A hummingbird can beat its wings at 50 beats per second, which is so fast that it looks like a buzzing blur in the air. Hummingbirds are also able to zoom up to a flower at 40 kilometres per hour (24 miles per hour) and stop in an instant.
The Eden project: a living theatre
The Eden project: a living theatre The Eden project is a vast horticultural
'theme-park' in Cornwall. Eden is made up of eight huge panelled
domed greenhouses that will form two biomes and contain over 80 000
plants from all over the world. The largest biome is called 'Humid
Tropics' and will recreate four climatic regions: Amazonian,
Oceanic, Malaysia and West Africa. The smaller biome is 'Warm
Temperate' and will recreate the Mediterranean, South Africa and
California. An outside section is the Temperate Region and will
have plants from countries including China, Japan, New Zealand, the
US and Chile. The Eden project was designed to be a living museum
and education centre, and cost around $175 million Cdn. MARCH 17, 2001
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