What are your favorite fun facts about animals? (lemmy.ml)

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-Elephants can't jump.

-Starfish don't brains.

-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don't attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.

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[-] mech@feddit.org 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.

[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.

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