General Chat

1. How many times a minute does a blue whales heart beat?
2. What is rhinoceros’ horn made of?
3. What are the skeleton’s of sharks made out of?
4. Can a penguin drink salt water?
5. Why would you never see a penguin and polar bear together in the wild?
6. What is the only mammal that has hair on the soles of its feet?
7. Which is more venomous a daddy-long-legs or a black widow spider?
8. What will a camel do when it is annoyed?
9. Can Emus and Kangaroos walk backwards?
10. How many hearts do an earthworm have?

2 - Hair
5 - Penguins in live in the Antarctic and Polar Bears in the Arctic.
7 - Black widow spider? Unless the down under daddy long legs have evolved differently to the UK ones!
8 - Spit.......or kick?

1. dunno...... slowly I would think.
2. keratin ?
3. not sure, but the skeletons are bendy like gristle
4. dunno
5. polar bears are only in the northern hemisphere and
penguins in the south.
6. not sure on that one, thought bears
7. black widow
8 spit, they are just nasty....
9. don't think so,
10. I don't think an earthworm has a heart.....


just shows how much I don't know.....

1 - 5 to 10 beats a minute at rest.
2 - keratin
3 - cartilage
4 - Yes
5 - Polar Bears can be found in the Arctic, in the northern hemisphere, whereas all seventeen species of penguin are found in the the southern hemisphere.
6 - A polar bear
7 - A black widow
8 - Spit ..... but I wouldn't stand around to find out!
9 - No - but never actually proven. Due to type of joints in knee. Emus are used as a symbol of progression. (Always moving forward.)
10 - They have a series of "hearts" (aortic arches) which vary in number

Thanks supersleuth, that''s the word I wanted.....cartilage....

1 Nine
2 Keratin
3 Cartilage
4 Yes
5 The main reason why you will never see penguins and polar bears in the same region together is beacause the polar bear lives up near the North Pole the penguin live in the Anartic areas or south poles
6 Polar bears
8 Spit
9 No
10 5 hearts

No probs ....... go on - who's homework have I done :0)