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Did you know that hippos attract mates by peeing, elephants only sleep two hours a night, and male bees are locked out of the hive during winter?
I’m a writer and illustrator living in the Netherlands, and I draw sad animal facts. I’ve spent the last three years researching and illustrating sad facts about adorable animals and sharing them online.
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Dat.One_guy 7 years ago
I mean this one isn't that sad.. They plant the nuts they grow into, lack of a better word, but tree and the squirrels get even more nuts. Win win
Kristi Zoebelein 7 years ago
When you see several trees that are growing on top of each other (say three trees grown from the same spot that have grown into each other), that's very often the result of squirrels that never retrieved nuts they buried.
Becky Kidus 7 years ago
This is actually not true. They just hide more nuts than they need for the winter. Also, they might fall prey to some predator - and in that case they will never be able to eat those nuts. They do remember where they hid their nuts.
Steve Bowman 7 years ago
They say that about the German squirrel (red squirrel?) too, but in a documentary I saw that the squirrels know very well where they hid the nuts. It was the magpies and jays that watched them hide a nut and then retrieving that nut when the squirrel left. So later the squirrel looked for its nuts and they are gone. Then the squirrel is running around in confusion and people thought that that is forgetfulness. But the poor squirrel is just looking for his nuts.
Pattie Kelly 7 years ago
"It isn't my fault I forget were I hid my "nuts" they are too small and hidden where I can't see them".
Donna Hagen 7 years ago
One year, I gave a friend's mom a squirrel feeder for Christmas, along with a 50 lb. bag of ear corn for it. The next summer (they lived in a nice neighborhood), people couldn't figure out why there were stalks of CORN shooting up in their lawns! It's not only nuts that squirrels bury and forget about. . . .
weatherwitch 7 years ago
The grey squirrel gets a terrible press but humans caused all of it that enabled them to 'take over'. I love my grey squirrels, great entertainment for me 😃
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Aunt Messy 7 years ago
Not true. Cats have definite preferences for various people, and I know for a fact that one of ours likes men because of their deeper voices. Plus, mine come running when I talk to them.
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LittleGrayMouse 7 years ago
But they have learned what tones we can hear, so when they trust us and want to communicate with us, they actually use those tones! Elephants are incredibly smart animals (and very very interesting)
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KamiSlayer 7 years ago
Just think about it: these male birds can puke on a female and the female will STILL mate with them. Meanwhile, you're single and scrolling through sad animal facts on bored panda.
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Suzi Gauthier 7 years ago
Well, have you seen their crowded living quarters? I'd want some alone time too!
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Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
Really interesting facts and most I dodn;t know about! Also love the comments animals make :D
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
Really interesting facts and most I dodn;t know about! Also love the comments animals make :D
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