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A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of it’s head, our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. If we had eyes comparable to a bird, they would be the size of baseballs.
All pet hamsters are descendants from a single wild female golden hamster found in Syria in 1930. Her litter of 12 hamsters have generated the entire domesticated population of pet hamsters today.
Hamsters have a gestation period of 16 days.
All rodents (or animals of the rodentia family) have teeth that never stop growing.
Did you know that rabbits are rodents? (yes their teeth never stop growing)
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This is the flower of an artichoke. We usually eat the flower BEFORE it blooms.
Jane, our praying mantis, showed us that when a praying mantis sleeps their eyes turn brown, and when they are awake their eyes are green.
They are round so that their covers cannot be dropped through the manhole itself. Squares, rectangles, ovals, and other shapes could be so positioned that they would slip into the manhole. The circular manhole cover rests on a lip that is smaller than the cover. Thus, the size and shape keep the manhole cover from falling into the hole. - From: The Book of Answers by Barbara Berliner