April 20, 2008
elephant trivia
Watched Animal Planet earlier this morning while munching on my bacon sandwich. Do you know that...
...cows can produce 3% more milk by listening to Simon and Garfunkel songs?
...the growth of a joey to an adult kangaroo has the largest growth percentage in all of mammals?
...mudskippers can climb trees?
...the manatees sleep between breaths, i.e. at intervals of 20 minutes, because they can't breathe when they sleep?
...a giraffe's neck has as many bones as a human neck, i.e. 7 bones?
...a honey bee flies the equivalent of 2 rounds around Earth just to collect enough nectar to produce less than a tablespoon of honey?
...the babies of crab spider suck their mother dry to get their food immediately after they are born?
My personal favourite is this:
Elephants have bad digestive system. As a result, the African elephant poop up to 300 pounds (or more) in one day. That's a lot of crap!
So, the next time you can tell your crappy friends (or boss), "You are as crappy as an elephant."
One more thing, the dung beetles clean up those poo efficiently by using them as their very humble (indeed) abode or food source.
So, the next time you can tell your as-crappy-as-elephant boss, "I'm not your dung beetle!" when they give you shit work to complete with shit deadline.
There! The wonders of nature!
Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 22:51