FILE 001Animals🦝Germany and JapanRaccoons (Procyon lotor) are native to North America but became invasive after 20th-century introductions to Germany and Japan.SrcPLOS ONE / BMC EcologyPass the claimOpen file
FILE 002Animals🐘Sharealarm rumbles for bees versus humansAfrican elephants produce distinct alarm rumbles for bees versus humans — listeners flee both, but head-shaking appears mainly after bee alarms.SrcPLOS ONE (Soltis et al., 2014)
FILE 003Animals🦈Sharegreater lateral search areaHammerhead sharks' wide cephalofoil spreads electroreceptors across a greater lateral search area, raising the odds of detecting buried prey.SrcJournal of Experimental Biology (Kajiura & Holland, 2002)
FILE 004Animals🐘Shareelephant skulls and ivoryAfrican elephants show intense interest in the remains of their own kind — touching elephant skulls and ivory far more than other objects.SrcBiology Letters (McComb et al., 2006)
FILE 005Animals🦅Share3.5 metersThe wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird — almost 3.5 meters (~11.5 feet).SrcBirdLife Australia
FILE 006Animals🦜Sharehook toolA New Caledonian crow named Betty bent straight wire into a hook tool to retrieve food — spontaneous tool manufacture in a bird.SrcScience (Weir, Chappell & Kacelnik, 2002)
FILE 007Animals🦝Share180 degreesRaccoons can rotate their hind feet 180 degrees, letting them climb down trees headfirst like squirrels.SrcWashington Department of Fish & Wildlife
FILE 008Animals🐺Share500 adult and subadultFewer than 500 adult and subadult Ethiopian wolves remain in isolated highland populations — Africa’s most endangered canid.SrcIUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group
FILE 009Animals🐙Sharesliding down a drainpipe into the seaInky, an octopus at New Zealand's National Aquarium, escaped by squeezing through a gap, crossing the floor, and sliding down a drainpipe into the sea.SrcBBC News / National Aquarium of New Zealand
FILE 010Animals🐙Shareportable sheltersVeined octopuses carry coconut-shell halves across the seafloor and later assemble them as portable shelters — tool use previously undocumented in invertebrates.SrcCurrent Biology (Finn, Tregenza & Norman, 2009)
FILE 011Animals🦎Shareshoot blood from its eyesThe horned lizard can shoot blood from its eyes up to 5 feet as a defense mechanism. The blood tastes foul to predators.SrcNational Geographic
FILE 012Animals🦝Share"gaze"A group of raccoons is called a "gaze" or a "nursery." Mother raccoons are fiercely protective — they will fight animals many times their size to defend their cubs and have been known to <hl>chase away coyotes and dogs</hl>.SrcNational Geographic