1. Which is the world's leading egg-producing country? China 2. Which living bird lays the world's smallest egg? Humming Bird 3. What is the study of bird eggs called? Oology 4. Which of these animals walks like a camel? Cat 5. What is the gestation period of an African elephant? Twenty one months 6. Which animal can look two ways at the same time? Chameleon 7. Name the bird that enters a saltwater crocodile’s mouth to pick out the parasites and food particles? Nile plover 8. Snakes that are active in daytime generally have round pupils. What about snakes those come out at night? They have...? Vertical pupils 9. Birds maintain a body temperature in the range of...? 40° to 44°C 10. Birds replace their feathers periodically in a process called...? Molting 11. Which is the Fastest land animal? cheetah 12. Which bird can fly straight up, down, and backward? Hummingbird 13. How many toes do ostriches have on each foot? Answer: 2 14. What animal, besides snakes, can go for two years without food? Crocodile 15. How many hearts does an octopus have? Answer: 8 Compiled by: Umadevi (Chennai) … [Read more...]
15 Interesting scientific facts
Interesting facts about mosquitoes, animals, plants and chemicals: 1. Mosquitoes: A. Female mosquitoes are non- vegetarian in nature and continue their existence by taking the blood of human-beings and other animals. B. The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees. Female mosquitoes are responsible for the spreading of the infectious diseases like – Malaria, Dengue fever and Chikungunia etc. 2. Tongue of the blue whale: Its tongue’s weight is equal to the total body weight of the elephant. 3. Middle finger of the hand: It grows more speedily in length, compared to the remaining four fingers of the hand. 4. Peculiar thing: Rats and horses can’t have the power of vomiting, which is why the rats can’t survive, even after taking the small quantity of zinc sulphate (rat-poisoning). 5. Age and pregnancy: Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving delivery of twins. 6. Chips: Taking 1 chips pocket per day= taking 5 liters of oil in a year. 7. Tse-tse Fly: It is the causative organism for “over –sleeping (sleeping sickness)disease, in human-beings. 8. Bones in the human’s head : There are 29 bones present in our head. 9. T he oldest food plant is: Barley. 10. The superior quality products, manufactured for our daily use are called “White goods”. 11. Foolish seedling disease: This disease in paddy (rice) plants is caused by “Zibbarella Fusicory fungus”. In this disease, the stem of the plant grows extraordinarily in length. 12. Cooking soda: Chemically, it is “Sodium Bicarbonate”. 13. Washing soda: chemically it is … [Read more...]
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