r/Awwducational • u/Xavion-15 • Mar 16 '23
Article Only two dwarf giraffes have ever been documented. This is one of them. His name's Gimli.
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r/Awwducational • u/Str024 • May 04 '22
Article Although it takes newborn elephants only a few hours to master standing and walking, they need 1 year to figure out how to use their trunks to drink water. In the meantime they will flop around as they try different techniques to control it.
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r/Awwducational • u/OIOIOIOIOIOIOIO • Feb 04 '19
Article Any love for baby coral? These are being transplanted en masse via a sea-robot to repair the Great Barrier Reef. They grow slow, 0.5-1 inch per year on average. It can take 10,000 years to grow into a reef.
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r/Awwducational • u/dadsandmice • Mar 15 '22
Article Bilbies from outback Queensland are flying across Australia to meet their ideal partners, in a bid to save the endangered species.
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r/Awwducational • u/TheUtopianCat • Jun 11 '24
Article Elephants may have names for each other that humans don't know, study finds
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r/Awwducational • u/goodtools • Jun 08 '21
Article An Elephant Recognizes The Vet Who Saved Him When He Was About To Die 12 Years Ago.The researchers concluded that elephants can recognize and track as many as 30 of their companions.
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r/Awwducational • u/Xavion-15 • Feb 19 '23
Article “Elizabeth Ann is the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species. She was created from the frozen cells of “Willa,” a black-footed ferret that lived more than 30 years ago.“
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r/Awwducational • u/ExoticShock • Sep 20 '24
Article A White Buffalo Calf is considered the most sacred living thing by many American Indian communities such as The Sioux, Cherokee, Navajo, Lakota, & Dakota People. The calf is a sign to begin life's sacred loop and is connected to the story of Ptesan Wi, AKA The White Buffalo Calf Woman.
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r/Awwducational • u/SingaporeCrabby • Feb 18 '22
Article When small fish are threatened by larger fish in the ocean, they sometimes have unique ways to evade them. The Versuriga anadyomene is a species of jellyfish known to serve as a "floating safe house" for small fish. As yellowtail fish cower inside this one, trumpet fish try but fail to catch them.
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r/Awwducational • u/woodstockfarm • Feb 02 '23
Article Sheep, like Sonny, can be trained to recognize human faces from photographic portraits and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training, according to new research from scientists at the University of Cambridge.
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r/Awwducational • u/SixteenSeveredHands • May 21 '23
Article Lamarckdromia Crabs: these fluffy crabs make their own protective "hats" out of living sea sponges; after selecting a suitable sponge, the crab trims it down to the right size, drapes the tailored sponge across its carapace, and carries it around
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r/Awwducational • u/beej23 • Jan 25 '22
Article The axolotl is among the most widespread amphibians on Earth — commonly found in medical labs, pet stores, and even as characters in Minecraft. They number an estimated 1 million in captivity. Yet, paradoxically, they’re almost extinct in the wild and classified as critically endangered.
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r/Awwducational • u/rancidquail • Oct 04 '19
Article Bats Have Language They Use To Talk To Each Other. They are one of the few species besides humans for individuals to communicate one on one. Most species just make sound for the group as whole, while bats often have discussions with individuals.
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r/Awwducational • u/abzurdleezane • Jan 24 '19
Article A bee's buzz can be heard by a primrose flower who sweetens its nectar by 20% in response. Silence or high or mid range frequency sounds do not trigger this effect. No ears but flowers can still 'hear.' Science Alert
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r/Awwducational • u/KimCureAll • Dec 22 '21
Article Rats have learned how to drive specially-built minicars to collect food according to university researchers. An analysis of stress creating hormones in the rats' brains found that rats were quite relaxed once they became habituated with the controls, similar to humans after mastering complex tasks.
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r/Awwducational • u/whatatwit • May 29 '23
Article When Europeans colonised Australia they brought cattle that made wet cowpats. They didn't know that native dung beetles were mostly unable to process them having evolved with dry marsupial poo. Millions of flies swarmed for 200y until funding arrived to import scarab beetles able to bury cowpats.
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r/Awwducational • u/anirudhsky • Jul 30 '23
Article Sea sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae) are among the few sea creatures who can photosynthesize
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r/Awwducational • u/MistWeaver80 • Dec 21 '21
Article Pipefish, sea horses, & sea dragons belong to a family in which the males get pregnant. Male pipefish spontaneously abort or divert fewer resources to their embryos if they've mated with an unattractive female, or if they've already raised a large group of young in an earlier pregnancy, study found
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r/Awwducational • u/waytogoal • Aug 17 '22
Article Marmots are ambiverts that love their burrows but also social activities. They spend 6-8 months in hibernation, which holds the key to their longevity (and perhaps human space travel)
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r/Awwducational • u/tea_and_biology • Nov 02 '17
Article A study published today announces the discovery of a new species of great ape, the Tapanuli Orangutan. With fewer than 800 individuals left, it's the most endangered great ape on Earth.
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r/Awwducational • u/Spenny_All_The_Way • Feb 12 '23
Article At 30 years old, a Portuguese dog named Bobi set a new world record on February 1st of this year for being the world’s oldest dog ever, a record previously unbroken since 1910.
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r/Awwducational • u/Providang • Apr 26 '17
Article Recordings Reveal Baby Humpback Whales 'Whisper' To Their Mothers
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r/Awwducational • u/ExoticShock • Sep 27 '23
Article The Malayan Tapir is the largest of the four species of Tapir, weighing around 350 kg (720 pounds) and growing 1.8 meters long (6 feet). It’s the only one native to Asia, found in rainforests & lower montane forests within Southern Thailand, Burma, The Malayan Peninsula, & Sumatra.
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r/Awwducational • u/chicompj • Jul 09 '19
Article Goats can distinguish emotions from the calls of other goats
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