Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 7 misleading animal names

  1. Electric Eel - It's a fish, not an eel
  2. Mountain Goat - Not a true goat
  3. Maned Wolf - Not a wolf
  4. Horny Toad - It's a lizard
  5. King Cobra - Not a cobra
  6. Mayfly - Tends to hatch in June
  7. Peacock Mantis Shrimp - Not a peacock or a mantis... or a shrimp

Thursday, 7 June 2012 7 birds from the Corvus genus

  1. White-necked Crow
  2. Australian Raven
  3. Fish Crow
  4. Thicked Billed Raven
  5. Piping Crow
  6. Jackdaw
  7. Collared Crow

Wednesday, 23 May 2012 7 of the most venomous snakes

  1. Death Adder
  2. Saw Scaled Viper
  3. Philippine Cobra
  4. Tiger Snake
  5. Blue Krait
  6. Eastern Brown Snake
  7. Inland Taipan

Friday, 11 May 2012 7 winners of the 2000 guineas stakes horse race

  1. Camelot - 2012
  2. Frankel - 2011
  3. Makfi - 2010
  4. Sea the Stars - 2009
  5. Henrythenavigator - 2008
  6. Cockney Rebel - 2007
  7. George Washington - 2006

Wednesday, 2 May 2012 7 books for obsessive cat owners

  1. Feng Shui for You and Your Cat
  2. How to Massage Your Cat
  3. Crafting with Cat Hair
  4. Getting in TTouch with Your Cat: A New and Gentle Way to Harmony, Behaviour, and Well-being
  5. Catflexing
  6. Dancing with Cats
  7. Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs

Saturday, 10 March 2012 7 translations of butterfly

  1. Schmetterling - German
  2. Motyl - Polish
  3. Bướm - Vietnamese
  4. Glöyn byw - Welsh
  5. Perhonen - Finnish
  6. Fluture - Romanian
  7. Skoenlapper - Afrikaans

Thursday, 8 March 2012 7 baby animals

  1. Cria - Alpaca
  2. Puggle - Platypus
  3. Jellyfish - Ephyna
  4. Ferret - Kit
  5. Turkey - Poult
  6. Oyster - Spat
  7. Trout - Fingerling

Thursday, 23 February 2012 7 extinct fish species

  1. Alvord cutthroat trout
  2. Banff longnose dace
  3. Potosi pupfish
  4. Clear Lake splittail
  5. Independence Valley tui chub
  6. Grass Valley speckled dace
  7. Ash Meadows killifish

Wednesday, 15 February 2012 7 venomous spiders

  1. Wolf Spider
  2. Black Widow Spider
  3. Brown Recluce Spider
  4. Fringed Ornamental Tarantula
  5. Chinese Bird Spider
  6. Redback Spider
  7. Brazilian Wandering Spider

Friday, 13 January 2012 7 smallest creatures

  1. Paedophryne amauensis frog - Smallest Vertibrate (7.7 mm avg)
  2. Eriophyid mite - Smallest Arachnid (125 to 250 μm)
  3. Speckled Padloper Tortoise - Smallest Turtle (6 - 8 cm)
  4. Barbados Threadsnake - Smallest Snake (10 cm avg)
  5. Bee Hummingbird - Smallest Bird (5 cm)
  6. Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat - Smallest Mammal (30 - 40 mm)
  7. Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur - Smallest Primate (92 mm avg)

Wednesday, 4 January 2012 7 species of Jay

  1. Black-throated Magpie-Jay
  2. Purplish-backed Jay
  3. Azure-naped Jay
  4. Dwarf Jay
  5. Henderson's Ground Jay
  6. Beautiful Jay
  7. Lanceolated Jay

Friday, 30 December 2011 7 lizard families

  1. Family Agamidae – Agamid lizards
  2. Family Chamaeleonidae – Chameleons
  3. Family Corytophanidae – Helmet lizards
  4. Family Hoplocercidae – Dwarf and spiny tail iguanas
  5. Family Polychrotidae – Anoles and kin
  6. Family Gekkonidae – Geckos
  7. Family Pygopodidae – Flap-footed lizards

Tuesday, 6 December 2011 7 true parrot tribes

  1. Tribe Psittacini
  2. Tribe Arini
  3. Tribe Micropsittinae
  4. Tribe Platycercini
  5. Tribe Melopsittancini
  6. Tribe Lorini
  7. Tribe Cyclopsittacini

Saturday, 19 November 2011 7 venomous fish

  1. Red velvetfish
  2. Stingray
  3. Pufferfish
  4. Weedy scorpionfish
  5. Stargazer
  6. Bullrout
  7. Stonefish

Friday, 18 November 2011 7 long haired cat breeds

  1. Norwegian Forest Cat
  2. Persian
  3. Maine Coon
  4. Javanese
  5. Cymric
  6. Balinese
  7. Somali

Tuesday, 1 November 2011 7 types of lizard

  1. Skinks
  2. Geckos
  3. Chameleons
  4. Agamas
  5. Iguanas
  6. Anoles
  7. Whiptails

Tuesday, 4 October 2011 7 animals that have been into space

  1. Albert II - Rhesus Monkey - V2, 1949
  2. Tsygan - Dog - R-1 IIIA-1, 1951
  3. Laika - Dog - Sputnik 2, 1957
  4. Hector - Rat - Veronique AGI24, 1961
  5. Félicette - Cat - Véronique AG1, 1963
  6. Enos - Chimpanzee - Mercury-Atlas 5, 1961
  7. Arabella - Garden Spider - Skylab 3, 1972

Friday, 30 September 2011 7 primates

  1. Chimpanzees
  2. Gorillas
  3. Orangutans
  4. Gibbons
  5. Tarsiers
  6. Macaques
  7. Humans

Friday, 9 September 2011 7 ruminants who's singular and plural forms are the same

  1. Sheep
  2. Bison
  3. Elk
  4. Deer
  5. Moose
  6. Buffalo
  7. Carribou

Wednesday, 24 August 2011 7 species of Frogmouth

  1. Tawny Frogmouth
  2. Marbled Frogmouth
  3. Dulit Frogmouth
  4. Gould's Frogmouth
  5. Javan Frogmouth
  6. Sunda Frogmouth
  7. Cinnamon Frogmouth