Think about it! What other mammal has this characteristic?
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In contrast to most mammals, humans do not have an all-embracing intense hair on their body. Several theories have been advanced to explain the bareness of human body hair. One suggests that nature selected humans for shorter and thinner body hair as part of a set of adaptations including bipedal locomotion and an upright posture. There are several problems with this savanna theory, not least of which is that cursorial hunting is used by (other) animals that do not show any thinning of hair, and that hair similar to chimpanzees and gorillas also shades the skin from radiant heat and protects it from hot winds, and thus another mechanism for heat loss is not required. Another problem is that bipedal locomotion apparently now predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. A more recent theory for human hair loss has to do with a possible period of bipedal wading in a salt marsh in the Danakil region of Ethiopia, possibly occurring in the hominid lineage between 5 and 7 million years ago. As a wading animal, it was more efficient to develop short body hair and a layer of subcutaneous fat for streamlining and insulation in the aquatic environment; the eccrine sweat glands developed later after the hominids left the water; see Aquatic ape hypothesis. One problem with this theory is that both chimpanzees and gorillas have the same density and distribution of the eccrine glands, but that they have not been developed for sweat production.\n\nA third theory for the thin body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a role here (as well as in the selection of long head hair). Possibly this occurred in conjunction with neoteny, with the more juvenile appearing females being selected by males as more desirable; see types of hair and vellus hair. The human female body hair typically has more vellus hair (making the skin appear bare), while the male body typically has more terminal hair (especially on the chest, abdomen and back). Thus sexual selection can explain the sexual dimorphism in human body hair, with the results of selection being more evident (more extreme) in the female than in the male, a point which the other two theories cannot address without proposing substantially different behavior between males and females. Also, we see that artificially bare (shaved, etc.) legs, arms, etc. on women are seen as "sexy" even today, while body shaving is not nearly as common for men.
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You have got to be kidding me. I have a favorite 'prehistoric water-dwelling animal'? I believe in a young earth anyway, so they're not prehistoric. I guess maybe Leviathan.
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Is this a serious question?  Did it ever occur to you that the biology of a dog is just a wee bit different than that of a human?
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erm, they have claws and teeth that help them catch prey. They have two eyes pointing forward that helps them to see prey adn assess the distance to it better than if they were on the side of the head.
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I've read that dogs look like their owner after awhile. Or is it the other way around? \nSo, yes, two people can start to look and sound alike. But perhaps they were unconsciously looking for such traits in the first place?
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yes.\n\nthey are mammals and do not breathe underwater.\n\nthey take in air at the surface, so it does not matter what type of water they live in.
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Indeed other mammals do have periods or seasons and indeed this is closely connected to fertility and sometime being "in season" or "on heat". However across the spread of mammals alone there is a phenomenal range of differences. For example the lifespan of some small rodents is less than the gestation period of an elephant. Curiously a species to which they are closely connected.\nFemale kangaroos virtually exhibit all the stages of the reproductive cycle at once, fertile, pregnant and raising young.\nIn short mammal periods do happen but don't generally conform to human monthly cycles.
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My 1st reaction would be to say the lemur - but thats only coz their eyes are so big in comparison to the rest of their body.....the elephant is more in proportion but obviously a much bigger animal....I think this is a trick question so I will say the elephant has bigger eyes! Am I right??
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Oh the visual!       I cant help but thinking of 2 dogs with their butts stuck together.\n\nsomebody needs to pour cold water you...lol
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Yes.According to some.Dogs and some other animals have been seen behaving strangely in case of a supenatural event,Or before tsunamis and other such stuff. Maybe loss of our kind of intelligence is compensated for by this kind of senses.
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stick your finger in front of its mouth and find out
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All animals can carry bacteria, so this could be possible, but the doctors should be able to detect this.  Best of luck.
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They do have taste buds and have a definite preference of one type of food over another.  Also, animals have an excellent sense of smell and that is an important component of how food tastes and determining if one thing is better to eat than another.
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The fact that female mammals produce milk for their young means that at birth a mammal can have a relatively large brain, although they are relatively helpless.  Other animals have to be able to at least get around.\n\nBrains don't grow as much as other parts of the body, which is why babies seem to have large heads.\n\nThe obvious counter-example is birds, where the young are stuck in the nest and depend on their parents for food.  However, flight puts a limit on how heavy a bird can be, and so how heavy its brain can be.  But flightless birds are a possible candidate.\n\nAmphibians and reptiles are cold-blooded, which seems as though it would rule out our sort of intelligence.  On the other hand, perhaps an intelligent crocodile would think of slowing down when the temperature drops much as we think of sleep.  Remember that a large brain would mean a large egg (and you have to fit the rest of the body inside the egg as well).
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Placentarian mammals do (not the platypus or equidna)
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I'm not into the whole taking-over-the-world thing, but you make an interesting point.  I'd probably choose squirrels (they're my favorite animals, that's why) or koalas.  Squirrels would be all quick and tricky and trying to confuse us all, and they'd probably try to run us all over with huge machine/car things, so they might not make the best world rulers; koalas, on the other hand, are pretty laid back and slow, although I know that the male koalas are known to get pretty violent and crazy during mating season, so that could potentially turn out bad as well...
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There are some animals that mate for life, but i think that we shouldn't try to view their emotions in terms of human emotions. But I'm sure that they do lust after one another. Otherwise i don't think there would be much mating going on.