23 Dec 2014

15 Interesting facts of very active insect Ant

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Ant is very tiny insect which had not present in Antarctica. It’s stay in sweet planets and eats it. Ants comes from the fomicide family along with bees and wasp.

Facts of Ant

  1. More than 12,000 species of ants all over the world.
  2. Male ants have only one role mating with the queen, after complete the process they may die.
  3. All the ants on the planet weight more than all the human.
  4. Ants represent 25 percent or more of the insect biomass on the planet.
  5. Their normal life span is 45-60 day in the world.
  6. Its length is 0.6 to 0.9 cm.
  7. Super colonies are around the world that can contain more than 300 million individuals.
  8. They don’t has ears but they hear by feeling vibrations in the ground.
  9. Ants can able to lift 10.50 times their body weight.
  10. Its body is made up of three parts head, trunk and rear.
  11. Ant’s brain has about 250,000 brain cells.
  12. They are more than 100 million years in this universe.
  13. It has no lungs but it breath by tiny holes from it body.
  14. Each ants has six legs that are attach to the trunk.
  15. The ants jaws to close within 130 micro second on an average.

Gorilla

Gorilla
Gorilla is more intelligent animal in the world. They have unique finger print just like human. Gorillas can lift about 2500 kg weight by using its strength.

Facts of Gorilla

  1. More than 700 gorillas lives in the high mountains of Africa.
  2. Mountain gorillas are tall up to 4-6 foot and weight 150-500 pounds.
  3. The wild species can live up to 35 years.
  4. Most of the time gorillas found in ground with the group of almost 30 members.
  5. Females gives birth to young one within 9 months.
  6. The new born baby is very tin, it weight is only 2 kg.
  7. Young one start to walk after 5 to 6 months.
  8. New one are in the care of its mother for 4-6 years old.
  9. Mountain gorillas are endangered, by losing their life by hunters for its meat called “bush meat”.
  10. Both genders has a thick black hair, covered its body and gives warm in the cool mountains.
  11. Gorillas are herbivores. They eats leaves and stems of herbs.
  12. Well-developed gorillas have its food daily up to 45 pounds.
  13. Gorillas had produced different of sounds each sound has its own meaning.
  14. The Gorilla is an only animal DNA matched to the human up to 98-99%.
  15. They never sleep in the same place for two days.it sleep more than 13 hours at night.

Iberian Lynx

Iberian Lynx
These species are decreasing in less number over all 200 years. It’s a very sad news to hear now these types are only 100 are left in the world. The Iberian Lynx is very closely related to Eurasian lynx. The native of this species is from Spain and Portugal.

Facts of Iberian Lynx

  1. The average length is 32-38 inches, height is 16-20 inches and weight is up to 20 to 30 pounds.
  2. Males are bigger in size than females.
  3. The fur is yellowish to reddish drown with many dark spots.
  4. Also, it’s has muscular body, long hind legs, tufted ears and jaws. It also has a short black tipped tail.
  5. Rabbits are the most likeable dish of Lynx.
  6. It’s also like to have small rodents, ducks, Young of deer, wild boar and Mouflon sheep.
  7. First half of the year is mating season of Lynx. It’s has an ability to mate with only one time with another.
  8. The pregnancy period is up to 60 to 70 days.
  9. Females can give birth to 1-5 kittens.
  10. Lynx are having a great power of hearing and good eyesight.
  11. They can able to live in the world for 14 years.

Orangutans

Orangutan
The orangutan is now surviving in only two islands Borneo and the northerly region of Sumatra. This type of species is a very critical stage of conditions. It also called as “Red apes”. They like to spend more time in trees.

Facts of orangutan

  1. They have reddish brown or black color hair likes chimpanzees and gorillas.
  2. Orangutan’s favorite foods are fruits, bark, honey, worms and even bird eggs.
  3. It’s can able to live 30 years in wild or captivity.
  4. They have 32 teeth like a human.
  5. It can able to travel 50 to 1000 meters in one day.
  6. Orangutans have 7 times greater strength than a human.
  7. The orangutans literally means “person of the woodland”.
  8. Bornean orangutans are tall up to 1-1.5 m and the arm span as long as 2.5 m. Its weight up to 90 kg.
  9. The females can able to give birth for to new one in every 8 years.
  10. After completing 15 years only males can able to join with females.
  11. Orangutan has 97 % matching DNA with human.
  12. Mother careless is a higher level of this species. Child where in the carding of its mother for 13-14 years to get confidence.
  13. For sharing their communication they used sounds.
  14. Now Bornean orangutan has 41,000 and Sumatran orangutan are only 7,500 where present in this universe today.

Horse

Horse
Horse has good memory power in animal kingdom. It is type of herbivores (which eat grass). The relationship between human and horse start before 4,000 years. It also has good sense of power than human.

Facts of Horse

  1. The horse can able to live up to 25 to 30 years.
  2. The only horse that lives 62 years is old Billy.
  3. Horses eat 7 to 11 kilograms food per day.
  4. It can drink water more than 8 times, which normal human drinks.
  5. The normal heart beat of adult horse is up to 36 to 40 beats per minutes.
  6. This animal can able to sleep while in standing or laying down.
  7. The horse can able to rotate its ears in to 180 degrees.
  8. It sleeps for 2 – 3 hours a day.
  9. Horse is the only land animal that has the largest eyes in the world
  10. The new born young horse are named as foals. They only bore at night time. It takes 2 hours to start its first walking inland after birth.
  11. Foals milk teeth fall down and its start to grow new strong teeth within 3-5 years.
  12. The smallest species of horse is named as a pony.
  13. Female’s reproduction period took place roughly one year.
  14. Females can able to give birth only one foal, it’s very rare for a twin’s birth.
  15. Foals stop drinking milk from its mother after six months.
  16. The heart pumped through the body every 20 strides by the help of one liter blood.
  17. It can able to see at night, higher than human.
  18. Adult horse has 40- 44 teeth.
  19. Its normal weight of heart is 10 pounds.
  20. The normal height of a horse is 76-175 cm. Its weight up to 54-998 kilograms.

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Dolphin

Dolphin
Dolphins are big mammals in the sea world .The bigger species of them are orca, which named as “killer whales”. Among all most dangerous stage species is fresh water dolphin which lives in river of China.

Facts of Dolphin

  1. The Dolphins have the capacitive to live in both types of waters.
  2. It can able to swim for 25 miles per hour.
  3. More than 42 species of dolphin in the world. Among that 38 lives in salt water and 4 of them in fresh water.
  4. The normal dolphin takes its food daily up to 30 pounds of fish.
  5. Almost it has 100 teeth and some species has more than 250 teeth.
  6. The largest species of dolphin which lives in fresh water is Boto. It can grow up to 10 feet long.
  7. A small group of dolphin is named as pod.
  8. Smallest dolphin can grow up to 4 feet long and biggest one up to 30 feet.
  9. Healthy Dolphins weight up to 90 pounds and some species may weight as11 tons.
  10. The communication that which tools between them is known as echolocation.
  11. The Dolphins have two stomach, one for saving food and other one to digesting process.
  12. Bottle nose dolphin area which we can able to see in many places like movies and aquariums.
  13. Bottle nose dolphin can able to train and became easily friendship with a man.
  14. Fresh water dolphin mostly lives in rivers of Asia and America.
  15. They can stay underwater for 15 minutes, but it is not possible of breathing inside of water.
  16. For transporting the communication they used various types of sound.
  17. A dolphin that can live 40 years in the ocean is bottlenose.
  18. Females pass on birth for young one within one and half year. Its gives one calf and twins are uncommon.
  19. Mother care with its child takes between 3 to 8 years old.
  20. While sleeping Dolphins half of its brain goes for sleeping, remaining start they continue to breathe.
  21. The word dolphin originally comes from Greek, which signifies “a fish with womb”.
  22. Dolphins came to the ocean world before 55 million years ago.
  23. They have good hearing and eyesight than human.
  24. Bottlenose dolphin has good memory power.
  25. Calves have many enemies in the oceans, they are highly dangerous, such as bull shark, dusky shark, tiger shark, and great white shark.

Zion National Park

Zion National Park
Zion is the most beautiful canyon where ever seen by human in United States of America. The word Zion came from a Hebrew word which means “a place of peace and relaxation”. The name given by Mormon pioneers in 1860.

Facts of the Zion National Park

  1. Every year, more than 2.5 million people visit this park.
  2. The park has a high density of growing plants more than 800 species present in the park.
  3. More advantage things in the park are Koloa canyon at 8, 7728 feet height and the lowest is 3,666 feet at the coal pits wash.
  4. One of the most endangered species that found only in this park is California condor.
  5. More than 8,000 years human are livening in this canyon.
  6. The most seen able mammal in the park are mule deer.
  7. Some more attractive things present in the park are great white throne, angel landing and watchman.
  8. First transport started for tourists by car in 1917.
  9. All over the Zion national park occupies 147,551 acres in the United States.
  10. The only activities that are liked by all visitors is climbing the rock.
  11. The river virgin has four species of fish such as Virgin River Spinedace, Speckled dace, Flannel mouth sucker and Desert sucker.
  12. An amazing swimming hole in the Zion national park, it’s known as Toquerville

Zion National Park
Birch-Creek – CC Image courtesy of Zion National Park on flicker
First European went to investigate the Zion region in 1776. The river Virgin first settled in 1847, by Mormon farmers in Europe. Due to the help of ground water springs the park made much more natural beauty. This beautiful nature is now sanctuary of more birds and animals. The flow of water throw the rocks for 1,000 years, made a path of ways and became a good scenario for the visitor who visit the park. In summer season, the highest temperature in the Zion Canyon is 100 degree Fahrenheit (38 degree Celsius). In Monsoon season there will be often sudden floods, thunderstorms and lighting.
There are a number of hotels named as Zion national park hotels, but only one present inside of park, others are slit distance.
Among all beauteous things some basic needs are not present in the Toquerville falls, no phone service and drinking water are not available.
Every year the park contains various campuses for people who interested in hiking. To encourage the visitors of the national park many activities had arranged such as nature walk, evening programs, horse riding trip and rock climbing. The horse ranch mountain is more beautiful and it has an elevation of almost 2,660 meters. The Zion park department started shuttle bus service in 2000 for less the traffic issues.

Yellowstone national park

Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone national park is the first American national park that established on March 1, 1872. It has world largest calderas, which measure 45 ✕ 30 miles.

Facts of the Yellowstone national park

  1. Yellowstone national park has one of the highly dangerous super active volcano.
  2. Yellowstone national park attracts 3 million visitors every year.
  3. It faces 2,000 earthquakes every year.
  4. The park is covered by 5% water, 15% of grassland and 80% forest.
  5. It has more than 300 Geysers.
  6. The park has more than 50 mammal species.
  7. The lowest temperature of the park ever recorded is -66 degrees Fahrenheit.
  8. In 1988, approximately 26% forest suffered by canopy burn.
  9. The largest hot spring in North America is grand prismatic springs in Yellowstone national park, which heat 4,000 gallons of water per minute.
  10. The park is 80 miles long and 54 miles wide.
  11. Yellowstone national park is home of 40 major waterfalls, 12 major rivers include boiling rivers.
  12. 16 species of fish in the river of national park.
  13. The visitors who enters into the park had given the road map by parks association. The map information, has written in 10 different languages.
  14. In winter season the park has occupied full of snow and wolves.
  15. In Christmas season Christmas trees where cut for $5.
  16. The national park week celebrates in the month of April 19 and 20.
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