Something to brighten your day
The head zookeeper at the zoo in Cologne (Germany) had an idea. He arranged for a pianist to come to the zoo and play for the animals. The pianist composed a musical piece specifically for the zoo animals.
The attached video shows what happened when the animals heard the piano music.
Wacky & Weird Facts: Animals Part 35
Skunks are immune to snake venom.
The first ever occurrence of identical bird twins was discovered in the emu.
Bears are the only mammals that don’t pee or poo during the winter hibernation months, and doctors have actually studied how the bears recycle their urine to help human patients with kidney patients.
Prairie dogs have a complex means of communication. It’s so advanced that not only do they have different calls depending on the type of predator, but they also make sentences that describe the predator.
Most predators have eyes facing forward, while most prey have eyes on the sides of their heads.
Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom
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Wacky & Weird Facts: Animals Part 34
A group of hippos is called a crash.
Bearded vultures wear makeup. They like to alter their appearance by rubbing their necks and heads in iron-rich soil to change their white feathers to a bright reddish-orange. The older and more socially dominant birds wear the most makeup to show off and appear more intimidating.
Conservationists in South Africa are infusing a special red dye into the horns of live rhinos. The mixture renders the horns completely useless to poachers that are trying to sell it commercially and also has a toxin for human consumption.
“Black Panthers” are not a real species. They are jaguars and leopards who have “melanism,” which causes them to have black skin. It’s actually the opposite of having albinism.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is one the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
Tomorrow’s picture: open space
