Category Archives: WHAT?
95.WHAT IS A MOLE?
One of the most interesting animals to be found anywhere is the mole. Moles live in every part of the United States and there are about 30 different species. But they are so seldom seen by people that they have become a kind of mysterious creature.
You can find a mole by looking for the long ridges of cracked earth it makes across fields. This is the roof of its tunnel, for the mole spends its whole life in darkness under the ground.
94.WHAT IS A BLOODHOUND?
A bloodhound, of course, is a breed of dog. But how did it develop? Where did it come from?
The history of the dog itself goes back many hundreds of thousands of years. Some scientists believe that dogs are the result of the mating of their cousins, the wolves and the jackals. It is generally believed however that our modern dogs and the wolves are descended from a very remote common ancestor.
93.WHAT ARE MARSUPIALS?
When European explorers visited the New World, they often brought back with them whatever they considered strange and new. Thus the South American opossum was brought back from Brazil in 1500, and Captain Cook in 1770 told about seeing kangaroos in Australia. Nobody in Europe had ever known about such creatures before—they were marsupials.
