In spite of the fact that thousands of scientists, a considerable part of opening still ahead work on studying habits of animals, features of the structure of their organism. Besides, often even the interesting facts known to professionals and about wild animals, and about pets remain a riddle for nonspecialists.
The dog is not in vain called the friend of the person: these animals can be not only excellent security guards of property, defenders of people, assistants in hunting and another matters, but also the wonderful partners who are excellently guessing what mood now at the owner and properly to behave to support the person or to console him. The fact is that at dogs excellent ability to empathy, i.e. perception of others emotions. They even adopt yawning of the owner.
Also it should be taken into account that at dogs remarkable memory on faces. These pets can know the owner or others well people familiar to them even in the photo or a video. By the way, for this reason the owner who left for long time and left someone from friends to look after a dog in its absence, can talk without effort to the pet on a video chat.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not recognize themselves on a photo, even in reflection. According to scientists, from all animals only anthropoids are capable to recognize themselves in a mirror.
Legs of elephants seem very rough and insensitive, however actually they play a role of "nice ears". By means of feet the elephants can catch fluctuations and the ultralow frequencies going from the earth. They are able "to hear legs" that occurs in the distance. By the way, elephants are not able to jump.
When the female of an elephant wants to call up the cubs, she begins to pat in a special way ears on each side.
The majority of animals has teeth, and it is difficult for these to surprise someone. Nevertheless even the set of the interesting facts is connected with teeth. For example, at their snail about 25000, besides all are located in language. With their help the snail carefully mills food before to swallow it. It is also widely known that rats can gnaw through the products made of solid materials including a brick and cement. However the fact that these animals act this way not only to creep to buildings is less known. The fact is that teeth at rats continue to grow throughout all life and that they did not become too long, they should be ground off constantly. Idlers were called not for nothing quite so: the most part of time they have a rest. Moreover, to collect the leaves forming the basis of their diet these animals extend the mobile, long neck and turn the head in different directions, but their body at the same time does not move a little. The reason of laziness of such animals consists just in their menu: leaves give not enough energy, and on digestion of a nourishing lunch at an idler about a month leaves on average. Not less interestingly and structure of an organism of this animal: two thirds of its weight are made by stomach contents, and the bladder of an idler is so big that this animal can empty it everything once a week and at the same time feel absolutely comfortably. Such features allow an idler to spend the minimum quantity of energy and the most part of time just to have a rest, without going down from a tree and enjoying safety and convenience.