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I’ve just learned about a pregnant orangutan who had really bad morning sickness until her keeper gave her some special pregnancy tea

Keepers at Denver zoo had noticed that orangutan Eirina was refusing to eat/drink

That’s until her keeper remembered a tea she had drunk during her own pregnancy 🧪🌿
July 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Blue-lined octopuses have the MOST TOXIC relationships 🐙😳

The females are much larger than the males and often eat them after mating. So to avoid this, the males inject the females with poison to paralyze them until they’ve finished…doing their business.

WHO IS WORSE IN THIS RELATIONSHIP???
March 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You’ve heard of Ada Lovelace, but have you heard of her tutor, Mary Somerville - described in her obituary as the Queen of Science 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’m personally very excited about NASA’s upcoming Pandora Mission 🛰️

The Pandora Mission is due to launch in fall 2025 and will help James Webb in the search for potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system.
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Crows don’t forget a face - and they can also hold a grudge

They even teach their friends and family about humans they don’t like

(Saw these outside the window this morning…what have we done to offend them 😳)
January 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Source www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plus footage of individual performances for comparison
January 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Ants vs humans - who is faster at problem solving? 🐜

In a new study, scientists set ants and humans the same geometric puzzle (albeit at a different scale). Individually the humans were way faster than the ants. But once they were put into groups things looked very different…
January 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM