Trivia for Squiggle #10!!!
Welcome to the tenth issue of Trivia for Squiggle! Today's edition contains facts entirely about animals...
226. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
227. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
228. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
229. A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
230. A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
231. A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
232. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
233. A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
234. A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
235. A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
236. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
237. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
238. All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
239. All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
240. An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
241. An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
242. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
243. Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
244. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
245. Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
246. By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
247. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
248. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
249. Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
250. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
"Oh my God, I am WAY too stoned for this!"
226. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
227. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
228. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
229. A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
230. A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
231. A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
232. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
233. A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
234. A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
235. A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
236. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
237. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
238. All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
239. All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
240. An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
241. An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
242. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
243. Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
244. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
245. Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
246. By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
247. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
248. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
249. Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
250. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
"Oh my God, I am WAY too stoned for this!"
posted by Scott at 12:16 PM
2 Comments:
"248. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike."
I would have thought they would have taken advantage of the slightly flambéed snack.
I don't think they'd like said snack. How many creatures cook their food?
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