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# 70. Home-made hi-fi stereo system.
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(Courtesy Google Images)

The male cricket send out his mating calls through home-made hi-fi stereo speakers!

He burrows out an underground nest with two tunnel entrances. He sits at the junction of the tunnels and by rubbing his fore wings together emits a trilling sound that is amplified several times to attract the passing females.
 
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#71. Born to slavery.

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British red Ant.

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Amazon Ants (Army Ants) Courtesy Google images.

Formica sanguinea, the British Red Ants finds additional slave workers by raiding the nests of Negro ants Formica fusca.

They kill any worker ants that resit and oppose. Then the blood red ants carry off all the dormant pupae - ants which are changing from larvae to adults inside cocoons - to their own nests.There the newly born Negro ants become the slaves of the red ants.

The blood red ants has its own group of worker ants and this is these are extra slaves.

The European Amazon ants is totally dependent on the Negro ant slaves which work hard to excavate the Amazon ants' nests and to take care of their young.

Slavery is not confined to human beings.

Might is Right. The mighty animals, birds and insects continue to reap the benefit of free labour by their slaves.
 
# 72. Ant that eats itself!

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The queen of the black garden ant Lasius niger, feeds partly on its own wing muscles!

After mating in mid air, in the summer, the queen returns to earth and bits off its wings for food.

The male has fulfilled its role and crawls away to die.

The queen finds a crevice for a new nest. She lives on her fat reserves and on the nutrients contained in her wing muscles.

She begins to lay eggs in the following spring. The first few batches of eggs develop into wingless female workers.

As the workers feed the queen she lays more eggs- until in the summer winged males and females are born.

A new cycle begins all over again.
 
# 73. The human flea.

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(COURTESY GOOGLE IMAGES)

Pulex irritans - THE HUMAN FLEA, has a long jump of 330 m.m. and a high jump of 200 m.m.

This is 130 times its own height. This is equivalent to a human being jumping to a height of 850 feet or to reach the roof of a seventy stories building.

The flea achieves this by flexing an elastic pad beside its hind legs and then suddenly releasing it. It propels itself in air as if it were an arrow from a built in bow.

Each jump subjects the flea to a g force 200 times stronger than the usual. Such a strain will kill the human beings.
 
There are two main differences:

The flea jumps against gravity to grab a victim /a host and live on him! :hungry:

The humans jump along with the gravity and try to end their precious lives! :doh:

Both do the jumping wantonly and not involuntarily. :high5:

sadasivam.sridharan said:
Yet human beings involuntarily attempt this when they get angry.
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# 74. The human warble fly.

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Dermatobia hominis does not attack humans directly.

It seizes the day flying mosquitoes and flies and attaches its eggs to their bodies.

When the mosquito lands on a human to feed, the warmth of the victim's body causes the egg to hatch. The newly formed larvae bores beneath the victims skin to grow and feed.

Only when the larvae is fully grown, it leaves the victim's body and drops off to pupate in the soil. It becomes an adult and starts its hunt for a carrier of its egg.
 
# 75. Bleed before the attack!

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Four species of native oil beetles in U.K.

Some of the slow moving and conspicuous insects like the oil beetle, the bloody nosed beetle and the ladybird, bleed not after the injury but before the it and in order to prevent it!

When they are alarmed, they release drops of red bitter tasting liquid from their mouths or from the pores in their joints.

The caustic flavour repels the attackers before the insect is seriously harmed.
 
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# 76. Queen honey bee.

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(courtesy Google image)

A queen honey bee fertilises and lays up to 600,000 eggs during its three to five years reign. But she mates only on her single mating flight with four or five males in succession.

She keeps the collected sperm in a reservoir and goes on laying eggs until she is succeeded by one of her royal daughters.

The deposed queen flies away with half the workers and starts a new hive elsewhere.

Fertilised eggs produce workers and the queens. The un-fertilised eggs produce males. How she controls the proportion of the drones and the workers is magic to us!
 
# 77. Clouds of locusts.
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Courtesy Google images.

Locusts are known to have devastated plants and crops throughout the ages. They migrate thousands of miles in search of food.

A typical swarm can contain 500,000 million insects, measuring 30 miles in length and 5 miles in width .

They appear as a vast black cloud hiding the sun! They can eat each day the amount of food needed by 20 million people.

The migrations seem to be triggered by the sudden
population explosion in the desert areas where they breed.
 
# 78. Miniatures in millions!

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A Spring tail.Courtesy Google images.


An acre of pasture land is estimated to contains an average of 360 million insects! Spring tails - wingless, leaping insects are the most common.

Fewer than one million insects have been classified.The actual total can be five times as large. Three fourths of the known animal specie of today are the insects.

There are more than a million insects for every man, woman and child. The insects population weighs abut 12 times the human population.

What can appear more insignificant and yet push the all powerful man into insignificance both by their astonishing number and their amazing collective weight?
 
# 79. A Larva that lives in oil!

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Courtesy Google Images.

The larva of the petroleum fly Psilopa petrolei lives in the pools of crude oil - which seeps from the ground in oil fields.

The larva's skin and the intestinal lining are specially adapted to withstand the oil - which permanently fills its gut and surrounds it body!

These would kill most other forms of life. It feeds on the other insects which get trapped in the oil.

The larva which lives submerged in the oil rises to the surface when it is fully gown in order to undergo metamorphosis and become an adult fly.

When the transformation is complete, the fly takes off in the air but it lays its eggs in the pool of oil to start the cycle again.
 
# 80. Surface skimmers.

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A rove beetle. Courtesy Google Images.

Some rove beetles skim effortlessly on the surface of water.
They are pulled by the surface tension of the water in front of them.
They lower the surface tension at the rear of their bodies using a glandular secretion at the ends of their abdomens.

This allows them to use the higher surface tension in their front as a driving force.

The same principle was used in the camphor-powered boats that were once children's popular toys.

We have heard of Free Loaders. This beetle is a Free Rider :) !
 
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# 81. Inch worm.

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An Inch worm Courtesy Google Images.

Most caterpillars are sluggish creatures and feed on plants. But a group of 20 flies found in Hawaiian islands are fly
hunters!

These caterpillars known as inch worms ambush the flies when they land.They lunge at the flies with six tiny (1/12 inches long) claws.

They lie in wait among the forest leaves. Their eyes are not of much help.They rely on the sensitive hair at their backs.
When a fly brushes against the hair, they strike out and consume the fly whole.

These caterpillars grow to a length of one inch. They move in a curious fashion. They draw the tail right up to the head forming a loop and then stretch the head to the front as if they are measuring the ground.
 
# 82. Fish out of water.

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Catfish courtesy Google Images.

An African catfish known as the clariid can live out of water for several days. It has a lung like organ which supplements the gills.

The fish uses this ability to move to a new home in a dry season. It wriggles on land between stretches of water.

But how it finds out which direction to go is still a mystery to the scientists!
 
# 83. Aquatic Archer.

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Archer fish ( Aquatic Arjun?!)
courtesy Google Images.

The South-east Asian Archer fish can shoot down its prey with a jet of water!

Firing from beneath the surface of water, it can make a perfect hit on the insects one meter above the water surface.

It squirts the water jet through a tube formed between the plate and tongue.
 
Ramayana in the Philippines

Ramayana in the Philippines


Rajah Mangandiri is the Philippine version of the great Indian epic "The Ramayana", as passed down through the centuries-old oral tradition of the " Maranao" people of the southern Philippines.


"Rajah Mangandiri" is Kinding Sindaw's original Philippine dance and music version of great epic "The Ramayana," . From the 4th to the 10th centuries, the Philippines, along with Malaysia, Indonesia and Southern Malaysia, Indonesia and southern Thailand, were all part of the Hindu "Sri Vijaya" Empire. As a dance, musical, and martial arts drama, RAJAH MANGANDIRI blends traditional forms of Maranao court and secular dances, with live kulintang (gamelan) orchestral music, silat and kali martial arts, and a touch of the contemporary in a rich visual, aural, and performance tapestry....Like no other RAMAYANA, the Princess Sita finally wield a sword. The Indian epic has been preserved in its authentic oral tradition of the centuries-old Maranao tribe of the southern Philippines and has been interpreted for the stage through the contemporary vision of Potri Ranka Manis, daughter of the Sultan of the Maranao tribe (a true modern-day Princess!), and her company of 16 young artists. The production is co-directed by Potri Ranka Manis and Wayland Quintero.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
# 84. The four-eyed-fish.

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Courtesy Google images.

Tropical America is the home of the four eyed fish. it swims on the surface of water in search of its insect food.

An eye projects above the level of the top of the head of the fish on each side.
Each eye is divided into two halves by a horizontal bar that coincides with the water level. The upper half of the eye is suitable for vision in the air and the lower half for vision in water.

The lens of the eye is shaped so that it can focus both the air and the water images simultaneously on two distinct retinal areas.

So the fish can see four images simultaneously - enabling it to catch the prey in air as well as under water.
 
# 85. One in a million chance.

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A cod fish. Courtesy Google Images.


Most Fish breed by shedding their eggs and sperm directly in water. Fertilisation itself is a risky business.

A female cod fish may lay more than 6 million eggs each breeding season. Of these only one or two will grow to become adults.

Fertilised eggs as well as the young fish are eaten by the sea creatures.

To compensate for this high casualty rate, most fish species lay large number of eggs.

Female turbots have been found with up to 9 million eggs in their ovaries. A ling fish once was found to have 28 million eggs in her ovary.
 
# 86. Fish with a roving and moving eye!

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Both the eyes are in the right side of the face. The left side of the fish would be white like the underside of any fish.
Courtesy Google images.

Some adult flat fish have both their eyes on one side of the head. Though they start their lives with eyes symmetrically placed, one eye moves over the top of the head to the other side as they grow.

The two-eyed-side (usually the right side) develops strong camouflage colouring to suit the background, the other side remains white.

The reason for this lopsided growth is that flatfish spend most of their adult lives lying on one side at the bottom merging well with the background. Only the eyes protrude while they lie in wait for the next meal.
 
# 87. Flying fish

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Courtesy Google Images.

Flying fish do not really fly. They glide. Propelled by their tails, they leap into air at the speed up to 20 m.p.h. and use their wide pectoral fins as wings.

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courtesy Google images.

They usually glide close to the ocean's surface where a flick of the tail against the water can produce extra impetus.
Flying fish are known to soar up to 20 feet into the air and stay aloft up to 1300 feet.
 
Wonderful creatures living under the ocean. How they live and what is their purpose of living?
Perhaps the creator only can answer.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
dear Sir,
I am not able to find the purpose of human life and the causes of human behaviour. :confused:
Knowing the purpose of the lives of these fantastic creatures is beyond our intellect.
But I am sure God is the efficient "Maalik" and never wastes either His material or His time on anything really unnecessary.
So they must be serving some real good purpose unknown to us, I am sure.
Thank you for your feedback.
with warm regards, :pray2:
Visalakshi Ramani.

Brahmanyan said:
Wonderful creatures living under the ocean. How they live and what is their purpose of living?
Perhaps the creator only can answer.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
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# 88. "My Dad is my Mom!"

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Courtesy Google images

Seahorse is one of the few species in the animal world where the male gives birth to the young. The male has a special brood-pouch on its abdomen, into which the female lays its eggs.

The eggs get fertilised. They hatch and the young ones develop there until they become the miniature versions of their parents.

The male then goes into labour and delivers the young ones. It jettisons the young seahorses in a series of convulsions which may last for several hours.

Poor daddy-turned-mummy suffers for a prolonged period, delivering the young ones!
 
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