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| Topic Started: Jan 28 2011, 12:17 AM (1,724 Views) | |
| Ànraich | Jan 28 2011, 12:17 AM Post #1 |
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So I recently got a (an?) HD cable box, and I'm watching Planet Earth in HD. First of all, let me say that high definition television is not only noticeably better than regular TV, but noticeably WAY better. Secondly, post interesting facts about animals that most people might not know (perhaps a bit challenging in this community). Maybe it will give people some ideas for their own projects. Right now the only one I can think of is the one I just say; kangaroos can delay the development of an embryo in times of drought. I had no idea some animals could just stop having a baby. EDIT: Oh! Seeing the scorpion on TV has reminded me, scorpions actually glow under a blacklight due to the phosphorous in their exoskeletons. We used to have this blacklight on our porch so we could see the little brown scorpions running around our front lawn during warm summer nights. Vicious little things, but harmless. Edited by Ànraich, Jan 28 2011, 12:21 AM.
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Kamidio | Jan 28 2011, 12:21 AM Post #2 |
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The sphincter is actually a very important part of our biology. |
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| FallingWhale | Jan 28 2011, 02:05 AM Post #3 |
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That's a given. Pigs will drown in their own vomit if left upside-down; which is why NASA used other things. |
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| Ànraich | Jan 28 2011, 02:09 AM Post #4 |
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I've heard that turkeys will drown in the rain staring up at the sky with their mouths open, but considering that was from Johnny Bravo I'm doubtful. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| FallingWhale | Jan 28 2011, 02:31 AM Post #5 |
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No, they run inside, they couldn't drown like that if they tried. |
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| Carlos | Jan 28 2011, 03:14 AM Post #6 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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Eagles (and other birds, I think?) don't have blood vessels in their eyes, hence why they can see so well. |
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| FallingWhale | Jan 28 2011, 03:21 AM Post #7 |
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That is true for most vertebrate eyes. |
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| Jasonguppy | Jan 28 2011, 07:24 AM Post #8 |
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I have blood vessels in my eyes. Most things have blood vessels there. An armadillo always gives birth to identical young. |
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| Carlos | Jan 28 2011, 07:46 AM Post #9 |
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Depends. Superficial blood vessels do exist, sometimes providing a purplish colour to the iris. Birds, however, completly lack even these. |
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| Zoroaster | Jan 28 2011, 10:19 AM Post #10 |
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maybe old news, but anyway - was watching Nick Bakers Weird Creatures last night on HDTV, he was in Borneo hunting for the Slow Loris - and interesting fact (I think I've heard/read it before) but Slow Loris have glands on their elbows which they lick so they can deliver a venomous bite... |
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| bloom_boi | Jan 28 2011, 12:30 PM Post #11 |
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When NASA took frogs to space, they ate by vomiting out their stomach inside out and then swallowing the food so it in the stomach. edit: Parasky, most kind of mice can reabsorb their young if times are bad. Edited by bloom_boi, Jan 28 2011, 12:32 PM.
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| Ànraich | Jan 28 2011, 01:51 PM Post #12 |
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Frogs swallow by pushing their eyes down into their oral cavity. My zoology teacher in high school demonstrated this rather gruesomely with an unfortunate frog corpse (he was scheduled for dissection that day anyways; we dissected so many things in that class, it was fun). Frog tongues are also not longer than any other creature's in proportion to their body. It's merely attached to the front of their mouth rather than the back. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Kamidio | Jan 28 2011, 02:57 PM Post #13 |
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North polar bears and other animals associated with the cold often like warmer weather if they grow up in one. Hence the book "Polar Bears Like It Hot; A collection of misconceptions." |
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| truteal | Jan 28 2011, 03:21 PM Post #14 |
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It's false, but I once heard that Turkeys have to be taught how to eat, or they will starve. Octopi live longer without there reproductive organs. A Crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. |
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| Kamidio | Jan 28 2011, 03:26 PM Post #15 |
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Everyones knows that. Crocodiles are so polite that they evovled the inability to stick their tounges out.
Edited by Kamidio, Jan 28 2011, 03:27 PM.
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