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A couple of facts :D

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults.

• Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations.

• Seals can mimic humans, you've heard of Crows and Parrots mimicing human speech but Seals can to, one Harbor seal named Hoover was able to mimic his owners voice and could say stuff like "Get over here!"

• Baluga Whales can also mimic voices, whilst on the topic of mimicry a Baluga often toyed with humans by saying "Out!" Which was similar to what their leader would say for them to get out of the water.

• Tigers can paralyze you, a tiger can roar at such a low frequency that it'll pass through and vibrate your bones which could temporarily paralyze you.

• Black bears are strong, as bears they are obviously strong but costal black bears often take this a step further and flip 300pound boulders with ease to search for food.

• Gators can have fun, alligators aren't stupid, they can have fun as they along with other crocodilians will give each other piggy back rides, one alligator was seen repeatingly throwing a foot ball that landed in his pond, and another was playing with river otters.

• Fixens scream, a surprising amount of people don't know that female foxes scream, during February to December female foxes or Vixens will make this short, high pitched, raspy call that almost sounds like they done dropped something on their toes.

• Snow leopards aren't actually leopards, they are actually more closely related to tigers than actual leopards hence why people usually say lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, AND snow leopards when identifying the panthera genus.

• How canines hunt, canines such as wolves, coyotes, and even dogs are usually pack animals, as pack animals they rely on numbers to bring prey down, their unusually great endurance helps as they can continue running for miles tiring and separating prey from each other, do to their endurance and numbers they have time on their hands and that'll be their preys problem, instead of going the neck they bite their preys stomach and legs basically bleeding them out and oftentimes they won't bother with the finishing kill.

• How big cats hunt, big cats such as tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards and cougars though strong and fast have poor stamina, as ambush predators they'll want a quick kill as to minimize injury, so they'll use their powerful arms to hold prey down and bite them in the neck, quick and easy compared to the canines.

• How bears hunt, bears much like wild canines have great endurance despite their chunk physique and size, when they catch their prey they'll bite the back to paralyze their prey then use those claws to open up the likely still alive and struggling prey to eat.

• Odd family trees, the Hippopotamus is closely related to whales, dolphins and porpoises, the elephant is closely related to manatees, dougongs (reasonable), and the little rock hyrax, yes a little mountain loving hamster is related to the thickest bitch in the land, also horses are closely related to rhinos and tapirs.

• Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses.

Just some facts I think are interesting to share with :).

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Thank you so much. That was a really interesting read.

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You welcome 😁

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White-fronted Capuchin are big yawners, while giraffes can't!

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I never knew giraffes can't yawn👀

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