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Great apes use "laughter" for similar reasons that humans do: as a means of social bonding and in light-hearted interactions between parents and children. #19 Image credits: thesnuggleisrl
Life on Earth would be so dull without animals. Lucky for us, there are more than 8 million different species of them on the planet, many of which we might never encounter in our lifetime. From ...
Image credits: pacific_tides Dangling isn’t a new phenomenon, it’s something that animals have always done in a variety of different ways. One man from Indiana, called Cameron Shoppach, took ...
Anggitay – A strictly-female creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Centaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Khepri – The dung beetle-headed Egyptian God. Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology. Kurma – Upper-half human, lower-half ...
Zoophilia is a paraphilia in which a person experiences a sexual fixation on non-human animals. [1] [2] [3] Bestiality instead refers to cross-species sexual activity between humans and non-human animals. [a] Due to the lack of research on the subject, it is difficult to conclude how prevalent bestiality is. [5]
"Theriocephaly" (from Greek θηρίον therion 'beast' and κεφαλή kefalí 'head') is the anthropomorphic condition or quality of having the head of an animal with a body either mostly or entirely looking human – the term being commonly used to refer the depiction of deities or otherwise specially able individuals.
Wildebeest is Dutch for 'wild beast', 'wild ox' or 'wild cattle' in Afrikaans (bees 'cattle'), [citation needed] The name was given by Dutch settlers who saw them on their way to the interior of South Africa in about 1700 because they resemble wild ox. The blue wildebeest was first known to westerners in the northern part of South Africa a ...
In Central and East Asia a common calendar system consists of a twelve-year cycle, with each year represented as an animal. The eleventh animal of the twelve-year cycle is the dog. Often such animals are depicted as human figures with an animal head. Thus, the cynocephalic depiction of the eleventh zodiac animal is common (possibly with a tail).