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Meet the Beetles that Harvest Fog in the Desert
It's just one weird way animals drink.
By Liz Langley
PUBLISHED APRIL 7, 2018
What’s the one thing no life form can do without?
It’s not coffee, a smartphone, or even Netflix. It’s water. Every living thing needs it, but we have surprisingly different ways of ingesting it.
Here are some peculiar ways different animals enjoy a drink. And no, pickle margaritas are not on here.
LAP, DOG!
“Monkeys and other apes lean down to drink,” says Don Moore, director of the Oregon Zoo in Portland, but the southeast Asian gibbons drink water through cupped hands, a “very cool behavior,” especially if these acrobats are hanging upside down in a tree.
More:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/animals-behavior-biology-desert-beetles-lizards-dogs-gibbons-insects/
