On Thanksgiving

BE THANKFUL YOU'RE NOT...

8 Reasons To Be Thankful You're You

On Thanksgiving be appreciative of the fact that you are you! Just think, you could be a baboon and spend your free time picking bugs off your sister.

Consider these 8 awesome reasons to be thankful that you are you, and not one of these 8 creatures!

Emperor Penguin Chick

Be thankful you're not an emperor penguin chick: Until it can find its own food, an emperor penguin chick is fed about 185 pounds of regurgitated seafood—about 92 pounds from each parent.

Bubble-Eye Goldfish

Be thankful you're not a bubble-eye goldfish: The fluid-filled sacs around its eyes are so big and heavy that this fish can barely lift its head. Or be happy you are not a mola, which can be as large as a small truck. Learn about the immense mola fish.

Hippo

Be thankful you're not a hippo: A hippo's sweat is red, which could be very embarrassing.

Dinosaur

Be thankful you're not a dinosaur: You'd be extinct!

Dung Beetle

Be thankful you're not a dung beetle: Dung beetles roll dung balls, make tunnels under dung balls, or live in dung. And each of these beetles eats the tiny nutritious bits left behind in the dung!

Cicada

Be thankful you're not a cicada: Both male and female cicadas have a short adult life. They die after about two-to-six weeks above ground.

Rabbit

Be thankful you're not a rabbit: An eagle can spot a rabbit from more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away.

Monarch Butterfly

Be thankful you are you and not a monarch butterfly: Every year, the North American monarch may fly all the way from Canada to Mexico, more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away!