Animals
Exploring "Why" questions about Animals
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Why are some animals easier to domesticate for farming/pets?
They're easier to domesticate if they're easier to breed. Domesticating an animal is selectively breeding it for some traits. One of those traits is docility.
Why does a fly hover around people, even when they don’t have food?
To the fly, you're a giant covered in oil, sugar and water - which is a major food source to them. Your skin produces a ton of oil and sweat that combined emits a ton of odor (to the fly), meaning tha
Why has no one crossed a dandelion with a carrot or parsnip, thus creating a nutritious vegetable that grows wild as a weed?
Carrots do grow wild as a weed; they're extremely common in North America, although they aren't native. [Wild carrots are Queen Anne's Lace](_URL_0_) and they grow in almost every vacant lot. People s
Why do birds all sit on power lines together?
There are also birds in trees, on rooftops, etc. Power lines provide a good perch for birds to look around for food without fear of predators on the ground. There are power lines all over so they can
Why do birds seem to wait until the last moment before they fly in front of a car?
Because that's when the car gets close enough that the bird thinks it needs to escape. It doesn't know that cars move in mostly straight lines, so even though it might see it coming from far away, it
Why does a horse need to be put down if they break a leg?? a dog or cat doesnt
It doesn't NEED to in some cases. People put horses down because they are no longer "useful" and rehabilitation doesn't suit their financial interests. I'm thinking specifically about race and show ho
Why do we eat only certain types of fish?
Simply because it's inefficient to do so. They are relatively small and dispersed compared to say, Tuna or Cod. The amount of work involved with catching smaller / less common fish would increase the
Why do dogs sometimes walk around in circles before laying down?
When dogs were wild animals they used to sleep in the long grass and them walking round in circles was them laying the grass flat to make it comfier to lie on.
Why do we say that spiderwebs are “stronger than steel”?
because strength is measured proportionally to the size of the object in question. In this case, the strength being measured is tensile strength (or how strong it is while being pulled, think of tryin
Why are there military batallions called something like “954th Tank Batallion” even though the whole army only has 20 of them?
_URL_0_ So basically, the army creates a division as they are needed during war time. As war dies down and the size of the army is no longer needed, some division get deactivated. They choose which st