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Your Animal Questions Answered!

Ever wondered why dolphins jump out of the water, why cats knead or why bats sleep upside down? Well look no further as we have tackled some of the most common and slightly obscure questions about your favourite animal species to give you the answers you have been looking for! Why do giraffes have black tongues? A giraffes tongue (which is up to 21 inches in length) is thought to be black in colour to protect it from sunburn. Giraffes spend a large part of their day feeding in the hot African sun and it is thought that without the dark colouration, their tongues would be easily burnt! Why do fish have scales? The scales of fish are bony in structure and overlap one another to cover the whole body. These scales provide much needed protection for their soft bodies whilst also allowing them to move freely through the water! Amazingly, the rings on the scales of fish also actually indicate their age! Why do monkeys groom each other? At first glance you would

This Newly-Discovered Wasp Has A Horrifying Stinger — But What It Uses It For Is Even Worse


This Newly-Discovered Wasp Has A Horrifying Stinger — But What It Uses It For Is Even Worse
Meet Clistopyga crassicaudata, an Amazonian wasp that's only 9.8 millimeters long, yet armed with a hellacious-looking stinger that's about half its body length, used to paralyze unsuspecting prey and deposit eggs that make the chest-bursting scenes from the Alien movies look like child's play.

July 12, 2018 at 05:24AM
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