Book Club

rabbits are altricial, born hairless and blind, and require lots of care from their Mothers.

According to Georgia Veterinary Associates, cats spend 1/3 of their lives sleeping and 1/3 of their lives grooming.

OK here…..our snow yesterday never happened! My favorite kind of snow….haha. Next chance of snow now is next Tuesday. Meanwhile today\’s high (yes I said high) will be TWENTY-ONE DEGREES. Yipes!

Factoid 1/21: Ever heard of the sensitive plant? Fascinating plants – my Mom has had these as houseplants before. Native to the tropics of Central and South America, Mimosa pudica is a species of creeping herb or shrub that is commonly called the sensitive plant for its intriguing leaf movement when touched. Tiny hairs line the leaves of a…[Read more]

Jan 20-Cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs only have 10.

time for some Owl love!

Memorial to Mrs. Chippy, the ship’s mascot on Endurance, and beloved kitty of the ship’s carpenter, Chips Macneish.

Tulips! (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs) The tulip is a member of the lily family, There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name “tulip” is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to…[Read more]

1/20 Raccoons communicate with each other using over 200 different sounds and 12 -15 different calls.

Black Footed Cat: The skin of these cats are different from other wild cats because their skin is pink.

1/20-The moose or elk is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family.

Think before you speak.

#2 – Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other is gold. By Sue Lynch

What is a Yooper stone? A gem and mineral dealer in the U.P. has made a glowing discovery. Erik Rintamaki discovered a rock that glows under an ultraviolet light made of a mineral never seen before in Michigan.
Rintamaki self-named the rocks “Yooperlites” in honor of the endearing nickname “Yooper” for people who live in Michigan’s Upper…[Read more]

Hummingbirds have no sense of smell.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Heer\’s my makeup faktoid: In France, sum farmers feed cows 2 bottuls of wine a day becuz happy cows prodoose better meet. One fancy french chef sed it has a “very special texture, beautiful, marbled and tender, which caramelizes while cooking.” Cows are big, so 2 bottuls probly gives em a nice buzz but it\’s not enuf for them to reely tie one on.

On the Kerribeeyun illund of St. Kitts, boozing monkeys rome the beeches waiting for fokes on Vaykay to leeve their drinks. Yes, you red that rite, thare is a hole illand of drunk munkeys!

Theez munkeys rade the local bars and beeches in serch of their next kocktale.

I don’t reely feel like doing much more typing cuz I’m late fer lunch at the…[Read more]

1/20 What do whales eat?
Blue whales eat krill – tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth’s oceans. The huge whales can eat up to four tonnes of krill every day.
Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth. Krill make up the vast majority…[Read more]

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Adult cats have 30 teeth, while kittens have 26.

We have a kitty in the Wolverines named Chimera. She is Socks sister. She, however, is not a true Chimera cat. The Chimera cat is one cat that started out as two. Chimera cats have two sets of DNA because a pair of embryos fused together early in the mother’s womb. So, chimera kittens are born with their own individual DNA, plus the DNA from a…[Read more]

1/20 – Snowflakes aren’t the only form of snow. Snow can also precipitate as snow pellets or sleet. Snow pellets are opaque ice particles that form in the atmosphere as ice crystals fall through freezing cloud droplets meaning cloud particles that are colder than the freezing point of water but remain liquid. The cloud droplets group together to…[Read more]

Jaguars can run up to 50 miles per hour

1/20- Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve stainless steel.

January 20: A Chinchilla\’s fur is so thick and soft that fleas will suffocate if they try to live there. Wouldn’t that be nice!?!

1/20- There’s a fungus that bleeds.
Hydnellum ferrugineum, or Rusty Bleeding Tooth Fungus, with red liquid droplets, growing among pine branches and needles
Found all across the United States, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, the mushroom Hydnellum peckii has a pretty unmistakable appearance, particularly when it’s young.

This fungus…[Read more]

Cats use their whiskers to determine which spaces they can fit into.

Cats, wild dogs, foxes, birds of prey, snakes and even certain kinds of arthropods have been known to prey heavily upon mice. Despite this, mice populations remain plentiful. Due to its remarkable adaptability to almost any environment, the mouse is one of the most successful mammalian genera living on Earth today.