Showing posts with label fascinating facts about. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascinating facts about. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Collection of 22 Interesting Articles

For your convenience in navigating the blog, I have created this page to showcase the entire collection of my interesting articles on this blog.


Can We Really Accomplish An Armageddon Mission Planned for Future?

How is the Other Partner Affected When One Partner Snores During Sleep?

How Does Golden Ratio Play Significant Role in Our Lives?

20 Fascinating Facts About Fox

Interesting Topics to Write Articles

32 Interesting Facts About Tiger

Can Action Video Games Your Vision?

Why Do the Topics of Paranormal Attract the Attention of Audience Easily?

Children Born with Blindness Could be Protected Through Proper Diet of Mother

Paper made from a Graphite is stronger than Carbon Nanotubes but vulnerable to water

Drink Tomato Soup. Discover Why?

Playing Video Games is Not an Addiction

Where Can We Find the Golden Ratio in Real Life?

Snoring Causes the Partner to Lose Two Hours of Nights’ Sleep

What Kind of Mysterious Bond Exists in Groups of Nanotubes?

The Moons are the Lords of the Rings for Saturn

How would it be if your computer laughs occasionally?

Study Finds That Scents Can Boost Memory

60% of American Women Sleep Poorly

Chocolates Can Save Us from Cancer, Heart Disease and Strokes

Work-At-Home is Risky for Health

HIV-Test Mandatory Before Marriage?




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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

20 Fascinating Facts About Fox

Fox is one of those few animals that are found all over the globe. It is a carnivore in nature. Here are some fascinating facts about foxes that is not generally known to people.

  • The lifespan of fox is about 10 years. But they die in 2-3 years because of road accidents, hunting by humans or bigger animals like wolves etc. They live for 10 years in Zoos.
  • The smallest species of fox is the Fennec Fox.
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  • Fox is a member of the dog family
  • There are 27 species of fox but only 12 of them are true foxes.
  • The foxes are popular all over the globe.
  • Arctic foxes do not hibernate unlike other animals in the arctic.
arctic white fox, that does not hibernate
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  • Foxes are smaller than dogs.
  • The largest fox and most common species is the red fox. It has reddish coat, with a white underbelly and a bushy tail. It is like a big cat.
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  • These are funny animals in that they play with their prey before killing it, just like the cat.
  • The fox is an excellent tree climber
  • The arctic fox is white and can camouflage with the snow
  • The Fennec fox weighs only 1.5 kg. Its hearing capacity is exceptional. It can catch its prey even when it is moving underground
  • They are known very well for their night sounds (wow….)
  • The youngest fox in a family is referred to as kit
  • The natural enemies of the fox are the wolves, coyotes, eagles and lynx.
  • They prey on rodents, small birds, rabbits and play a role in balancing ecology.
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  • Japanese consider fox to be a sacred animal
  • Except Fennec, foxes are extremely wary of humans and are not domesticated ny humans
  • A Silver fox is domesticated by scientists in Russia after 50 years of selective breeding experiments. This fox is made to be submissive, wag its tail when happy like a dog and become tame.
  • Foxes gather variety of foods ranging from grasshoppers to fruits.


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Saturday, December 30, 2006

32 Interesting Facts About Tiger

Let me get straight to the facts.

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  1. A tiger is strong enough to drag an animal carcass that would require 13 adult men to move.
  2. The tiger is the largest land mammal that eats nothing but meat.
  3. Adult tigers weigh 165 to 570 pounds and are 7 to 12 feet in length.
  4. A tiger can live up to 20 years in a zoo. Wild tigers rarely live longer than 10 to 15 years.
  5. Tiger habitats have declined by as much as 40% since 1995.
  6. Tigers have only about a 1 in 20 success rate in bringing down prey.
  7. Baby tigers remain with their mothers until they are about 2 years old. From that time on they live alone.
  8. A group of tigers is called a Streak.
  9. The largest recorded tiger was a Siberian tiger weighing an amazing 1,025 pounds.
  10. White tigers are not albinos. They have brown stripes and blue eyes.
  11. In the last 100 years, the number of tigers has declined by 95 percent.
  12. Tiger stripes are just as individual as human fingerprints.
  13. Tigers have been hunted almost to extinction by poachers for use in exotic Oriental medicines, none of which has been proven to work.
  14. The tiger's closest relative is the lion. Their body structures are almost identical.
  15. Tigers can be found in India, Russia, southern China, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra.
  16. The tiger is the most endangered of all big cat species.
  17. A tiger has five toes on each of its front paws but only four toes on its back paws.
  18. An adult tiger will eat 33 to 40 pounds of meat in a night. A tiger can go about 3 days without eating.
  19. There are fewer than 6,000 wild tigers left in the world. There are more Siberian tigers in zoos than in the wild.
  20. Tigers often drag their prey into the water to eat.
  21. Tigers have night vision that is six times better than that of humans.
  22. Tigers are good swimmers and like to cool off by sitting in water holes with the water up to their necks.
  23. Only 20% of wild tigers survive to adulthood.
  24. The tiger's only natural enemy is man.
  25. A tiger's tail is about four feet long on average, or half the length of its body.
  26. Of the five surviving species of tiger, only Bengal tigers purr.
  27. A tiger is very territorial, and will defend an area of 8 to 400 square miles from all other tigers of the same sex.
  28. The vast majority of tigers are Bengal tigers. Most of them live in India and Bangladesh.
  29. Tigers are the largest members of the cat family - even bigger than lions.
  30. Sumatran tigers are the smallest variety; Siberian tigers are the largest.
  31. Tigers live in many different environments, from the steamy jungles of India to the icy forests of Siberia.
  32. A tiger's saliva is antiseptic and very handy for cleaning the tiger's wounds.

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