BIRD EGGS
• Eggs are egg-shaped instead of round so that if they roll around, they will roll in a circle instead of rolling away from the nest. • The pattern of dots and splotches of camouflaging color on each bird egg is as individual as a fingerprint.
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• Some birds will continue to lay eggs until the nest feels full. They can be tricked into laying eggs continuously if the eggs are removed from the nest. A flicker tricked in such a manner once laid 71 eggs in 73 days. • The robin's egg may be colored blue in order to reflect damaging rays of the sun. • The main ingredient of eggshell is calcium carbonate, the same stuff in chalk, limestone, shells, coral, and pearls.
• A famous and oft-quoted line from Sherlock Holmes is "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" However, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn't come up with that one himself; he took it from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, another pioneer of the detective genre. • Just as bears do, many frogs hibernate. A frog will burrow
• Jayne Mansfield had an interesting definition of men. She said they are "creatures with two legs and eight hands."
• The kiwi of New Zealand lays the largest egg relative to body weight. A single egg, which takes 4 to 5 days to be laid, weighs about a pound. The mother only weighs about 4 lbs. herself. After she lays the egg, the male takes over incubation, guarding the egg for the next 10 weeks. • Although the endangered whooping crane usually lays two eggs, it will only bring one egg to term. In order to boost the whooping crane population, ornithologists remove one egg and put it in the nest of a sandhill crane instead. The sandhill crane becomes the surrogate parent of the whooping crane chick.
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• Keep an eye on the weather in your part of the country, it may be a sign of things to come. An old saying goes, "Much rain in October, much wind in December."
• Everywhere you go these days, you see people carrying around bottles of water. I wonder if they realize how much money they're spending? At $1.49 for a 9-ounce bottle of Evian, a gallon would cost $21.19. It could be worse, though. PeptoBismol is $123.20 a gallon.
• A female pigeon in solitary confinement will not lay eggs. Pigeons must be able to see other pigeons in order to become fertile. Their own reflection in a mirror does the job nicely.
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• A Neanderthal's brain was actually larger than the brain of a modern human.
down into the mud at the bottom of a pond and, not being able to use its lungs to breathe, it will absorb the oxygen in the water through its skin.
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• A proverb of unknown origin states, "The length of a piece of wood can only be too short on one end."
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