Animals
Exploring "Why" questions about Animals
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Why is chickenpox less serious in young children than in adults? Also, a question about shingles.
Shingles is not contagious in the sense that you can give shingles to someone else. You can, however, give someone chicken pox when you have shingles. I learned this since I got shingles the same week
Why do Hollywood movies have a budget of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. The budget for Avatar was $200 million even though most of it was done with CGI.
CGI is very labor intensive. It can take hundreds or thousands of man-hours for one scene. And those people ain't workin' cheap.
Why do humans consider faces an important factor for attraction?
Faces are where we express most of our emotions, and our brains are very good at recognising people by their face and how they feel by their facial expressions (these two things probably evolved in ta
why does Saudi Arabia regularly buy billions of dollars worth of arms?
Because they provide weapons to other groups like for example to some in Syria right now. And as Syria is in war with five different groups, you need a lot of weapons. Besides they have the money and
Why do NFL teams have a draft and not just buy whatever players like they want like in soccer?
Because they want to avoid a situation where the team with the most money always wins the championship. There is a scene in the NFL that all teams should be equal, so steps are taken to level the scal
Why are certain ethnicities able to process the lactose in human milk, but not the lactose in cow/other animals milk?
ALL human infants can process the lactose in human milk, and in other milks as well. What happens is that humans naturally stop being able to process lactose as they age (generally around age 5). It j
Why most people are much more scared of really big insects than mammals like mice and squirrels
Can relate less to them. Squirrels have roughly human-like features, legs, arms, nose, mouth, eyes, bones etc. They're like a smaller, furrier version of us.
Why dogs don’t see colour?
They do. Just not as well as we do. That's to be expected though, since we primates rely so much more heavily on vision, and dogs on smell and hearing.
Why do you have to fill out a ridiculous amount of paperwork to rehome a cat or dog from a shelter to check if you’re ‘suitable’, but almost none when you have a baby?
You do have to jump through a ton of hoops if you want to *adopt* a child. However, having your own children is considered to essentially be a basic human right, and any attempts to change that would
Why do parents not want their kids to be vaccinated?
Typically, it is because of a thoroughly debunked and wrongheaded idea that vaccines will give their kids autism or some other malady. In fact, vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical di