Amazing Cows Facts

Cows dont have upper front teeth

Although a cow has no upper front teeth, it grazes up to 8 hours a day, taking in about 45 kg (100 lb) of feed and the equivalent of a bath tub full of water. A healthy cow gives about 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Read more after the break...

A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The rumen is the largest stomach and acts as a fermentation chamber. The abomasum is last of the four and is comparable in both structure and function to the human stomach.
With all its grazing and many stomachs, it is no wonder that cows are one of the main contributors to the hole in the ozone layer. Apart from CFC, the biggest culprit is hydrocarbon emissions from cars and cows. Yes, cows! Cows release some 100 million tons of hydrocarbon annually - by releasing gas. To give you an idea of how much gas a cow emits: if the gas of 10 cows could be captured, it would provide heating for a small house for a year.
But unlike what you think, cows release hydrocarbon mostly by burping.

12 Year Old Girl - Ontlametse Falaste

This little girl with a big heart is the dream of the future. But doctors say that 12-year-old girl named Ontlametse Falaste was only a few years of life. It is the only black child diagnosed with Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, Progeria - a rare fatal disease, accelerating the aging process. Children with this disease die from heart failure at the age of 8 to 21 years, suffering from high blood pressure, strokes, coronary artery disease and heart failure. On 9 June 2010 on 53 people suffering from progeria. 11 more images after the break.

A Man With Half Head

Rat catchers

In a Mozambican village of Madamba, locals are catching and selling rats on the side of a road. A stick with 6-7 fried rats costs about 30 cents. Every rat-catcher can earn up to 3 dollars a day which IS a lot of money in this poor African country.

Bizarre facts-Blood falls

Blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.

Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

The existence of the Blood Falls ecosystem shows that life is indeed possible in the most extreme conditions on Earth. Though tempting to make the connection, it does not show, however, whether life could exist on other planets with similar environments and similar bodies of frozen water - notably Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa - as it would have to arise from a completely different chain of events.

Even if it doesn't confirm extraterrestrial life, this planet's Blood Falls is a wonder to behold both visually and scientifically.

Elephant with artificial leg

Motola is a 48-year-old female elephant who lost part of her left leg after stepping on a land mine 10 years ago.

Now she has an artificial leg made specially for her at the Elephant Hospital in Thailand.

Elephant fights to get it's trunk back

In South Africa a baby elephant was attacked by a crocodile when it went for a drink with its family. When the crocodile got hold of the baby elephant, the whole herd of elephants first went crazy, running around and trumpeting, and then proceeded to come to the rescue of the baby elephant. After it was saved, all the elephants of the herd stayed around the baby elephant for a while, making sure that it was okay. The ones coming to the rescue were most probably female, especially the matriarch female.

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