-It is the female lion that does more than 90 percent of the hunting while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefer to rest.
-Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
-Despite its great strengths, the octopus tires easily.
-When a cleaner shrimps want customer, they wave their antennae to attract attention. The shrimps pick dead skin, food scraps, and pests off the fish. They even clean fishes’ teeth.
-The most volcanically active planetary body is the solar system in one of Jupiter’s moon, Io. Roughly 2 tons of volcanic materials are tossed into Io’s magnetosphere every second.
-Broken mercury thermometers are all environmental threat. The mercury in one broken thermometer can communicate an 11-acre lake.
-Elephant herds past their own sentries. when danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as a half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted.
-Elephants tusks grow throughout an elephant’s life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
-Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant’s body.
-Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that human can hear.
-Elephants are known to remain standing after they die.
-Elephants perform greeting ceremonies when a member of the group returns a long time away. The welcoming animals spin normal, flap their ears, and trumpet.
-Elephants sleep only two hours a day.
-Elephants use leafy branches and plant stalks as fly swatters.
-diamonds are entirely made of carbon. And you wonder why they are so expensive, it is because they are too scarce. Imagine, of all the ore dug in diamond mines, only one carat in every 23 tons proves to be diamond. The average diameter of a one-carat is 6.42 mm.
-Did you know that when pencils were first invented, they had no erasers on the tip? When the rubber erasers were introduced, teachers opposed their use because these new pencils could encourage students to make mistakes.
-Stroke victims now have one good reason to let vampire bats bite them. The clot-dissolving (fibrinolytic) substances called Desmodus rotundus salivary plasminogen activator found in the saliva of vampire bats is more effective than the available clot busters in the market. It was found to target and destroy fibrin, the structural scaffold of blood clots. When the vampire bats bites its victims, it secretes a powerful substances so that the victim’s blood will keep flowing, allowing the bat to feed.
-An experiments conducted by Japanese scientists that people who player video games for two to seven hours per day failed to emit beta brainwaves – a gauge of levels of activity at the foremost part of the frontal lobe which plays a role in controlling emotion and enhancing activity.
-The skin of the armpit can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas such as forearm have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.
-Bananas aren’t grown in trees. They are part of the lily family, a cousin of orchid, nothing but plump members of the herb family. With stalks 25 feet high, this is the largest plant on earth without a woody stem.
-Have you seen a square-shaped watermelon? Japan has already developed such a kind of watermelons in order to save space in refrigerators. But their prices reach or less P 4,000/each.
-The Otomach Indians who live along the Orinco River hunt for fish with bow and arrow when the water is low but for two or three months of the year, when the water is too high and too rapid, they survived on diet of mud balls. The mud balls do not contain any nutrients that we can recognized and yet these Indians remain healthy and strong through the dirt-eating season.
-Sponge is an animal not a plant. Although it sits quietly, they do not response when touch, no tentacles or claws for catching food but it is an active animal. Its lumpish body is dotted with small holes, connected to a few largers ones through internal canals. Its whiplike appendages beats furiously, pumping water to small opening and out. Small amount of food are filtered out and eaten. It filters out a tons of water before he can gain an ounce in its body weight.
-Anemone looks like a harmless flower but it is normally a carnivore. Poison darts can stun a fish.
-Jellyfish are similar to sea anemone – but it is only upside down. The pink spot around the tentacles are promitive eyes.
-Flying fish culls with its tail to gain speed. They don’t actually fly but only glide up up to 50 yards. He never sleep. During black night he is sailing 20 feet above the water.
-Zebra fish swims languidly its long fins like the feathers on a strutting gobbler. But hidden in his lacy frills, it has 18 needle-like poison spines. Venom can cause severe pain and sometimes result in paralysis.
-Arrowworm has 3/4 on an inch long and transparent. He can dart suddenly and snap up copepod. It grabs and gobbles your herring almost as big as himself.
-Sea urchin has rasps on its mouth so hard that it can bite off bits of rock along with the algae clinging to it.
-Scallop, one of the brighter bivalves has 30 to 40 eyes that can see such danger coming, and alerly move away.
-The clam has the ability to bury itself in the mud and then extend his long neck in search for food. If dangers come, the clam will pull its neck and dig deeper into the mud.
-Sea cucumber push along and slowly scooping the organic slime into their mouth and licking their tentacle fingers. When suddenly attack it cough up their entrails and leaving them behind to distract the foe, slip away and grow new entrails.
-Tuna can swim at a steady nine miles an hour indefinitely, and they never stops. It has estimated that a 15 year-old tuna must have travelled a million miles since birth.
-Giant squid is the most powerful spineless swimmers. It can shoot along backward at quite a fair speed by jetting water from its rocket-shape body.
-Ocean fish uses its fins just for steering, to steady and stopping. Its entire body and tail are long series of muscles that can drive it efficiently. It obtains extra power and speed by pumping water through its gills.
-Most fish are kept from sinking due to its swim bladder like a small balloon filled with gas drawn from oxygen in its bloodstream. But it has limitation. This air tank cannot be immediately filled or emptied as the fish moves up and down. Fish caught at depths of more than a few feet will die because of the pressure of the water on the swim bladder. By expanding, it can rupture its internal organs.
-Although fish has no vocal organs but they make sounds by grinding their teeth or by vibrations in certain organ (swim bladder). Some of the croak is mating calls or warning signals.
-Many bottom fish are able to change color. Their skins are equipped with pigment cells that can either reveal or conceal the pigment. It has no voluntary control. It triggered off automatically by its nerves.
-The viper fish has long teeth and remain outside even when closed.
-Other fish has expandable stomach. They can swallow their victim much larger than himself.
-Angler fish can be in 5,000 feet down with fishing rod twice as long as itself dangling ahead of his mouth. He has a light organ in his body. He used it to light in the blackest water deep. Another kind of angler fish has its light organ inside its mouth right behind its teeth.
-Another deep-dwelling prowler wears patches of luminous bacteria below its eyes. It has folds of skin which it can pull down like window blinds when it pleases.
-Amphipods are champion jumpers. With enormous rear legs, it can leap 40 times its own length. His pair of legs used to burrow and jump.
