uh fun animal facts here we go
wallabies living near australian opium fields have learned to use it to get high
jaguars like to use ayahuasca presumably for the DMT it contains
There's a small population of hippos living in columbia, which are descended from individuals that escaped from Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie
Outrunner wrote:There was more time between Stegosaurus living and Tyrannosaurus than there is between Tyrannosaurus and us
yeah i always found this cool; really puts into perspective exactly how successful dinosauria and archosauria are as groups considering the fact that they were dominant for 170mya and are still arguably the most successful vertebrate clade alive today
Preezy wrote:Greenland sharks have the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (estimated to be between 300–500 years). As an adaptation to living at depth, they have a high concentration of trimethylamine N-oxide in their tissues, which causes the meat to be toxic.
So not only can they kill you by eating you, but they can also kill you by you eating them!
And there are most likely some Greenland sharks alive today that were alive when Shakespeare was knocking about
they also smell like piss and dont reach sexual maturity until they're like 150
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