Animal's Fact : Crab which climb Trees

Did you know that there is a sort of crab, which can climb trees?
It is called the coconut crab, because it eats coconuts, which it finds by climbing the palm trees where the nuts grow.

Animal's Fact - Zebra and its striped

No two zebras have the same striped pattern.

Animal's Fact - Cow

A healthy cow gives about 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Animal's Fact : The tasting Tongue

Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds in their mouth. And a cow contains 25,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has only 9000 taste buds.
However, this is FD00403_.WMF (7878 bytes)compared to a chicken which has only 24.

Animal's Fact - Giraffe and Its Tongue

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Dee Dee Saved

Big Dee-Dee the giant lobster isn't heading back to the ocean after all, but the 100-year-old creature isn't destined for a dining table either.

The lobster made international headlines after a cross-country bidding war broke out over the 10-kg crustacean, with many hoping to serve the beast at a banquet – including an Ontario group offering up to $5,000 – while others were hoping to set Big Dee-Dee free.

Now the owner of the Shediac, N.B., fish store behind the auction says he's going to donate the lobster to a marine science centre to live out the rest of its days.

"I thought about it for quite a few hours, but I thought it's best for business to do it like this ... no bitter feelings," said Denis Breau.

He agreed last Friday to accept a $1,000 bid from a Vancouver woman to release the lobster into the ocean but said yesterday he may simply donate the metre-long lobster at no cost to the aquarium at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, N.B.

"We can't set a lobster like that free just anywhere," Breau said, adding the lobster wouldn't survive a transition back into the ocean due to the change in temperature.

Big Dee-Dee has been kept in a large tank with just two other lobsters in Breau's store since July 10.

Breau said about half of the offers he got were from people who wanted to see Big Dee-Dee go free.

Laura-Leah Shaw, the Vancouverite who bid $1,000, said: "It just seems wrong to take a majestic animal, put him in a pot of water, have him die a horrible death, just so someone can dine on him."


This is an article about Dee-Dee being saved by a Vancouver woman. Big Dee-Dee the giant lobster owes a big thanks to her.

Source: TheStar

Animal Facts : Camels have 3 eyelids

Desert winds often blow sand into the air. To protect their eyes, camels have long eyelashes (A) that catch most of the sand. If sand gets into an eye, a camel has a third eyelids to get it out (. Like a windshield wiper on a car, this extra eyelid moves from side to side and wipes the sand away. The eyelid is very thin, so a camel can see through it. In sandstorms, camels often close their third eyelid and keep walking. You might say that a camel can find its way through a sandstorm with its eyes closed.

Source: Care2

Mother Of The Year Award‏

In a zoo in
California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??

Take a look........ you won't believe your eyes!!






I have seen these photos many times, but never know the story behind.

Animal Facts : Do the humps on camels hold water?

Answer is No!

The humps on a camel's back are actually huge heaps of fat and flesh that can weigh as much as 80 pounds in a healthy camel. These humps help camels survive for weeks without food and water.

When water and food become scarce on the deserts where camels roam, the fatty humps serve as stored food and are used for nourishment. As the camel's body metabolizes or uses up the humps' stored fat, the hump becomes smaller and flabbier. So the longer the camel goes without eating, the smaller its hump gets. The size of a camel's hump helps determine a camel's health, food sources, and overall well-being.

These humps, or reserves of fat, are the reason why camels can go for days without water and food. While humans are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, camels can go without water for up to 2 weeks!

Camel characteristics:

* Camels are the only animals with humps.
* Got milk? Camels can produce up to 600 liters of milk a year.
* Camels can close their nostrils.
* Camels eat just about anything. When camels are really hungry and there is no food around, they won't think twice about gobbling up people's tents, sandals, or blankets.
* Camels as professional boxers? In some countries camels are a source of entertainment. For example, camel fighting attracts audiences of all ages in several countries around the world.
* Are camels faster than a speeding bullet? Well not quite. But camels can run just as fast as horses, if not faster. Similar to horse races in the United States, camel races are a popular sport in Morocco.

Source: Care2

Rejected Red Panda Adopted by Cat

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A newborn red panda rejected by its mother in Amsterdam's Artis zoo has been adopted by a domestic cat, the zoo said on Friday.

The cat is nursing the red panda, currently about the size of a kitten, along with her own four kittens, the zoo said.

The red panda was born on June 30 and rejected by its mother soon afterwards.

Red pandas look like raccoons and when fully grown are slightly larger than a domestic cat -- substantially smaller than the black and white giant panda.

"They are skilful climbers that, when not foraging on the ground, spend most of their time in the trees curled up with their long, bushy tails wrapped around their heads," the World Wildlife Fund conservation charity said on its website.



This poor little red panda was rejeted by her mother after she was born on June 30.
"She left them there, lying in the cold," said zoo
The zoo initially kept the cubs in an incubator. But a keeper's tabby cat had just given birth to four kittens, and let the two panda cubs join the crowd. Have a look at the photo, little red panda and mummy cat.


Source: Reuters uk

Guess The Gender

A husband said to his wife, "It's a good thing you got that flyswatter the other day. I got four flies today. One was a male and three were females."
His wife asked, "How could you tell if they were male or female."
"Easy," he said. "One was on a can of beer and the other three were on the phone."

Here is another joke.

Source: Reader's Digest

Friendship Never Ends

It was a friendship that could inspire a Disney movie. Oscar the dog and his best friend, Arthur the cat, were inseparable in life.

So, when 17-year-old moggy Arthur died, Oscar was left inconsolable. Their owners, Robert and Mavis Bell, buried Arthur in the garden.

But Oscar's love for his friend would not die – and during the night, he pulled the cat from his grave, carried him inside, laid him in the basket they used to share and gently cleaned him up.

Which is one of those things that's heartwarming when an animal does it, but kind of creepy when a human does the same.

Mr Bell found the pair curled up together in the basket. He said: 'Oscar had watched me bury Arthur. They had been inseparable.'

Arthur is now buried in a secure grave in the garden at the Bells' home in Wigan and Oscar has a new playmate kitten called Limpet.

'He's already very protective of her,' Mrs Bell said.


This article is so touching.

Source: Metro

Seeing Eye Dog Joke

There are two guys, one with a Doberman Pincher and one with a Chihuahua.

The guy with the Doberman Pincher says to the guy with the Chihuahua, "Let's go over to that restaurant and get something to eat."

The guy with the Chihuahua says, "We can't go in there. We've got dogs with us." The guy with the Doberman Pincher says, "Just follow my lead."

They walk over to the restaurant, the guy with the Doberman Pincher puts on a pair of dark sunglasses, and he starts to walk in. A guy at the door says, "Sorry, mac, no pets allowed."

The guy with the Doberman Pincher says, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog."

The guy at the door says, "A Doberman Pincher?"

He says, "Yes, they're using them now, they're really very good."

The guy at the door says, "Come on in."

The guy with the Chihuahua figures, "What the heck," so he puts on a pair of dark sunglasses and starts to walk in.

The guy at the door says, "Sorry, pal, no pets allowed."

The guy with the Chihuahua says, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog."

The guy at the door says, "A Chihuahua?"

He says, "You mean they gave me a Chihuahua?"

This is a joke about animals, I found it quite funny.

Source: Dog House

She Stayed At Her Post

One morning when I went down to the paddocks to feed the horses, I saw Happy, our fat black Welsh pony, standing near the fence by herself. At 19 years old, she’s the matriarch and usually stays close to the younger ones. When I threw down the hay she didn’t move, which was out of character as she’s usually the first to eat. However, I didn’t think too much of it.
A couple of hours later when I went back to check the water in the troughs, she was in exactly the same spot. At 4pm when I went down to feed the horses, Happy still hadn’t moved so I walked across the paddock to see if she was OK.
As I got closer, I noticed that the two top railings of the fence were missing and there was a big gap where it had been kicked down by the over-exuberant stallion in the neighbouring paddock. He could have got through the gap and caused a lot of damage to the younger horses, chasing them or even killing them. Happy had stood all day guarding the gap so that he couldn’t get in.
She didn’t move away until I’d fixed the fence and she was confident the other horses were safe. Then she came to the gate and neighed for her dinner. It’s awful to think what could’ve happened if she wasn’t there to watch the fence.

Author : Annie Skinner, Gisborne, Vic

Source: Reader's Digest

Robots Could Replace Adorable Animals in Toxicity Tests

Well, sometimes we talk about the environmental benefits of digitizing physical media...but today we're going to talk about the environmental benefits of digitizing physical bunnies.

According to the BBC, scientists are working on ways to replace live animal testing of everything from cosmetics to pesticides with "high speed, automated robots" and "live cells grown in a laboratory."


Samples of chemicals will be dropped onto dishes containing human or animal cells grown in the laboratory.
These will then be studied for signs of toxicity using a variety of biochemical and genetic tests.
The ultimate goal is to develop non-animal based testing methods that are rigorous enough to be submitted for regulatory approval.

Sounds preferable to the traditional systems. Of course, it wouldn't be a full approximation of the marvelous beauty and intricate systems of a real-live cute little bunny rabbit. So for pharmaceutical and broader carcinogen and system-wide effects, I'm afraid they'd still go under the knife.

Nevertheless, this would certainly be a step in the right direction.

Source: BCC

Need Some Time Out

I was working in my backyard one afternoon when an old, weary-looking dog wandered in. I could tell by his collar and well-fed belly that he wasn’t homeless. He followed me into the house, walked down the hall and fell asleep in a corner. An hour later he went to the door and looked at me, so I let him out.
The next day he returned, resumed his position in the hall and slept for an hour. This continued every day for several weeks. I was curious as to where he was coming from so I pinned a note to his collar that read “Every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap.”
The next day he arrived with a reply pinned to his collar: “He lives in a house with ten children – he’s trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?!”
I let him in every time he came around after that. The poor dog just wanted a break!

Author : Alan Lewis, Auckland

Smart Dog. Sometimes animal need some break too. :)

Source: Reader's Digest