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09/02/2025

Weekly pet fact

Unlike most mammals, sloths have sacrificed the ability to control their body temperature in order to save energy. Instead they are completely reliant on the environmental conditions, and their core temperature can fluctuate over 10°C during the course of a single day! If they get too cold, the special microbes that live in their stomachs can die, and the sloth can no longer digest the leaves that it eats. Meaning it can die on a full stomach.

Sloths have the lowest metabolic rate of any mammal, which means that it takes them a long time to digest anything, taking 30 days to digest a single leaf. They have an incredibly large and permanently full four-chambered stomach, which can account for up to 30% of their body mass. In two-fingered sloths, this oversized stomach is supported by 46 ribs (23 pairs) which is more than any other mammal!

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27/01/2025

Weekly pet fact

Hollow bones are also called pneumatized bones, meaning they’re filled with space for air. It is thought that this structure helps with oxygen intake during flight. Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird’s bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight.

Most flightless birds do have hollow bones. Ostriches and emus have hollow femurs. It’s thought that the air sac system that extends into their upper legs is used to reduce their body heat by panting.
Penguins, loons, and puffins don’t have any hollow bones. It’s thought that solid bones make it easier for these birds to dive.

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19/01/2025

Weekly pet fact

Although all the species of poison dart frog have differing levels of toxicity, the golden poison dart frog is the most toxic. The toxin in their poison is so strong that it can instantaneously stop a human heart. With an average of one milligram of poison per poison dart frog, these amphibians have enough toxin in their system to kill up to 20 people.

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05/01/2025

Weekly pet fact

Although they don’t bite or chew due to being filter feeders, whale sharks do have thousands of teeth. In fact, they have about 3,000 tiny teeth, less than 2.5 centimeters long, that help them eat small shrimp, fish, and plankton.

Not only do they have teeth in their mouth, whale sharks have teeth on the surface of their eyes! These tiny teeth are dermal denticles, similar to the teeth-like scales covering their bodies. Scientists believe they are a type of armor for physical protection, as unlike many other sharks, whale sharks don’t have eyelids.

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29/12/2024

Weekly pet fact

During the summer, reindeer eyes are golden; in the winter, they turn a striking blue. This is due to the physiological changes in the eye that take place when pupils dilate to adapt to extremely low light conditions in the Arctic.

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22/12/2024

Weekly pet fact

As a storm arrives, buffaloes will turn and charge directly into the storm. They run at the storm and by running at the storm, they run straight through it, minimizing the amount of pain, time, and frustration they experience from that storm.

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15/12/2024

Weekly pet fact

Low-flying birds do not always foretell bad weather, but birds can detect the subtle decreases in air pressure that accompany storms and alter their flight paths accordingly. Birds need to fly fast and efficiently to conserve their energy, so they settle into sweet spots where the air is thin. When the weather is good, domes of high air pressure push these sweet spots up into the air, so birds fly higher. However, when the air pressure drops before the weather gets bad, so do the sweet spots and the birds that look for them. Since low pressure is associated with storms, low-flying birds may indeed signal “rain and a blow.”

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08/12/2024

Weekly pet fact

You can use crickets as a natural thermostat, just count the number of cricket chirps you hear in 13 seconds, add 40 and you will know what the outside temperature is to within a few degrees Fahrenheit! Amos Dolbear first discovered the relationship between snowy tree crickets and temperature in 1897, and his formula still works today, now known as the Dolbear Law.

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01/12/2024

Weekly pet fact

Octopuses have three hearts, which is partly a consequence of having blue blood. Their two peripheral hearts pump blood through the gills, where it picks up oxygen. A central heart then circulates the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body to provide energy for organs and muscles.

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25/11/2024

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18/11/2024

Weekly animal fact

This week has been submitted by Jessica:

"The Rostocker Pfeilstorch, found in 1822, demonstrated that birds migrated rather than hibernating or changing form in winter.
The Pfeilstorch was found injured by a spear from African hunters thus ending the long debate on whether birds moved to warmer areas or metamorphosed into different animals to survive winter."

In 1822, one White Stork helped put an end to this mystery. The bird landed near the German village of Klütz with a 30-inch spear through its neck. The spear was discovered to be made from African wood, meaning this stork must have traveled between the continents. Being literal people, the Germans felt this strange, new animal needed a new name: Pfeilstorch, or arrow-stork.
Amazingly, there have been 24 subsequent recorded Pfeilstorchs—birds that have successfully migrated to Europe with an African spear embedded in their flesh.

The Pfeilstorch was the first concrete evidence for migration, the annual, large-scale movement of birds between their breeding and non-breeding territories.

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10/11/2024

Weekly pet fact

As I am currently in Cyprus, I thought I would do a cyprusean fact. Due to not seeing turtles as it is out of season, I will not be doing a turtle based fact.

Legend has it that Constantine the Great, the Byzantine Emperor and son of St. Helen, sent a commander called Kalokeros to Cyprus in order to release thousands of cats that would lend a hand in getting rid of the snakes in the area; thus the cape was saved and became known as Cape Gata (Cape Cat).

Cyprus is currently home to about 1.5 million cats.

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03/11/2024

Weekly pet fact

In order to outmanoeuvre their prey, swordfish have evolved a body plan that prioritises swimming performance above all else. They are scaleless to reduce drag, and their rostrums have a rough surface that generates micro-turbulence in the water ahead of them; this subtle adaptation allows them to effectively produce their own slipstream, negating the high energy costs of pushing through still water.

Swordfish have a specialised organ near the base of their rostrum that produces unique hydrophobic oils. These oils are secreted from pores on the front of the head, and are thought to form a highly hydrophobic layer over the skin that reduces drag during high speed pursuits.

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Weekly pet factTardigrades, also known as water bears, are nearly indestructible microscopic creatures. They can survive...
27/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are nearly indestructible microscopic creatures. They can survive in the most extreme environments, including the deep sea, high mountain ranges, and even the vacuum of space. Tardigrades can withstand extreme temperatures, radiation, and pressure, and can go without food or water for more than 30 years by entering a state of suspended animation.

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20/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

The hagfish can spew out thick, sticky goo that will clog up the gills of any predator that dares dine on it. The hagfish is a type of agnathan, a jawless fish with an eel-like body. But if you’ve seen this slimy surprise doing the rounds on social media, you’ll know that it produces copious amounts of thick slime as a defence mechanism when threatened, allowing it to escape predators.
The hagfish can make enough slime equal to 400 times their own volume.

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13/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

The cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 96.6 km/h (60.0 mph) in under three seconds, though endurance is limited: most cheetahs run for only 60 seconds at a time.

But in a tradeoff for having various adaptations needed for rapid acceleration to pursue prey, such as a reduced muzzle and smaller skull size, cheetahs have weak jaws and smaller canine teeth compared to other large cats. This will leave to cheetahs being vulnerable when it comes to defending captured prey from other larger predators.

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06/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

For the purpose of defending itself against predators, the pufferfish can triple its body volume by pumping water into its stomach. They exhibit striking structural and functional specializations for inflation.

The stomach of the pufferfish is highly extensible and has lost its digestive function, it is repeatedly folded upon itself and is lined with transitional epithelium. The peritoneal cavity of the pufferfish is also large and extensible.

During inflation, the stomach expands into an existing peritoneal space surrounding the axial musculature and presses the folded peritoneum out into potential peritoneal spaces ventral to the head and surrounding the dorsal fin, a**l fin, and caudal peduncle; only the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the head are unaffected.

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29/09/2024

Weekly pet fact

A goblin shark's mouth is lined with rows of thin and pointed teeth, which is perfect for gripping the soft bodies common among their prey species like squids and rat-tail fishes, they have the terrifying ability to literally sling their entire jawbone forward, massive extending the forward range of their bite.

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