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13th-Nov-2008 11:04 am - Writer's Block: Nature Gone Wild
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Field mice always sleep facing northwest. Kangaroos can't walk backwards. Female hyenas have penises. Let's face it, nature is weird. What's the strangest thing you know about the animal kingdom?

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I don't know if this is The Strangest Thing I know about the animal kingdom, but I always thought it kind of neat that while honeybee workers and queens are diploid, honeybee drones are haploid.

NB: For those who may not be biologists, this essentially means that honeybee drones hatch from unfertilized eggs.

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