Interesting facts about animals

It was believed that evil spirits can disperse the third cock.
By the way, in Russian cock crows "doodle", in French it would be "Ko-Ko Rico" in Japanese - "koke-Ko-Ko," and in English - "cook-a-Doodle-doo" .



There is an anecdote about that Duncan MacLeod liked to go into the forest and mock cuckoos.
It is known that when he heard the cuckoo, it is necessary to consider how much is left to live. Sometimes cuckoo repeated 50-60 times. Kukuyut only male cuckoos, and only involving females. Song females similar to guffaw.



But "how many wolves do not feed, he looks into the forest" - the truth! No attempt to tame wolves, lions and tigers was not successful.



Fleas, one of which was shod Lefty.
Fleas good trainable. In the early 20th century famous flea circus somebody Raymond Ottawa. In his circus fleas harnessed in thin gold thread, brought in a team train of small crew. Lying on your back, fleas juggling "balls" and the team threw them up. Fleas, dressed in skirts, waltzed and jumped to the music.



Everyone knows the ancient assumption that the earth rests on a huge turtle.
There is an Indian legend of the great battle that took place in ancient times. Mighty Giants rebelled against the gods and were defeated. And their shields, abandoned on the battlefield, at the behest of the gods spread to the world by growing legs, heads and tails. Many tribes are still afraid to offend turtles.



Toads and frogs.
People firmly believed that the gray toad korovnitsa sucks milk from cows and goats and is letting them evil spell. By the way, toads live almost anywhere. Gray toad found in mines depth of 340 m, and the green toad - in the Himalayas at a height of 4, 5 km. Warts from frogs does not happen, it's fiction. But anuran poison has some analgesic effect.



The youngest superstition (or delusion?), Though sparrows eat rice crops.
This came up during the Chinese Revolution, for which he paid: killing sparrows, they become powerless over pests that proliferate in the absence of birds.



Magpies. It's true: forty really brings news.
This bird is inseparable follow creeping cat, or a man, and loudly to alert the neighborhood of what is happening. This information is used by hunters, it is usually very accurate.



Porcupine really throws needles!
Porcupine needles are long, rather thick and sharpened. In essence, this is the only weapon porcupine, although his teeth are able to cut the wire mesh. The needles are kept in a special muscle and easily separated from it. With the threat of a porcupine first deafening roars needles, and then in a short throw (backwards) throws a needle into the body of the enemy. Iglometaniya fact has long been considered a legend until the German zoologist Henry date and his staff did not see with my own eyes how the porcupine needles cast with such force that they were stabbed in the wooden slats of the fence.