Knowledge is good

 

Every so often, dear friends, I undertake extensive research to write an article for your entertainment, edification and education. This is one such article and I assure you that all facts are true and have been checked on the Internet.

I am sure you all know that the cuckoo bird is famous for laying its eggs in the nest of other birds; so that the eggs are hatched and the young are fed by other species of birds rather than the parental species. This is known as brood parasitism; laying one's eggs in another species' nests.

Scientists have discovered that some species of cows, when they have their baby calves, they put them in the nests of some birds so that the birds would feed them until they have grown up to look after themselves. Unfortunately, often the calves are so heavy that the nest and its content crash to the ground killing any young birds in there. This is known as animal stupidity.

Did you also know that moths are very depressed creatures because they are afraid of the dark? They always go towards the light even though it is often fatal to them, like the sun for instance, or a hot light bulb, or the flame of a candle. Generation after generation follow the same fate and do not learn from their parents because the parents have died without warning their children of the dangers of flying towards the light. On one occasion one evening a moth flew into a dentist surgery and asked for help to cure her depression. The dentist said he could not help and that she needed a psychiatrist instead. The moth said she knew that, but she came in because the lights were on anyway.

For some reason we all have an incredible fear of sharks and over the years they have had a bad press as dangerous killers. In fact this is not so. Statistically speaking you are more likely to be attacked by a hippopotamus than by a shark. This is because there are no sharks in the jungle. Unless of course you took one there in your luggage, in which case you deserve being bitten in the butt. 

Snails are not necessarily the slowest creatures on earth. Zoologists put a tortoise in a glass cage or tank with a few lettuce leaves; and then released some snails to measure how slow they were in relation to the tortoise. A bit like the story of the hare and the tortoise. Within seconds the snails rushed the tortoise and ate all the lettuce. When asked the tortoise could not identify any of them because "it all happened so quick!"

Anyway, that's enough facts for you this time folks. But before I go, I often get e-mails from people asking me who I am and what are my credentials when writing posts here. To help answer your questions I have written about myself in the  "ABOUT THE AUTHOR" tab at the top of this page.