What's the most dangerous animal that has ever lived?
Its Mosquitoes. The female ones specifically. Half the human beings who ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the male only bites plants). Mosquito really means 'Small Fly' in Spanish and Portuguese.But you wont realize how dangerous they are until you read this entire article.
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Deadly Killers "The Mosquitoes":
Mosquitoes carry more than a hundred potentially fatal diseases including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, filariasis and elephantiasis. Even today, they kill one person every twelve seconds. Amazingly, nobody had any idea that mosquitoes were dangerous until the end of the nineteenth century. In 1877, the British doctor Sir Patrick Manson - known as 'Mosquito' Manson - proved that elephantiasis was caused by mosquito bites.
Seventeen years later, in 1894, it occured to him that malaria might also be caused by mosquitoes. He encouraged his pupil Ronald Ross, then a young doctor based in India, to test the hypothesis.
Ross' Interesting Discovery:
Ross was the first person to show how female mosquitoes transmit the plasmodium parasite through their saliva. He tested his theory using birds. Manson went one better. To show that the theory worked for humans, he infected his own son - using mosquitoes carried in diplomatic bag Rome. (Fortunately, after an immediate dose of quinine, the boy recovered).
Ross' Reward:
Ross won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902. Manson was elected a Fellow of Royal Society, knighted and founded the Londen School of Tropical Medicine.
The Big Family Of Mosquito:
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
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How long can a chicken live without its head ?
A chicken can live without its for about two years.
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A Real Story About A Chicken:
Can't believe? Well let me explain.This is a real story about a chicken ,who soon became a national celebrity. On 10 September 1945, a plump young cockerel in Frutica, Colorado, had his head chopped off and lived. Incredibly the axe missed the jugular vein and left enough of brain stem attached to the neck for him to survive and even thrive.
Mike-"The Headless Wonder Chicken":
Mike as he was called, he became a national celebrity, touring the entire country and he even featured in Time and Life magazines. His owner, Lloyd Olsen, charged twenty-five cents for a chance to meet him in sideshows across the USA. Mike would appear complete with a dried chicken's head head purporting to be his own - in fact, the Olsen's cat had made off with the original.
Mike's Income ! :
At the height of his fame, mike was making $4500 a month, and was valued at $10,000. His success resulted in a wave of chicken beheading, though none of the unfortunate victims lived for more than a day or two.
Mike' Diet:
Mike was fed and watered using an eyedropper. In the two years after he lost his head, he put on nearly six pounds and spent his time happily preening and 'pecking!' for food with his neck. One of the person who knew Mike commented : "He was a big fat chicken who didn't know he didn't have a head."
Mike's Tragedy:
After creating a record of the longest living headless chicken, the tragedy stuck one night in a motel room in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike started to choke and Lloyd Olsen, to his horror, realised he'd left the eyedropper at the previous day's show. Unable to clear his airways. Mike choked to death.Mike remains a cult figure in Colorado and, every may since 1999. Fruita has marked his passing with 'Mike The Headless Chicken' Day.
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How many legs does a centipede have?
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Its not a hundred. The word centipede is from the Latin for ' a hundred feet', and though centipedes have been extensively studied for over a hundred years, not one have ever been found that has exactly a hundred legs.
A Study On Centipede:
Some have more, some less. The one with the number of legs closest to one hundred was discovered in 1999. It has ninety-six legs, and is unique among centipedes in that it is the only known species with even number of pairs of legs: forty-eight. All other centipedes have odd numbered pairs of legs ranging from fifteen to 191 pairs.
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