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Avinash X

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  • The Champions of the Animal KingdomPeople are good at a lot of things, but if animals could enter the Olympics as one team they would probably win almost all the medals! Animals can outrun, outswim, and outjump all humans. Young cheetahs learn to hunt by watching their mother. Later, they start taking part in the hunt. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds of 113kph in short bursts. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org Fastest Mammal on Land Cheetahs can run up to 113 kph. Fastest Mammal in Water Dall porpoises can swim up to 56 kph. Fastest Flying Bird Peregrine falcons can dive toward the ground at more than 320 kph. Fastest Flightless Bird North African ostriches are the fastest birds on land. They can run at speeds up to 72 kph. They are also the biggest bird. They can weigh 155 kg. Fastest Fish Sailfish can swim up to 109 kph. Loudest Animal The blue whale’s low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels. This is louder than a jet engine. A blue whale’s call can be detected more than 805 km away. On land, the loudest animals are howler monkeys. Their howls can be heard 4.8 km away.
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      Avinash X on 16 Sep 09
       
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  • Arctic terns migrate to and from the Antarctic - about 35,405 km round trip - each year. Among mammals, gray whales and northern elephant seals are the migration champions. They travel up to 20,900 km round trip each year. Deadliest Animal Female Anopheles mosquitoes, which carry and transmit malaria, play a role in the deaths of more than a million people each year. Most Venomous Animal A single sea wasp (a kind of jellyfish with 60 tentacles, each 4 m long) has enough venom to kill 60 adult humans. Strongest Animal The rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own weight
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  • Longest Gestation Asian elephants are born after a gestation period of 19 to 22 months. Largest Mammal Blue whales are the largest mammals of all time and the largest living animal. Females grow to a length of about 27 m. They may weigh well over 100 metric tons. The heaviest blue whale weighed more than 190 metric tons. The longest ever measured was more than 33 m. African elephant bulls are the heaviest land animal. Large males may weigh as much as 5,895kg. Despite their power and size, elephants are vegetarians, or herbivores. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org Largest Living Animal on Land African elephants are the heaviest land animal. They are also the second tallest land animal. Large bulls (males) weigh more than 5,895 kg and are 3.5 m tall at the shoulder. Giraffes, which can grow to a height of 5 m, are the tallest land animals. Large males weigh more than 1,800 kg. Smallest Vertebrate Australia's stout infantfish, slightly smaller than the better-known dwarf goby, is less than 1 cm long. Smallest Bird Adult bee hummingbirds, found in Cuba, weigh about 2 g. Smallest Mammal Adult bumblebee bats, which live in Thailand, weigh about 2 g. Longest Lifespan In the 1770s, British explorer Captain James Cook presented a Madagascar radiated tortoise to the royal family of Tonga. The tortoise lived until 1965. It was at least 188 years old when it died! Several Galápagos tortoises h
  • ave lived past age 150.
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    this looks quite informative. i never knew this!!!
Zina S

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  • An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h.
  • Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears.
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  • Since just 1950, the world's population has more than doubled to more than 6 billion people, with the fastest population growth being in the tropics.
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      Jack P on 25 Sep 09
       
      how did this happen?
  • Today, more than 3 billion people live in the tropics alone, more than lived in the entire world in 1950.
  • Annual world consumption of tropical hardwoods is now more than 250 million cubic meters, or over 100 billion board feet, per year.
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  • All of the primary forests in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh are gone. Ivory Coast's forests are essentially non-existent. Nigeria's forests have been decimated as well.
  •   Peasant farmers also clear the rainforest to have land for planting, by cutting the forest, and then in the dry season burning what they have cut.
  • Today we have less than 1.5 billion acres left, and we are clearing this remaining rainforest at the rate of 30 to 50 million acres per year, two to three times as rapidly as just a few decades ago.
  •   It is increasingly vitally important to plant tropical hardwood trees for harvest and to protect the world's remaining tropical rainforests.      It is also vitally important to get the message out to others about the importance
  • With the help and faith of our tree owners, with more than 2 million tropical hardwood trees planted to date, we are beginning to make a difference.
  • Jack P on 25 Sep 09
     
    who is doing this
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    who is doing this
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