In fact, the earth's crust itself is a natural source of minerals, many soil and rocks contain a certain amount of salt, careful observation of cattle and sheep should know, cattle and sheep in the grass, but also often "eat soil" or lick the stone, they do so, in fact, the purpose is to obtain the salt
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Biology
On The Road To Evolution, The Acacia Tree And The Giraffe Have Been Fighting Each Other For Millions Of Years
The length of the giraffe's tongue can reach more than 40 cm, usually, they only need to use their flexible tongue to avoid the hard thorns of the acacia tree, and then gently roll, you can eat the leaves
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Biology
In 1931, a Scientist Accidentally Turned His 10-Month-Old Son Into An Orangutan By Keeping Him With Him
Kellogg adopted a 7-month-old female chimpanzee from a charity and named her Goya. Donald and Goya live together every day living, eating and moving around. The surrounding neighbors have since been amazed to find the child next door in and out with the orangutan!
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Biology
Giant Frogs - Special Breeding Behavior Creates The World's Largest Frog, But Very Small Tadpoles
The world's largest frogs are carnivores, but when these giant frogs were tadpoles, they were super picky eaters and only ate a water plant that was a specialty of local waters
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Biology
The Eucalyptus Tree, The Master Of Fire, Is The Perfect Example Of How a Wildfire Can Never End, And How The Breeze Grows Again
In the history of human development, "Learning to use fire" Was undoubtedly a very important point, as through the manipulation of fire, human beings were able to process various ingredients in nature into easily digestible and absorbable cooked food, to exert a powerful deterrent on other animals, to dispel darkness and cold, to harvest light and warmth, and thus step by step, a glorious civilisation has been created.
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The Titan Python is actually not a snake under the family Pythonidae, but a snake under the family Anaconidae, which belongs to the genus Titan Python. Titan pythons lived about 60-58 million years ago.
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Any animal is divided into two modes of memory: short-term memory and long-term memory, where short-term memory is something that is stored in the animal's brain for only a few seconds, usually such things are arbitrary events for the animal.
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Biology
Drilling 480 metres beneath antarctic ice, the discovery of swarms of marine life changes the perception of life
Titan, a moon of Saturn, although it does not have a huge subglacial liquid water ocean like Europa, but this one planet also has a large number of lakes and oceans on its surface, which are not liquid water but liquid methane. Its atmosphere is also filled with gases like nitrogen and methane
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It happens to be the season when mosquitoes and flies go wild, but it is true that there are not as many flies as there are mosquitoes today. This has a lot to do with our improved sanitation today, after all, flies need to lay their eggs on manure pits and rotting food, while many rural toilets have now been converted to squatting, and the shorter disposal cycle for waste has greatly reduced their hatching.
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Birds are one of the most common animals we see, especially birds like sparrows, turtledoves, pheasants and magpies, which are often seen in flocks. However, one thing that is strange is that with so many birds, we rarely get to see bird nests, why is that?