Animal Facts IV

• The lush white coat of the arctic fox provides both warmth and camouflage in winter.

• Shortened ears and thick, white fur are among the physical traits that arctic hares have adapted to survive in the harsh, frozen tundra.

• Arctic skuas, also called parasitic jaegers, have a well-earned reputation as avian pirates, stealing much of their food from other birds.

• An armadillo roots around the forest floor in search of food. Armadillos have poor eyesight but a keen sense of smell and long claws for digging.

• Asian elephants, smaller than their African cousins, are highly endangered. The subspecies shown here is found only on Borneo and faces threats from the conversion of their forest habitat to agricultural use.

• Only 370 or so Asian lions exist in the wild. A former royal reserve, India's Gir Forest, is the last home of this lion subspecies.

• Atlantic puffins spend most of their lives at sea, but return to land to form breeding colonies during spring and summer.

Animal Facts III

• The prehistoric-looking alligator snapping turtle is the largest of the North American freshwater turtles.

• Indiscriminate eaters, Amazon horned frogs can grow to about the size of a small plate.

• Saved from the brink of extinction, the American alligator now thrives in its native habitat: the swamps and wetlands of the southeastern United States.

• With their large, sharp horns, bison are formidable foes. During mating season, bulls fight for the right to breed with harems of cows, but rarely duel to the death.

• American bullfrogs will ambush and eat just about anything they can fit in their ample mouths.

• Critically endangered, the prehistoric-looking American crocodile struggles to survive in pockets of shrinking habitat.

• Ammonites are named after the Egyptian god Ammon, who is often depicted with rams' horns behind each ear.

Animal Facts II

• The largest snakes in the world, anacondas can grow to 550 pounds (227 kilograms).

• Found throughout southern Africa, Aardvarks use their keen sense of smell to sniff out their favorite food—termites.

• Wings spread, this Adélie penguin waddles through an Antarctic colony. Its black tail gives it a tuxedo-like appearance. 

• African elephants are the largest of Earth's land mammals. Their enormous ears help them to keep cool in the hot African climate.

 

• Fiercely protective of his pride, or family unit, male lions patrol a vast territory normally covering about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers).

 

• Known as African wild, painted, or Cape hunting dogs, these endangered canines closely resemble wolves in their pack-oriented social structure.

• Wide-winged and long-lived, albatrosses are rarely seen on land, preferring to stay out on the ocean except to mate and raise their young.

• The largest of all the gars, this megafish earns its name with a wide, crocodilian head and rows of sharp teeth.
  

Animal Facts

• Cheetah is the fastest running animal. 

• Sea horse has strange eyes, by which it can focus in two different directions at the same time.

• Whale shark measures 18 metre. It is the world's biggest fish.

• Porpoise is so intelligent sea animal that it can copy many actions of humans. It can imitate the voice of a man and even laugh.

• Musk is obtained from the gland of an animal called musk deer.

• Cuttle fish has three hearts.

• Cow has four stomachs.

• Lemmings are strange animals. When their number in an area increases beyond a certain limit, they jump into the sea and commit suicide.

• Kangaroo rat can survive over its life without drinking water. It meets its requirements of water by eating the roots of some desert plants.

• Gastric frog of Australia gives birth to its young ones through its mouth.

• A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

• Botfly can fly at the speed of 818 miles per hour, faster than a jet plane.

• Dolphins sleep with one of its eyes open.

• If gold fish is left in a dark room for a long time, it turns white.

Biggest in India

Biggest in India

• Biggest State According to Area - Rajasthan(3,42,239 km(2)).

• Biggest Lake (sweet water) - Wular Lake(jammu kashmir).

• Biggest Cave Temple - Kailash Temple(Ellora maharastra).

• Biggest River bridge - Mahatma Gandhi Bridge (patna) ganga-patan(5,575meter).

• Biggest Petroleum digging area - Digboi(Assam).

• Biggest Stadium - Yuba-bharti Salt Lake-kolkata.

• Biggest Indoor Stadium - Indira Gandhi Stadium (New Delhi).

• Biggest Cycle Manufacturing Company - Hero Cycles (Ludhiana).

• Biggest Animal Fair - Sonpur(Bihar).

• Biggest zoo - Geological Garden (Kolkata, West Bengal).

• Biggest Sun Temple - Konark Sun Temple , Puri , Orissa.

• Biggest Church - st.Cathedral Church(Goa).

• Biggest Cinema Hall - Thangam(Tamil Nadu).

• Biggest (Largest ) Railway Zone - Northern Railway.

• Biggest Newspaper Factory - Nepanagar (Madhya Pradesh).
  
  
• Biggest Museum - Indian Museum , Kolkata.

Anaimal Amazing Facts

1. There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 
2. The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year. 
3. There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world. 
4. Well, there are 3,000 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene. 
5. This is a mind-boggling fact – for each of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying... 
6. Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears.
   

INDIAN : AT A GLANCE

 National Information:

• National flag - Tri-colour
• National Emblem - Sarnath Lion Capital Of Ashok.
• National Anthem - jana - gana - mana - Adhinayak jaya he.
• National Song - Vande-mataram.
• National Slogan - Satya-mev-jayate.
• National script - Dev - nagari.
• National Granth - Geeta.
• National Project - Five Year Plans.
• National Mantra - Om.
• National Sweet - Jalebi.

Longest:

• Longest Road - g.t.road
• Longest Rail-Route - jammu tawi to Kanyakumari
• Longest Distance Covering train - Himsagar Express
• Longest Glacier(slowly moving mass of ice) - Siachin .
• Longest Railway Platform - kharagpur(west bengal).

Written By : Maulik Dave .

INDIA : At a Glance

• Capital: New Delhi
 
• Area - 32,87,263 km 
• (seventh place in the wprld 2.42% of the world. 1,20,849 km excluding which is occupied by china and pakistan.)

• Boundaries -
 
(1) Land : China,Nepal and Bhutan in the north, Myanmar and Bangladesh in the East, separated by hilly ranges. pakistan and afghanistan in the west.
 
(2) Sea : Arabian sea in the west, Indian ocean in the South and Bay of Bengal in the East. 
 
• Distance East to West : 2933 km.
 
• Distance North to South : 3214 km.
 
• Sea boundary including islands : 7516.6 km.
 
• Land boundary : 15,200 km.
 
• Forested area : (2005 Report) 6,77,088 km(2) (20.60% of the total Geographical area).
 
• Percentage of World Population : 16.44% 

Written by Sandeep Gurjar

Editor: Maulik Dave

Indian Government 2

President : Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Vice President :  Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Finance Minister : Pranab Mukherjee

Foreign Minister :  S. M. Krishna

Agriculture Minister :  Sharad Pawar

Aviation Minister: Prafu Patel

Telecom Minister :  A. Raja

Defense Minister : A. K. Antony

Home Minister :  P. Chidambaram

Sports Minister : Dr. M. S. Gill

Indian Government

Prime Minister :  Dr. Manmohan Sigh
                                (Most Qualified Prime Minister of the world)
                                 BA (Hons. Economics), MA (Economics), DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa),
                                PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness.
                                Wright's Prize at St John's College, Cambridge,
                                Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge


Compare with 44th USA President :  Barack Hussein Obama
                                                            B.A. (International Relations), J.D (Harvard Law School)

Animals

• The biggest mammal is the blue whale, 30m long and weighting 150,000 kg.

• The biggest of all the mammals on the land are elephants which can grow upto 4m tall and weight 7,000 kg.

• Elephants live longer than all mammals apart from man, surviving up till the age of 80 in captivity.

• Elephants in Africa are much bigger than Asia.

Amazing Factfinder

An atom is so tiny that two billion would fit on the dot on the top of the ' i '

Measurements:

             1000 pico-meters = 1 nano meter

             1000 nano-meters= 1 micro meter

             1000 micro meters = 1 mm

                      10 mm        = 1cm

                    100 cm         = 1 meter

                  1000 meter     = 1 km

      9,460,000 million km = 1 light year 

GK Questions & Answers -1

1. The longest river of the world. - Nile

2. The longest highway of the world - Trans-Canada

3. The longest highway has the lenght - About 8000 km

4. The highest mountain in the world - Mt. Everest

5. The biggest Desert of the world - Sahara Desert

6. The largest coffee growing country - Brazil

7. The country known as "Copper Country"- Zambia

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