1{"id":1354,"date":"2014-04-04T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/99viral.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2017-02-08T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T21:00:22","slug":"40-surprising-animal-facts-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-smile-and-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/40-surprising-animal-facts-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-smile-and-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Surprising Animal Facts That Are Guaranteed To Make You Smile (And Laugh!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe competition is intense. Just look at their faces.
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\nThe tails on Snow Leopards provide balance, fat storage, and are also super fluffy for snuggling purposes. When they’re sleeping the tail is often used to cover their faces for extra warmth!
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\nWhen there’s snow on the ground, these cuties make snowballs for no other reason than to have some fun!
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\nOrphan squirrels will be adopted by other adult squirrels if their parents have died or aren’t able to care for them.
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\nHoney bees fly a “waggle dance” in order to communicate to their companions where flowers are located.
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\nBefore chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds. There are at least 24 different sounds they make from inside of their eggs!
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\nThat’s right, I said it. Crows are very intelligent and are known to play tricks on each other (as well as other animals).
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\nMating calls among humpback whales change according to what others are heard singing. The songs get passed between populations, much like popular music does in humans’ communities!
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\nThey do this to get to know them better.
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\nYoung chimpanzees play with rocks and sticks in the same way that young human children do, pretending that they are babies, and caring for them.
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\nThey’re also ticklish, so you can make them laugh when you tickle them!
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\nThey use this rock to break open mollusks when eating. Some otters go their entire lives carrying the same rock!
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\nWhen ants walk past one another, they give a little head nod to acknowledge the other’s presence and say “good day, sir!” How cute is that?!
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\nThey’re also one of the world’s smallest mammals (considered by some to be the actual smallest mammal)! So cute!
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\nThey’re are known for grabbing poisonous sea anemones and waving them around as a means of protection from predators.
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\nWhen a dog is play-fighting with another dog, they’ll sneeze as a way of saying “we’re just joking around!” so the playing doesn’t escalate into anything serious.
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\nFinding adorable facts and photos for this piece made me so happy – and I hope you liked it too. Share this with our fellow animal lovers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. There’s a rabbit jumping show in Sweden known as “Kaninhoppning”. The competition is intense. Just look at their faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[573,610,593,613,609,590,92,591,605,611,561,594,598,574,56,52,464,586,575,580,599,600,608,587,612,596,581,582,601,584,577,607,588,592,578,616,476,615,603,602,595,604,576,606,583,589,579,585,572,597,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/99viral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}