Showing posts with label ANIMAL Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANIMAL Facts. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

FAST FACT #4

Around 200 cats roam the grounds of Disneyland...


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Thursday, January 25, 2018

FAST FACT #3

Cows are deadlier than sharks...



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Thursday, November 9, 2017

CANADIAN FACTS #7 - A Beaver Dam In Alberta is so Huge it can be Seen From Space



Talk about busy as a beaver. These ones have been busy for over 40 years!
The massive 850-metre long (2,800 feet) dam was first spotted on satellite photos in 2007 - in Wood Buffalo National Park, about 190 kilometres (118 miles) northeast of Fort McMurray.

Most dams are reported to be anywhere from 30 to 300 feet at their longest, but this dam, almost 3000 feet, sprawls out in a birdlike kind of shape.

Thie says construction probably started around the mid-1970s, but that it clearly continues today.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

RANDOM FACT #37 - A Chicken Once Lived WITHOUT its HEAD - for 18 Months



Talk about a miracle! Many of you may remember this unbelievable story. The whole thing was intriguing right from the get go. Why did the owner of the chicken screwed up the slaughter? It was not like it was his first time. And after realizing his mistake, why didn't he correct it and finish off the chicken - like most farmers would have likely done. Maybe it was meant to be? We've sure learnt a thing or two since then about the brain and brainstem function - at least in chickens anyways...

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947), also known as Miracle Mike, was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Although the story was thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah to establish the facts.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

RANDOM FACT #32 - Swifts can fly ALMOST A YEAR WITHOUT LANDING



“They feed in the air, they mate in the air, they get nest material in the air,” says Susanne Ã…kesson from Lund University in Sweden. “They can land on nest boxes, branches, or houses, but they can’t really land on the ground.” That's because their wings are too long and their legs are too short to take off from a flat surface. Hence the fittingly-named birds' species name, Apus, which translates to "footless". It's actually safer for them to be up in the air than on the ground.

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