Cats don't meow to each other

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Guess what? They don't! Cats meow mainly to communicate with people. The variation of their 'meowing' works like unique codes for their human. When they are kittens, they do meow to let their mother know they are cold or hungry but once they get older, they don't actually meow at each other. They yowl during the breeding season and you will recognize that the sound is very different from meowing. Now that you know, be sure to pay more attention to your cats and their calling for you! They meow to greet you, to get your attention, to ask for food, to ask to be let in or to be freed, etc. Excessive meowing could be a sign of distress or discomfort as well so be sure to not ignore your cats when they meow!

Rats, they tickle!

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They may be tiny but these nocturnal creatures got tickly big hearts! Research has been done to figure out how animals respond to tickling. It was discovered that rodents emit high-pitched chirps when tickled and these chirps are outside the range of human hearing.

Jaak Panksepp shows that rats emit high-pitched chirps when tickled (Footage: Washington State University)

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Knock yourself out and find some joy watching many ticklish rats video online!

Dogs smell time!

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And we thought they can only smell far. With air rising and falling through the day, the scent of a space change and it allows dogs to measure the duration of time! For example, your odour becomes weaker as time passes since you left home and the smell informs your dog how much time has elapsed since you left. They've got a magical nose that works as implicit memory too! Some researchers have suggested that dogs are using their advanced sense of smell to sniff out how long it has been since some event happened. They pick up scents our relatively simplistic human schnozzes simply cannot! Whilst we humans are visual creatures, the dogs' world are defined by scent such as: "Who’s or what's been here, and about when?" Dogs have 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses to get their smell image! The power of their nostril locates left and right, new and old, it sees more than 3,000 miles away! Let's just call them the Olympic sniffers shall we?

You can't beat a bird at a spicy food challenge

Why? Because they don't feel the heat like we do! All animals flavours differently and birds have their own unique taste receptors as well. For us humans, we feel the discomfort of the burn; and depending on an individual's tolerance level, some can get heartburn and many of us are not unfamiliar with running for the toilet after indulging in a hot delicious meal we couldn't resist! While we have to pay for it, even the world's hottest pepper is just like another snack for birds! We can't be 100% sure whether they sense the hot taste or not but they just do not seem to be affected by it at all! This could be due to the very few taste buds that they have. In fact, thanks to these birdies, pepper plants grow far and wide as birds distribute the seeds they don't digest. It's wonderful how nature works out on its own don't you think?

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Goats Meehh~ with Regional Accents. SAY WADD!!!

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You know how we often associate with 'our people' through dialects and slangs? Well, apparently goats got their way of recognising their herd-mates too. We didn't make this up! They've got a community bleat! Those that live together bleat at a similar pitch that is different from another herd of goats.  Their vocal sounds can be based on genetics and they also modify according to their social surroundings. Some researches looked into their heart-rate readings as they bleat and noticed it could also be an expression of their different emotional states. Heart-rate variability is low for goats under stressful conditions and higher for happy bleats! "Same but not the same meehh~, please tell it from our accent!" Animals are so much fun!

Now let's take a look at more of these superpowers that other animals possess!

A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant and their heart can be the size of an automobile! They are after all the largest mammal on earth, some longer than 100 feet and weigh more than 200 tons, but still, wow!

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Clownfish are born male and change their gender when they're ready to have babies and to become the alpha female. No surgery needed. However, the change is irreversible once it is done. That's how it's done for the circle of life in the Nemo world!

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Female dragonflies go to great lengths to avoid mating with males they don't like. They fake their own deaths! We just pass fake phone numbers! No comment except for, you go, girl! That's a pretty fly right you got going on there!

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Most snails have between 2000 to 15,000 thousand teeth! It is with these microscopic teeth (called radula) that snails and slugs cut up large pieces of food and enjoy their meals. They may be slow, but they are packing thousands of teeth between their jaws! How peculiar....never gonna look at that garden snail the same way again. 

And here comes the superpower we sure wish we have!

Dolphins can sleep with half of their brain while the other half stays awake. The left eye will be closed when the right half of the brain sleeps, and vice versa. The other brain remains awake to monitor the environment. How vigilant! It is called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep but we will just call it dolphin superpower!

So tell us! Which superpower of these animals do you wish you have? 

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