Category: Wild Life & Nature

So you thought only parents keep their children grounded. Roots do for plants what parents do for their kids. The roots help plants in anchoring them to the soil. They also serve as transport systems, allowing the plant to suck up water and dissolved minerals from the soil that it needs to grow. Some plants can…

Did you think that the world’s largest waterfall is the Angel Falls in Venezuela or the Niagara  Falls in Canada? Wrong ! The Earth’s largest waterfall is a large cataract beneath the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. Dropping nearly 11,500 feet, this underwater waterfall is more than three times larger than the Angel Falls which is at…

And you thought that a one inch long prawn can not show a punch or two? Well, meet the pistol shrimp, which can stun its prey by spurting out a jet of water bubble, to create a deafening ‘crack’ like sound, as loud as a gunshot under water. What is amazing is that this  is no…

What am I? If you look at a frog when it is a month old it looks very different. It is also called by a different name a tadpole or a polliwog. It takes a frog full one year to start looking like an actual frog. Why does a frog changes so much in the…

Imagine big chunks of Ice cubes floating in your soda. Now think of bigger cubes… much bigger than these and the ones that float in the ocean. Aha! Icebergs are these huge chunks of ice that float freely in the water. Now since ice is lighter than the sea water, typically only one-ninth of the volume…

Well yes! Such a bat does exist. So what if it weighs only two grams and is as long as one inch. What ?? As light as a feather and maybe even smaller than your nose!!;) Yes that’s right! We are talking about the Bumblebee bat. It is the world’s smallest mammal. Like all other…

Who would even need a pillow that is all needles. Ha! gotcha! We are talking about porcupines :). Porcupines are rodents that have a coat of sharp needles and pins also know as quills. This helps them hide and protect themselves from their enemies. Porcupines are generally shy and peaceful animals. They mostly run away when they…

Before I begin to answer that question, tell me why do snakes even need to have poison at all? Here is why. Snakes use their poisonous bite to protect themselves from predators. Also, snakes are usually smaller and slower than their prey. Their venom makes it easy for them to catch the prey since after poisoning the prey…

If I ask you why animals can not speak, what will be your guess? 1. Don’t animals have a tongue? 2. Don’t animals have a voice box? 3. Animals want to speak, but they can’t? The first and the second one are not true. Most animals do have a tongue. Most of them also have a…

There are many plants that eat insects or other animals. So here you are eating plants and being a vegetarian where as some plants are eating meat…Curious?? Let’s talk about meat-eating carnivorous plants. These plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is weak in nutrients specially Nitrogen. There are around 630 such…

Do you know that all birds have wings and feathers but still some of them can’t fly? You guessed it right – we are talking about flightless birds! As the name suggests flightless birds are those that do not have the ability to fly. The best known flightless birds are the ostrich, emu, cassowary, rhea, kiwi, and penguin. Now, you know…

Hmm…Turtles and Tortoise are really special creatures. They carry their homes with them. Yes! The shell we see on them is their home! It must be difficult to carry the shell all the time but the good part is that they have a shelter wherever they go. When I was little I always thought tortoise…