Which Fish Spits At Insects?
The archerfish from South-east Asia has the remark ability of shooting down insects from overhanging vegetation with water pellets. Its aim is quite accurate and it can usually dislodge a beetle or a fly about four feet away,» that it falls in the water.
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What Is The Largest Lizard In The World?
Can you imagine a lizard 10 feet long and weighing 300 pounds? There is a monster lizard of this size called the Komodo dragon. It is easy to see how it came to be called a dragon. Its long neck supports a large head with cruel-looking jaws and its powerful, thick tail accounts for half its length.
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How Do These Single-celled Animals Move?
Protozoan move in a variety of ways. The amoeba has no characteristic shape, in contrast to the other protozoan, and moves along the substratum, or surface of objects, in a flowing movement, continually changing its form.
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Which Notorious Duellist Was Also An Author And Playwright?
Sevinien Cyrano de Bergerac. He was a Gascon, as was D'Artagnan, the hero of The Three Musketeers. In fact, both swordmen lived at the same time for D'Artagnan really lived. He was a King's Musketeer who became a Marshal of France.
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Can Prawns Change Colour?
There is one prawn that is particularly good at changing colour. This is the Aesop Prawn. Normally it is pink but can vary its body colour to match that of its surroundings. This usually occurs in. times of danger when a predate lurking nearby.
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- Which animals and plants are the most danger?
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- How clean is the ocean?
- Is fresh air really fresh?
- Why do we use the land?
- What foods do we eat?
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- What do we get from the sea?
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- Where might you expect to find jungles and swamps?
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- What are the simplest animals?
- How do these single-celled animals move?
- How does Volvox differ from other protozoans?
- What are sponges?
- How do sponges feed if they cannot move?
- Where do bath sponges come from?
- Are hydras more advanced than sponges?
- How do hydras catch their prey?
- What is the Portuguese man-o'-war?
- What are the 'flowers of the sea’?
- What is coral?
- How are coral reefs formed?
- How do the bivalves move around?
- How do mussels fix themselves to surfaces high above the ground?
- What is a cuttlefish?
- Whiy does a squid squirt ink?
- What are the worms of the seashore?
- Why are earthworms good for the soil?
- How does peripatus link the worms and the animals with jointed legs?
- Are Water fleas really fleas?
- What are copepods?
- Which animals live on their heat and kick food into their mouths?
- Where do barnacles live?
- Can prawns change colour?
- Can a lobster swim backwards?
- How many legs has a centipede?
- What is the difference between a centipede and a millipede?
- Why are there so many insects?
- How do insects develop?
- How locust does swarms start?
- How do these insects avoid detection?
- How does the mantid catch its Prey?
- Where do mantids, stick insects and leaf insects come from?
- How fast can a dragonfly fly?
- Which insects build enormous mounds?
- How does a termite colony start?
- How do aphids damage plants?
- Why does the scarab beetle roll dung?
- How does the ant lion larva catch ants?
- Where do butterflies lay their eggs?
- What is the hole in the butterfly's egg for?
- Why does the caterpillar eat its egg shell?
- What is the king crab?
- Can a scorpion kill a man?
- Do all spiders spin webs?
- What are the echinoderms?
- How does a starfish move?
- How does a starfish open a mussel with its feet?
- Is the sea lily a flower?
- Can you eat a sea urchin?
- How does a sea cucumber avoid attack?
- How has life on the bottom changed the skates and rays?
- How dangerous is the stingray?
- What do skates eat?
- Why do salmon leap waterfalls?
- What are hatchet fishes?
- What is the largest freshwater fish in the world?
- Which fish is the freshwater shark?
- How savage are piranha fishes?
- Which fish keeps its eggs in its mouth?
- Which are the fishes of the carp family?
- Which goldfishes are freaks?
- How big does the Trench grow?
- There do eels go to breed and die?
- Is the moray eel as fierce as it looks?
- Is the dolphin a fish or a mammal?
- Which fish spits at insects?
- Why does the clownfish live among the dangerous tentacles of a sea anemone?
- Which fishes build bubble nests?
- Do fighting fishes fight?
- What is dangerous about the scorpion fishes?
- How do frogs develop?
- What are these frogs looking for?
- How can frogs live in the desert?
- Can frogs live in trees?
- Can frogs fly?
- What is the difference between frogs and toads?
- Which toad hatches young on its back?
- Is the Tuatara a prehistoric reptile?
- When is a turtle a tortoise?
- Why is this Green Turtle crying?
- What is the difference between alligators and crocodiles?
- How dangerous are crocodiles?
- Why does this crocodile have a long snout?
- How can a gecko run up the wall?
- What use is the Frilled Lizard's frill?
- How can a chameleon look at two things at once?
- What is the American Chameleon?
- Which lizard squirts blood from its eyes?
- Which big lizards eat seaweed and cacti?
- How can skinks see with their eyes closed?
- Which is the most beautiful reptile?
- Why do lizards shed their tails?
- What is the largest lizard in the world?
- Are snakes really modified lizards?
- How do snakes slither?
- How does a sidewinder move?
- How does a snake shed its skin?
- Why is this snake seeking the shade?
- What is a hibernaculum?
