These monkey fun facts may surprise you! What do you already know about monkeys? The Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys are the furriest and they live in the cold snowy mountains of China. The loudest monkeys are Howler monkeys, they are also the loudest land animal with howls so loud they are heard up to three miles …
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Oh no! You’re out swimming on a Long Island beach when a leg cramp renders you helpless in the water. Luckily, help is on the way. In slow-motion, clad in a red swimsuit as suspenseful music plays in the background, a savior comes running to your aid. Did we say running? We meant flying, since …
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Zoos are great places to see exotic animals, and many of them do important work for helping vulnerable animal species. That said, they can get a bit old, with the same turtles, penguins, and whatnot. Seeing truly rare animals in zoos is a fascinating treat. The problem with that, though, is that finding the zoos …
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Life can be a strange and wonderful thing. It always keeps finding new, unexpected ways to surprise us. Recently, it made a male snake give miraculous virgin birth to more than a dozen babies. Well, at least everybody thought the snake was a male. Ronaldo, the birth-giving serpent, was identified as a male when “he” …
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Human history is filled with legendary animals. And by that, we don’t mean mythical creatures like dragons or unicorns. Some very real animals attain legendary status throughout their lives. It may be because they did something heroic, belonged to a famous person, or were simply in the worst possible at the wrong time. Here are …
Nature can be a cruel place. There’s only so much food, territory, and other resources to go around, so animals often fight tooth and nail for them. But what if a natural disaster cut the availability of resources even further? You’d probably expect the animals to get even more aggressive in their fight for survival. …
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Beauty contests are so shallow. It’s all about what you look like, with no consideration given to the contestant’s personality. Well, here’s one contest where inner beauty shines. That’s because there sure isn’t any to be found on the outside. For nearly five decades, the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest has crowned the most repulsively lovable …
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Some types of vehicle damage are easier to explain to the insurance company. Somebody backed into your car in the parking lot and owned up to it? Easy. A bear broke into your car and ate the seats? Yeah, good luck with that. That’s what Canadian Kayla Seward had to try and explain to the …
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Limburg an der Lahn is a picturesque city in the state of Hesse in western Germany. But Limburg has a problem. A problem in the shape of a pigeon. Well, hundreds of pigeons, to be accurate. The birds have become such a nuisance that the locals are reaching the end of their rope. The pigeons …
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We like to think of wolves as these majestic apex predators that rule the natural world. Yet, the cold hard fact is that the life of a wolf is a hard one. Most wolf pups perish before reaching adulthood. Even when a wolf gets to grow up, it’ll be incredibly lucky if it sees its …
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