Animal Planet #3

Weird things that I learnt tonight:

Animal Planet again. It is just fun seeing animals doing all sorts of things at late night. It is entertaining and informative. Better than those crappy music channels which show fake reality programs instead. So. Ever jealous of X-men? Ever wanna shoot some killer red things out of your eyes? Some kind of spiky lizards can actually do it. They shoot blood out of their eyes. I saw it on the program and I swear it is real. It increases its own blood pressure in the eyes and then squirt squirt squirt and voilà! The enemy's scared away and the eyes will be okay after a while.

Something called elephant-nosed fish are able to conduct phone sex. I am not sure if they are really called elephant-nosed fish but that's what I caught. So everyone knows some fishes transmit electric signals to communicate. For that kinda fish, they can even have phone sex. In case a metal wire or a phone like or a whatever connects two pools, and it happens that a male is on one and a female the other, the female can release eggs after a few minutes of flirting and courting...
So not only humans do phone sex. Those pathetic little fishes.

It is believed that whales can sense and visualize magnetic fields generated by the earth or something like that. So when they swim in the sea they actually see some kind of weird channels and landscapes. That might explain why they crash on beaches sometimes. One goes the wrong way which leads to the beaches and the pack follows...
Then again it might be sort of fun to see all these non existant stuff w/o taking any harmful drugs. Imagine. Constantly seeing things. Then again you won't think it is interesting if you're constantly seeing things. It will be interesting when you don't see things instead.

Dolphins have sonar stun guns which resonates with the floating bladders of fish, and hence make the little fishies go all confused and lost. There we have it, another big lunch. Some other fishes actually use electricity directed at preys to paralyze them for a sec too. See? Stun guns were used in the sea long before us. Who says we are cleverer than animals? Who says we are not animals anyway?

Ever seen those flourescent UV light fly traps? Maybe some of you who live in colder places don't need that. But something like that exists. Anyway. Flies are attracted to UV light-reflecting objects. They think they found daylight and go all mad flying the UV traps. So something called gold spiders use UV light traps too. Way before the artifical ones are invented. A normal spider web with parts of weirder strings or lacing that reflects more UV light, it basically looks like an organic flourescent fly trap. Works magic.

Ah wonder why (mostly male) dogs like feet/lower legs? So now I know. They say toes smell like horny female dogs. Should I even say more?

There are some more interesting things like crows liking cigarettes (actually any flashy thing but anyway) and causing 'mysterious' fires in some houses; small toads go into rock cracks and not wanting to go out because food (bugs) always go in there anyway, get stuck in the rock as the poor toads grow old and freak people out; oh, I can also mention fish rains. In short, whirlwinds reach pools or lakes, suck fishes and what not in the water up, brings the stuff in other places and what goes up must come back down... splat splat splat.

Done with the little natural biology lesson today.

Later kids.