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Natural Habitat Shorts Compilation Part 1
Natural Habitat Shorts Compilation Part 2
Axolotls are able to regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks
Honey Badgers can sleep off some of the most venomous snake bites because of their thick skin
In winter, some weasels shed their coats for white ones to blend into the snow and avoid predators.
Cuckoos find host nests and swap an egg for her own. Her chicks push the host chicks out of the nest
Male otters sometimes hold pups for ransom under water to force the mother to give up her food. 🦦🍟
In the fall, snakes steal the dens of rodents and usually eat them to prepare for winter. 🐍🏠🍂
Many species of shrews are venomous. They use their venom to paralyze prey. 🛝🐭💤
Prairie dogs kiss each other as a form of greeting and a way to recognize each other.
Lizards, amphibians, and other reptiles shed their skin and eat it to avoid wasting any nutrients.
The binturong or bear cat smells like popcorn and defecates on animals it feels threatened by.
When rats are happy they grind their teeth causing their eyes to bulge in and out AKA boggling
It’s theorized that chickens recognize and differentiate one another based on their combs. 👒🐓🧢
Ducks with gold found in their gizzards have caused multiple gold rushes throughout history
DIRECTOR’S CUT - Eagle Death Spiral
The hognose snake will play dead when threatened. If turned onto its stomach it will flip back over
Natural Habitat Shorts Batrick Compilation
In medieval times, scholars believed that hedgehogs rolled on their back to collect fruit. 🦔🫐🏰
Chipmunks can be carnivores! They can eat insects, frogs, eggs, & baby birds
Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors due to boredom, overcrowding, or poor ventilation.
Ducks often stand still in rain. Likely to save energy and stay warm, but we have our own theory
Sea otters are the only marine mammal that use tools, though their tools are mostly rocks. 🦦🪨🧰
Thorny devil lizards drink water with their feet. Grooves on their skin channel it to their mouths.
Some small bats can eat up to 1,000 bugs in just an hour 🦇🍽️🦟
Chipmunks’ stripes allow them to blend in to their wooded environment and hide in plain sight.
Wombats' pouches face backward, opening toward the mother’s rear, to keep their joeys safe from dirt
Bats are the leading causes of rabies deaths. It may cause hydrophobia, aggression, and, death
Natural Habitat Shorts compilation part 3
Rabbits & other prey animals have eyes on the sides of their head causing poor depth perception
Natural Habitat Halloween Saga: Mouth vs Albie
The idea that lemmings blindly follow each other off cliffs is a commonly held misconception🐹✈️💺
Platypus fur glows under black/UV light but scientists still don’t understand its function. 🦆🦫🔦
Lyrebirds are able to mimic almost any sound it hears. Beavers are raised by both parents (usually)
Penguins poop every ~20 min bc of their fast metabolism. Their guano can travel nearly four feet
Turtles can carry salmonella. Rats urinate on food to show ownership & that the food is safe to eat
Autumn is called the "hooting season" because owls hoot more during the fall to claim territory.
Beavers mark their territory with a vanilla secretion from castor sacs located below their tails
Bald eagles lock talons and tumble towards the ground during territorial disputes or mating.
Porcupines are solitary by nature but may den with other porcupines during the cold winter weather
Wood frogs can freeze solid in the winter for up to 8 months and then thaw in the spring unharmed
Baby birds ‘gape,’ opening their mouths wide to signal hunger when they haven’t learned to eat yet
In the fall, squirrels’ brains grow 15% larger to help them remember where they buried their nuts
In hibernation Hedgehogs lower their heart rate and temperature leading many to think they are ☠️
While they may look like snakes, legless lizards have eyelids and can blink unlike snakes.
Koala diet consists mostly of eucalyptus but they only recognize the leaves as food when on a branch
Porcupines have around 30K quills, with barbs at the tips that make them difficult to remove. 🌵🐖💺
Vampire bats regurgitate blood to others bats that are unable to find food.
Otters have valve-like structures in their ears and nostrils that close underwater keeping water out
Common murre chicks leap off cliffs before they can fly, bouncing off rocks on the way to the ocean.
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