Animals
Exploring "Why" questions about Animals
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Why are there big felines (lions) and no big canines?
A mastiff is a huge dog and early on they were bred to fight and kill large cats.
Why can you grow a plant hydroponically but if you take the same plant in dirt you can over water it and kill it?
Plants breathe through their roots. If the soil is wet and the water has no dissolved oxygen in it then the plant will suffocate. Hydroponic water has air pumped into it through a bubler system to kee
Why do we always ask animals and babies what they’re doing, even though we know they can’t respond?
A large proportion of our language is either in tone of voice or body language, for the most part this is subconscious so when we ask babies and animals how they are doing it is also expressed in our
Why and how do some animals (i.e. birds) move their heads in a quick way, almost as if snapping to an angle?
So I want you to hold both thumbs out in front of you, holding your hands apart. Look at one thumb, then look at the other. Chances are your eyes snapped from one to the other quickly.
Why are humans so afraid of insects?
Building off of the "indoctrination", which is "we are taught to be afraid of them", another theory is that many spiders are poisonous and deadly to us, but they are also hard for us to see because th
Why are cats/dogs able to see in the dark so well?
The retina at the back of the eye has cells called rods and cones that detect shapes, edges, color and movement. Humans have more cells that help us see color...dogs see only blues and yellows, no red
why do pigeons and some other birds bob their head as they walk about?
Accord [to this website](_URL_0_) it's also to stabilise vision. Pigeons and some birds don't track movement like we do so moving their head quickly from place to another helps them build snapshots of
Why is chicken raised without antibiotics a good thing?
Not a medical or food professional, however this is what I understand. Aside from the organic movement thinking that GMOs and antibiotics are evil plants by the pharmaceutical industry and Monsanto to
Why are rats the most common lab animal to do studies on?
Something I know about! Actually, mice are more common, but rodents in general are used for a few reasons. They're cheap, small, easy to handle, easy to house and feed (mmm autoclaved pelet food), can
why does my dog wag so much whenever I touch him or enter a room or talk to him, is he really that happy every time to warrant a tail wag
Behavioral ecologist here! Dogs have been bred for thousands of years to love us and react positively when we walk into the room. We are their alpha dog, their protector and their friend.