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| Did you know that... |
| 01
September
2010
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EZNC |
Rats are very susceptible to obesity?
Female votsotsas do not become sexually mature before they are two years of age? Until then they stay with their mum and dad.
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Crows sometimes use tools to get food? There have even been reported cases of crows bending their tools in the right shape first.
Some species of tarantula defend themselves by shooting off urticating hairs? The hairs have small barbs and are very irritating to the mucous membranes in our nose, mouth and eyes.
In England young cranes also attend school? They attend a Crane School.
The tongue of a polar bear has a blue-purple colour?
The Malay tapir is the only species of tapir in Asia?
The aardvark tongue can become up to 30 cm long? The long, sticky tongue is used to fish termites out of a termite nest.
The largest tarantula in the world can become up to 30 centimetres long (legs included)? This is the Goliath Birdeater (Theraphosa blondi).
There are rats that sway their head back and forth? They do this to estimate distances. This is called motion parallax. It is mainly seen in red-eyed rats.
Besides the blue-footed booby, there is also a red-footed booby?
There are rats that have eyes of two different colours? This is called an odd-eyed rat.
The emperor penguin can dive deeper than any other bird? It can dive almost 500 metres deep.
Cockatoos originally live only in Australia and on its neighbouring islands?
When hippos yawn, they do this as a threat? It intents to show their formidable teeth. In zoos the animals also do it to beg for food.
A Yemen chameleon prefers to drink (or lick up) water in the form drops? Still standing water is not always recognized as water.
The polar bear is the largest of 8 bear species?
Japanese macaques sometimes bathe in warm water wells to stay warm during hard winters?
The School Shark is from the family of Triakidae?
Capybaras are also called Water-hogs?
Some bird species have one big moulting period and others replace their feathers almost all through the year?
The 'casque' on the head of the male Veiled chameleon can become up to 8 centimetres high?
The young of a red ibis have a grey-brown colour? They obtain their beautiful red colour later.
Cats in the wild eat about 15 small prey a day? That is why it is so important to play with the cat (=to imitate hunting).
The Blue Whale is the largest living mammal on earth? The largest confirmed specimen was over 33 metres long, but usually their length lies between 21 and 27 metres.
The Red panda is also known as the Lesser panda?
The eyes of the giant octopus can become up to 25 centimetres wide? These are the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
Alligators are good moms? They stay with their young for a year after they hatched.
Meerkats like to take a sunbath?
The radiated tortoise is considered one of the most beautiful tortoises?
Eagle rays are ovoviviparous?
Maleo's are superprecocial? The young birds emerge from the egg fully developed and have to take care of themselves right away. They can fly, they have to look for food and protect themselves against predators.
Bramble leaves are on the diet of almost all stick insects?
Gentoo penguins can obtain speeds under water of up to 27 kilometres per hour?
The beard of the bearded dragon is a throat sack, which is inflated in case of danger?
Grey parrots can get up to 60-70 years old?
Fur seals can walk on all fours?
Some fish spend their entire life in pitch-dark caves underground?
Capybaras are the largest rodents in the world?
Tuataras are also called living fossils?
The shingleback skink looks like it has got two heads? Its tail is long and wide in order to confuse predators.
The grey nurse shark eats its brothers and sisters while still inside the uterus?
The tongue of a chameleon is larger than its own body?
The North American forest frog can survive being frozen?
The Iberian lynx is the most rare feline species?
Poison dart frogs are protected internationally by law?
Rodents lack canines? They do have incisors.
Rodents do not always have the same amount of molars? The number varies between four and 24.
The giraffe is an ambler, just as the camel?
An ostrich can live up to sixty years?
A Kirk's Dik-dik is a very small kind of antelope?
The smallest scorpion is about nine millimeters in size? This so called Typhlochactas can be found in Mexico.
Ostriches walk on only two toes, while other birds walk on four?
Most insects have two pairs of wings, but the fly and the mosquito have only one pair?
Tree-kangaroos descend from the trees with their tails down?
White whales used to be called canaries of the sea due to their large repertoire of squeaks, clicking sounds and whistling sounds?
The animal with the most legs is called a millipede (Illacme plenipes)? Its total amount of legs comes down to 750 (375 pairs).
The male infants of black howler monkeys are not black at all, but in fact blond? Black hairs will only appear when they are three years of age.
Penguins do not have any teeth? They swallow their food in one go.
A bluetongue skink can let go of its tail to escape a predator?
Pigs have a poor sight? They're usually short-sighted.
Many snails are hermaphrodites? They have both male and female reproduction organs.
Bush-crickets have ears in their front legs?
The okapi can clean its ears with its tongue? Not many mammals can pull off this trick!
The largest moth in the world is an Atlas moth (Attacus caesar, wingspread 32 cm)?
The platypus and the echidna are the only two mammals that lay eggs?
Chinese dwarf hamsters are no vegetarians?
Lions mate around 30 to 40 times a day during the mating season?
When ostriches run there is about 2,5 to 3 meter between every step?
The contents of an ostrich egg is equivalent to the content of 25 chicken eggs?
The antlers of an elk can weigh up to 45 kilograms? Still they are shed each year.
Squirrels bite out the embryo of the acorn to stop it from sprouting?
Meerkats use their long nails as tooth picks?
The stripes of a zebra cool the animal down?
Ostriches can reach speeds of 65 kilometres an hour, making them the fastest bipeds of the animal kingdom?
Living lobsters are not red but blue? They only become red when being boiled.
Winnie de Pooh owes its name to a real bear called Winnie, who lived in London Zoo?
An octopus has three hearts?
It is the male seahorse that becomes pregnant?
The tongue of a blue whale weighs as much and is the same size of an adult elephant?
The sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) travels more than 65.000 kilometres a year?
A newborn elephant weighs 120 kilos?
Mosquitos have teeth?
This week you can read why not so brave rabbits have a positive effect on vegetation?
Falcons are being used to chase flocks of birds at airports?
This week you can read why ducks are better off without bread?
A walrus can eat over 10.000 molluscs in two days time?
Hedgehogs die because they become stuck in McFlurry cups?
The English edition of the EZNC newsletter is starting its second year of publication in 2007?
Hedgehogs have a long muscle alongside the abdomen, with which they can roll themselves into a ball?
There are bats that are able to recognize poisonous frogs by listening to quacking males?
The number of subscribers to the newsletter keeps rising?
Pigs are real creatures of habit and like to be fed on fixed times?
Dogs eat grass when they feel nauseous, which occurs more often if they are fed once a day?
The opening of a koalas pouch is aimed downward?
With seahorses it is the male that becomes pregnant?
The Chinchillas most common health problems are caused by a wrong feed?
Hibernation is regulated without external stimuli with the Eastern chipmunk?
The White garden snail flees when beetle dung points to recent snail glutton?
The Quokka is a browser that is fond of eating leaves and flowers?
The biggest part of the feed is not digested by the horse itself but by microorganisms in the intestines?
Tree hyraxes hardly ever come down to ground, causing them to sometimes eat plants which are extremely poisonous for humans?
Manatees are herbivores which also occur in salt water?
More than 2000 people read the newsletter?
The horses predecessors (Eohippus) preferred a diet of leaves and soft vegetation, and the animal was also capable of digesting fruit and seeds?
A walrus can eat more than 10.000 clams in only two days?
There is not evidence that bird flu can spread through food, but that its not out of the question either?
as from today, the EZNC newsletter will appear on Wednesdays?
the brain of an Ostrich is smaller than its eyes?
elephants are able to smell their fellow elephants from a distance of 3 miles?
The Abstracts of the Nutrition Conference in Leipzig are available on the EZNC website?
Chocolate is toxic to pigs?
Galvanized bird cages can cause sink poisoning in birds?
The Abstracts of the Nutrition Conference in Rotterdam are available on the EZNC website?
Mice are creatures that sing in the presence of mates?
A ferret is a predator and not a rodent? |
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