I don’t know what inspired it, but this week is all about babies! Enjoy these 13 facts about various baby animals and the pictures that make you go “awwww”. 1. Baby pandas weigh only 4 ounces (130 grams) which is 1/900th of their parents’ weight of about 350 pounds (135 kgs). 2. Kangaroos are born [...]
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It’s Pronounced Lob-stah
Published August 6th, 2009 in Animal Facts, Maine and Thursday Thirteen. 5 CommentsMaine is the lobster capital of the world! (Well, Mainers believe that anyway.) But the recession has hit the market hard … very hard. So my thirteen this week is about the spiny creature of the sea–the lobster. I’m not sure if it will encourage you to have lobster at your next barbeque, but at [...]
13 Weird Animal Facts
Published May 7th, 2008 in Animal Facts, Pictures and Thursday Thirteen. 31 CommentsThis week’s list of gross and weird animal facts and pictures are thanks to a google search which pulled up various websites. Yay Google! 1. When the horned toad gets really scared, it shoots blood out its eyes by increasing the blood pressure in its sinuses until they explode. The predator goes for the blood and the toad can get [...]
