If you ask someone which animal is the cleanest, probably many will immediately remember the cat. Of course, there is no dispute, the cat is very clean and pays a lot of attention to cleaning its fur every day. But it turns out that in the wild there are other animals that can compete in cleanliness with the cats themselves and even take away the palm from them.
Neat as a pig
Yes, this is actually so, and they mistakenly believe that pigs are dirty only on the basis that they like to lie in the mud. Dirt is necessary for these animals as a hygienic means - drying up with a crust and falling from the sides of the pig, it carries away with it the parasites and fleas that live on its skin. In addition, a pig will never shit next to the place where it sleeps or eats, you must admit that not everyone, even among two-legged ones, can behave the same way. The only thing that makes the primacy of pigs questionable in matters of cleanliness is their characteristic smell.
The cleanest insects are flies, they wash themselves constantly, because they have no eyelids and the retina of the eyes is not protected from dust.
Neat badgers
Another candidate for cleanliness champions is the badger. Although this animal lives in the wild, it is very strict about maintaining cleanliness around the exits from its burrow - badgers dig special toilets and cesspools, where they put their waste products. These pits with a diameter of 15-20 cm are quite deep - up to 30 cm, so no odors are felt from them.
In the burrow itself, the badger also maintains perfect order, periodically changing the bedding of fragrant hay containing herbs that parasitic insects do not like. Therefore, there are almost no fleas and ticks in the wool of this animal.
The only living creatures other than humans that equip their homes with sewage systems are ants. They also use a disinfectant such as formic acid in anthills.
Cleanliness Champions - Japanese Macaques
In the mountainous regions on the Japanese island of Honshu, next to hot springs, there are amazing monkey monkeys, intelligent and inquisitive animals that amaze with their cleanliness and innate neatness. For these animals, cleanliness is a cult and a way of life. To begin with, they will never eat unwashed food and, before eating, be sure to thoroughly wash it in running water from sources. In the hot water of these springs, they spend most of their time taking spa treatments.
Sitting in the water, they carefully examine each other, catch fleas and clean their fur. They cannot give up this exciting activity, even when other animals come to the source. It is often possible to see how roe deer or deer, which have approached the source, are also sanitized. Since roe deer are not as clean as the Japanese macaques, they certainly have ticks and fleas. And the joyful monkeys, catching something in the fur of the roe deer, immediately launch this insect into their fur - so that their relatives begin to clean them.
