Daily Dose Of Interesting Information

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

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Daily dose of Interesting Information

It appears that Mr Macmillan has invented the first Pedal Cycle
sometime during 1839 or so. While we notice many improvements
in the parts of the Cycle, such as in the design of frame, wheels,
brakes, handlebar, seat, stand, bell, etc. there is no revolution in the
general concept of the bicycle manufacture.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
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[Brahin]

# 133. Family of millions!!!

Mom and kids. Courtesy Google Images.

Rabbits can breed very rapidly. A female can produce a litter of 9 young ones after a gestation period of 31 days. :flock:

She can become pregnant almost immediately and produce up to six litters in a year. :bump2:

If a pair of rabbits bred to their maximum capacity with no loss of the offspring, they could produce a family more than 33 million animals with in three years! :faint:

Lucky humans cant.......

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As it is earth is creaking under the weight of the population

and many people are starving...

It is really lucky that humans have a longer gestation period

and they start reproducing only after the age after 20 + years!

Thank Heavens for small mercies! :hail:

Lucky humans cant.......

 

[Brahin]

Mam ur daily dose of information is really interesting & i really luv this thread.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Thank you for the encouraging feedback. We think animals are not worthy our attention but they are fascinating creatures - each one in a different way.

You must see the way my little grand daughter's face glows when she visits the local zoo.

She will be chattering so excitedly about the animals she saw there. In fact the first grammatically correct sentence she spoke many months ago, was during her first visit to the zoo.

Can you guess what she had said?
It was "I want to be a monkey!"

I would have told her "You are already a little lovable monkey!"

Mam ur daily dose of information is really interesting & i really luv this thread.

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Daily dose of interesting information

The birth place of "Chess" is India. In fact the word
Chess is derived from Sanskrit - Chaturanga meaning
four groups of an Army. In Olden days, elephants,
horse, Chariot and Infantry i.e. foot soldiers were mostly
used in the War.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
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[Visalakshi Ramani]

# 134. The long march for survival.

Barren ground caribou with their over sized and attractive horns
Courtesy Google images.

The barren ground caribou of Canada, makes the longest migration of any land animal.

The herd moves to the high Tundra of the Arctic for the summer.The young ones are born there.

They return to the South in the autumn, making a round trip of bout 1400 miles.

The animals migrate in giant herds of 20,000 individuals.
The long trek enables the herds to feed on the richest available pasture at each season of the year and survive.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A herd of barren ground caribou.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

# 135. Whale of a brain?

A sperm whale. Look at its long head where 500 gallons of pure oil is stored. Courtesy Google images.

Sperm whales have the heaviest brain for any animal.

It can weigh more than 9 K.G. (20 lbs). This is 6 times larger than a human brain.

A fully grown sperm whale can weigh 50 tonnes and be 20 meter ( 66 feet) long.

The head of the whale is about one third of the body length and contains up to 500 gallons ( 2300 liters) of pure oil.

Until the time of the refined mineral oils, this was the finest lubricant known to man.

It was wrongly believed that the oil was the sperm of the whale and hence the misnomer as the sperm whale.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

# 136. To meet and mate!

Reminds me of the traffic in Ranganathan street in Chennai.

The greatest gathering of a single species of mammal takes

place annually in the Pribilof Islands.

This is an island group in the Bering sea off Southwest Alaska.

Each year an estimated 1.5 million Alaskan fur seals

assemble there .

Courtesy Google images.

They successfully produce half a million pups! WOW!

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

In accordance with Russian's Custom, a Traveler is supposed to sit on his
luggage before commencement of the Travel. Hope this concept has not
spread over in India.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I think everybody sits on his luggage so that

it can be properly closed or zipped!

In accordance with Russian's Custom, a Traveler is supposed to sit on his
luggage before commencement of the Travel. Hope this concept has not
spread over in India.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[Naina_Marbus]

# 136. To meet and mate!

....The greatest gathering of a single species of mammal takes place !WOW!

If sex/mating is not the only criterion for the choice of material for the “greatest gathering of a single species of mammal that takes place” , here is a report on an even bigger gathering:

After visiting the Kumbh Mela of 1895, Mark Twain wrote ( in his book “ FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD” :

Two millions of natives arrive at this fair every year…..It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination, marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites.

 

[Raji Ram]

We saw in a small museum in Santa Fe, one photo of Kumba MELA. Here is the snap I took:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Mathematically speaking...

The number of adult seals + pups = the number of human beings in the kumb mela.

So they break even! :decision:

Mammalas are driven by instrinct and man by his intellect.

So even if the number of humans exceed that of the seals, it can be explained easiy. :blabla:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

# 137. Do seals cry?

A harp seal pup in tears! Courtesy Google images.


Seals on land look really miserable!
They have tear drops trickling down their cheeks.

But the tears are not related to emotional state of the seal in any way!

As in most of the aquatic creatures, the seal produces the tears to lubricate their eyes.

They just drift off into the sea. It does not have the ducts running from its eyes to its nose as in the case of land mammals.

So while on land the tears have nowhere to go except trickle down the face - making it look very sad indeed!

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

A Girl worries about the Future until she gets a Husband Whereas
A boy never worries about his Future until he gets his Wife.


Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[Raji Ram]

1. A Girl worries about the Future until she gets a Husband Whereas
2. A boy never worries about his Future until he gets his Wife.

The two important words are missing!!

1. obedient (husband) :hail:

2. dominating (wife) :whip:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The two important words are missing!!

1. obedient (husband) :hail:

2. dominating (wife) :whip:

If the roles are reversed... the other things will also be reversed in both cases!!!

 

[Naina_Marbus]

If the roles are reversed... the other things will also be reversed in both cases!!!

This is a sphinx-like statement. ...what are 'the other things' ? The adjective or the noun? Or the gender?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The other things simply means
the worrying period,:clock:

the cause for worrying and :sad:

the effectiveness of worrying out:

Thanks for relating me to a sphinx.:dance:

The closest I had come to it earlier

was a lioness and a tigress !

This is a sphinx-like statement. ...what are 'the other things' ? The adjective or the noun? Or the gender?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

# 138. "Ready 1..2..3..start!

Croaking frogs. Courtesy Google Images.

Contrary to the children's rhyme, the frog rarely does a-wooing go!

Instead all the males sit in a stream or pond. They blow up their cheeks and croak. This sound guides the interested female frog to the spot.

Many frogs call in a chorus. Some species even have a chorus master who leads the croaking. :sing:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

If sex/mating is not the only criterion for the choice of material for the “greatest gathering of a single species of mammal that takes place” , here is a report on an even bigger gathering:

I can ASSURE you these three things!

1. The search was NOT for the "greatest gathering of a single

species of mammals that takes place...."

2. This thread is discussing about the behavior of animals right

now and NOT that of human beings.

3. Not was the sex/ mating the only criterion for the choice of

this material - even though it appears the only aim in life of

every living thing is to stay alive in order to procreate.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I was talked about "Lioness Mrs. Ramani" when I was the president of our Lioness Club.

My maternal uncle once forgot the word Lioness and Christened me as Tigress!!

They both pale into significance with my latest title The Sphinx!!!

The other things simply means
the worrying period,:clock:

the cause for worrying and :sad:

the effectiveness of worrying out:

Thanks for relating me to a sphinx.:dance:

The closest I had come to it earlier

was a lioness and a tigress !

 

[Naina_Marbus]

This thread is discussing about the behavior of animals right

now and NOT that of human beings.

I thought the thread had a more general title : Daily Dose Of Interesting Information