Hibernation

One of the most remarkable behaviors exhibited by bears is their ability to hibernate during the winter months. Hibernation is a survival strategy that allows bears to conserve energy and survive harsh environmental conditions when food is scarce. During hibernation, bears enter a state of reduced metabolic activity, lowering their heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature. They may go months without eating or drinking, relying on stored body fat for sustenance. Hibernation helps bears to conserve energy and avoid predators during periods of low food availability, ensuring their survival until spring arrives.

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Remarkable Intelligence

Bears are highly intelligent animals with complex cognitive abilities that rival those of primates and dolphins. They are capable of problem-solving, tool use, and learning through observation and experience. Bears demonstrate impressive memory skills, enabling them to remember the locations of food sources, navigate complex landscapes, and recognize individual humans and other animals. They also exhibit social intelligence, displaying complex social behaviors such as communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution within their social groups.

Well Adapted

Bears possess a range of physical adaptations that make them well-suited to their environment and lifestyle. Their strong, muscular bodies are built for strength and endurance, allowing them to climb trees, swim long distances, and run at impressive speeds. Bears have sharp claws and powerful jaws that enable them to catch prey, dig for food, and defend themselves against predators. They also have a keen sense of smell, which is one of the most acute among all land mammals, allowing them to detect food, mates, and potential threats over long distances.

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“The color-changing properties of chameleons don’t really help them blend in, but rather their natural, relaxed state is what helps them blend in,” marketing manager for the Conservation Society of California at the Oakland Zoo Daniel Flynn says. “The expression, ‘blending in like a chameleon’ isn’t entirely accurate, meaning these lizards don’t change their appearance to fit in, but rather to stand out.”

For a long time, scientists believed that chameleons colors change similarly to how octopuses switch shades. But now, they understand that something else is going on. The color change that people can see is actually a structural change on the cells underneath the skin that looks like different colors based on the light refracting. Chameleons actually change colors when they are excited or feel threatened, as well as when they want to attract a mate or intimidate an enemy. 

Not all chameleons are the same. Some can change from neutral to bright colors, while others just range from light to dark. We’re able to see the changes because the top layer of their skin is transparent. We may have been wrong about the chameleons so far, but it turns out they are much more interesting than we thought!

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• They are unique in the dog world for having six toes.
• They can close their ears completely for protection.
• They are born pretty flexible, so they can bend their heads backward and touch the spine.
• Their name comes from the Norwegian word for puffin, also known as sea parrot. That’s because these dogs were originally the puffin hunters.
• When fishermen and farmers started catching puffins with nets, the government raised taxes on Ludenhunds and they were nearly extinct.
• Luckily, a number of purebred Ludenhunds survived on the remote islands. Thanks to those rare islanders, the breed survived.
• Eleanor Christie, an English Setter dog breeder learned about the Ludenhunds and her efforts basically saved them.

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Hibernation

One of the most remarkable behaviors exhibited by bears is their ability to hibernate during the winter months. Hibernation is a survival strategy that allows bears to conserve energy and survive harsh environmental conditions when food is scarce. During hibernation, bears enter a state of reduced metabolic activity, lowering their heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature. They may go months without eating or drinking, relying on stored body fat for sustenance. Hibernation helps bears to conserve energy and avoid predators during periods of low food availability, ensuring their survival until spring arrives.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Drew Hamilton (@drewhh)

Remarkable Intelligence

Bears are highly intelligent animals with complex cognitive abilities that rival those of primates and dolphins. They are capable of problem-solving, tool use, and learning through observation and experience. Bears demonstrate impressive memory skills, enabling them to remember the locations of food sources, navigate complex landscapes, and recognize individual humans and other animals. They also exhibit social intelligence, displaying complex social behaviors such as communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution within their social groups.

Well Adapted

Bears possess a range of physical adaptations that make them well-suited to their environment and lifestyle. Their strong, muscular bodies are built for strength and endurance, allowing them to climb trees, swim long distances, and run at impressive speeds. Bears have sharp claws and powerful jaws that enable them to catch prey, dig for food, and defend themselves against predators. They also have a keen sense of smell, which is one of the most acute among all land mammals, allowing them to detect food, mates, and potential threats over long distances.

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“The color-changing properties of chameleons don’t really help them blend in, but rather their natural, relaxed state is what helps them blend in,” marketing manager for the Conservation Society of California at the Oakland Zoo Daniel Flynn says. “The expression, ‘blending in like a chameleon’ isn’t entirely accurate, meaning these lizards don’t change their appearance to fit in, but rather to stand out.”

For a long time, scientists believed that chameleons colors change similarly to how octopuses switch shades. But now, they understand that something else is going on. The color change that people can see is actually a structural change on the cells underneath the skin that looks like different colors based on the light refracting. Chameleons actually change colors when they are excited or feel threatened, as well as when they want to attract a mate or intimidate an enemy. 

Not all chameleons are the same. Some can change from neutral to bright colors, while others just range from light to dark. We’re able to see the changes because the top layer of their skin is transparent. We may have been wrong about the chameleons so far, but it turns out they are much more interesting than we thought!

The post How and Why Chameleons Change Color appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

• They are unique in the dog world for having six toes.
• They can close their ears completely for protection.
• They are born pretty flexible, so they can bend their heads backward and touch the spine.
• Their name comes from the Norwegian word for puffin, also known as sea parrot. That’s because these dogs were originally the puffin hunters.
• When fishermen and farmers started catching puffins with nets, the government raised taxes on Ludenhunds and they were nearly extinct.
• Luckily, a number of purebred Ludenhunds survived on the remote islands. Thanks to those rare islanders, the breed survived.
• Eleanor Christie, an English Setter dog breeder learned about the Ludenhunds and her efforts basically saved them.

The post Things You Didn’t Know About the Norwegian Lundehund Dog appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.