STRANGE FACTS WORLD WIDE (SHOCKING & PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES): 2011

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Questions :

Which birds are associated with witchcraft (जादू टोने) and Cleverness in different parts of the world and are the night-shift birds of prey ?

Ans.: The Owls are nocturnal hunters which for ages have been

associated with witchcraft (जादू टोने) and ill omens. Found throughout the world, the owl is a carnivore (मांसभक्षी) and hunts with a silent swoop (झपट्टा) of its perch (अड्डा, बसेरा).Owls like the Barn Owl (खलिहान उल्लू) and Spotted Owlet are common birds, whereas the Eagle Owl and the Fishing Owl are rare and large relatives.
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Which group of birds produce milk and are called by different names ?
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Ans: Pigeons or Doves are used interchangeably as the Frenchmen called the English Doves, Pigeon. Most pigeons are characterized by their peculiar way of sucking water and not tilting their heads up as other birds do while drinking. Adult pigeons produce a secretion called Pigeon's Milk to feed their chicks. They nest in trees or even in houses and cliffs. They are among the tamest wild biords and are also domesticated and kept for food, sport and as carrier pigeons or messangers.
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Which animal(s) are both male and female and come out when it rains to mate with each other ?
Ans.: Snails are Hermaphrodites (एक ही जीव में नर और मादा जननांग होना), i.e. they contain both male and female reproductive organs. They come out when it rains, lock horns and mate. They then lay their pearly eggs in the soil. this is characteristic of land molluscs where sea molluscs such as oysters and clams simply let the eggs and sperms float in the water leaving fertilization to chance.
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Why does the Crocodile have ever-open-jaws when on land ?
Ans.: (Although Herodotus, the famous historian, believed that they kept the mouth open so that bird come to clean their teeth), but it is absolutely different reason. They are Poikilothermic (Cold-Blooded) animals or animals with a variable body temperature.They open their mouths to catch the sun's warmth through their mucous lining in order to make up for the long hours in water. Their mouths act as moisture evaporators and heat radiators to help maintain temperature of the body.
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Which Bird Specializes (Specialises) in lying its eggs in other birds' nests and in matching its eggs to that of the host ?

Ans.: Many Cuckoos are parasitic although among the 127 member family some build their own nests as well. Parasitic Cuckoos like the Indian Koel and the Red-winged Cockoo lay its eggs in other bird's nests. Each species has a favorite host bird, as for the Koel is the crow, and they lay their eggs in others' eggs. Young Cuckoos push the host chicks out, monopolies the food and grow into adults without the host realising that it has been tricked.
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Which is the only Indian Fish that migrates from the seas into the river for breeding ?
Ans.: Hilsa [or Ilish] is the only Indian fish to migrate from the Bay of Bengal into the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, The Godavari and the Krishna. This behaviour, known as Anadromous Behaviour (or FISH MIGRATION), is normally during the South-West Monsoon, i.e. during the months of July and August. This common fish which is one of the most popular fish among the Bengali people, breeds in the rivers. They do not always return to the seas, though some of them do. There is also reported to be a second small migration during the months of April and May.
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Which male Bird builds nest after nest for its suitors till the female is satisfied with the looks of her new apartment, and then pairs with her ?
Ans.: The baya (weaver bird), a common seed eater of the sub continant is related to the common sparrow. Male bayas weave intricate bell-shaped nests from grasses and bits of plant material. This nest has two or three chambers or rooms inside and also a small entrance funnel or doorway. they make the hang these nests from a tree and continue to invite their prospective mates over the have a look at the house. If they do not like it, the baya builds another one till the female is satisfied.
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Which Indian Monkey kills its young so that they do not compete with him to become a leader ?
Ans.: Male infanticide is well documented in many animals including the African Lion, and in India, the common oro the Hanuman Langur demonstrates it very well. Each male Langur has a harem of several wives and if this leadership is challenged, the langur will fight it out. It kills any strong infant while still very young to prevent it from taking over as leader. This behaviour is not found in rhesus where male monkeys only come into the troop for breeding and then are mostly loners or loosely attached.
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Which is the only Snake in the world that builds a Nest ?
Ans.: The King Cobra of India that lives into the dense evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, the North-east and the Andamans is the only snake in the world that builds a nest. (He can constructs a 30 cm high nest in which the female scrapes toghether out of humus and lives).
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Which animal sleep in summers, country to the normal hibernation of many animals ?
Ans.: Aestivation or summer sleep is normally common in the warmer parts of the world where the dry season can have hot periods when animals find it difficult to life outside. (also many desert grogs, rodents aestivates as does the African Lungfish - which covers itself in mucous and sleeps in a burrow in the mud until it rains).
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Which Bird(s) stitch leaves together to form a using its bill as needle and grass as thread ?
Ans.: The Tailor Bird (or Common Tailor Bird) is adept at tailoring and makes its nest from two large leaves of any bush. they stitch it together using grass as threads and piercing through the leaves with its bill.
Tailorbirds are small birds belonging to the genus Orthotomus often placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. However, recent research suggests they more likely belong in the Cisticolidae and they are treated as such in Del Hoyo et al. (2006). One species, the Mountain Tailorbird (and therefore also its sister species Rufous-headed Tailorbird), is actually closer to an old world warbler genus Cettia.
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Which Bird(s) are known as butcher birds because of their habit of strining up dead bodies on a branch ?
Ans.: The Shrikes () are a group of birds that belive in storing. This widely distributed group of birds hunts prolifically when it is available and then stores the prey by pinning them on thorns of any tree. Finally, the storehouse of the bird resembles a butcher's store where carcasses are pinned up neatly.
Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty-one species in three genera. The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes were also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits. Note that the Australasian butcherbirds are not shrikes.
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Which animal normally communicates to other member of the group by whistling ?
Ans.: The Dhole or the Indian Wild Dog is a remarkable animal - whistels whenever it wishes to communicate with other members of its pack instead of barking like normal dogs.
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How does the water-holding frog of Australia survive the long dry spells of the deserts ?
Ans.: In the deserts of a Australia, survivl years may pass without any rainfall. The waterholding frog or Cichlorana (or Cyclorana) appears above ground only during the brief rain-storms when there is water on the rocks for several days. during this time they mate and lay their eggs in these pools and also absorb water through their skin until they are almost spherical. They then burrow deep into the soft sand and remain there till the next rain.
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Which animal is so important to the earth that without it the earth"would soon become cold, hardbound....snd sterile"?
Ans.: These worlds written by the great English naturalist Gilbert White describe the Earthworm which brings 1.2-15 tons of soil to the surface per hectare. This improves the soil texture and the drainage of water. The soil that passes through this'Digestion tube' becomes better for plants to grow on.
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Which bird was used by man extensively as a messenger and even by the Indian police for a long time till radios came into use?
Ans.: Pigeons are considered one of the best messenger birds of all times as they have a strong home instinct which makes them return to exactly the same point as from where they have been released. Messages were fixed to a can on the leg of the pigeon. Feeding used to be the main method of training messenger pigeons.
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Which fish is used in South India to catch turtles?
Ans.: The suckerfish or the lamprey is used to catch turtles as it has a very strong sucker that it attaches to other animals. Fishermen throw it into the sea after tying a line to it and after it has attached itself to a turtle catch it back thus, getting the turtle easily. The sucker has a very strong hold and it is very difficult to separate the turtle and the fish.
How are fossils formed?

Ans.: Mostly when animals die, their flesh decays and their shells and bones are turned to powder. Occasionally, however, an animal may get stuck in a swamp or a crevice and die and while the flesh decays, the bones remain preserved. Over the centuries, dead vegetation accumulates over them and turns them into peat. Layers of sand and limestone may also be deposited over it and thus, the peat gets converted to coal. The immense pressure of the overlying sediments causes chemical changes in the bones turning them into stones and thus, even the detailed cellular structure of the bones is preserved in the form of fossils.

Which animal, very common today, descended from wolves and jackals?

Ans.: the dog which has been domesticated by man for nearly 8000 years is probably derived from a wolf stock with a mixture of jackal blood. Dogs which range from the St. Bernard weighing 200 pounds are certainly derived from these wild canids which have diversified greatly with the passage of time. They have, also as a rule, become rarer in the wild where the fields or cats have done much better.

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Which snake specializes in catching and breaking the spinal cord of other snakes before swallowing them?

Ans.: the king snakes of America are not affected by most poisons and catch their poisonous relatives, stretch them to break their spinal cords and swallow them. When any one of the 15 species of king snakes seen, other snakes offer the thickest part of the body to it hoping that it cannot hold it in its mouth. King snakes become good pets and are kept by farmers who do not like poisonous snakes.

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Which fish can come out of water and survive for up to four years while eating its own muscle for food?

Ans.: The African lungfish belongs to a primitive group of seven ancient fish. They can survive for long periods outside water as they have one or two lungs for respiration and have the habit of burying themselves in the mud. During this period, a short breathing tube connects it to the outside. They also absorb food stored in their muscle tissue during this time.

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Which two birds of Africa climb inside the mouth of a crocodile to eat leeches and other parasites without being harmed by the great reptile?

Ans.: The crocodile seem to tolerate the crocodile bird or the Egyptian plover and the closely related spur-winged plover when they are on the look-out for food. These birds pick out parasites from the crocodiles, body and even enter its mouth to pick leeches from its tongue. As a reward for letting it feed, it acts as the crocodile’s alarm system, warning it when intruders come. Although the crocodiles often eat birds, these two species are normally left well alone.How are fossils formed?

Ans.: Mostly when animals die, their flesh decays and their shells and bones are turned to powder. Occasionally, however, an animal may get stuck in a swamp or a crevice and die and while the flesh decays, the bones remain preserved. Over the centuries, dead vegetation accumulates over them and turns them into peat. Layers of sand and limestone may also be deposited over it and thus, the peat gets converted to coal. The immense pressure of the overlying sediments causes chemical changes in the bones turning them into stones and thus, even the detailed cellular structure of the bones is preserved in the form of fossils.

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Which animal, very common today, descended from wolves and jackals?

Ans.: the dog which has been domesticated by man for nearly 8000 years is probably derived from a wolf stock with a mixture of jackal blood. Dogs which range from the St. Bernard weighing 200 pounds are certainly derived from these wild canids which have diversified greatly with the passage of time. They have, also as a rule, become rarer in the wild where the fields or cats have done much better.

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Which snake specializes in catching and breaking the spinal cord of other snakes before swallowing them?

Ans.: the king snakes of America are not affected by most poisons and catch their poisonous relatives, stretch them to break their spinal cords and swallow them. When any one of the 15 species of king snakes seen, other snakes offer the thickest part of the body to it hoping that it cannot hold it in its mouth. King snakes become good pets and are kept by farmers who do not like poisonous snakes.

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Which fish can come out of water and survive for up to four years while eating its own muscle for food?

Ans.: The African lungfish belongs to a primitive group of seven ancient fish. They can survive for long periods outside water as they have one or two lungs for respiration and have the habit of burying themselves in the mud. During this period, a short breathing tube connects it to the outside. They also absorb food stored in their muscle tissue during this time.

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Which two birds of Africa climb inside the mouth of a crocodile to eat leeches and other parasites without being harmed by the great reptile?
Ans.: The crocodile seem to tolerate the crocodile bird or the Egyptian plover and the closely related spur-winged plover when they are on the look-out for food. These birds pick out parasites from the crocodiles, body and even enter its mouth to pick leeches from its tongue. As a reward for letting it feed, it acts as the crocodile’s alarm system, warning it when intruders come. Although the crocodiles often eat birds, these two species are normally left well alone.
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Which large bird feeds with its head upside down in the mud?
Ans.: Flamingo : Slight differences in diet and habits prevent competition among flamingos that share feeding grounds.
1. Standing in shallow water, flamingos lower their necks and tilt their heads slightly upside-down, allowing their bills to hang upside-down facing backward in the water.

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