****Little known tidbits of info****

[Frankn]

Well there are some bits of info that are generally not known. Some have more meaning then others. Feel free to add yours. Frank...-
-Brown rice has more neutrants than white rice, BUT it also has more arsenic.

-The purple martin eats 20k insects a year. That ought to cut down on your mosquito and fly population. Don't have any martins? Sorry about that.

-The alpine swift can stay aloft for nearly 7 months at a time. They eat bugs also.

-The air, about one cubic meter, over a grassy field may contain 100,000 living things, bugs and bacteria. And you thought Mother Nature was clean.

-The bar-headed geese can fly to 24K' migrating over the Himalayas.

Well I guess you didn't know most of these, unless you also read Discover. Frank...-

 

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[Red James Cash]

heres another for you frankn

The bird with the greatest airspeed velocity is the Peregrine Falcon, able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its hunting dives.

 

[Oregon Viking]

The peanut is not actually a nut, it is a legume, like a bean or a soybean.

 

[releventchair]

The fingerprints of humans and koalas are virtually identical.

 

[scotter1]

squirrells sometimes catch and eat birds

 

[TommyB]

The second mouse gets the cheese.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Crows are smart!!
As a group, crows show remarkable examples of intelligence. Natural history books from the 18th century recount an often-repeated, but unproven anecdote of "counting crows" — specifically a crow whose ability to count to five (or four in some versions) is established through a logic trap set by a farmer. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Certain species top the avian IQ scale. Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing. Crows will engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order. Crows have been found to engage in feats such as sports, tool use, the ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory, and the ability to use individual experience in predicting the behavior of environmental conspecifics.

One species, the New Caledonian crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use tools in the day-to-day search for food. On 5 October 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford, England, presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian crows. They pluck, smooth and bend twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs.Crows in Queensland, Australia, have learned how to eat the toxic cane toad by flipping the cane toad on its back and violently stabbing the throat where the skin is thinner, allowing the crow to access the non-toxic innards; their long beaks ensure that all of the innards can be removed.

The jackdaw and the European magpie have been found to have a nidopallium approximately the same relative size as the functionally equivalent neocortex in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.

Crows have demonstrated the ability to distinguish individual humans by recognizing facial features.

Evidence also suggests that they are one of the few non-human animals capable of displacement (linguistics) (communicating about things that are happening in a different spatial or temporal location to the here and now).

 

[cazisme]

Not only that they all **** on your car when parked under their roost tree!

 

[Red James Cash]

Chimpanzees stage organized hunts for fresh meat.

 

[Limitool]

I took this Wolf spider out of the pool yesterday morning while it was walking across the water. When I got it out I saw it was carrying 1,256 babies on its back +/- 5. Bet ya didn't know I saved 1,257 lives yesterday!!!!!

 

[G.I.B.]

Polar Bears don't eat Penguins.

 

[releventchair]

Polar Bears don't eat Penguins.

Yet...

 

[flyadive]

Most people can not multi task ! You can only concentrate on one thing at a time, very fast!
Actually only 2 percent can multi task!

 

[Frankn]

Crows are smart!!
As a group, crows show remarkable examples of intelligence. Natural history books from the 18th century recount an often-repeated, but unproven anecdote of "counting crows" — specifically a crow whose ability to count to five (or four in some versions) is established through a logic trap set by a farmer. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Certain species top the avian IQ scale. Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing. Crows will engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order. Crows have been found to engage in feats such as sports, tool use, the ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory, and the ability to use individual experience in predicting the behavior of environmental conspecifics.

One species, the New Caledonian crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use tools in the day-to-day search for food. On 5 October 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford, England, presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian crows. They pluck, smooth and bend twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs.Crows in Queensland, Australia, have learned how to eat the toxic cane toad by flipping the cane toad on its back and violently stabbing the throat where the skin is thinner, allowing the crow to access the non-toxic innards; their long beaks ensure that all of the innards can be removed.

The jackdaw and the European magpie have been found to have a nidopallium approximately the same relative size as the functionally equivalent neocortex in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.

Crows have demonstrated the ability to distinguish individual humans by recognizing facial features.

Evidence also suggests that they are one of the few non-human animals capable of displacement (linguistics) (communicating about things that are happening in a different spatial or temporal location to the here and now).

Oregon, that was fantastic info, but I am an old crow hunter so I will add one more fact.
-Crows post a lookout while the others feed. If you shoot a feeding crow, they will attack the lookout. No I don't hunt any more, lost that killer instinct long ago. Frank...-

It's a raven, I know!

 

[Frankn]

Polar Bears don't eat Penguins.

Yea, it's to far to swim. Frank...-

 

[Frankn]

-The largest swarm of locus ever recorded was 300billion in South Africa in 1784, covering an estimated 2,000 sq mi. They ate 600,000 tons of food a day. They were swept out to sea by a storm.
The bodies of the locus that washed up to the shore formed a bank 4' high and 50 mi long. Frank...-

 

[Frankn]

-Here it is, the largest known enclosed space in the world, Sarawak Cavern.
2,300' long, 1,300'wide, 230' high. It is larger than Carlsbad Cavern in NM.
10 jumbo jets would fit in it nose to tail. Frank...-
Hay, by the way, that is in Malaysia! see any connection? lol

 

[Frankn]

Most people can not multi task ! You can only concentrate on one thing at a time, very fast!
Actually only 2 percent can multi task!

Actually, my reflexes can multi task. When I drop something, I can calculate the speed of the object, the speed of my hand, and distance to intercept in time to catch it. That doesn't work with a dollar bill on edge though. lol Frank...-

 

[CoilyGirl]

I took this Wolf spider out of the pool yesterday morning while it was walking across the water. When I got it out I saw it was carrying 1,256 babies on its back +/- 5. Bet ya didn't know I saved 1,257 lives yesterday!!!!!

Holy cow! I thought we were friends!!!!

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Most people can not multi task ! You can only concentrate on one thing at a time, very fast!
Actually only 2 percent can multi task!

And that's a scarey thought, when you observe all the ppl on the phone, while attempting to drive.