Animals
Exploring "Why" questions about Animals
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Why cant the 200+ corpses on Everest be picked up with a helicopter or something?
They can't even fly that high, never mind hover long enough to pick up a body. The maximum height that a helicopter can hover is about 13,000 feet. The 'Death zone' of a mountain is the most dangerous
Why Sketch artists are so important at court cases?
In the UK, no cameras are allowed inside the courtroom. However TV news needs to have something to show while they talk about the case, so they use artists. The artists aren't actually allowed to draw
Why is the locomotion of a camel so much different than that of a horse?
They move in a similar way to a giraffe, the gait comes from having relatively long legs compared to the length of the body of the camel. By moving both left legs then both right they reduce the chanc
Why do female dogs get “humpy”?
Humping is a dogs sign for dominance. Kinda like men puffing up their chest and holding their arms out. If the female is dominant, she'll hump regardless if she has proper equipment.
Why does Japanese and Chinese media seem to portray the Buddha as some sort of dogmatic deity, when the crux of his teachings were that he’s just a guy.
Buddhism spread from India to China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia over a period of centuries and although all schools of Buddhism trace their origin to the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) the B
Why do animals seem to like stuffed animals (the teddy bear kind, not the taxidermy kind), while people find models similar to people off-putting?
We also like stuffed humans, as long as they're not too human. Dolls, for instance. It's humans that are lifelike, but not quite there, that get you into the uncanny valley.
Why didn’t dinosaurs evolve to be inteligent but we did? What was different back then?
We have been around for millions of years. Our civilizations are the things thousands of years old. Evolution is not a guided process.
Why do birds fly south for the winter instead of just staying where its warmer all the time?
Two reasons: summer days are longer near the poles compared to the tropics, meaning more time for activity; and springtime sees an absolute explosion of food resources (insect and plant population gro
Why is tipping so important in America?
It is because the service fee, meaning the wage of the waitress, is not included in the price. If you don't tip, she basically doesn't get paid for serving you. **edit**: This is one of those idiosync
Why do people treat Beef Wellington as some special “showstopper” of a dish? Pigs in a blanket isn’t consider so much more fancy than regular hotdogs?
Beef Wellington isn't just meat wrapped in bread. If made traditionally, it also has layers of pate, usually foie gras, and duxelles (a very fine mince of mushrooms, onions, shallots, and herbs, cooke