To celebrate World Animal Day on Monday 4 October, the Vegan Network created an infographic to share some incredible facts and science related to animals across the globe – from the familiar to the exotic. We hope you find the information interesting and thought-provoking.

You can scroll down below the infographic to check our sources and find credits for icons we used.

Sources

• Tools to tipple: ethanol ingestion by wild chimpanzees using leaf-sponges (Royal Society Open Science)
• Top 10 Facts About Elephants (World Wildlife Foundation)
• The Anatomy of a Whale (BBC Earth)
• Bottlenose dolphins can use learned vocal labels to address each other (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
• Can an Octopus Get to Know You? (Library of Congress)
• Octopuses keep surprising us – here are eight examples how (Natural History Museum)
• Differences in acoustic features of vocalizations produced by killer whales cross-socialized with bottlenose dolphins (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America)
• Squirrels show softer side by adopting orphans, study finds (ScienceDaily)
• “Laughing” rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy? (National Library of Medicine)
• Pigeons on Par with Primates in Numerical Competence (Science)
• The Cleverness of Crows (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
• Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words (Nature)
• A Dog’s Sense of Smell (ScienceNetLinks)
• EquiFACS: The Equine Facial Action Coding System (PLoS ONE)
• Social bonds in dairy cattle: the effect of dynamic group systems on welfare and productivity (University of Northampton)
• Thinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken (Animal Cognition)
• Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus (Journal of Comparative Psychology)
• UK Animal Kill Clock
• The Vegan Calculator

Credits

• @smalllikeart
• @icongeek26
• @freepik
• @dinosoftlabs
• @monkik
• @kiranshastry
• @nikita-golubev
• @photo3idea-studio
• @vectors-market

Further information

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If you want to go deeper, read about the case for veganism which includes links to great sources of information.

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