• AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Kangaroos lick the inside of their elbows to stay cool.

    Otters sometimes hold hands while they sleep to keep from floating away from each other.

    Some of the nutrition that certain trees receive comes from half-eaten salmon carcasses left on the ground by bears. Salmon DNA traces have been found in cells at the tops of these trees.

    Planarians (flatworms) can be "trained" to contract in response to a flash of light and an electrical current. If cut in half, both halves regenerate into complete animals, but only the "head" remembers the training.

    Dinosaurs appear in the fossil record before flowers.

    Pugs, even healthy ones, have breathing problems. This is not due to deformity of the head and nasal passages from selective breeding. It is actually because God does not want them to live.

    • MtF_DOOM [she/her,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Planarians (flatworms) can be “trained” to contract in response to a flash of light and an electrical current. If cut in half, both halves regenerate into complete animals, but only the “head” remembers the training

      oooh that’s so cool

      :meow-floppy:

      • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Planarians are pretty hype. They don't have a true "brain," just a "ganglia," which is a clump of nerves located at one end of their body, along with a primitive pair of light-sensitive "eyes." If you flash a light on them, and then pass a slight current through the water, they contract their bodies in response. After repeating this about 150 times, they begin to contract in response to just the flash of light.