And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill . . . with the beast of the earth. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Revelation 6:8<\/i><\/p>\n
113<\/b> Rat Population<\/b><\/p>\n
Five billion rats continue to spread disease through the earth. Thus, there are more rats than people. With favorable conditions and no deaths, two rats can produce 359,000,000 descendants in three years.<\/p>\n
114<\/b> Rats\u2014Most Destructive Animal<\/b><\/p>\n
Government statistics show that rats cause an estimated two million dollars\u2019 damage yearly. One rat eats and destroys two dollars\u2019 worth of food each year. Ten rats can eat as much as a market hog. It has been estimated that rats annually spoil as much food as 265,000 average farms can produce.<\/p>\n
In addition to being necessary links in the transmission of typhus and other diseases, rats cost US citizens some $200 million each year. It is the most destructive animal in the world.<\/p>\n
115<\/b> Muskrat Starts Chain Reaction<\/b><\/p>\n
In Crewe, England, a muskrat started a chain of disasters when it burrowed through the embankment of a nearby canal, causing the bank to cave in. About three million gallons of water rushed through the 40-foot gap, drained the canal dry for seven miles, swept away something like a million fish, and carved a 20 foot gorge in an adjoining field.<\/p>\n
116<\/b> African Swine Flu<\/b><\/p>\n
Newsday reported that operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced the African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971.<\/p>\n
Six weeks after the virus was introduced, a Cuban outbreak of the fever forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic. This was the only outbreak of such an epidemic in the Western Hemisphere, and called \u201cthe most alarming event\u201d of 1971 by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.<\/p>\n
117<\/b> Longest Fence<\/b><\/p>\n
Perhaps the longest fence in the world is around Kruger National Park in South Africa, set up to prevent spread of hoof- and-mouth disease. It is five hundred and ninety miles of fence, built at a cost of $520,000.<\/p>\n
118<\/b> Pets And Diseases<\/b><\/p>\n
Dogs and cats carry 65 diseases transmittal to man, and 40 of these diseases are identified in the USA. About 1.5 million Americans require medical treatment for dog bites annually, and approximately 30,000 have to undergo rabies treatment.<\/p>\n
119<\/b> Mailman\u2019s Dog Stopper<\/b><\/p>\n
Mail carriers have now a valuable ally in a handy sonic device. The electronic gadget emits sound waves that are painful to the dog\u2019s ears and effective in halting the charge of a persistent pooch. One press of the button stops the attacker in his tracks. The sound cannot be detected by human ears and is not harmful to the dog\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The $8-device will be welcomed by postmen who say that they encounter as many as 94 dogs in a day.<\/p>\n
\u2014Have a Good Day<\/i><\/p>\n
120<\/b> Cat Did Not Cooperate<\/b><\/p>\n
From Tokyo comes this report: A cat followed his master in a neighborhood burglary attempt, but when the man fled the cat did not, leading to the man\u2019s arrest, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved that cat and always took him with me, but I didn\u2019t know he was with me then,\u201d police quoted Masakazu Kodama, 22, as saying.<\/p>\n
121<\/b> An Historic Dog Bite<\/b><\/p>\n
King Henry VIII of England sent a delegation to the Vatican to patch up the political differences between himself and the Pope. The delegation was led by the Earl of Wiltshire, who took along his dog.<\/p>\n
As was customary at that time, the Earl prostrated himself before the Pope and was about to kiss the Pope\u2019s toe. The pope, willing to receive the homage, thrust his foot toward the Earl, and his dog, watching, misunderstood the action and went to the defense of his master. Instead of a kiss, the Pope got a bite on the toe!<\/p>\n
This enraged the Swiss guard and they killed the dog. And this so angered the Earl that he refused to proceed with the mission for which he had been sent\u2014and he returned home without having accomplished anything. After his return to England, King Henry VIII took steps to separate England from the jurisdiction of Rome.<\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
122<\/b> Heads If It Bites<\/b><\/p>\n
A fellow was walking his long-haired dachshund and he met a friend who said \u201cWhat a funny animal! How do you tell his head from his tail?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very simple,\u201d the dog\u2019s owner replied. \u201cYou pull its tail and if it bites, it is his head.\u201d<\/p>\n
123<\/b> Snake Bite Statistics<\/b><\/p>\n
It is estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 people die from snakebite each year, 75 percent of them in densely populated India. Burma has the highest mortality rate with 15.4 deaths per 100,000 population per annum. Australia has some of the world\u2019s most poisonous snakes, though the average death toll is only six per year.<\/p>\n
124<\/b> Deaths From Snake Bites<\/b><\/p>\n
In South America about 4500 people die annually from contact with the Fe-de-lance. The most deadly snakes of the world are the Indian cobra, Russell\u2019s viper, saw-scaled cobra, Indian krait, and Ceylon krait. None of these are found in the United States whose chief offenders are the corals, copperheads, cotton mouths, and rattlesnakes.<\/p>\n
125<\/b> Longest Snakes<\/b><\/p>\n
The longest and heaviest snake is the anaconda of South America. A 37\u00bd-foot beast was caught and measured in 1944 in Columbia, South America. Other long snakes are the reticulated python (about 32 feet) and the African rock python (32 feet).<\/p>\n
126<\/b> Python Swallows Three Men<\/b><\/p>\n
A giant python swallowed three men at the bottom of a ninety-foot oil exploration well at Murar Megang, South Sumatra. When the leader of the team, Mr. Luskito, failed to emerge from the well after two hours, a second man, Mr. Rusli, was lowered to investigate. When he failed to return, a third man, Mr. Amin, went down but did not reappear. A fourth man armed with dynamite was lowered into the well. The snake immediately reared up at him. Realizing that his mates had been swallowed, the man signaled to be pulled up. Then he drop the dynamite into the well, killing the python! The three victims were found dead in the snake\u2019s stomach!<\/p>\n
127<\/b> Frozen Snake Still Bites<\/b><\/p>\n
A newspaper reports of a taxidermist who was bitten by a frozen 10-pound rattlesnake as he cuts into it. Robert Herndon buys poisonous rattles, freezes them to death, and markets the preserved remains. And he usually tapes their mouths when cutting. But he missed the tape this time.<\/p>\n
128<\/b> Stuntman\u2019s Plaything Changes Role<\/b><\/p>\n
From 1890 came this incident: A noted wild beast tamer gave a superb performance in London. As a closing act, he introduced a boa constrictor, 35 feet long, which he handled for 25 years when it was still two or three years old, and supposed it to be harmless.<\/p>\n
The curtain rose on an Indian woodland scene. A rustling noise is heard and a huge serpent is seen winding its way through the undergrowth. It stops. Its head is erect. Its bright eyes sparkle. Its whole body seems animated. A man emerged from the heavy foliage. Their eyes meet. The serpent quails before the man. Man is victor.<\/p>\n
Under the man\u2019s signals and guidance, the serpent performs a series of frightening feats. At another signal, it slowly approaches the man and begins to coil its heavy foils around him. Higher and higher they rise, until man and serpent seem blended into one. Its hideous head is reared above the man.<\/p>\n
The man gives a little scream and the audience unites in a thunderous applause, but it freezes upon their lips. The trainer\u2019s scream was a wail of death agony. Those cold, slimy folds had embraced him for the last time. They had crushed the life out of him. The horror stricken audience heard bone after bone cracked. Man\u2019s plaything had become his master.<\/p>\n
129<\/b> 61 Days In Snake Pit<\/b><\/p>\n
DURBAN, South Africa, July 30, 1980 (UPI)\u2014A 19-year-old woman, out to \u201cshow men how it is done,\u201d has shattered the world snake-sitting record of 61 days\u2014the first woman to win the snake sitting crown.<\/p>\n
Leigh Van Den sat in a snake cage a little over 61 days and promptly declared it a victory for feminists around the world.<\/p>\n
The perky student had spent the last two months of her life locked inside a tiny 8-by-10 foot (2.4-by-3M) glass cage in the Durban snake park with 35 of the deadliest snake known to man and- as she is quick is to remind people-woman.<\/p>\n
In the cage is a collection of puff adders, mambas, cobras and boomslangs (tree snakes) better known as \u201ctwo-steppers\u201d because, according to legend, their victims can usually walk two steps before collapsing from the venom.<\/p>\n
130<\/b> Spitting Snake<\/b><\/p>\n
Jack Toomey, keeper of the Bronx Zoo, was talking of snakes. Said he. \u201cNow there\u2019s the black cobra. He\u2019s the feller that spits, you know. Spits poison fifteen feet\u2014aims for your eyes. He blinds you first and bites you afterward. I can never open his cage except I wear goggles. And if that stuff of his gets in your pores, it\u2019s too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
131<\/b> Biggest Rattlesnake Farm<\/b><\/p>\n
In Colfax, on National Highway No. 40, is Rattlesnake Ranch with more than 20,000 inhabitants. This ranch literally crawls with rattles.<\/p>\n
Believed to be the largest of its kind in the world, the farm is owned and operated by S. E. Evans and his wife.<\/p>\n
Mr. Evans has handled rattlers for twenty-two years and has never been bitten. Since rattlers are highly nervous creatures and cannot take the stares of a gaping public, he maintains a snake pit especially for visitors where some twenty-five to fifty rattlers are under the limelight for show-off purposes. Even so, the loss of snakes is still large. Life in the pit virtually is a death sentence to the rattler who will usually die within sixty days after its contact with the curious public.<\/p>\n
132<\/b> How Snake Poisons<\/b><\/p>\n
The fangs of venomous snakes consist of grooved or hollowed teeth that are connected with sacs of poison in the snake\u2019s cheek. When it strikes, a snake uses a squeeze-bottle technique that squirts a jet stream of venom into its victim. In less than half a second the reptile can strike, inject, and return to normal stance. So poisonous is the venom of some species such as the African mamba that men have died in less than a minute.<\/p>\n
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133<\/b> Lions Are Never Tamed<\/b><\/p>\n
Any lion trainer will tell you that there is no such thing as a tame lion. The animal may be on his good behaviour today and be a whirlwind of ferocity tomorrow. He may eat off your hand, or permit you to put your head in his mouth, but tomorrow he may tear you limb from limb if a sudden fury arises within his wild heart.<\/p>\n
134<\/b> Lion Kills Baron<\/b><\/p>\n
French aristocrat, Baron Richard d Arcy, kept a strange pet in his home: a two-year-old lion. One night the baron tried to make his pet enter the bathroom, where it usually spent the night, but it refused to go, and leaped on its master. In a matter of minutes the lion had clawed the baron to death. Later the police killed the beast with submachine-gun fire.<\/p>\n
135<\/b> God Bless Grandmother! <\/b><\/p>\n
When a 120-pound mountain lion leaped through a partially opened window of a motor home parked in a tourist area of South Dakota called Bear County, and began mauling 18-month-old Jason Cowden, the boy\u2019s grandmother, Mrs. Peter Underdahl, killed it with a butcher knife.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I kept saying was, \u2019Bring me a knife. Bring me a knife. Finally, my husband handed me a butcher knife, and I jammed it in and twisted it and the lion went slack, and I knew I had pierced the heart. I said a prayer that the good Lord would give me the strength and the right spot, and He did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
136<\/b> Tire-eating Lion<\/b><\/p>\n
According to the newspapers, a 400-pound male lion has been nicknamed \u201cFirestone\u201d because he has so far destroyed 10 tires on cars of visitors to a drive-in park\u2014which tire were promptly replaced by the park. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. says their guarantee on tires does not cover damage caused by lions. So the company has provided \u201cFirestone\u201d with enough scrap tires for him and his lioness friend to chew on.<\/p>\n
137<\/b> Most Poisonous Venom<\/b><\/p>\n
The most active and powerful poison known is manufactured by a frog. The kokoi of western Columbia, South America, secretes a substance known as batrachotoxin\u2014only about 1\/100,000th of a gram (or . 02 milligrams) can kill a man. However the poison is not used by the frog for either defense or aggression, but only serves to keep its body moist.<\/p>\n
138<\/b> Biggest Locust Swarm<\/b><\/p>\n
The greatest swarm of desert locusts ever recorded was one covering an estimated 2,000 square miles, observed crossing the Red Sea in 1889. Such a swarm must have contained about 250,000,000,000 insects weighing about 500,000 tons.<\/p>\n
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139<\/b> Attached By Crocodile<\/b><\/p>\n
While walking along the bank of the Crocodile River in Natal province, Asarm Phiri was attacked by a crocodile. The creature took hold of his hip, and then of his right arm. Phiri stabbed at the crocodile with his small knife, then realizing he was losing the battle, he cut off his badly mauled right arm at the elbow joint.<\/p>\n
140<\/b> What A Kick, Bite, Spit, And Face! <\/b><\/p>\n
The camel, although a very useful animal, is one of the ugliest, most stubborn and dangerous of all the so-called tame animals.<\/p>\n
The camel can kick sideways as well as forward and backward, and it has a very nasty bite. It can stretch its long, goosy neck around and bite. It can also turn around and discharge its salive into the face of the rider\u2014the spit carrying with it a very offensive odor. Sometimes it turns its face around and simply stares at its rider. The camel can drop its head between the two front legs and look backward with an upside-down face. And what a face!<\/p>\n
141<\/b> When Snapping Turtles Snap<\/b><\/p>\n
The surly snapping turtle hatches from an egg not much smaller than a ping-pong ball. The tiny creature begins life with a diameter less than that of a silver dollar. From the time he hatches, he is an unsociable fellow ready to bite whatever comes near. At the end of three years he may be saucer size and as ready to bite as ever. He has no friends and even his enemies give him wide berth. By the time he is an adult he may weigh as much as 150 pounds depending on his habitat and species, but in any case he can bite off a man\u2019s hand. He can tow an automobile, walk away with two men standing on his back or overturn a boat and its occupants. He engages in death struggles with other males at mating time and is suspected of attacking and eating females of his own species. He lives a good many years but never outlives his reputation for being a vicious snapper.<\/p>\n
\u2014Virginia Whitman<\/p>\n
142<\/b> Two-Headed Turtle<\/b><\/p>\n
Teenager Caroline McDonald of Virginia found a two-headed turtle behind her home. She said the two heads did a tug-of-war over a piece of meat she was feeding them. According to scientists, two-headedness can occur in all animals but the survival rate is short. The reason is that each head tends to work independently of the other, controlling its own side of the body, creating disunity, confusion, and frustration.<\/p>\n
143<\/b> Swiftest Animal<\/b><\/p>\n
The cheetah is the swiftest of all animals. It has been clocked running at a speed of 70 miles an hour. One of the most interesting things about the cheetah is this. At mealtime, the cheetah singles out one animal among the grazing herd. Then the chase begins! Along the chase may be other animals which the cheetah could easily seize. Nothing, however, can detract or turn the cheetah from his one fixed purpose\u2014the catching of the unfor tunate victim he had singled out.<\/p>\n
144<\/b> Monkey See-Monkey Do<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u2019ll never forget our visit to the Bronx Zoo. At one end of the huge \u201cmonkey house\u201d a large chimpanzee peered out from his iron-ribbed prison. As I watched this rather ugly-looking creature, I was fascinated by the strange sound coming from his mouth as he puckered his lips. Suddenly rearing back, and then thrusting forward, this big \u201cchimp\u201d let loose with a great big \u201cspit-ball.\u201d He was a spitter!<\/p>\n
Having been a \u201cvictim\u201d myself, I stood back, and couldn\u2019t help but laugh as other sightseers also had to do some fancy side stepping to avoid his deadly aim. What enjoyment this ape seemed to derive from startling one onlooker after another.<\/p>\n
This \u201cchimp\u201d had no doubt learned this unsavory habit from those on the other side of the bars.<\/p>\n
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145<\/b> 29 Amputations<\/b><\/p>\n
A railway brakeman spent four months in a Sedalia, Missouri, hospital, some years ago because a tarantula had bitten him on the tip of the middle finger of the right hand. At the time he felt a sharp twinge of pain, but paid no more attention to it until the bitten finger began to swell. Soon the whole hand and arm were swollen to three times their natural size.<\/p>\n
Bit by bit the doctors amputed the affected finger, but the wound refused to heal. Finally his entire hand had to go. It was only after twenty-nine amputations that the surgeons were able to stop the spread of the poison. Even then they considered it nearly miraculous that he recovered at all, because the poison had gone through his system.<\/p>\n
\u2014Arthur Tonne<\/p>\n
146<\/b> Cats And Discord In Peru<\/b><\/p>\n
According to Reuter, hundreds of cats imported by the Peruvian town of Quillambamba to kill a plague of rats and mice are keeping everyone awake at nights with their yowling.<\/p>\n
Press reports say the cats ignore the rodents and spend all night serenading each other from walls and roofs.<\/p>\n
The sleepless inhabitants have now reverted to trying to poison the rats and mice\u2014and the cats as well.<\/p>\n
147<\/b> Australia\u2019s Bad Import<\/b><\/p>\n
About 150 years ago, a man brought a pair of English rabbits into Australia. That country has since lost many millions of dollars trying to exterminate them in order to protect the crops against them. High and close wire fences have been built, but the rabbits have developed a long nail to cling to the wires and climb, or to burrow underneath.<\/p>\n
148<\/b> Laughing Frogs<\/b><\/p>\n
At Appledore, England, years ago, a species of Hungarian frog was imported to prey upon the hordes of mosquitoes that plagued the country. The original detail of twelve frogs were effective predators on the insects, but they multiplied into the thousands, and consumed the native species of frogs that make a noise like laughter, which is \u201cdriving the people crazy\u201d and robbing them of their sleep. Too numerous to dispose of, the noisy creatures must be endured.<\/p>\n
\u2014Virginia Whitman<\/p>\n
149<\/b> Largest And Smallest Animals<\/b><\/p>\n
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest and heaviest of animals are the blue whales, some weighing over 100 tons. The largest creature without a backbone is the Atlantic giant\u2014weighing 1\u00bd tons and growing up to 55 feet long.<\/p>\n
On land, the largest land mammal is the African bush elephant which averages 5.6 tons. The smallest animal is the least shrew of northern Europe which is rarely longer than 1\u20131\/2 inch from nose to tail.<\/p>\n
150<\/b> Animal Life Spans<\/b><\/p>\n
The unusual life spans of some creatures are as follows:<\/p>\n
Pike: Perhaps the longest lived of all creatures\u2014one was known to have lived for 267 years.<\/p>\n
Tortoises: About 200 years.<\/p>\n
Crocodiles: About 100 years.<\/p>\n
Eagles and Falcons: About 100 years.<\/p>\n
Parrots and Swans: About 80 years.<\/p>\n
Crabs: About 50 years.<\/p>\n
Lions: About 30 years.<\/p>\n
Cattle: Live between 25 and 30 years.<\/p>\n
Pigs: Live up to 20 years.<\/p>\n
Ants: One was kept alive for 15 years.<\/p>\n
Deer: Live between 10 and 15 years.<\/p>\n
Wild Goats: Live between 12 and 14 years.<\/p>\n
Queen Bees: About 5 years.<\/p>\n
Rats and Mice: Live up to 5 years.<\/p>\n
Oysters: About 5 years<\/p>\n
151<\/b> A Celtic Rhyme<\/b><\/p>\n
An old Celtic rhyme, put into modern English, says:<\/p>\n
\u201cThrice the age of a dog is that of a horse;<\/p>\n
Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man;<\/p>\n
Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer;<\/p>\n
Thrice the age of a deer is that of an eagle.\u201d<\/p>\n
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152<\/b> Aged Turtle Under Sidewalk<\/b><\/p>\n
They were tearing up the sidewalk outside one of New York\u2019s old hotels. The workmen were cracking up the concrete and were beneath the first layer when one of the sledge hammers slammed on something that seemed to move. Well, it did move. It was a fourteen-pound turtle.<\/p>\n
It had been there thirty-two years. When the sidewalk was first built outside that old New York hotel, the proprietor reported that one of his snapping turtles, which then weighed only five pounds, had disappeared. No trace of it was ever found, and it was generally supposed that the turtle had walked off somewhere. But it showed up again, not only as alive as ever, but nine pounds heavier. The mystery is\u2014what did that turtle feed on for thirty-two years that caused it to get so fat?<\/p>\n
\u2014Lowell Thomas<\/p>\n
153<\/b> Speed Records Of Animals<\/b><\/p>\n
According to Virginia Whitman, the cheetah can speed along at 70 miles an hour. The prong-horn antelope can do 60. The swift bird of India has been timed at 200 miles per hour in flight, while a duckhawk was clocked at 184 miles per hour in a dive for prey. An ostrich can outrun the fastest greyhound on record. Race horses attain from 40 to 50 miles an hour. The best that man afoot can do is 25 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
Moreover, a frog can jump farther than man\u201413 feet 5 inches versus 12 feet 1\u20131\/2 inches. Kangaroos leap 30 feet; gazelles, 40. The jerbao, a rodent similar to a mouse, can leap 15 feet in one jump. To make a size-for-size jump, a man would have to clear about 200 feet, but his broad jump record is under 30 feet.<\/p>\n
154<\/b> Minneapolis To California<\/b><\/p>\n
Skunky the cat, after traveling two thousand miles in one and one-half years, turned up at his old home in Minneapolis\u2014all the way from Alhambra, California, Morie, the cat\u2019s owner reported:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe left Skunky\u2014a black cat with a white stripe\u2014with my sister-in-law, Mrs. Joyce Johnston, in Columbia Heights near Minneapolis. The kids put up a fuss so we had him shipped out to us by air. A year and a half ago Skunky disappeared. Now we get a letter from my sister-in-law saying the cat is there\u2014skinny and starved and footsore\u2014but alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how he did it\u2014he came out by air so he couldn\u2019t have seen any landmarks to travel by.\u201d Is Morie going to send for the cat again? \u201cI think we\u2019ll leave him where he wants to be,\u201d Morie said, \u201che\u2019s earned it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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155<\/b> Tennessee To Louisiana<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cA few months ago, M. E. Rainey, Knoxville, Tennessee, grocer, gave his fox terrier, Tiny, to a friend who was going to New Orleans. Shortly after the friend\u2019s arrival in the Louisiana city, Rainey got a letter saying that Tiny had disappeared. One day as Rainey was preparing to lock up his store, he heard a scratching at the door. He opened it and there was Tiny. It had taken Tiny eleven weeks and three days to make the trip, which is seven hundred and seventy-one miles by highway. If we admire Tiny\u2019s love of home and courage to get there despite the dangers and obstacles in her way, let\u2019s slow up a bit when we see a dog in the street or highway.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert G. Lee<\/p>\n
156<\/b> Walking 500 Miles Blindfolded<\/b><\/p>\n
Doc Hall could hardly believe his eyes when he flew his plane low and saw a black bear with a 20 pound coffee can stuck fast on its head. The bear was walking around in circles in the area of Devil\u2019s Creek, Alaska. In rummaging amidst cast off garbage, the bear had stuck its head inside the can and could not extricate it.<\/p>\n
Hall said, \u201cThe bear must have walked more than 500 miles in circles. It had made six worn smooth circular paths in the thick blanket of leaves and twigs which covered the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
157<\/b> Magnificent Stockpile System Of Gila<\/b><\/p>\n
The Gila monster, one of the world\u2019s two poisonous lizards and the only poisonous one in the United States has a thick tail that serves as a reservoir of nourishment on which it could keep alive for months without food. The Dumba sheep of Asia also stores its food reserve as fat in its tail. Such a \u201cstock-pile\u201d of nourishment may weigh as much as forty pounds.<\/p>\n
158<\/b> Thousand-Mile Traveller<\/b><\/p>\n
The green turtle is quite a navigator. It travels over 1000 miles straight to the tiny isle of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean. Then digging a hole in the sand to lay about 100 eggs, it swims the same 1000 miles back to the Brazilian coast where it remains two or three years before returning to the nesting site so far away.<\/p>\n
159<\/b> A Tunnel A Night<\/b><\/p>\n
The mole is sightless, but it can dig a 100-yard tunnel in a single night. To accomplish this proportionately, a man would have to complete a tunnel 50 miles long and wide enough to crawl through.<\/p>\n
160<\/b> 34 Piglets<\/b><\/p>\n
A sow owned by farmer Aksel Egedee, has given birth to thirty-four piglets, which Danish veterinary experts in Copenhagen believe is a world record. The sow produced fifteen piglets one day and another nineteen early the next day.<\/p>\n
161<\/b> Smart Dog? <\/b><\/p>\n
Jim: \u201cMy dog is so smart, he can talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bobby: \u201cI don\u2019t believe it. Get him to say something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim: \u201cO. K. Prince, you tell Bobby how sandpaper feels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prince: \u201cRuff ruff.\u201d<\/p>\n
162<\/b> \u201cGreatest Animal Lover\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Although the Marquess of Ripon was one of Britain\u2019s busiest statesmen during the second half of the 19th century, he also managed to achieve the reputation of being the greatest hunter of all time.<\/p>\n
Between 1867 and 1900, when his secretary kept an exact record of his hunting expeditions, the Marquess killed 370,728 animals, including tigers, deers, buffaloes and rhinoceroses, an average of 216 a week.<\/p>\n
But the number would have been well over 500,000 had a record been kept of his kills during his entire life. He was even out shooting birds on his estate on the morning he dropped dead in 1909 at the age of 82 years.<\/p>\n
\u2014Freling Foster<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Birds ; Jer. 8:17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill . . . with the beast of the earth. \u2014Revelation 6:8 113 Rat Population Five billion rats continue to spread disease through the earth. Thus, there are more rats than people. With favorable conditions and no deaths, two rats can … Continue reading “ANIMALS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}