2. There are dolphins that live in the Amazon River that are the color pink.
3. There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs.
4. Elvis Presley had a twin brother named Jesse Garon Presley who died at birth.
5. Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it.
6. Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.
7. Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
8. The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
9. The first cell phone was invented in 1924.
10. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
11. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius.
12. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17.
13. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are.
14. Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.
15. Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla.
16. Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits.
17. The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.
18. None of the Beatles knew how to read music.
19. Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
20. 'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
Zoos don’t want to separate males from females. So hormonal birth control is a great option, and we know that it works since it’s been given for many years. But researchers like to understand how animals may be acting differently and understand how the behavior we’re seeing might be different from the natural world.
The researchers used the null hypothesis that birth control would not change the timing of the gorillas’ behavior. But when the results came in, a significant departure from natural behavior was revealed. Instead of elevated sexual behavior in the second week of the cycle, the peak was seen in the first week, during the placebo phase of the pill schedule, when the animals are menstruating. To explain this deviation from natural behavior, the authors speculate that the placebo pills may allow the natural hormonal system to briefly rebound, producing a brief burst of estrogen that can promote estrous behavior during the “off week.” But with only four subjects – and no untreated gorillas to serve as a control – Sarfaty said that it was tough to draw any conclusion or alarm from the study without further research.
The Amazon River dolphin averages about 6.5 feet in length. They come in all shades of pink, from a dull gray-pink, to rosy colored pink, to a bright pink like that of the flamingo. This color variation is due to the clarity of the water in which the dolphin lives; the darker the water, the pinker the dolphin will be. The sun's rays cause the dolphins to lose their pink pigmentation. Murky water helps to protect the dolphin's bright hue. These animals are also known to flush to a bright pink when excited. There are several anatomical differences between the Amazon River dolphin and other types of dolphins. For one, Amazon River dolphins are able to turn their necks from side to side while most species of dolphin cannot. This trait coupled with their ability to paddle forward with one flipper while paddling backward with the other helps them maneuver when the river floods. These dolphins will actually swim up over the flooded land and their flexibility helps them to navigate around trees. Additional characteristics that set these dolphins apart from other species are molar-like teeth that allow them to chew their prey and bristle-like hairs at the ends of their snouts that help them search for food on the muddy river bottoms.
