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Museum Day | I heard that after reading this article, you can become a "walking animal encyclopedia"

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518 Museum Day .

Hello friends, today is May 18th, which is also "Museum Day".

In 1977, in order to promote the healthy development of the global museum industry and attract the understanding, participation and attention of the whole society to the museum industry, the International Association of Museums proclaimed May 18, 1977 as the first International Museum Day to the world.

In the past two years, due to the impact of the epidemic, the radius of activities of many tourists has gradually changed from long-distance travel to peripheral tours and local tours, and excavating museum cultural resources has also become a popular way of entertainment.

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100 animal trivia

1. The malignant tumor of the Tasmanian devil (scientific name Sarcophilus harrisii) can be transmitted by biting each other, but fortunately only between the Tasmanian devils.

2. Flower magpies are the only non-mammals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

3. Koalas sleep 18 hours a day.

4. Darwin had eaten the meat of a mountain lion, and he said it tasted like veal.

5. Airbugs (scientific name Brachinus favicollis) spews venom up to 100 °C.

6. The blue whale's mouth can hold 20 tons of water, but its throat is as thick as a beach volleyball.

7. The red monkey (scientific name Erythrocebus patas) is the fastest primate, running up to 50 km/h.

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Red Monkey Source: 360 Encyclopedia

8. A parasitic fly (scientific name Ormia ochracea) has ears on its chest, and by this organ, it can listen to the song to find crickets and lay eggs in the bodies of hapless musicians.

9. Planarians can regenerate when their heads and tails are cut off, and their heads regenerate faster than their tails.

10. Although revered as a "sea monster", the King Squid has no record of attacking people.

11. The female African pheasant (scientific name Actophilornis africana) can have up to 4 husbands, she is responsible for defending the territory, and they are responsible for incubating the eggs.

12. The 3 extant species of zebras are all striped, and the extinct zebra donkey (scientific name Equalus quagga quagga) has only stripes on its neck and a gray body, but it is not a unique species, but a subspecies of the common zebra.

13. 5. Per Second At 8 meters, a horse can run up to 20 kilometers a day, and world-class marathon runners can run twice as long at the same speed. Humans run slowly, but their endurance is excellent.

14. The beaked eared crow (scientific name Heteralocha acutirostris) is the only bird with a different beak from male and female, the male's beak is straight, and the female's beak is curved hook-shaped, so that the two can eat different foods and reduce competition.

15. The three-toed sloth (scientific name Bradypodidae) must go down to the tree to pull the poop, because it is too lazy, it only takes 5 days to get off the tree, and the amount of excretion is equivalent to 30% of the body weight.

16. Nine-banded armadillos (scientific name Dasypus novemcinctus) are quadruplets per clutch.

17. Humans are the only grammatical animals.

18. The owl's ears are asymmetrical to the left and right, which makes it easier to determine where the mouse is making sounds.

19. Imitating octopus (scientific name Thaumoctopus mimicus) can imitate at least 15 animals, including sea snakes, scorpions, flounders, sea serpent tails, cancer crabs, sea shellfish, spines, jellyfish, anemones and mantis shrimp.

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Imitation octopus Image source: Baidu Encyclopedia

20. The swim bladder is an evolution of the lungs of primitive fish.

21. According to comparative studies by Chinese scientists, Archaeopteryx spp.) was not the most primitive bird, but a small dinosaur with feathers, which were not uncommon among small carnivorous dinosaurs.

22. The big-toothed mammoth ant (scientific name Odontomachus bauri) bites its mouth once in 1/3000 seconds of an hour, making it the fastest movement in an animal.

23. The ant lion is a larvae of insects of the family Myrmeleontidae, which lives in a sand pit dug by itself, does not defecate, has no anus, and this solves the problem of hygiene.

24. There is a Fruit Fly gene called "Sonichedgehog" (Hedgehog).

25. Although hyenas were ferocious beasts, the ancient Egyptians raised them for food, and from the frescoes of the burial chambers, we can see that the people at that time filled the hyenas with food and forced them to grow fat.

26. If you mash two different sponges and mix them together and stir well, the sponge cells of the same kind will crawl together and re-aggregate into two different kinds of sponges.

27. The female cuckoo has an egg-laying organ that is used to lay eggs into a nest deep in a tree hole.

28. The Cymothoa exigua (scientific name Cymothoa exigua) is probably one of the most frightening parasites, it lives in the mouth of the snapper, eats the tongue of the fish, and then replaces it with itself, functioning as a tongue, living off food scraps.

29. The sickleosaurus (scientific name Therizinosaurus cheloniformis) living in the late Cretaceous period had the largest claws of the animals, 75 cm long.

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Sickle Dragon Source: Baidu Encyclopedia

30. The male northern grunting moth (scientific name Gluphisia septentrionis) can drink more than 600 times its body weight in three and a half hours, in order to extract sodium from the water, which it gives to the female moth as nutrients for the child's needs.

31. The beak of the Beaked Whale (scientific name Mesoplodon densirostris) is the most dense bone of all animals.

32. The skin of the coarse-skinned salamander (scientific name Taricha granulosa) contains pufferfish.

33. Hippocampus dads secrete prolactin, which produces nutrients in the nursery bag to feed the baby hippocampus.

34. The animal with the largest female size than the male is a mite (scientific name Bonellia viridis), and the male weighs one 200,000th the female.

35. The animal with the largest male size than the female is the Lamprologus callipterus (scientific name Lamprologus callipterus), and the male weighs 14 times more than the female.

36. Five parasites have been found: a parasitic wasp parasitizes a wasp and a wasp parasitizes a wasp and a wasp parasitizes a wasp.

37. The Dayak fruit bat (scientific name Dyacopterus spadiceus) is the only mammal with milk for both sexes.

38. The longest-lived animal known is an Arctic clam (scientific name Arctica islandica), which is 507 years old and unfortunately died when it was salvaged out of the water by scientists, and we catch a lot of Arctic clams for food, so this record may have been refreshed, but we don't know.

39. Guizhou reptile loach (scientific name Beaufortia kweichowensis) is a flat, funny-looking fish, its pectoral and ventral fins make up suction cups, with an adsorption force equivalent to 1000 times its body weight.

40. The pen-tailed tree shrew (scientific name Ptilocercus lowii) feeds on fermented nectar (3.8% alcohol content), thus evolving an excellent amount of alcohol – it can withstand large amounts of alcohol (equivalent to a person killing two large bottles of dried red) without being "drunk".

41. The helmeted shrew (scientific name Scutisorex somereni) is only the size of a mouse, but its vertebrae are extremely strong enough to allow an adult to stand on its back.

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Helmeted shrew Image source: Baidu Encyclopedia

42. The curved-billed plover (scientific name Anarhynchus frontalis) is the only bird whose beak naturally bends to the right.

43. The long-tailed chinchilla, also known as the totoro, eats its own poop more than two hundred times a day, and it can absorb the rich nutrients in the cecum.

44. Crested puffins (scientific name Aethia cristatella) secrete orange-scented.

45. Female koalas have two types of feces, a hard, regular dung and a soft dung, which is used as a food supplement for weaned koalas, from which baby koalas get beneficial bacteria that help digest eucalyptus leaves.

46. Hummingbirds urinate 3 times their body weight each day because their staple food, nectar, has too much water.

47. The musk ox (scientific name Ovibos moschatus) has a hair length of 60 cm, the second most common among mammals, after human hair. Although it looks like a yak, it is actually closer to sheep.

48. Platypus has 10 sex chromosomes, the female is XXXXXXXXXXxxYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

49. Fat cats have beer bellies like humans, and fat dogs are very evenly fat around their bodies.

50. The short-limbed pilot whale (scientific name Globicephala macrorhynchus) enters menopause between the ages of 30 and 40. The vast majority of mammals do not have menopause.

51. Chile has a breed of domestic chicken (scientific name Araucana) that lays blue eggs.

52. Platypus has no stomach.

53. The spotted wedge lizard (scientific name Sphenodon punctatus) has three eyes — the third is on the top of the head, has a retina and lens, covered by skin but still sensitizes light, and in animals with two eyes, the corresponding organ is the pineal gland.

54. Tuna and several species of sharks are hot-blooded so that they can continue to swim fast.

55. Blue whales and fin whales (scientific name Balaenoptera physalus) cross, and we will find out that this is because someone has dna tested the whale meat on the market.

56. The left brain of vertebrates controls the right half of the body, the right brain controls the left half of the body, including humans, while arthropods (shrimp, crabs, insects, etc.) control the left half of the left brain and the right brain controls the right half.

57. The tiger shark (scientific name Galeocerdo cuvier) is known for eating anything, and has found in its stomach a complete horse's head, rubber tires, driver's license, crocodile head, and a chicken cage and chickens inside.

58. Domestic chickens sing with their heads hooked, pheasants singing with their heads on their backs, and if domestic chickens and pheasants are crossed, their offspring are in somewhere in between when they crow.

59. Fragile diplodocus (scientific name Amphicoelias fragillimus) may be the most unreliable animal in history. Paleontologist Edward M. Drick S. Edward Drinker Cope claimed to have found a mutilated vertebrae, which is presumed to be the largest known land animal at 60 meters, but the bone's whereabouts are unknown.

60. The panda's poop is heavier than the bamboo leaves it eats. To be precise, bamboo leaves and bamboo stalks contain very little water, and there are very few things that can be absorbed, so the poop is supplemented with a lot of water to drink, and only a little bit of nutrient is absorbed.

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61. Child psychologists, after looking at chimpanzee drawings, concluded that the authors were two ten-year-old girls, one of whom was a schizophrenic.

62. The great auk is the only extinct animal that has been preserved in the form of "bacon". The last two great auks were captured and killed in Iceland in 1844, and part of their offal was salted and preserved in the museum of the University of Copenhagen.

63. The black-headed forest harrier (scientific name Pitohui dichrous) is the only known poisonous bird that contains the poison dart frog toxin because it eats the Melyridae family containing this toxin.

64. The laziest nomenclature: The scientific name of the Eastern Horned Owl is Otous asio, and the scientific name of the Long-eared Owl is Asio otus.

65. Crowned seals (scientific name Cystophora cristata) have a minimum lactation period: four days.

66. The Great Echinoccal (scientific name Acanthonus armatus) is a deep-sea fish that, in terms of the ratio of brain to body, is the smallest brain of any known vertebrate.

67. The rumen of cattle is the largest of the four stomachs, with a volume of 130 liters.

68. The first fossil of a human footprint was in Tanzania in 1976, by paleoanthropologist Andrew M. Thompson. Andrew Hill, discovered while playing a "snowball" battle with a colleague with dried elephant dung.

69. Ice worms living in North America (scientific name Mesenchytraeus solifugus) contain very active enzymes in their bodies, so they can tolerate low temperatures below 0 °C, but when the temperature is above 5 °C, it will melt.

70. There are more chickens than people in the world, but the total weight is still higher than that of people.

71. Yerkish is a set of information symbols invented by humans to communicate with another "intelligent creature", the chimpanzee.

72. Mother bats have nipples on their chests, and some bats have "fake tits" on their stomachs for the baby bats to bite and fix on their mothers.

73. The binturong (scientific name Arctictis binturong) is the only animal in the Eastern Hemisphere that can wrap its tail around a branch, and its gland secretions taste like butter popcorn, giggle when happy, and legend has it that it does not spin counterclockwise (fake). In addition, its English name is Bearcat.

74. Fresh goat cheese will not melt when heated.

75. Southern bluefin tuna (scientific name Thunnus maccoyii) and Japanese eel (scientific name Anguilla japonica) are both "food" and have traditionally been treated as delicacies, but according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to recent mass killings by humans, the risk of extinction of these two fish is higher than that of giant pandas.

76. The right ovaries of the hen remain in the embryonic state, which can turn into testicles, producing hormones that make the hen behave like a rooster.

77. Polar bears like to eat toothpaste.

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Polar Bear Image source: Baidu Encyclopedia

78. Hexagons are not the preserve of bees, and the territories used by male tilapia mossambica to attract females are hexagonal.

79. By adding three-thousandths of methylmercury to the feed of the white ibis (scientific name Eudocimus albus), 55% of male white ibises will choose to court with the same sex and build a love nest together.

80. Fin whales are black on the left side of their jaws and white on the right side.

81. The following pairs of cats have had children: male lion× female tiger, male tiger× female lion, male jaguar× female leopard, male leopard× female jaguar, male jaguar× female lion, male leopard× female lion, male lion× female leopard.

82. The world's largest cat. Hercules, the liger, child of male lions and female tigers, at Miami's Jungle Island Zoo, weigh 408 kilograms, twice as much as a large male lion or a large male tiger.

83. If all primates were of the same size, the red-backed squirrel monkey (scientific name Saimiri oerstedii) has the largest brain – 4% of the body weight – and if the squirrel monkey is as large as a human, its brain will be twice as large as the human brain.

84. The fish in your pot may be older than you. The orange spiny seabream (scientific name Hoplostethus atlanticus) is a delicious deep-sea fish whose juveniles only grow two centimeters a year and can live longer than 150 years.

85. The second fastest animal in the world is the American horned antelope (scientific name Antocapra americana), which can reach speeds of up to 86 km/h and has better endurance than cheetahs.

86. The poop of the Wombat (Vombatidae) is the cube.

87. In terms of body size, the strongest animal in the world is a mite weighing only 100 micrograms (scientific name Archegozetes longisetosus). On rough surfaces, it is able to pull up a weight equivalent to 1180 times its body weight.

88“. Rhesus-negative blood" comes from rhesus macacus (scientific name Rhesus macacus) because this blood type was first found in rhesus monkeys.

89. There is a mental illness called animal hoarding, which is characterized by keeping a large number of pets (such as hundreds of cats) that you simply cannot support.

90. Deep-sea harpoon teeth (scientific name Chiasmodonniger) can swallow prey larger than itself, and in the belly of a fork tooth 19 cm long, an 86 cm long black knife mackerel (scientific name Gempylusserpens), which is 10 times heavier than a predator, has been found.

91. The Golden Hamster (scientific name Mesocricetus auratus) is second only to cats and dogs in popularity, and all the pet golden hamsters were bred from three male hamsters and one female hamster caught in Syria in 1930.

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Golden Hamster Image source: Baidu Encyclopedia

92. It is not news that Mrs. Spider will eat her husband. But have you ever heard that the Australian red-backed spider (scientific name Latrodectus hasselti) will be eaten by his wife? This increases the chances of fertilizing the egg.

93. Male spiders can also fight back, and a male of a tarantula (scientific name Allocosa brasiliensis) will eat old females.

94. Male horned whales (scientific name Monodon monoceros) have a peculiar tusk that was once used as the horn of a unicorn, occasionally a whale has two tusks, and the male tetrapod (scientific name Tetracerus

Quadricornis) has four horns, two small in the front and two large in the back.

95. The male scorpion (Panorpidae) looks ugly, as if dragging a scorpion's tail, but it is very romantic, and will take dead insects to the female scorpion to eat, and if there are no insects, it will spit on her to eat.

96. Argentinosaurus huinculensis, one of the largest known land animals, weighs more than 30 meters and weighs 70 tons, and in the footprints of an Argentine dragon, 18 fossils of small animals, including 10 small dinosaurs, have been found in the footprints of an Argentine dragon, including 10 small dinosaurs, which fell into and died without coming out.

97. The Ultimate State of Foodie. The hard tick (Ixodidae), also known as dog beans, can suck up to 250 times their body weight at a time.

98. The male long-beaked whale (scientific name Mesoplodon layardii) has two crescent-shaped fangs on its lower jaw, one left and one right, enclosing its upper jaw, although it can reach 6 meters in length, but its mouth can only open 13 centimeters wide.

99. During the estrus period, the female monkey's ass will turn red and accumulate moisture and expand, and the Western red colobus monkey (scientific name polarocolobus badius) will gain 25% weight due to its enlarged ass.

100. The Sumatran rhinoceros (scientific name Dierorhinus sumatrensis) loves to eat mangoes, which can eat the huge seeds of mangoes in their entirety and excrete them elsewhere, promoting the spread of seeds.

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