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/r/Awwducational

5,162,799 Subscribers

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Bumblebees Use Electric Fields to Find Nectar

4 Comments
2023/03/17
18:29 UTC

323

The Archerfish (Toxotes jaculatrix) is a living watergun.

9 Comments
2023/03/17
16:34 UTC

1,628

Eastern Bluebirds occur across eastern North America and south as far as Nicaragua. Birds that live farther north and in the west of the range tend to lay more eggs than eastern and southern birds.

17 Comments
2023/03/17
16:03 UTC

1,445

Ducks like Millie have extreme mechano-sensitive neurons in their bills. The neurons they have actually display a much stronger response to a light touch than the corresponding neurons in most other birds and mammals would.

27 Comments
2023/03/17
13:02 UTC

95

Turtles can be separated into two suborders: Pleurodira ("side necks"), who tuck their heads to one side when withdrawing, and Cryptodira ("hidden necks"), who pull their heads in between their forelegs. Pictured is an Indian Flapshell Turtle, one of the latter.

6 Comments
2023/03/16
19:17 UTC

26,900

Only two dwarf giraffes have ever been documented. This is one of them. His name's Gimli.

347 Comments
2023/03/16
17:13 UTC

434

Blakiston’s fish owls love dense forests with hoary trees (full of nesting nooks) near lakes, rivers, springs, and shoals that don’t freeze over in winter. They love fish but they’ll eat small mammals and other birds, too, especially in winter.

3 Comments
2023/03/16
15:53 UTC

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What is a Dingo, exactly? For decades scientists have puzzled over the origin of Australia’s wild canines, and today the most widely accepted theory is that they are descended from early Asian dog breeds that marooned on the continent and adapted to become its new top land predator.

6 Comments
2023/03/15
18:07 UTC

26,409

The Buff-Tip Moth: the resting posture, shape, and color/pattern of the buff-tip moth allows it to mimic a broken birch twig; the moth's buff-colored head and the patches on its hindwings even resemble freshly-snapped wood

262 Comments
2023/03/15
17:41 UTC

126

Reindeer calves are able to stand few minutes after birth and can follow their mothers around, but they will stay hidden for the first week of their life

3 Comments
2023/03/14
19:00 UTC

44

Dolphins can be blonde! This "champagne" colored mom has a normal colored calf.

2 Comments
2023/03/14
18:21 UTC

10,766

The least weasel is the smallest member of the order Carnivora, an order of mammals which includes cats, dogs, bears, hyenas and seals. While it is usually brown with a white underside, in the northern parts of its range it changes its color to pure white in the winter.

118 Comments
2023/03/14
15:07 UTC

243

Ring-necked Pheasants sometimes cope with extreme cold by simply remaining dormant for days at a time.

15 Comments
2023/03/14
13:14 UTC

924

The plant Veratrum californicum, California false hellebore, has a chemical, Cyclopamine, that can induce cyclopia, being born with a single eye, in lambs whose mother eats it during pregnancy. Cyclopamine inhibits signaling in the sonic hedgehog pathway.

44 Comments
2023/03/13
23:14 UTC

370

Flocks of galahs often congregate and forage on the ground for food in open, grassy areas. Flocks of independent juvenile galahs will often disperse from their birth flock haphazardly. The galah feeds on seeds gathered on the ground, mainly feeding in the morning and late afternoon.

3 Comments
2023/03/13
11:57 UTC

2,326

This iridescent bug is the cuckoo wasp, belonging to the family Chrysididae. Its glittering appearance is imparted by the many tiny, deep pits on its body surface.This wasp exhibits similar kleptoparasitic behavior as the cuckoo bird, laying its eggs in the nests of other wasps & stealing their food

34 Comments
2023/03/13
10:44 UTC

10,558

The lowland paca is considered an ecosystem engineer due to the behavior of excavating multiple burrows on its territory, these burrows sometimes provide shelter for other species. It will also disperse seeds throughout its territory; several tree species depend on it for distribution.

61 Comments
2023/03/13
04:55 UTC

4,279

Some cuttlefish can count at least up to five! Research has tested the advanced cognitive skills of the Pharaoh cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis.

39 Comments
2023/03/12
17:20 UTC

481

The endangered cotton-top tamarin lives in a small area of northwestern Colombia that is currently threatened by deforestation. They have claw-like nails, which are critical to jumping from tree to tree in their forest habitat.

4 Comments
2023/03/11
21:09 UTC

3,716

Irrawaddy dolphins have a unique rounded head with no beak. They are also distinguished by their water-spitting behavior, which is believed to be a way of socializing and fishing.

32 Comments
2023/03/11
16:31 UTC

10,846

When the weather is hot, zebra finches in Australia sing to their eggs - and these "incubation calls" change the chicks' development.

85 Comments
2023/03/11
16:17 UTC

10,334

Dairy calves are social animals. Young calves, like Heathcliff, are motivated for full social contact, even when they have partial contact, adding to the body of research demonstrating the importance of social contact for calves.

215 Comments
2023/03/10
13:48 UTC

4,278

A newborn giraffe stands at about 1.8 meters (six feet) tall and grows up to 2.5 cm every day during the first week of its life.

21 Comments
2023/03/09
17:04 UTC

374

Some Lizards within the group Anguimorpha can breath through the process of gular pumping, this leaves the musculatur of the ribcage free to assist in running. Due to this abillity those are the only lizards able to basically running their prey to exaustion in a head on charge.

7 Comments
2023/03/09
15:57 UTC

3,855

Koalas are marsupials with the defining trait being the pouch. The pouch is backward facing to protect baby. While climbing, it opens backwards towards the hind legs and a sphincter muscle around its edges acts like a drawstring to hold baby in.

81 Comments
2023/03/09
12:29 UTC

6,622

The elephant hawk-moth is known to be able to see colors in close to complete darkness, even though they have compound eyes like most insects. They feed after dusk and are able to distinguish different colored flowers in the dark when they would look monochrome to other eyes.

35 Comments
2023/03/09
04:43 UTC

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Bumblebees can learn by example: Researchers created a test where bees could access sugar water if they pulled on a string. 60% of bumblebees that watched another bee pull the string figured out they could do it too.

19 Comments
2023/03/08
15:31 UTC

4,176

Monitors of the indicus complex are capeable of drinking saltwater. This makes them effective island hoppers since they dont have to worry about dehydration while at sea. In some cases the same species is found on islands, 1000s of kilometers apart.

31 Comments
2023/03/08
07:40 UTC

192

One of the largest squid species, the 7 ft Dana octopus squid is a very rare sight. Their tennis ball-sized "headlights" are their most distinctive feature, large photophore organs at the end of two of their arms. Scientists think they use these to stun prey and navigate in the inky depths.

7 Comments
2023/03/07
19:49 UTC

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