Young Butterflies Trick Ants Into Raising Them

It turns out that ant queens make subtle sounds that signal their special status to worker ants. The caterpillars have learned to mimic those sounds, the researchers say, earning high enough status to be rescued before others if the nest is disturbed. Full Story : Discovery….

Cattle Have Sense Of Direction

Google Earth satellite images helped researchers, and revealed that cattle tend to face north-south direction while grazing or resting. Other field observations of red and roe deer also revealed this. Both cattle and deer faced a more magnetic north-south direction rather than geographic north-south.

Other animals such as birds, turtles and salmon migrate using a sense of magnetic direction. Small mammals such as rodents and bats also have inner magnetic compass.

Cat’s Urine And Machoism In Rats

Researcher had  expected that the smell of a cat would reduce the sexual drive in rats and the scared mice aren’t sexy mice. But now they have found that cats could help mice get lucky in love.

According to a new study cat’s urine not only scare mice away, but it also seems to act like an aphrodisiac (agent that arouses sexual desire) for the rats. The smell make male mice more macho and attract females.

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Fastest Evolving animal

The tuatara which is found only in New Zealand is the fastest evolving animals in the planet. It is the only surviving member of a reptilian order Sphehodontia that lived alongside early dinosaurs. Tuatara means peak on the back in Maori language. Maori is one of the official languags of New Zealand.
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World’s fastest animal

In land, do you know that cheetah can dash up to 70mph. With the long skinny body, cheetah can cross the finish line first. Its strong muscles are equipped to run fast for short distances.

In water, a sailfish can travel up to 68 mph with streamlined body.

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