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Pets Make Us Comfort

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 28, 2008 / 3:11 pm

Do you have any pets? Whether they are cats, dogs, rabbits, or maybe fish, they are all usable for you. Excuse me, usable? Yes, they are. You can use them to give you comfort, such a place of sanctuary or an escape. The statement above is reasoned. Researchers at Ohio State University showed that pets [...]

Dancing With Bees

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 26, 2008 / 11:51 am

You know, there are some facts about animals in the world that have been revealed; some of them are kinky, some are funny, and some others may be disgusting or scary as well. This time, we’ll see a very very fun fact about honey. My high school Biology teaher told me that honey have a [...]

Elephants Cry, Play, and Laugh, Everyone!

2 comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 21, 2008 / 7:59 pm

Among all of the interesting facts about elephant, i think the fact that elephant can cry, play, and laugh are the most interesting! In the other side, of course, we–human–have a lack of knowledge about their expression, that’s why sometime we don’t understand. We can only understand them partially. Another source mentions that elephants are [...]

Dead but Alive?

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 17, 2008 / 8:20 am

It is very funny knowing that Peter William Eaves found that beneath the drive, at a depth of 25 centimetres–were least 13 live crabs (all being around 7 cm in width) in the surface of a long-established sand/gravel drive (laid in the 1920s or 30s) that being improved–a very strange phenomenon was discovered. The most wondering [...]

Size Doesn’t Always Matter

1 comment Yessi Pratiwi — December 13, 2008 / 11:25 am

People often think that size of animal is one of the important factors to survival. A big size animal will have a greater power to survive in a problem from its environment or habitat, compared to the small animals. Well, in some terms, this opinion can be true. But it doesn’t match every animal in [...]

Because Dogs Can be Jealous

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 9, 2008 / 4:57 pm

Beside primates, dogs recently have been found to have a jealous feeling. What a funny fact, right? NewScientist reported, when a dog treated unfair compared to another dogs in the same environment, he’ll show his envy clearly. Well, how will he act, then? Friederike Range and her colleagues at the University of Vienna, Austria, asked [...]

Mobile Phones Affects Animal’s Memory, Research Found

2 comments Yessi Pratiwi — December 6, 2008 / 8:49 pm

The radiation of cell phone has been found to affect animals memory. In the research held by the Division of Neurosurgery–Lund University, in Sweden–it was found that rats, the used object were exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week for more than a year. The research led by Henrietta Nittby. She said [...]

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