Trivia 10 Interesting Facts about Animals

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10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS​

• A cat can’t climb head first down a tree because every claw on a cat’s paw points the same way. To get down from a tree, a cat must back down.
• The Amur Leopard is a subspecies of leopard that has adapted to a cold and snowy environment. The wild population has increased nearly threefold to 69 individuals as of February 2015.
• Rats have shown signs of empathy by freeing other rats from cages without a reward. They’ve also freed other rats first when a second cage with chocolate chips was available.
• Cows don’t have four stomachs. They have one stomach with four compartments: the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum, with the rumen being the largest compartment.
• Not only do tigers have striped fur, their skin is also striped and no two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
• Baby elephants don’t know how to use their trunks to drink water. By nine months, mouth, trunk and foot coordination is perfected.
• It is against Swiss law to keep guinea pigs alone. A service even exists that provides a guinea pig companion to keep a lonely guinea pig company should its partner die.
• Goats, being domesticated from mountain animals, are very good at climbing; they can even climb trees.
• Unlike many other big cats, snow leopards are not aggressive towards humans. There has never been a verified snow leopard attack on a human being.
• Penguins seem to have no special fear of humans, and have approached groups of explorers without hesitation. This is probably because penguins have no land predators in Antarctica or the offshore islands they naturally inhabit.

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