Fire ants create living rafts with their bodies.
What's Your Most Extraordinary Fact About the Animal Kingdom?
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@Kamikaze
A honeybee has nearly 3 million hairs on its body.
More people die from honey been stings than all other animals combined.
Anaphylactic shock kills.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bee not a bear.
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@mustardness
That's interesting because less than 1% of Americans are actually allergic to bee stings. Of course, you would have to factor in Africanized bee attacks, since the sheer number of stings from those can send even someone who is not allergic into anaphylactic shock.
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@Kamikaze
Factors of consideration indeed, however, I just read a blurb I read in a mag or on the net some years ago. Believed it was true then, and did not consider whether that was world wide consideration or just USA or etc. I dunno.That's interesting because less than 1% of Americans are actually allergic to bee stings. Of course, you would have to factor in Africanized bee attacks, since the sheer number of stings from those can send even someone who is not allergic into anaphylactic shock.
Ive also read that if all honey bees and other bees died off humanity would not survive or least lareg part would die off. That is harder for me to believe. I dunno.
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@mustardness
Well, I don't think all of humanity would die off. But honeybees alone pollinate 1/3 of the food we eat and add $15 billion in agricultural value to crops every year, so if they did die off, that wouldn't be great for the economy and more people would become food insecure.
78 days later
Humans discovery of zero{ 0 } as used in mathematics and abacus.
Oldest abacus{ chinese } has 13 columns ergo
two wrists too hang counting rings
two ankles "" ""
8 fingers "" ""
1 neck "" ""
Total 13
Fuller relates is this way, trigonometry was done by earlest sea-peoples reafting between south pacific islands and they had no pockets or writing boards so best to use their body to hang things on, and if their washed overboard the counting things are still attached or easily replaced.
This may be the origins of some tribes south pacific native peoples hanging ornamentals from their ears and their ear lobes hanging longer longer from the weight of the ornamentals.
The original things that hung from the ear lobes were star charts caved into sea shell.
13 columns is trillions. Why did any ancient peoples feel a need to count into the trillions?
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@mustardness
Sperm whale sonar clicks can reach up to 230 db.
That's the equivalent of about 30 tons of TNT going off.
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@Reece
Sperm whale sonar clicks can reach up to 230 db. That's the equivalent of about 30 tons of TNT going off.
And spread out as long wave/____\_____/______\_______\ energy release.
Short wave wwwww energy release would be more likened to fission or fusion.
There exists only two ways energy can be released.
More frequent, short wave energy bursts.
Less frequent, long wave energy release.
Gravity ( ) and Dark Energy )( may be the exceptions to the rule i.e. where short wave-lengths may transpose to longest wave-length considerations. I dunno.
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@mustardness
Still pretty neat.
Also elephants have been known to use seismic communication to communicate miles away from each other.
Not quite sure how accurate that is.
What about the tardigrade's capacity to survive outer space?
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@oromagi
That's a popular one. There are tons of videos out there on them.
34 days later
There is a species of sponge that produces silicon-based material similar to glass.
There is a species of sponge that produces silicon-based material similar to glass.
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@K_Michael
..."A unique fungus that makes diesel compounds has been discovered living in trees in the rainforest, according to a paper published in the November issue of Microbiology. The fungus is potentially a totally new source of green energy and scientists are now working to develop its fuel producing potential.
71 days later
Vampire ants feed food to their young and then drink the blood of their young.