giraffe's tongue & labrador bite
eng | 16 三月, 2009 11:03
Interesting Facts - Animals
[- Anteater -]
An Anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
[- Alligators -]
Mississippi Alligators have the most powerful bite force ever measured. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Zoology of London, these Alligators snap their strong jaws shut with an average force of 2,125 pounds, or with about as much force as a mid-size car falling on top of someone. One even bit as much as 2,960 pounds of force.
[- Bears -]
They have 42 teeth.
[- Butterfly -]
They commonly have 12,000 eyes.
[- Cats & Dogs -]
According to the tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington D.C., cats & dogs, like people, are either right handed or left handed, that is, these animals favour either their right or left paws.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. There was a cat in Japan that said neow. A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, rather than on smell.)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. There was a cat in Japan that said neow. A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, rather than on smell.)
[- Cockroach -]
They can live several weeks with their head cut off.
[- Cows -]
A heard of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
[- Crocodile -]
A Crocodile weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human's jaw exerts a force of about 140 to 180 pounds.
[- Dinosaurs -]
Most Dinosaurs lived to be more than a hundred years old.
[- Dinosaur -]
The Stegosaurus, a giant dinosaur that grew to more than 18 feet long and was armed with enormous bony plates on its neck, back and tail, had a brain that weighed only 2 ounces, which is about the size of a walnut.
[- Dogs -]
The Chow is the only dog that has a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.
[- Dogs -]
A common Labrador bites with 125 pounds of force.
[- Dogs -]
Nose prints are used to identify dogs in the same way finger prints are used to identify human beings. Breeders and trainers keep a dog's nose prints on file as part of its permanent record and insurance companies now require them whenever a dog is to be bonded. At one time paw prints were used as a means of canine identification, but these proved less accurate than noses.
[- Extinction -]
More than 99.9 percent of all animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.
[- Giraffe -]
The giraffe can open and close its nostrils at will, can run faster than a horse and makes almost no sound whatsoever. The first giraffe ever seen in the West was brought to Rome about 46 B.C. by no less a personage than Julius Caesar.
[- Giraffe -]
The giraffe's tongue is 18 inches long. It uses it's tongue to rip leaves off branches for consumption. It also uses it's tongue to clean it's nose when unwanted visitors like tree ants decide to visit. In comparison, if a human had such a tongue, one would be able to clean the top of one's head, one's nostrils and one's ears.
[- Giraffe -]
Though the giraffe's neck is about 7 feet long, it contains the same number of vertebrae as a mouse's, which is seven.
[- Giraffe -]
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
[- Ivory -]
From 1890 to 1900, 20 tons of ivory were shipped every year from Siberia to London. All of this ivory was taken from the remains of woolly mammoths, which have been extinct since the Ice Age.
[- Kangaroo -]
At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long, no bigger than a large waterbug or a queen bee.
[- Lion -]
A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
[- Moose -]
The male moose sheds its antlers every winter and grows a new set the following summer.
A rare albino moose near Whitefish, MT.
[- Moose -]
A full grown moose may be 8 feet high at the shoulder and weigh almost a ton.
[- Polar Bear -]
A newborn polar bear cub weighs a lot less than a newborn human, only about 1-1.5 pounds. Yet when fully grown, polar bears reach weights of up to 1,600 pounds.
[- Polar Bear -]
The Polar Bear is one of the only large land mammals that has absolutely no fear of man. It will stalk people at every chance and has been known to charge large groups of hunters, sometimes into heavy gunfire, not slowing down even after its vital organs have been hit repeatedly.
[- Pigs -]
Almost half of all the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
[- Rats -]
Two rats can parent 15,000 rats in less than a year.
[- Rats -]
Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relatives the pocket mice, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air the breathe.
[- Rats -]
A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
[- Sheep -]
Lanolin, an essential ingredient of many expensive cosmetics, in its natural form, a foul smelling, waxy, tarlike substance, is extracted from the fleece of sheep.
[- Skunk -]
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
[- Skunk -]
The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
[- Snakes -]
Most varieties of snakes can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
[- Snakes -]
A Python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six month period.
[- Whale -]
The Blue Whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
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[- Water Animals -]
Alligators, dolphins, crocodiles, frogs, porpoises, turtles, water snakes, whales and several other watergoing creatures will drown if kept underwater too long. Unlike fish, these animals require a certain amount of air in order to survive.
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forget-me-not, mr.diaosaur ..
eng | 16 三月, 2009 10:47
Interesting Facts - Agriculture
[- Cereal -]
Almost all of our breakfast cereals are made of grass. Oats, barley, corn and wheat are all different varieties of grass and are all descended from the same botanical species. Furthermore, most of the sugar we eat also comes from grass (sugar cane), as do most of our alcoholic beverages.
[- Grass -]
There was no grass during the time of the dinosaurs. Grass evolved from bamboo-like plants only 24 million years ago.
[- Pollen -]
Pollen grains are so tiny and uniform they have been used to calibrate instruments that measure in thousandths of an inch. Forget-me-not pollen grains are so small that 10,000 of them can fit on the head of a pin.
[- Rain -]
It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth. Between 10 and 20 tons of water must pass through the roots of an acre of corn before one bushel of corn will be produced.
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termite & rock music *白蟻 & 搖滾樂
eng | 16 三月, 2009 10:42
Interesting Facts - Psychology
[- Decisions -]
According to studies made at Northwestern University, men change their minds two to three times more often than women. Most women, the experiments found, take longer to make a Decision than men do, but once they make a Decision they are more likely to stick to it.
[- Experiments -]
Experiments conducted at several college laboratories demonstrate that hard rock music played to colonies of termites cause the insects to enter a kind of frenzy and to chew through wood at twice their normal rate.
[- Hypnosis -]
The following is a standard test used by many psychiatrists to determine if a person is susceptible to Hypnosis. The patient is told to stand in the center of a room with his/her eyes shut. The tester stands behind him and asks the patient to fall back into his arms without resistance. The tester assures the patient that he/she will not be hurt and tells him to trust the tester completely. If the patient falls back without hesitation, he/she will be easily Hypnotized. It not, he/she won't.
[- Inteligence -]
Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males. Males have a greater incidence of reading disabilities, stutter more, read with less speed and accuracy, and by the time they reach maturity have a smaller vocabulary than females.
[- IQ -]
Based on the total number of people tested since IQ tests were devised, women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
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