Did you know that when baby gulls see the red spot on their parents' bills, they know to start pecking for food there? Adult gulls throw-up food for their chicks to eat and seeing the red spot triggers off the chicks' pecking activity.
Heat your greens
Heat your greens The British nuclear industry is conducting
experiments to determine whether plants' ability to absorb
nutrients from the soil could also help them to absorb
radioactivity from the soil. Dwarf sunflowers, spinach, sugar beet
and Indian mustard are being grown on contaminated soil. If this
experiment goes as planned, plants could be used in the future to
help to decontaminate radioactively contaminated soil. 15 AUGUST 1998, P. 21
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