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West Sacramento, California has a novel answer to wildfires: 400 goats. The city has enlisted the services of the animals to eat their way through vegetation that would otherwise become fuel for the fires that have scorched the state in recent years.
Male mice are freaked out by bananas, and now we know why. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal discovered the fruit fear while analyzing spiking stress hormones in male mice when they are near pregnant or lactating females. The boys are triggered by a compound in the females’ urine called n-pentyl acetate, which also happens to be the compound that gives bananas their smell!
When an octopus mom’s eggs are close to hatching, she will start acting a little bit nuts. She may stop eating, tear at her own flesh, beat herself against a rock; and if she does eat, the meal might be pieces of her own arms. The gruesome self-flagellation continues until death.
