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🌎 Pistol shrimps and goby fish live together in burrows on the seafloor. The shrimp digs and maintains the tunnel, while the goby acts as a lookout for predators with its sharp eyesight. Over 70 species of goby and shrimp are known to form these partnerships in tropical and subtropical oceans. ✨ #animalbehavior⚡#ocean⚡#symbiosis 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

Many mammals show same-sex sexual behavior. Scientists don’t always report it because they think it is rare or not important to study. It is not because of social or political reasons. This behavior happens in nature more than people realize. 🐾 [Source1] [Source2] @googlefactss #Biology#AnimalBehavior#Research

🌎 Crows show remarkable problem-solving skills and can understand analogies, like recognizing relationships between objects. Scientists have documented crows using tools and even bending wires to retrieve food in experiments. ✨ #animalbehavior⚡#cognition⚡#birds 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

Moose fed by humans often expect food. When not fed, they can become aggressive and may attack people nearby without food. Feeding moose changes their behavior and makes them more likely to act aggressively. 🦌 [Read more] @googlefactss#Moose#Wildlife#AnimalBehavior

🌎 Elephants communicate using deep rumbles that travel through the ground as seismic vibrations. These low-frequency sounds allow herds to “hear” each other from several kilometers away, even when out of sight. ✨ #elephants⚡#communication⚡#animalbehavior 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

🌎 Honeybees use a "waggle dance" to share the location of food sources with their hive mates. The direction and duration of the dance on the vertical honeycomb indicate the direction and distance to the flowers from the hive. Each bee can decode this dance to find the same spot, even kilometers away. ✨ #animalbehavior⚡#communication⚡#bees 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

🌎 Prairie dogs use a complex series of high-pitched calls to warn their colony about predators. These rodents can describe an intruder’s size, color, and speed in their alarm calls. Researchers have identified over 100 different warning sounds in a single colony. ✨ #animalbehavior⚡#communication⚡#rodents 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

🌎 African grey parrots can solve multi-step logic puzzles and use words in meaningful context. In experiments, these parrots matched human toddlers in understanding basic concepts. The largest recorded vocabulary for one individual exceeded 1,000 words. ✨ #parrots⚡#animalbehavior⚡#cognition 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

🌎 Sperm whales use a form of vocal “click” codes called codas to communicate within social groups. Each group has its own dialect of codas, with some sequences unique to specific clans. Adult whales use these patterns to maintain social bonds—individuals can be identified by their group’s coda “accent.” ✨ #whale⚡#communication⚡#animalbehavior⚡#bioacoustics 👉subscribe Interesting Planet 👉more Channels ​

Myth: opposums sleep while hanging by their tails. Fact: Opossums do not hang upside down by their tails 🐾. Their tails are strong for gripping branches and carrying nesting materials but can’t hold their full weight for long. Young opossums might dangle briefly but don’t sleep that way. They “play possum” by pretending to be dead when scared, which helps protect them from predators. 🌙🐾🌳 [Read more] @googlefactss#PossumFacts#AnimalBehavior#NatureFacts#MythBusted#DisneyWasWrong