The firefly is an insect which is particularly known for its characteristic luminescence. This animal has special abdominal organs,
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The smell of fish (fish odor) is not due to the fact that the fish died and then begin it’s decomposition but is due to trimethylamine, a compound that is volatile form after the death of fish, some proteolytic bacteria (demolition of protein structures) of the genera Achromobacter, Pseudomonas, Micrococcus, Bacillus putrefaciens Altreromonas and begin to colonize the meat.
The process continues on a regular basis over the period of edibility of fish, and this explains why the smell (fish odor) increases with time. Then stabilizes.
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The reason for this behavior on the part of ostriches is ignored by everyone, why? Simple … because it’s false! Indeed, the popular belief that ostriches put their heads in the sand in case of danger, is wrong and has never been recorded.
However, when there is no other possibility of escape evident, a bird can lie down on the ground with head and neck stretched forward and remain firm in the hope that it is ignored by his enemy. This strategy has similarly taken by a bird in hatching …
This has resulted from a compromise. Initially, months were mostly 29 days long and the average length of a month was 29.5 days which is the time taken by the Moon to orbit the Earth. However, this resulted in a year of only 354 days while the orbital period of the Earth is 365.2422 days. As a result, the calender became out of sync with seasons which was bad. This was initially corrected in an arbitrary way by adding a 13th month, but soon the calender was thrown into severe …