An owl can turn it's head 270 degrees !

Just in case you didn't know that. Anyone else have any amazing animal trivia they would like to share?

Hey, that qualifies, I'm an animal!

you dont have cloven hooves by chance?

:hi:

Otherwise; There wouldn't be any little naked mole rats. Oh wait. They are blind, right?

pool of sperm at the bottom of her vaginal canal with each 'wave' - sort of like a stamp & ink pad. To pick up the little critters and get pregnant.

Ring around the rosies
Pocket full of posies (puss)
Achew! Achew!

We all fall down.

kinda creepy isn't it

the belief that it could ward off the plague. :shrug: There's nothing definitive about it....just suppositions.

Here's snopes take on it:


http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

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The explanations of the rhyme's "true" meaning are inconsistent, and they seem to be contrived to match whichever version of "Ring Around the Rosie" the teller is familar with. For example, the purpose of the "pocket full of posies" is said to by any one of the following:

Something carried to ward off the disease.
A way of masking the "stench of death."
An item the dead were commonly buried with.
Flowers to place "on a grave or funeral pyre."
A representation of the "pus or infection under the skin in the sores" of plague victims.

Have you seen the recent History Channel episode on the 1918 flu epidemic? Scary stuff.

were pustules. Don't know.

Very sad. Is it 1/3 or 2/3 of Europe that died?

Very scarry yes.

between brothers.. they get some testorsterone than their sisters not beside the brothers. So the little baby mammal girls born right beside a brother or in between two are more aggressive and "boy" as children than their sisters born not beside a boy.

It works for human twins. It works for possums (who are born premature and then line up in a few rows to attack to mom for a few months).

Baby girls are affected by testosterone in their environment. Till they hit secondary sexual characteristics when their brains go more girl.

That explains my sister.

teenagers.

she could kick your ass, back in the day. Now she is all lady.

Being in between them in age means no more testosterone than normal. But yeah - as a middle child she will learn how to roughouse and depending on the competative spirit may be better than her brothers.

But no - I'm talking twin humans or litters of possums.

Not learned.

Go sister.

she didnt need no more testosterone!

on A&E. They love the diseases on A&E.

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Common Folklore regarding mice:

If a mouse gnawed at your clothes or you dreamed about a mouse it meant you were going to die soon.
Ancient Jewish Folklore forbade the eating of any food a mouse had chewed on because it could cause forgetfulness or a sore throat.
There are some who believed that the devil came on board Noah's Ark in the form of a mouse and gnawed a hole in it to make it sink.

I thought I knew everything

an ancient Indo-Aryan language that is the classical language of India and of Hinduism

I really dont know everything, but I would like to.

Have you tried out for Millionaire yet?

in the other direction and reach the same viewing angle

another amazing fact is that an owl cannot rotate its eyes, so 90 degrees is not sufficient. Amazing

:hi:

But if you can, why not go the whole way?

a whole 350 degrees if it misjudged the first time :)

of the Brit long-bowsmen - thus win the battle. They lost. Lowbow and arrow types won. Then they help up their fingers and said: "Pluck Yew". Which is where "Fuck You" comes from.

I watch the History channel too.

I hope you're just yanking our chain, because that's about the most absurd thing I've ever heard.

And the post about this was pretty much gibberish, too. Surprised you could figure out what that post was trying to day.

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have to have special training to prepare pufferfish.

They can kill you if not prepared properly you know.

Also from Wiki: Dolphins are observed to play with pufferfish, like some sort of toy.

as long as you dont try to eat them.

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Hello Redstone

I think it's both kinds. (I got that tidbit of trivia just last night from my son's "Your Big Backyard" magazine.)

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...on average, will travel a distance equal to that of the moon and back in their lifetimes. They spend a larger percentage of their lives in daylight than any creature on the planet.

I learned this from a Smithsonian expert on gastropods. I'd found a couple of snails in my garden, and decided to keep them in a terrarium for awhile. So I called the Smithsonian to find out what sort of food/environment I should provide.

She told me a story about a collection of snails they had been given in the 1920s which had been found in Italy, identified, and carefully glued onto cardboard. In the 1990's, someone was re-cataloguing things and came upon the collection, which had been kept in a climate-controlled environment of course, to discourage mold.

After all that time, 2 snails were still alive, and had survived on cardboard and glue.

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nevermind.