Some curiosities of the animal kingdom

Ants are curious insects. They wage wars, they can capture slaves, they always live in community and organize in an amazing way to get their food and build their homes. Without a doubt, they are unstoppable. All this activity may be explained because they are beings unable to sleep for a single second.

According to several relatively recent scientific discoveries , elephants are capable of producing infrasonic noises to communicate with others of their species. These sounds are imperceptible to the human ear. Something similar happens with wolves. The leader of a pack can summon other wolves that are located more than 20 kilometers away and make himself heard.

Also called hippocampi, this species has the peculiarity that it is the males who bring the young to the world. It is the female who deposits the eggs in a bag inside the male, thus, he generates a kind of placenta and then feeds his children.

It is the animal that has the highest sexual activity in the world, it never gets tired. He can copulate about a hundred times a day, and sometimes he does so with the same female.

It is an avicula species, the bustard, which purposely consumes a compound so toxic that many animals would die instantly if they ingested a small amount . Although it is not poisonous to bustards, they use it to eliminate their parasites and to look stronger in front of females, making them more attractive to them.

This animal, although it gives us such beneficial thingslike honey and wax, it actually kills more people annually than sharks or lions. However, they are insects with great curiosities. For example, it is a species that lives in society and is impeccably organized, like the aforementioned ants. Bee societies are hierarchically ordered and each one fulfills its mission, depending on its age. The longer the bee is, the more responsibility it will have within its hive. For this reason, the youngest clean the cells of the hive, when they exceed two weeks they transport the food, with 5 days more they become the “security agents” of the hives, until they reach the oldest, who are the ones who pollinate. plants, among other missions A queen bee can live up to five years Communities They are very large, they can have up to 80,000 members.

These insects produce a lot of honey, but must be in contact with millions of flowers, just to make a small amount.

Although it is the marmot who takes the fame, if we listen to the saying, the koalas, that animal from Australia so exotic, can sleep about 22 hours a day. Also some lions, male, sleep more or less the same. Nothing to do with the tireless ants.

We are struck by the fact that an animal of such a miniscule size can hold up to 41 teeth in its mouth, although they are not the same as the mouthparts that humans have, it would rather be correct to call them “denticles”. These denticles are used by the mosquito to make a hole in the skin and then proceed to suck the blood. Every time you are the victim of a bite from this insect, remember that it is only the females that bite, although many times they do it to feed their young. The males are content to feed on the nectar of the plants.

This well-known animal is color blind: it cannot differentiate colors like we do. In reality, there are many animals that see different tones than what humans see. There is a kind of hedgehog that you only see in yellow.

There is a species of snail that can sleep up to three years, and then wake up and go on with its life. This is another example of “lazy” animals by nature . In general, we will find more “active” and “awake” snails in humid areas, because these hermaphroditic beings need humidity to live. Instead, in warm areas, they will spend more time inside their shell.

And, for curious animals , there are crocodiles. It is an animal with very tough skin, which can live for more than a century and survive by eating only once a year. Although they are animals that breathe, they can be submerged in water for at least two hours. In addition, we owe them the expression “having crocodile tears”, which we use when we want to say that someone cries a lot, but without feeling. This is because this reptile continuously expels tears for a purely organic reason: they need to moisten their eyes. We hope you have found all these curiosities interesting and do not hesitate to share with us many others that you may know.

If you want to discover much more about this kingdom, to which human beings belong, we recommend this other article about the Animalia Kingdom: what it is, characteristics, classification and examples .