Nothing during the summer smells as sweet as a freshly cut lawn. The scent lingers for hours. Geez, you think, wouldn't all those clumps of freshly …
Other Animals Eat Grass, Lick Their Babies and More: Why Don't Humans?
From eating grass to having a mating season, there are many things other animals do that humans do not. Why is that? We get to the bottom of a few.
Cats do it. Dogs do it. Giraffes and lions and lemurs do it, too. Some humans have even been observed licking their newborn babies clean. But for the …
Unless you've studied human or animal biology in depth, you've likely never heard of the cloaca (pronounced klow·ei·kuh). The norm in animals like …
Most animals have a mating season, and it's usually a time when food, sunlight and fertility are plentiful. But what about humans? We don't hibernate …
Male mice could be considered more highly evolved, so to speak, than human males in one anatomical regard: nipples. Whereas men develop a pair of …
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