Category: Wild Life & Nature

If I say Jelly fish is a fish, Would that be right? Well if you look at a jellyfish that is washed to the beach shore it might look like a soggy plastic bag. The truth is that the jellyfish has no bones, heart, head or a brain and it is not even a fish. It…

Do you know what rain forests are? They are forests that form where it rains a lot. Almost every day of the year! Rain forests are found in the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn(area above and below the equator). Look at the map below and you will understand. No…

Have you ever seen someone sleeping for a long time? Very quickly you will think of someone who is lazy. Although sometimes, don’t you also secretly wish that you could stretch your sleep-time for a few more hours, especially on a school day. What if someone slept for months together? Now that is not laziness. Such kind…

Can you guess what is the slimiest thing on earth? I know you are thinking eeeeeeeeeeeewy and yuckyyyyy… Aren’t you? But this is interesting. Think about it. Could it be a fruit or vegetable, some plant, may be one of the animals……..  Guess?? Nah! It’s a FISH !!! Hagfish, as it is called, is probably…

Is there any other animal or insect that you know which waits comfortably in its silky couch for dinner to arrive? Dinner being the insect that gets trapped in the sticky silky web. Cool huh!  Most of the spiders spin their web to catch food. While there are some spiders like the jumping spider which…

If I say Sharks, the next words that come to your mind are “oooooooh so scary! “. That is because in movies you have seen sharks hunting humans. But remember… Movies are just someone’s imagination. Sharks don’t attack humans unless we go in their world to trouble them. Sharks do gobble up other fishes in…

Once there was a boy name “Woody”. He always wondered why his parents named him so. His mother told him that he was named after trees and wood – for trees were good and helpful and so was wood that came out of trees – and hence the name Woody. Woody decided to look around…

Before we talk about Volcanoes, let us talk about a fun activity you can do easily at home. Try doing this if you have not done already! Take a coke bottle, shake the bottle a bit and then open the bottle. What happens? The bottle goes pop, all the bubbly soda mixed with gas gushes…

Whenever you look up in the sky, what do you see? Are those huge marshmallows in the sky? Or huge fluffs of cotton? Hmmm better still are they giant soapsuds? Amazing isn’t it.. Coming out of our imagination land – we have a simple name for these fluffs of cotton. They are called clouds. What…

Think of all the words that come to your mind when we talk about Earthworms – “wriggly”, “slimy”, “yucky”, “dirty”, “Eww” :). Does helpful ever come to your mind? No, I don’t think so. The truth is that Earthworms might not be the cutest animals but they sure are very helpful. How so? Here is…

You know what we are talking about? Right! Rabbits :). They are the cutest animals. Their tails are almost like fluffs of cotton and that is why they are also called cotton-tail rabbits. Rabbits are normally gentle animals, but when they are in danger they can kick really hard and can also bite. People sometimes…

A firefly in the day might look like an ordinary beetle but Lo and behold !! It is no ordinary creature!… It’s one of the most astonishing creations of nature. Fireflies or Lightning bugs or Glow worms, as they are called, make light within their bodies. Imagine if we could do that and switch ourselves…