Monthly Archives: April 2014
100.WHAT IS RACCOON?
Some people believe that raccoons wash all their food before eating it. There is some truth to this. Most raccoons do wash their food, and there have been cases where raccoons refused to eat food when they couldn’t find any water nearby!
But on the other hand, raccoons have been known to eat food even when they were some distance from water, though perhaps they weren’t too happy about it. And some raccoons have been observed to eat without ever washing their food.
99.WHAT IS PORCUPINE?
The porcupine has always been considered an annoying, disagreeable – animal. In fact, even Shakespeare described it that way. In Hamlet, there is the line: “Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.”
Actually, the porcupine is quite a harmless animal, who simply likes to be let alone. During the winter, it curls up in a hollow log or cave and sleeps most of the time. In the summer, it moves slowly through the woods in search of bark, twigs, roots, and leaves of trees and shrubs.
98.WHAT IS BIOLOGY?
Do you like to read detective stories or watch them on TV? What makes them exciting for you and me is the suspense. We want to find out who did it, or how, or why. But the world around us is full of mysteries, too.
Why do animals behave as they do? What makes plants grow in special ways? How does our body do this or that?
