Why are dogs trained to detect drugs and bombs?
Dogs are not only protective and loyal to humans, but are also trained for special purposes.
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Dogs are not only protective and loyal to humans, but are also trained for special purposes.
A parrot has suddenly become famous on social networks for possessing a skillful tongue that can turn a bolt from a screw, making viewers extremely impressed.
To save money on cleaning costs, a city in Sweden is planning to use crows to pick up cigarette butts discarded on streets and squares.
Each school of dolphins has small groups that function as babysitters, including mothers and baby fish. Female dolphins even care for the offspring of other mothers.
Japanese macaques, which were once famous for taking hot baths in their snowy habitats, are now making headlines once again by riding sika deer.
A Canadian study found that therapy dogs can help people reduce physical pain, effects appearing after just 10 minutes of exposure.
Mercy dogs, also known as ambulance dogs, were first used by the German army, with the purpose of finding wounded soldiers and comforting the dying on the battlefield.
In 2016, the defection of an octopus in an aquarium in New York made the scientists extremely surprised.
The giant octopus that lives in the Pacific Ocean is the largest octopus and
Crows are one of the smartest species in the world. So is the mouse, and the American cat bear (the raccoon itself) is the same.
Classified as the planet's most intelligent animal, crows are the only non-primate species that can create and use working tools.
The top 10 smartest animals in the world below will make you surprised. People often say
Elephants are extremely intelligent animals. They have the largest brain of all the animals that live on land and three times as many neurons as humans.
With great intelligence, many animals know how to use tools to get food, cook food or add spices to food.
African elephants are known as intelligent animals, best able to distinguish different languages.