Thursday 20 June 2013

Fact Hunters: Leeches, bees and muskrats

Dara Adu 
Dara has been finding out more facts about bears. Incredibly Giant Pandas can spend up to 16 hours a day chewing their bamboo. In Malaysia, the sun bears that live there have a name that means ‘he who likes to sit high’.

Leah Webb
Bees are incredibly useful creatures. We love to eat their honey, they pollinate our flowers, their hives produce wax used for candles and their stings can be used to make medicine. What an amazing creature!

Georgia Brooks 
Did you know that we produce 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime? Saliva softens the food and hard molecules and helps in digestion as well as making it easy to swallow. Saliva helps to protect us against vital diseases like tooth decay by not allowing bacteria to multiply.

Charly Wallace
Some Dr Who facts from Charly. The Cybermen are from Earths twin planet Mondas. The Cybermen began experimenting with cybernetic parts in order to survive, eventually all their emotions were removed and they became less and less human!

Lucy Stevens 
Muskrats build dens out of piles of weeds and grasses. They do like to eat plants, but also munch on clams. In addition to this beavers alert their family to danger by slapping their tails on the water.

Harry Lavallin
Have you heard of Charles Darwin? He is most famous for his work on natural selection, the idea that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors.

Natalie Towner 
Incredibly a leech can eat three times its own body weight in blood. After that it can go without food for months.

Jerell Allen
The duck billed platypus is such a strange creature that scientists thought it was a hoax when they found it. It is one of only two mammals that lay eggs.





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