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321. Does the nightingale sing only at night
June 15, 2013
Does the nightingale sing only at night?
No bird has been written about so much by poets as the nightingale. Its song is supposed to be the most beautiful of all and nobody has been quite able to describe it. As a matter of fact, this attempt at describing it goes back to Aristophanes, the a...
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322. Where do parrots come from
June 15, 2013
Where do parrots come from?
Parrots are one of the oldest types of birds known to exist. Fossil remains of parrots show they have been around since prehistoric times, and they haven't changed for thousands and thousands of years.
Today, there are more than 600 species of pa...
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323. Does the mockingbird have a call of its own
June 15, 2013
Does the mockingbird have a call of its own?
As a "mocking" bird, this creature is amazing. There is a case where an observer once heard a bird mimic the notes of 32 different birds within 10 minutes! The mockingbird may improve on the other bird's song by making up trills and runs of its o...
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324. How far do birds migrate
June 15, 2013
How far do birds migrate?
Everybody knows that birds migrate. In fact, people use the disappearance and then the re-appearance of certain birds as a sort of way of telling the change of seasons. But no one fully understands why birds make such long journeys.
We cannot expl...
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325. How do migrating birds find their way
June 15, 2013
How do migrating birds find their way?
In the late summer, many birds in various parts of the world leave their homes and fly south for the winter. Sometimes they travel to other continents, thousands of miles away. Next spring, these birds return not only to the same country, but often to t...
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326. How do birds know when to migrate
June 15, 2013
How do birds know when to migrate?
The migration of birds has fascinated man since the very beginning of history. Did you know that Homer wrote about it in 1000 B.C.; it's mentioned in the Bible; and the great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, studied the question?
And yet, so...
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327. Are birds descended from reptiles
June 15, 2013
Are birds descended from reptiles?
Not everybody accepts the theory of evolution, but those who do have a theory to explain how birds came to be. There are many different parts of birds that are quite specialized because they have developed the ability to fly. They became warm-blooded becaus...
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328. What causes plagues of locusts
June 15, 2013
What causes plagues of locusts?
In the Bible, we read of plagues of locusts descending upon a people and causing great suffering. Of course, in those times such a plague was considered a punishment from God, just as floods, droughts, and disease. But plagues of locusts have appeared in othe...
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329. What do wasps eat
June 15, 2013
What do wasps eat?
Almost all insects have interesting ways of caring for their young, but few of them show as much skill as the wasps. Some wasps build little houses of mud for their babies. Others make nests of paper. Some dig caves in the earth, and some saw out little cells in wood. <...
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330. Why do flies rub their legs together
June 14, 2013
Why do flies rub their legs together?
It's a natural thing to consider the housefly a nuisance. It makes an irritating buzzing sound; it annoys you when it crawls on your skin; and so on. For ages that's what many considered the fly to be-just a nuisance.
It wasn't until th...
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