Professor Simpoo's Gyan of the Month
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Male Sand grouses’ special feathers hold water, allowing them to use their chests as sponges at waterholes, soaking up precious water and delivering it to their children at the nest. |
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A typical cat spends more than 10,000 hours of his or her life purring. |
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A bond between a chicken and her chick begins a day before the egg hatches. The baby will make peeping noises from inside the shell, and the mother will respond in soothing tones. |
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Octopuses collect bottle caps, attractive stones and other finds from the ocean floor and decorate their dens with them, repositioning an object if it doesn’t seem to suit the design. |
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Mother cows have crashed fences and travelled for miles to reunite with calves sold to other farms. |
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Pigs like good sleeping weather: When given the chance, they adjust the thermostat to keep their environment at 80 degrees during the day and at 60 degrees at night. |
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Every sheep has a different face, and flockmates can recognize one another – even from photographs and even if they’ve been separated for years. |
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Alaskan buffalo have been observed charging down hills and sliding across icy ponds, bellowing with delight, and then climbing back up the hill to do it again. |
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The leader of a flock of sheep is usually the oldest and wisest sheep, not the biggest or strongest. |
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When truly content, rabbits will softly grind their molars in a way that sounds like a cat’s purring. |
