there?" "I don't know, hand me those beans."

If it works it works!