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Some Interesting but Strange Facts about Rats!!! Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. “True rats” are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. Many members of other rodent genera and families are also referred to as rats, and share many characteristics with true rats. I really hated when I see a dirty rat roaming here and there in my house. They are dirty and highly unhygienic living being to live with. Even though a rat is not a very lovable animal, it can be cute!!! Here I am giving you some interesting and must know facts about rats. Check it out… Rats have a powerful social chain of command. The largest and strongest rats will get the best food and harborage. Rats very lovable animals. They love being in the group of their own species or humans. They like playing collectively and love to sleep curled up together. They take care of the inju...

The lion is a magnificent animal that appears as a symbol of power, courage and nobility on family crests, coats of arms and national flags in many civilizations. The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthers, and a member of the family Filedae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger.  The lion is the tallest of all living cats. You all must be thinking what is new in this, we all know about lions. Their lifestyle, their behavior and their nature is known to us. But i am sure most of you must be unaware about the facts about the lions which are given below.  Learn about lion behavior, how fast they can run, where they are found, how many lions are usually in a pride, the male’s mane, lioness differences and more. Although lions appear to be all one color, closer assessment reveals patches of white inside their legs and on their bellies. A lion’s roar can be heard from ...

Pearls develop inside molluscs – including oysters, mussels and clams – whenever a foreign particle enters its shell and irritates the soft inner tissues. If the animal can’t expel the irritant, it will engage a unique defence mechanism. To protect itself from the particle, the mollusc produces a substance called nacre, or mother-of-pearl, which also lines the inner surface of the creature’s shell. Layer upon layer of the hard crystalline nacre is then used to smother the invading object so it cannot harm or contaminate the mollusc. A pearl’s iridescent appearance is due to the many layers of nacre that consist of many microscopic crystals. The thickness of one layer of calcium carbonate plates is similar to the wavelength of visible light. Some of the light passing through the top layer of nacre will be reflected, but some will continue to travel through to the bottom layer where further light is reflected. Multiple reflections interfere with each other at different wavelengths, causi...

They don’t change colour to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total lie. They change colour as a result of different emotional states. If they happen to match the background it’s entirely coincidental. Chameleons change colour when frightened or picked up or when they beat another chameleon in a fight. They change colour when a member of the opposite sex steps into view and they sometimes change colour due to fluctuations in either light or temperature. A chameleon’s skin contains several layers of specialised cells called chromataphores (from Greek chroma, colour, and pherein, to carry), each with different coloured pigments. Altering the balance between these layers causes the skin to reflect different kinds of light, making chameleons a kind of walking colour-wheel. read more : How do pearls form? 10 interesting Facts about The Eiffel Tower How do lemmings die? Why is the coast eroding? How do lemmings die? It’s odd how persistent the be...

Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants). Mosquitoes carry more than a hundred potentially fatal diseases including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, filariasis and elephantiasis. Even today, they kill one person every twelve seconds. Amazingly, nobody had any idea that mosquitoes were dangerous until the end of the nineteenth century. In 1877, the British doctor Sir Patrick Manson – known as ‘Mosquito’ Manson – proved that elephantiasis was caused by mosquito bites. Seventeen years later, in 1894, it occurred to him that malaria might also be caused by mosquitoes. He encouraged his pupil Ronald Ross, then a young doctor based in India, to test the hypothesis. Ross was the first person to show how female mosquitoes transmit the Plasmodium parasite through their saliva. He tested his theory using birds. Manson went one better. To show that the theory worked for huma...

Cats are lovely,and they are really a good partner for spending free time. You can smile watching them performing different actions in its own way. I love cats but I don’t have patience to handle tidiness in home with it.Well,most of you must be having a cat at their home. Yeah,its a fun. But do you have a complete knowledge of your cat’s lifestyle? If no,then this one is for you. I am giving you some not so well known facts about cats.Have an eye and write your comments if you like my work. A cat lover is called an Ailurophilia (Greek: cat+lover). A group of cats is called a “clowder.” Female cats tend to be right pawed, while male cats are more often left pawed. Interestingly, while 90% of humans are right handed, the remaining 10% of lefties also tend to be male. A cat can’t climb head first down a tree because every claw on a cat’s paw points the same way. To get down from a tree, a cat must back down. Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10. A cat’s brain is ...

  The lion is a magnificent animal that appears as a symbol of power, courage and nobility on family crests, coats of arms and national flags in many civilizations. The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthers, and a member of the family Filedae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger.  The lion is the tallest of all living cats. You all must be thinking what is new in this, we all know about lions. Their lifestyle, their behavior and their nature is known to us. But i am sure most of you must be unaware about the facts about the lions which are given below.  Learn about lion behavior, how fast they can run, where they are found, how many lions are usually in a pride, the male’s mane, lioness differences and more. Although lions appear to be all one color, closer assessment reveals patches of white inside their legs and on their bellies. A lion’s roar can be hear...

Here is the top interesting facts about Dolphins :-  1- Dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours. 2- The opposite of plankton is nekton – creatures that move through water at will, rather than merely drifting. Fish, dolphins and humans are nekton. 3- Tümmler is German for a bottle-nosed dolphin.

Crocodiles or true crocodiles are large aquatic tetrapods that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, in which all its members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. Here is the top 3 interesting facts about  Crocodiles , enjoy :-- 1- The muscles that close a crocodile’s jaws exert a force equivalent to a truck falling off a cliff, but the muscles that open them are so weak that they can be kept shut by a rubber band. 2- The world’s largest known crocodile and the world’s smallest man are from the same island in the Philippines. 3- Crocodiles have no lips and can hold their breath for an hour.