Five facts: animals

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Water bugs Micronecta scholtzi able to make a sound volume up to 99, 2 dB, which is comparable to the roar of a jackhammer and almost 20 dB greater than dangerous to humans volume (75 dB). The noise produced by using bugs ... sexual organ, which the male t his abdomen, hoping such an original way to attract a partner.





Japanese earthen snail Tornatellides boeningi love to travel "aircraft": they move through the air in the intestines of birds have eaten their kind of "Japanese white-eye." Thus digestion in most cases does not bring about any harm snails. Arriving at the "destination", snails leave the "board" with excrement and after some time produce offspring in the new territories. In a similar way to come, by the way, and pond snails, is used as a fish underwater vehicles.



Star-nosed mole - an ordinary earth mole with unusual alien appearance. 20 skin growths on the face of star-nosed mole ("rays of the stars") - sensitive organs of touch, "working" so fast that all their movements the human eye simply unable to grasp. Experimentally, scientists have found - star-nosed mole can analyze up to 13 small objects per second, and then to identify the alleged "lunch" they need just a tiny fraction of it.



Blue Bloods - the prerogative not only aristocrats but also octopus, crabs, scorpions, spiders and other arthropods and mollusks. The blue color gives a keyhole - "breathing" protein functionally similar to hemoglobin, but, unlike him, based on the properties of copper, not iron. Incidentally, naturally occurring blood and green - in marine worms. The role of the respiratory protein in this case plays hlorogemoglobin also contains iron, but having a green color.



Kalmar Watasenia scintillans, dwelling in the washer Far East Pacific, is often called the firefly squid. Using sophisticated of light - photophores equipped with lenses, filters, reflectors and emits cores based on cell-fototsitov - it suits the present biochemical light show. Luminescence from vatasenii as fireflies and based on the basis of the oxidation reaction of luciferin luminescent protein. Plenty to admire "sea firefly" is possible in the spawning period, when the clouds lifted squid to the surface sea water. During this period, the Japanese catch their hand nets and cook right on the shore, and often eat right - moist.

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