1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
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2. Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.
Image credits: Irene Mei3. When playing with female puppies, male puppies will often let them win, even if they have a physical advantage.
Image credits: Brian Whipple4. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Image credits: TaraDSturm5. Cows have best friends.
Image credits: mare6. Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.
Image credits: telegraph.co.uk7. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program. It seems to be a pretty wonderful thing for both the inmates and the cats.
Princess Natalie relaxes with Joseph Contreras, one of her caretakers. (Image credits: catster.com)8. Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.
Image credits: o2worldnews.com9. Norway knighted a penguin.
Image credits: thatpanic.com10. In China, killing a Panda is punishable by death.
Image credits: Cute Baby Animals11. Rats laugh when tickled.
12. Spiders can’t fly.
13. Sweden has a rabbit show-jumping competition called Kaninhoppning.
Image credits: thowra14. Pigs’ orgasms last for 30 minutes.
Image credits: Source Media15. Dolphins have names for each other.
Image credits: Vitaliy Sokol16. Puffins mate for life. They make their homes on cliff sides and set aside room for their toilet.
Image credits: fourteenfoottiger17. A study measuring the effects of music found that cows produce more milk when listening to soothing music. They produce the most when listening to R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts.”
Image credits: cbc.ca18. Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.
Image credits: wallpaper4me.com19. Japanese Macaques make snowballs for fun.
Image credits: Lee Fisher20. The closest relatives to the elephant shrew are actually elephants, not shrews.
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21. A cat version of the corgi exits: the munchkin cat.
Image credits: Jimmy Leo22. There is a program that makes prison inmates responsible for training and raising seeing-eye dogs. Many reported that they felt like they were making amends for their past actions by working with the puppies.
Image credits: absencesix23. Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails.
Image credits: Georgina Gomez24. Before chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.
Image credits: caryn7425. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.
Image credits: Elke Vogelsang26. Turritopsis nutricula Immortal jellyfish is the only species known to live forever.
Image credits: Takashi Murai27. Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent they can play pranks on each other.
Image credits: Lauri Tammik28. Butterflies taste with their feet.
Image credits: Chris Spracklen29. There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.
Image credits: Jean-Claude Sch.30. Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
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