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How Mammals Regulate Their Body Temperature

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 26, 2009 / 7:06 pm

A fundamental connection between mammals is that they are endothermes–they maintain their cotre body temperature within a relatively narrow and constant range, the heat produced being a by-product of food digestion. In most mammals except marsupials, the temperature range is between 36° Celcius (96.8°F) nad 40°C (104°F); marsupials have a range of 27°C (80.6F) to [...]

Many Cats Don’t Have Eyelashes

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 20, 2009 / 9:37 pm

When I was kid, I like to play with my cats very much. I had 3 cats, I named them : Vini, Vidi, Vici. Hahaha, those name I borrowed from Julius Caesar One of my favorite thing to do with the cats was cutting their eyelashes. Yes, that hair above their eyes. But I [...]

Camels Do Not Store Water in Their Humps

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 13, 2009 / 11:00 pm

While most animals can not survive of desolate places like dessert, mountains, and other arid places, camels can. Camel is one of animals that has a great survive ability. Why? Is that because their large source of water in their humps? Well, if you still think that camels store water in their humps, you have to [...]

Butterfly

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 7, 2009 / 9:37 am

Master of Science degreed Entomologist Randi Jones wrote in TheButterflySite a complete fact about butterfly. Butterfly–for me–is one of the most beautiful creatures in this world. This Lepidoptera  insect order animal has a certain life cycle, kind of transformation from one form to other forms, as follows : To grow into an elegant adult butterfly, they go [...]

Turtle Facts

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 3, 2009 / 11:21 pm

Hello there! This time we’ll talk about turtles. Who like turtles? Well, perhaps the question is, “Who doesn’t love turtles?” Tell me what you know about turtles! Slow, have a great shell, what else? You know, sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells as can land turtles. They love to eat jellyfish-because the jellyfish can?t [...]

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