The next time you see a tree stump take a closer look at its rings. Every year most trees produce a light-coloured ring of spring growth and a dark-coloured ring of summer growth. If you count only one ring not both rings, you will be able to tell how old the tree was when it was cut down.
Amazing animal facts
Amazing animal facts
By the time it is a year old, the average blue
whale weighs 28 tons!
Beaver dams are typically 4.8 to 28.8
metres long!
A female lemming can get pregnant at the age of 14
days and give birth about 20 days later!
A three-toed sloth would
take about half an hour to walk the length of a football field!
A
bird found in South America is so smelly that it is called
‘pava hedionda’ or ‘stinking pheasant’. It
smells like cow manure!
A cheetah can run at speeds up to 110
kilometres an hour, for only for a few hundred metres. It is also
the only cat that cannot completely retract (sheathe) its
claws.
JULY 17, 2000
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