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Feel Good Hormone

The smell of babies activates the feel good hormone called dopamine in mothers.

In other words, the baby’s odor generates the same reaction or response in mother’s brain as tempting food.

Bones

Babies are born with 300 bones. Some of these bones ultimately fuse together to form the 206 bones that adults contain.

• Dogs

Infants are smart enough to tell the difference between friendly and angry dogs.

• Sex Hormone

Babies’ cries can boost the sex hormone testosterone in men.

• Big Learners

If you are physically and mentally tired of wiping food off the walls, the ceiling, high chair and the table after feeding your kid who takes pride in throwing food all over the place, cheer up.

A study suggests that babies who are excellent in creating mess are big learners.

• Sympathy

According to a study published in the journal PLOS One, babies may show sympathy toward others in distress.

• Music

According to scientists, babies can identify tunes they have heard in-utero, even a year after birth.

• Self-Awareness

From the time babies are born, they are well aware of the fact that their body is their own.

• Animals

Research suggests that three-month-old babies can learn from sounds made by animals
Example, the screech of a lemur

• Speech

According to the researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, babies try to practice speech much before they start uttering their first word.

• Pre-Eclampsia

Unborn babies protect their mothers from pre-eclampsia by releasing a hormone called adrenomedullin.

Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy complication which is characterized by high levels of protein in the urine and high blood pressure.

• Sense Anger

Sleeping babies can sense when their parents are fighting.

• Fear

Babies can learn from their mothers what to fear very early in life.
Distressed mothers give off odor, which is smelled by their babies.

• Memory

Danish researchers has found that three-year-old kids could remember the faces of people they had met at the age of 12 months.

• Sleep

Sometimes, infants sleep with their eyes open.

• Social Dominance

Researchers at Harvard University have found that babies less than one year old are aware of social dominance and use size to determine who will win when two individuals’ goals clash with each other.

• Swimming Abilities

Every baby is born with natural swimming abilities.

• Strength

Babies are very powerful relative to their small size.
You may not believe but they can lift their own body weight without any difficulty.

• Tears

Newborn babies cannot cry with tears for three weeks.

You may think ‘what is thereto know about babies?’
They are lovable, cute and they scream.

But they are also extremely smart. Each parent thinks their baby is a genius, but truly, human babies are quite intelligent.

Infants can grasp abstract concepts, make logical deductions and distinguish emotions.

In many ways, they are not very different from adults.
However, babies have more to teach us than initially believed.

Here are some amazing facts about babies that you may not know:

http://www.lolwot.com/20-amazing-facts-about-babies-that-you-may-not-know/5/

• Smell And Sound

Babies learn to identify the smell and sound of their mother immediately.

10) CAMA: Camel + Llama

A cama is a hybrid of two animals from different worlds — camels from Asia, and llamas from South America.

The two species exhibit many differences, but camels and llamas are both camelids descended from a common ancestor that evolved in North America.

Camas were produced via artificial insemination to create an animal with the size and strength of the camel, but the more cooperative temperament of the llama.

The unlikely fertilization was a success, but the result wasn't quite what breeders had hoped. Camas exhibit a camel-like temperament, but they are attracted to female llamas. (Proof that opposites really do attract!)

The first picture below is of a Llama (for illustration)
The rest are of Camas

rawpadgin:
zorse is so cute

Sure.

9) COYWOLF or WOYOTE: Coyote + Wolf

A naturally-occurring cross between a wolf and a coyote, coydogs are common in North America.
The number of physical characteristics they share with either of their parents differs with every pup, but coydogs’ coats are always a mix of red and grey.

8 ) WHOLPHIN:
Male (Killer) Whale + Female Dolphin

The product of a female common bottlenose dolphin and a male false killer whale, wholphins (sometimes spelled “wolphin”) are rare aquatic hybrids spotted in the wild.

Currently there are only two in captivity, a fertile mother and her only surviving daughter, kept in a Hawaiian sea park.

7) WOLFDOG: Wolf + Dog

For as long as there have been domesticated dogs, they’ve been mating with wolves to create wolfdogs.
Due to the vast amount of dog breeds, wolfdog possibilities are endless, sometimes making it difficult to differentiate between the species.
They are popular as pets.

6) SHOAT or GEEP: Sheep + Goat

Also known as Sheep-goat.
Even though they’re often kept in the same pastures, sheep and goats rarely reproduce together–and when they do, the offspring are usually stillborn.
However, shoats (or “geeps”) have occurred both naturally and through human intervention.

5) GROLAR BEAR: Grizzly Bear + Polar Bear

There are many names for the offspring of grizzly and polar bears: pizzly bear, nanulak, and polar-grizz, to name a few.

Unlike most hybrids, which occur only through human interference, grolar bears have been spotted (and sometimes hunted) in the wild for generations.

4) BEEFALO: Buffalo + Cattle

Though naturally-occurring buffalo-cattle hybrids have been spotted in North America as early as the 18th Century, the animal today know as beefalo were created solely for meat production. Retaining the buffalo’s size but cow’s docile demeanor, they’re less damaging to fields.

Oh boy see meat!!

Other types of zebroids exist aside the ones above.
They include:
DONKRA or HINNY: Male Donkey + Female zebra.

ZONY: Male Zebra + Female Pony.

However, these two are very rare, hence no pictures.

iii) MULE: Male Donkey + Female Horse.

Well, we all know about this one.
I just had to include it.

ii) ZONKEY : Male Zebra + Female Donkey.

3) ZEBROID: Zebra + Any other equine species

Because zebras have been mated with a variety of other equines since the 19th century, the general name for all part-zebra offspring is Zebroid.

However, the product of a zebra and a horse is sometimes called a Zorse, and a zebra plus a donkey can be a Zonkey or Zebra Mule.

They’re bred mostly as curiosities, but in Africa are often used as riding and pack animals.

i) ZORSE: Male Zebra + Female Horse