50 Cool And Interesting Facts People Learned About Animals

As charming as this is, it simply isn't true. Elephants relationships with humans are far more nuanced than this, and the girl who made the initial tweet claiming this is not a scientist, and has said herself that the claim was speculative.

its a theory, but debated in science, not a confirmed fact

Why is that cute thing cutting off my ivory tusks?

Fallacy, I'm afraid.

I wish the human race treated them better. Such a beautiful, majestic creature.

It's beautiful to see how his passing was honoured. Thank you Hachiko, now you can rest.

Thanks, BP, for making me ugly cry AGAIN.

I never see the movie again. I have no more tears.

I watched the movie, and cried basically the entire time

now that is the definition of a good boy

Who would not adopt a baby squirrel?

Another reason for me to like squirrels.

Nature knows best. ☺️

Pigs, too. They are, as cows, horses and other farm animals, very smart. All of them are social animals who put a lot of love and work in raising and educating their offspring if you let them. They also play pranks with their owners (my horses do regularly). There are farmers who leave the calfs with their mothers. It saves them work, time and money and results in healthier, well socialized herds and better quality meat. I do like my steak, but the animal that died for it should have been treated well, including slaughter day. Luckily the farmer I get my meat from does it locally, one village over, and the meat is delicious.

It is wild to me that we live in a world where such studies exist and yet we continue to butcher these creatures simply because we find them tasty

They also always have one cow that the herd hates and and constantly bully. I love cows but they are mean too lol

Imagine how they feel when their newborn calves are taken away.

Yet the photo doesn't show them holding hands.

Sea otters are simultaneously the cutest and most awful animals. Do not google what they have been known to do to dogs....

Could they be more precious?! I think not. 🥰 🥰 🥰

I once watched a flock of Ravens work together in Yellowstone NP to pull the bed cover off a pickup truck off, push out a cooler, flip it on its side to pop the top off and then raided it for chips, hotdogs and other food items. They gorged themselves then dropped their trash in and around the truck. Several put ripped up chip bags back in the cooler.

Yes, ours discovered car alarm as their song and teach it to their kids, since years

Lenore, Lenore...

Corvids: ravens, crows, magpies and others

You"re sure it was a raven.

Yesterday I tossed some popcorn out on my lawn and a bunch- oh wait, a murder -!! of crows were eating it. My cats were sitting in their cat tree, totally delighted, just watching the crows eat popcorn

When I was a commuter by train, I bought something in a bakery every now and then, left some, and wrapped it into the paper bag and threw this to the crows hanging around. Initially, they had three methods to open: Pecking until it was torn open, unfolding it involving their feet and beak, or ripping it open after defolding it far enough to only have one layer to tear. After a few weeks of doing this every 2...3 days, they allowed me to come closer - not within reach yet, but closer than before - and had given up on the stupid-pecking method, but used the other two, sometimes cooperating. I even think that one of them, who started shouting at me towards snack's end, demanded to be left a larger fraction of my food. But the last one, I'm not so sure about, I like the thought, but it wasn't consistant enough to regard it as proven.

Thank you for realizing that. Yes, they do it for fun. My crow would pull my macaws' tail feathers and I swear, you could see him laugh at their reactions. He also would peck at people's toes and chase them if they ran away.

"Quoth the raven, 'Eat my shorts!'" indeed!

I want this to be true because crows just seem like inherent a**holes to me.