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Elephants enter a volcanic cave in search of salt to eat
Large herbivores such as elephants often look for natural mineral deposits to replenish their sodium intake because minerals from plants and water are not sufficiently s…
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Animal world
Why do most defecation animals take about 12 seconds?
Dogs, humans and elephants take the same amount of time to defecate, although they vary in size.
Animal world
Why do we never see an elephant's body in the forest?
We often see elephants walking in large swarms in the forest but never saw the elephants' bodies when they died? Why so?
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Why did the elephant's nose evolve so long?
We are always curious about why elephants possess such a big and long nose.
Oceanography
Expedition boats capture rare fish 'walking' with their fins
The pompano is immobile on a rock to catch its prey and has a specially modified fin that looks like an elephant's foot, allowing it to walk on the bottom of the sea.
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Prehistoric crocodile weighs 3 tons and is as long as a bus
Massive weight is what drives the prehistoric caiman crocodile to grow more vertebrae on the sacrum to support the weight.
Biology
Kenya has a headache trying to deal with 'devil cactus'
The ability to take root from every part and layer of thorns makes Opuntia cacti a threat to people, cattle and wildlife.
Animal world
The object fell to Earth, destroying saber-tooth tigers 13,000 years ago
The scientists discovered evidence that 13,000 years ago, an object fell to Earth and destroyed ice age mammals such as mammoths and saber-tooth tigers.
Animal world
Fearing statues of giraffes, elephants giving up intent on destroying plantations
Strange to giraffes, tall creatures from Africa, the elephant herd might avoid going to farmers' plantations to feed.
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The most expensive feces in the world, 80kg worth $ 3 million
If you think feces are filthy and worthless, then you must be mistakenly big, in fact there are
Oceanography
How do you weigh a 190 ton whale swimming at sea?
500 years ago, Luong Luong The Vinh solved the elephant weight puzzle of the Minh porcelain by dragging an elephant into a boat and measuring the water line. Now, to sol…
Archeology
The truth is that the ancestors of ancient elephants and rhinos appear to be more 'monstrous' than they are today!
The ancestors of modern elephants are curly-haired mammoths, but if you look further into prehistoric times, their ancestors are extremely strange-looking animals and se…
Biology
The truth about grasshoppers is that few people know it
Grasshopper is an insect, located in the subdivision containing leaf-eating insects, belonging to straight wings, round head, fat body, good jumping and especially harmi…
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'Breaking in' 4 'unbelievable' farms in the world
From the most expensive elephant dung coffee farm in the world, rare and precious deer farm, seaweed farm comes to a difficult-to-understand mosquito farm, and 'break in…
Animal world
15 interesting facts about animals are not included in textbooks
The animal world always contains surprises that you have never heard in school. The following 15 photos will show you this.