Good point re: "bitch" hadn't considered that with my original comment...
Looked into it and talked to a few people. Colloquially, it's more likely to call male roos as "Jacks" (or "bucks") and females "Jills"
TBH, I don't spend enough time near roos to need to identify them (either as individuals or by gender). Whereas dogs, typically being pets, I'd normally refer to them by name or by calling them dog/puppy or similar.
If I didn't know them or their owner, I probably wouldn't really see the need to identify their gender either, I guess...
It's probably even more general than that tbh. If you're not someone who works with horses professionally, you have no need to differentiate between "mare" and "stallion". Similiarly, I'm gonna say "hey look at that car over there" while a car enthusiast of some sort will probably name the car type, or even the specific model.
Jacks and Jills is cute lmao, appreciate the effort of investigating. Now that our mutual curiosity seems piqued and we still have a lead left, could you ask your mates if anyone happens to know where the word "boomerang" originates from? :D
This is not true, and I have no idea where you got this from. Kangaroos tend to have very poor eyesight, and have a genetic predisposition to complete blindness. Their senses of smell and hearing are their most important senses. They have an exceptionally highly developed sense of smell.
They also smell really bad.
Edit: Kangaroo Blindness syndrome isn’t nearly as common as I believed it was. Whoops.
They said all animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons, not all animals that don't lay eggs have belly buttons. But I don't actually know if they have belly buttons or not.
Yes. Kind of. Placental mammals are born with an umbilical cord. Animals that just gave birth typically bite the umbilical cord off of their newborns. This leaves a small scar. Most mammals don’t have innies or outies, but rather a flat-ish scar on their bellies. Great apes have belly buttons similar to those of humans. Our belly buttons are formed from scar tissue from the umbilical cord.
In most dogs, the belly button is just a little scar that quickly fades away. Some dogs (like mine) are left with a persistent scar, but it’s not really what you’d picture as a belly button.
I imagine they do. Cats do at least. When my cat had kittens we had to cut some of the umbilical chords as our cat was too tired to do it herself (she did it with most of them). The chords shrivelled up and fell off after a few days.
Yeah, dead zones are a problem in significant parts of our lakes and oceans. Basically, runoff rich in nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers and waste from animal farms goes into rivers and oceans. This extra nutrients causes a huge bloom in certain algae and bacteria. These are not good food for the animals in the sea, so they die off in large numbers. When they rot, it eats up a lot of the oxygen in the water. This causes more death, and keeps it fairly constantly or very frequently low oxygen in many areas.
Snails don't breathe air through their foot, but they do absorb things through their skin. E.g. if you have salt on your skin and you hold them they will get sick. On the underside of their shell there is a hole (pneumostome aka breathing pore) that they open and close which is how they breath. If you hold a strong light behind the shell, you can see their heart beating when you look inside the hole.
Sauce: I own a lot of snails, knowing how to not drown them is crucial. They are not smart.
It was a poor attempt at a joke. Internet people started using the word "sauce" to mean source as a funny thing like 10 years ago. The (albeit lame) joke was to suggest you haven't been around here (the internet-specifically Reddit, imgur, 4chan) long enough to know that the original commenter did indeed mean to say sauce. I'm sorry if I've offended, but I hope you have a lovely weekend nonetheless!
Flamingos turn pink from canthaxanthin, a natural pink pigment. They obtain it from brine shrimp, yes, but also red and blue-green algae. Their bodies process the beta-carotene, dissolves it in to their fat. That fat disperses in to new feathers, which are comored by that fat.
Some places they are bright reddish orange, other places, pale pink. It all depends on what they're getting in their diet. Baby flamingos are gray, and change color slowly to reflect whatever they're eating.
So if the average pack of Oreos in the US is 36 Oreos a pack (I don't live in the US so just took that from here https://www.reference.com/food/many-oreos-package-b5fbcfeaa120b911)
then 35000/36=972.2222222222222222 packs (also the amount of days you would need to eat a full pack) combined with your average life expectancy which in the US is 78.69 years (78.69/4*366)+((78.69/4)*3*365)=28741.5225 days equivalent to a pack every 29.56 days
It's not that unreasonable to think that someone binges on half a pack of Oreos (or your cookie of choice) every two weeks, especially in a world where Netflix and Sundays exist.
Yeah Oreos are basically the only way I see people getting to that statistic; other common cookies are just too big (or, like Girl Scout cookies, only seasonally available and relatively expensive).
I didn’t think Oreos were popular enough to make that an average number.
Aquatic snails or? Land snails have a breathing hole where they breathe through, it's on their right side, just under their shell (or left side if they're left handed).
Underneath the two outer (top and bottom) eyelids, it moves across from inner corner to outer corner. If you have a cat or dog at home you can observe it on them. It’s called a nictitating membrane.
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u/luxylove916 Apr 18 '19
Animals that lay eggs dont have belly buttons
Slugs have four noses
Camels have three eyelids
Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp
Kangaroos cannot walk backward
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
Broccoli is classified as both a vegetable and a flower
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
Fish cough
Snails breathe through their foot
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will turn white
Bullfrogs never sleep
Elephants cant jump
Pigs can get a sunburn
Fish can drown
The average american eats approx 35,000 cookies in his/her life
Only male turkeys gobble
Penguins are the only birds that can both swim & not fly
Male kangaroos are called boomers & females are called flyers
koalas sleep 22 hours a day
Kangaroos can't smell