20 Lesser-Known Facts About Animals That Are Utterly Adorable

Prairie dogs greet each other with kisses. Friends, family, sometimes even enemies get a smooch to say hello. But it's not just an adorable quirk of these fuzzy, burrowing rodents. For prairie dogs about to be displaced from their homes by development, kisses could be the key to their survival. In prairie dogs, so-called greet kissing is common between mammas and babies, relatives, and friends. Wildlife biologists figured out it's a shortcut to social dynamics.