These happy animal facts will have you smiling from ear to ear.
Amazingly, animals share more human traits than we may realize.
From having accents, to mating for life, to being so smart as to play practical jokes on one another!
And can you guess which animal breathes through their butt??
LifeDaily’s 28 Happy Animal Facts Guaranteed To Make You Smile:
1. Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.
2. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
3. Cows have best friends.
4. Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.
5. Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.
6. When playing with female puppies, male puppies will often let them win, even if they have a physical advantage.
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7. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
8. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program. It seems to be beneficial to both.
9. Pigs’ orgasms last for 15-20 minutes.
10. Butterflies taste with their feet.
11. Sweden has a rabbit show-jumping competition called Kaninoppning.
12. In China, killing a Panda is punishable by death.
13. Rats laugh when being tickled.
14. Spiders can’t fly.
15. Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
16. Dolphins have names for each other.
17. Puffins mate for life. They make their homes on cliff sides.
18. Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.
19. Japanese Macaques make snowballs for fun.
20. Norway knighted a penguin.
21. Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails.
22. There is a program that makes prison inmates responsible for training and raising seeing-eye dogs. Many reports they felt like they were making amends for their past actions by working with the puppies.
23. Before chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.
24. A study measuring the effects of music found that cows produce more milk when listening to soothing music. They product the most when listening to R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts.”
25. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.
26. Turritopsis nutricula is an immortal jellyfish, and the only species known to live forever.
27. Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent they can play pranks on each other.
28. There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.
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