Pandas don't have any particular sleeping spot. They have the number of place for sleeping. They can sleep wherever they happen to be. The word ‘panda’ comes from the Nepalese word ‘poonya’ which means is bamboo-eater. Chinese call the panda Xiong Mao, which means is Bear Cat.
Mostly they like to sleep on the forest ground. Pandas are very strong to climb that's why tree is one of the favourite place of sleeping. The wild like to climb on bamboo. They spend their maximum time by sleeping. Their favorite sleeping position is putting their hind paws on the trees with their front paws shading their eyes. Climbing on the trees and bamboos is their favourite game. They climb to protect themselves from danger. Panda sleep 3 to 4 hours continuously and take a break for meal. Most of the time they looks to eat bamboo, it is their favourite meal. pandas also eat grasses, wild fruits, insects, mice, even lambs in the surrounding villages. Besides climbing they can also swim. The WWF logo was inspired by Chi-Chi, a giant panda brought to the London Zoo in 1961.
There are over 4,700 species of frogs in the world.Every different species of frog has his or her own look.Each species have a unique sound, and some frogs call can be heard a mile away.They are found on every continent except Antarctica. A group of frogs is called an army.
One of the funny facts about frogs is that in 2014, 14 new species of dancing frogs has been discovered. Frogs sleep with their eyes open. It’s hard to sneak up on a frog. They can see in all directions at once. Frog’s don’t drink water. They absorb it through their skin. Male frogs use croaking to attract female frogs.Frogs can lay more than 4,000 eggs in frogspawn. Frogshave long back legs and webbed feet for jumping and swimming. Frogs can jump over 20 times than their own body length.
Frogs are found in almost every colour. The colourful skin of many tropical frogs are poisonous. The golden colour dart frog is considered to be one of the most poisonous animals of the earth. One gram toxin of a golden dart frog could kill 100,000 people.The male frog and the female frog is recognized by seeing their ears. The ears of a male frog is larger than its eyes and the ears of a female frog is smaller than eyes.
The glass froghas translucent skin, so you can see its internal organs, bones and muscles through its skin. You can even observe its heart beating and its stomach digesting food.
The Indonesian frog Barbourula kalimantanensishas no lungs– it breathes through its skin.
The biggest frog in the world is the Goliath frog. It lives in West Africa which is more than 7 pounds.
Frog bones form a ring when the frog is hibernating. Scientists use these rings to calculate the age of a frog.
Only male frog "Call" to invite the female frog when they are ready to mate.
Snakes are a cold-blooded reptiles like other reptiles. That means their body temperature changes in according to the temperature of their environment. Snakes can live in almost any environment, jungles, deserts, sea and even mountains. Snakes have been actually found as high as 16,000 ft in the Himalayas. Snakes range in size from the tiny, 10 cm-long thread snake like the size of a toothpick, to the reticulated python of up to 6.95 meters in length. There are some interesting facts about snake - Snakes live on everywhere on Earth except Ireland, Iceland, New Zealand, and the North and South Poles.
There are approximately 3,400 snake species in the world. Almost 725 species are venomous snakes. Out of those 250 can kill a human with one bite. Snakes smell with their tongue. They have ears inside their heads. Some snakes can survive without the meal for up to two years. Snakes don’t have eyelids .Snakes kill 100,000 people every year. Snakes are carnivores means they like to eat meat.
Snakes cannot bite their food as they eat large prey, they will unhinge their jaw to swallow the food whole.
Snakes are unable to close eyes. They can't blink and they must sleep with their open eyes. Snake takes 3–5 days digest its meal. The King Cobra can go months without having to eat.
Snakes can open their mouths up to 150 degrees, which help them to eat things that are 75-100% bigger than their own size.
Snake hearts move around in their bodies due to lack diaphragm that means their heart can adjust in any position of their body. This is for their heart doesn't get damaged when they eat large prey .
Most snakes have only one lung.
The Titanoboa is the largest, longest, and heaviest snake ever discovered, they lived about 60 million years ago.
Titanoboa
Some snakes like komodo dragons, sharks and turkeys have capability of "virgin births", meaning, asexual reproduction. 70% of snake species lay eggs while the other 30% give birth to live young.
The vonem of the boomslang snake causes you to bleed from all holes of your body. A few snake species in the jungles of South and Southeast Asia can fly.
Snakes are known as solitary hunters. But that’s not always true. A few species make their hunt in groups.
The most venomous snake in the world is the Inland Taipan. The amount of venom of an inland taipan deliver in a single bit is enough to kill 100 adult man.
Inland Taipan
There is an island in Brazil, known as the Snake Island. where people can't not go in fear of snake. There is almost 5 snakes on every 1 sq m.
You may find the top ten deadliest snakes in Australia. The Deadliest Snakes in the world are the "Big Four".The Big Four are a group of venomous snakes.
There are no terrestrial (land) snakes in New Zealand.
The heaviest and thickest snake in the world is the anaconda. It weighs over 595 pounds (270 kg) and they are over 30 feet in length. They are famous for eating caimans, capybaras, and jaguars.
The death adder is the fastest striker among any other snake in the world. It can attack, inject venom, and go back to striking position in under 0.15 seconds. Black mamba is consider as the most advanced snake species in the world . It has the most highly evolved venom delivery system of any snake on Earth. Its bite can cause collapse in humans within just 45 minutes. The mortality rate of a Black Mamba snake bite is almost 100%.
A baby elephant is called Calf. The gestation period of a elephant is 18-22 months which is most than any other animal in the world. A new born human baby is average 7 pounds while a new born elephant baby may be up to 260 pounds but only 4% of an adult female's weight and only 2% of an adult male's. The brain of new-born elephants are 30-40% of the size of that of an adult.
A new born calf is about 3 feet tall. The baby elephant can stand up almost immediately after birth. Baby elephants are initially blind but they can recognize their mothers by touch, scent, and sound and some take to sucking their trunk for comfort in the same way that humans suck their thumbs. The trunk of a newborn calf is short at the first stage. About 99% of calves are born at night. Calves are born with curly black or red hair on their foreheads. Mothers select some another female elephants like babysitters to care for the calf so that she has time to eat enough to produce sufficient milk for her child. A calf drinks about 3 gallons milk every day. Calves depend almost entirely on milk for the first six months. Between 4 to 6 months they start to eat grass. After that they start to leave milk gradually but it become complete after more than two years old and weighs about 1900 to 2000 pounds. After 6 to 8 months, calves learn to use their trunks to eat and drink. Only lions or hyenas can kill the little baby. Mother elephant protect her baby from them. When a little one is in trouble all the females come to help him. The mother is very lovable and caring, she never leaves her child along. The entire group travels with the speed of the young elephants.
Pigeon is the most common bird in the World. There are almost 310 different species of pigeon are found everywhere on earth, except the Sahara Desert, Antarctica and its surrounding islands and the high Arctic.
You can bring pigeon in your house and give them training by different way for various job. You can start training at any time between 21 to 28 days of age.The first lesson will be how to drink water and how to find water. After that learn them to carry message from one place to another and to return home from outside. Pigeons can carry up to 75 g (2.5 oz) on their backs.
Homing pigeons have a great history of carrying messages between two locations before the digital revolution. Pigeons played a great role during World War I. Cher Ami, a home pigeon was awarded the French award Croix de guerre for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages, despite having been very badly injured. Cher Ami saved the lives of many French soldiers by carrying messages across enemy lines in the heat of battle. Cher Ami was shot in the chest and the leg, losing most of the leg to which the message was attached, but continued the 25-minute flight avoiding shrapnel and poison gas to get the message home.
During World War II, 32 trained pigeons includes the Irish Paddy, the American G.I. Joe and the English Mary of Exeter received the Dickin Medel for their gallantry and bravery in saving human lives. G.I. Joe saved the lives of a thousand soldiers in World War II after British soldiers had established a position within an Italian town. Communication equipment was down and the only medium of communication was written message. G.I. Joe flew 20 miles in 20 minutes at the air base with the message.
In Roman times the pigeons were used to carry the result of sports event, such as the Olympic Games. The last pigeon post service was abandoned in India in 2004 as the pigeon get retire from life.
pigeons are able to recognize individual people, most likely by their facial characteristics. A very interesting thing is that a trained pigeon can tell the difference between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet.
Tigers are the only cat species that are completely striped and the species of tiger can identify by their pattern of stripes. Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have on their skin. Two tigers ever not have the same stripes. Like human fingerprints, their stripe patterns are unique to each individual. Stripes range in color from light brown to black and are not symmetrical on both sides. Stripe density varies by subspecies.
Stripes are basically for hiding purpose.Stripes help tiger to hide themselves during the hunting. The stripes look like shadows as they walk through long grass in the moonlight.
stripes help them to go close to their prey without being spotted. Most animals in the wild do not see colors which is a huge benefit to tiger. The black, white and grey colour stripes is look like shadow for some of those animals. The Orange colour stripe helps them to blend with the wild grasses and ground covers which make them look like a big Orange ball and between these Orange colour black stripe exists which break up the orange colour. As most of the wildlife animals can’t distinguish between different colour they thought the Orange colour is of grass and Black colour as grass’s shadow. So the animals could’nt see the Tiger. In this manner the stripes make them harder to spot.
