Peanuts and elephants?

Elephants can't resist peanuts - can they?

• Elephants are not exactly small animals and need about 200 kilos of food a day. Usually they are busy for 17 hours. Since elephants are omnivores, they also have a large selection of food, but prefer grass and leaves. Also on the menu are branches, bark and fruits.

• The myth that elephants love to eat peanuts is therefore not entirely wrong, because if peanuts get in their trunk, you can assume that they will be eaten too. But to talk about favorite foods is a bit of an exaggeration. The pachyderms generally like to eat a lot, so that they hardly spurn anything that is offered to them.

The magpie - the jewel thief of the skies?

• Every child knows that magpies like shiny things and like to steal them, but is that really true? The answer is "yes". But this makes the magpies no exception in the bird world.

• The black and white thieves of the air are very curious and quite intelligent. They like to look at their reflection in shiny objects and are generally interested in things that are strange to their eyes. In order to examine these, the objects are often stolen so that they can be examined in detail in the home nest. However, other bird species do the same. Magpies only steal out of curiosity and not, as they are said to be, out of greed.

Is the Postman the Dog's Natural Enemy?

• Of course, a postman is not the natural enemy of the dog, although here too there is an ounce of truth in the cliché. There is some potential for trouble between the two parties, just looking at reports of incidents where a postman was attacked by a dog. But why is it like that?


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• There are several explanations for this that try to interpret the phenomenon. The first approach is quite logical and explains the reaction of the dog to the postman with the territory behavior of the animal. The postman is seen as an intruder who must be driven out of the precinct.

• Another theory speaks of "getting used to". If a dog is still young and meets a postman, he may bark at him, which has to do with the natural behavior of the territory. If the postman disappears after dropping off the mail, the dog remembers: "Aah, my barking did works, the intruder disappears. "And so the dog has this from an early age Habitual behavior. To prevent this from happening, the dog should be taught early on that the postman is not an intruder. This works particularly well if the postman has treats with him and can thus develop a good relationship with the dog early on.