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18/11/2024

Weekly animal fact

This week has been submitted by Jessica:

"The Rostocker Pfeilstorch, found in 1822, demonstrated that birds migrated rather than hibernating or changing form in winter.
The Pfeilstorch was found injured by a spear from African hunters thus ending the long debate on whether birds moved to warmer areas or metamorphosed into different animals to survive winter."

In 1822, one White Stork helped put an end to this mystery. The bird landed near the German village of Klütz with a 30-inch spear through its neck. The spear was discovered to be made from African wood, meaning this stork must have traveled between the continents. Being literal people, the Germans felt this strange, new animal needed a new name: Pfeilstorch, or arrow-stork.
Amazingly, there have been 24 subsequent recorded Pfeilstorchs—birds that have successfully migrated to Europe with an African spear embedded in their flesh.

The Pfeilstorch was the first concrete evidence for migration, the annual, large-scale movement of birds between their breeding and non-breeding territories.

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10/11/2024

Weekly pet fact

As I am currently in Cyprus, I thought I would do a cyprusean fact. Due to not seeing turtles as it is out of season, I will not be doing a turtle based fact.

Legend has it that Constantine the Great, the Byzantine Emperor and son of St. Helen, sent a commander called Kalokeros to Cyprus in order to release thousands of cats that would lend a hand in getting rid of the snakes in the area; thus the cape was saved and became known as Cape Gata (Cape Cat).

Cyprus is currently home to about 1.5 million cats.

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03/11/2024

Weekly pet fact

In order to outmanoeuvre their prey, swordfish have evolved a body plan that prioritises swimming performance above all else. They are scaleless to reduce drag, and their rostrums have a rough surface that generates micro-turbulence in the water ahead of them; this subtle adaptation allows them to effectively produce their own slipstream, negating the high energy costs of pushing through still water.

Swordfish have a specialised organ near the base of their rostrum that produces unique hydrophobic oils. These oils are secreted from pores on the front of the head, and are thought to form a highly hydrophobic layer over the skin that reduces drag during high speed pursuits.

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Weekly pet factTardigrades, also known as water bears, are nearly indestructible microscopic creatures. They can survive...
27/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are nearly indestructible microscopic creatures. They can survive in the most extreme environments, including the deep sea, high mountain ranges, and even the vacuum of space. Tardigrades can withstand extreme temperatures, radiation, and pressure, and can go without food or water for more than 30 years by entering a state of suspended animation.

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20/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

The hagfish can spew out thick, sticky goo that will clog up the gills of any predator that dares dine on it. The hagfish is a type of agnathan, a jawless fish with an eel-like body. But if you’ve seen this slimy surprise doing the rounds on social media, you’ll know that it produces copious amounts of thick slime as a defence mechanism when threatened, allowing it to escape predators.
The hagfish can make enough slime equal to 400 times their own volume.

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13/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

The cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 96.6 km/h (60.0 mph) in under three seconds, though endurance is limited: most cheetahs run for only 60 seconds at a time.

But in a tradeoff for having various adaptations needed for rapid acceleration to pursue prey, such as a reduced muzzle and smaller skull size, cheetahs have weak jaws and smaller canine teeth compared to other large cats. This will leave to cheetahs being vulnerable when it comes to defending captured prey from other larger predators.

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06/10/2024

Weekly pet fact

For the purpose of defending itself against predators, the pufferfish can triple its body volume by pumping water into its stomach. They exhibit striking structural and functional specializations for inflation.

The stomach of the pufferfish is highly extensible and has lost its digestive function, it is repeatedly folded upon itself and is lined with transitional epithelium. The peritoneal cavity of the pufferfish is also large and extensible.

During inflation, the stomach expands into an existing peritoneal space surrounding the axial musculature and presses the folded peritoneum out into potential peritoneal spaces ventral to the head and surrounding the dorsal fin, a**l fin, and caudal peduncle; only the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the head are unaffected.

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29/09/2024

Weekly pet fact

A goblin shark's mouth is lined with rows of thin and pointed teeth, which is perfect for gripping the soft bodies common among their prey species like squids and rat-tail fishes, they have the terrifying ability to literally sling their entire jawbone forward, massive extending the forward range of their bite.

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22/09/2024

Weekly pet fact

There are two different kinds of crab, true crabs and false crabs.
True crabs are also known as brachyurans and have short abdomens and eight legs, there are almost 7,000 species of true crab which includes blue crabs, spider crabs and ghost crabs.
While false crabs, also known as anomurans, have longer abdomens and fewer legs, this includes hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs and squat lobsters.

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15/09/2024

Weekly pet fact

There are 5 different colors of blood; red, blue, green, yellow and violet.

RED: Humans and most vertebrates.
The iron in the blood is the reason for the red color. In the veins it is a deep red, but when exposed to oxygen it becomes bright red.

BLUE: Spiders, crustaceans, some mollusks, octopuses and squids.
They have a high concentration of copper in the blood protein. This would be colorless, but when exposed to oxygen it becomes blue.

GREEN: Most marine worms, segmented worms and leeches.
These animals have a chemical in their blood protein called chlorocruorin, which turns green when oxygenated and light red in higher concentrations.

YELLOW: Beatles, sea squirts and sea cucumber.
These creatures have a relatively high concentration of venabin in their blood, when oxygenated will turn yellow.

VIOLET: Brachlopods and some marine worms.
Many marine invertebrates rely on the blood protein hemerythrin to transport oxygen, hemerythrin becomes violet-pink when oxygenated.

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08/09/2024

Weekly pet fact

Snails and slugs eat with a jaw and a flexible band of thousands of microscopic teeth, called a radula. The radula scrapes up, food particles, and the jaw cuts off larger pieces of food, like a leaf, to be rasped by the radula.

The material the radula is, on average, about five times stronger than most spider silk, this makes it the strongest natural material on Earth. Tests in the lab revealed that it can withstand pressure that would turn carbon into diamond.

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25/08/2024

Weekly pet fact

Eptifibatide was modeled after a component in southeastern pygmy rattlesnake venom and is used in anticoagulation therapies in an effort to reduce the risk of heart attacks, but this was not without its drawbacks such as thrombocytopenia, this is a deficiency of platelets in the blood. This causes bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury.

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18/08/2024

Weekly animal fact

This week has been submitted by Barbara:

"Spiders don't have muscles in their legs. They extend them using a system of hydraulics powered by their blood pressure. When they die, spiders' legs curl up because the blood pressure is gone."

While spiders have muscles to flex their spindly limbs inward, they use hydraulic pressure to extend them outward. Almost all other limbed animals have both flexor and extensor muscles, which produce smoother, less jarring, and much less unsettling movements.

To extend their legs, spiders rapidly increase pressure in their cephalothorax. This increase in pressure sends hemolymph (blood) flowing to the extremities, causing the legs to stretch outward. When moving, spiders innately increase and decrease body pressure in fractions of a second to quickly skitter about.

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11/08/2024

Weekly animal fact

This week has been submitted by Kezza:

"People think swifts are most closely related to swallows but they are actually related to the humming bird."

Swifts don’t just belong to a different family to swallows, they belong to a completely different order! In fact, they’re more closely related to hummingbirds than they are to swallows. Swifts form a family called Apodidae, which traditionally sits in the order Apodiformes alongside treeswifts and hummingbirds.

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04/08/2024

Weekly pet fact

Although moles may resemble mice and rats, they are not rodents. Instead they are more closely related to bats, they share anatomical characters with the Insectivora and like pigs, male moles are called "boars" and female moles are called "sows".

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28/07/2024

Weekly pet fact

Dwarfing modern insects, a massive dragonfly named Meganeuropsis permiana holds the record as the largest insect ever to have roamed the earth.This insect lived during the late Permian era, about 275 million years ago. These dragonflies had a wingspan close to 75 cm with an estimated weight of over 450 g, which is similar to the size and weight of a crow.

The longest insect in the world today is the Phryganistria 'chinensis', a species of stick insect, was measured at 62.4cm, but since then a captive-bred example of this species reached 64 cm in length.

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This week's prize winner Katrina with her 4 year old Border Collie, Angus receiving 4 chicken feet
22/07/2024

This week's prize winner Katrina with her 4 year old Border Collie, Angus receiving 4 chicken feet

Weekly animal factThis week has been submitted by Katrina:"Male sharks have 2 p***ses"Male sharks have 2 p***s like appe...
21/07/2024

Weekly animal fact

This week has been submitted by Katrina:

"Male sharks have 2 p***ses"

Male sharks have 2 p***s like appendages called claspers, these are an external appendage found on male sharks, skates, and rays that are designed to deliver s***m inside of a female. However, they are dissimilar to a p***s in that they are not an independent appendage, but rather a deeply grooved cartilaginous extension of the sharks pelvic fins.

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