L2 Animal Care - 15 Bizarre Animal Behaviors

From rowdy elephants, to dolphins that have no boundaries, these are 15 BIZARRE animal behaviors ! Deep Blue Whales - Scientists have been recording whale songs for the good part of 40 years. Someone finally decided to sit down and listen through it, and what they found was bizarre indeed. They whales voices, all across the word, got deeper with each passing year ! Scientists theorize that the whales are either going thru some strange form of universal puberty or are compensating for the increased noise pollution. Hands Up, Harambe -- Despite cases animals of behaving bizarrely, there are many cases where animals have protected humans. You’ve probably heard of Harambe -- he was the adult silverback gorilla who made headlines in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo when it was thought he posed a danger to a child … or did he? A 3-year-old boy managed to climb a fence and fall into a moat of shallow water in the zoo’s Gorilla World Habitat. Noises made by the child splashing in water piqued the interest of the 440-pound ape. At one point Harambe carried the child out of the moat by ladder onto dry land. Zoo officials, fearing for the boy’s life, decided to kill Harambe with a single gunshot. The shooting proved controversial, to say the least. Many people felt it wasn’t clear if Harambe was likely to harm the child … in fact, the gorilla may have been trying to protect the boy. What do you think … Would Harambe have murdered the child … or was he just trying to protect him? Dark Side of Flipper -- While dolphins are known for their intelligence and their friendliness toward humans, these animals have been known to be malicious as well. There are reports of them attempting to rape and drown people, as seen in this video posted on YouTube Other disturbing reports indicate dolphins gang raping their females and killing the offspring of rival male dolphins … that’s because a female dolphin is ready to be raped and impregnated immediately after her child has perished. But not everyone believes those allegations … in the case of dolphin rape, certain opinions argue that the term ‘rape’ can’t be used because it refers to a non-consensual act and is only relevant in the human world. The scientifically correct term is ‘forced copulation’ … but that, supposedly, has never been witnessed in dolphins .. at least, according to proponents of this viewpoint. What do you think? Dung Beetles - These little buggers LOVE dung. There are three distinct jobs in the dung beetle community, the rollers, and the tunnelers. The third group, well they don’t do anything really. They just simply live in the manure. At this point you might think that dung beetles are the lowest of the low, but researchers from S. Africa and Sweden have PROVEN that dung beetles are the only non-human animal that uses the milky way for orientation. The stars help them move in a straight line, that way they don’t accidentally roll the dung ball in a circle! How cool is that? Chimp Warfare -- These apes are known for habits of infanticide and cannibalism … some bizarre behaviors right there. But they also exhibit a behavior all too close to humans -- waging war on one another. A decade long study conducted in Uganda’s Kibale National Park saw one troop of chimps raiding their enemies territory on a regular basis … and displayed discipline and tactics that were evocative of human soldiers. Researchers felt that the chimps raided their neighbors in an effort to expand their territory and gain female partners. Others in the scientific community asserted the chimps’ aggression was due to their diminishing habitat … while still others argued that warfare is inherent to the nature of chimpanzees. Death Spiral -- Seeing as how they’re blind, army ants follow the scent or pheromone trails of their neighbors to reach their nest. But should the insects lose that scent, they’ll start following the ant directly in front of them, forming a huge ant spiral .. also known as an ant mill. Unable to see, the ants will continue marching around in a loop until dropping dead from exhaustion. The largest ant mill discovered was 1200 feet in diameter … it took each ant 2.5 hours to complete a circuit! Crows -- These birds can remember human faces … and apparently they never forget a face. If they don’t like a human, they won’t forget the face. The discovery was made when researchers who had captured crows were constantly heckled by the animals whenever they entered the lab. When the researchers used masks, they realized the birds clearly held a grudge against the people who captured them. Even the crows’ offspring later carried the same grudge! Subscribe to Epic Wildlife http://goo.gl/6rzs5u Let's Connect -- http://www.epicadamwildlife.com/ -- http://www.facebook.com/epicadamwildlife -- http://www.twitter.com/epicwildlife -- http://gplus.to/epicwildlife