Did You Know:
Bullying behavior is a “red flag” that a child has not learned to control his or her aggression. A child who bullies needs counseling to learn healthy ways to interact with people. Professional counseling can guide a child through discovering why bullying is hurtful.
- Wisp
The African wild ass is the smallest member of the horse family. Its height is an average 6.5 feet and 4 feet at the shoulder. Its upper body is gray with a darker gray dorsal stripe. Its underparts and muzzle are white and its legs are pale and banded. There are two subspecies of the Africa wild ass: The Nubian wild ass, Equus africanus africanus, and the Somalian wild ass, Equus africanus somaliensis. The Nubian wild ass is believed to be extinct. The Somalian wild ass is historically found in the Denkelia region of Eritrea, north-eastern Ethiopia, and Somalia, but there may only be a few hundred left now in Somalia.
The African wild ass eats a variety of grass and forbs. They prefer to spend the day grazing and foraging for food and resting in the afternoon. Males prefer solitary living, but some have been known to form temporary groups and group members change frequently. Males compete for territory and for breeding females, but no bonds are formed. The female gives birth to only one calf after a gestation period of one year.
Threats to this species include hunting and loss of suitable habitat. There are fewer than 100 African wild asses in captivity.
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The hybrid spider monkey grows to almost two feet long, not including the tail. It weighs from ten to fifteen pounds. The hybrid spider monkey is classified as an endangered species due to the fact that it only exists in severely fragmented sub-populations, and that there has been continuing decline in the hybrid spider monkey population. The hybrid spider monkey is known for its ability to use its tail as an extra limb.
Did you know: Rainforests also serve as one of our key defenses against global warming by storing massive amounts of carbon. Over 40 percent of the world’s oxygen is produced from the rainforests. It may sound clichéd, but the adage is true: Rainforests are the lungs of the planet. The root meaning of the word conspire is “to breathe together,” so it’s no exaggeration to say that we’re all in a vast conspiracy with the world’s rainforests. Or, we should be. “Floon”
Did you know: The rainforest is home to more than half of the world’s animals. Colorful and unusual animals dwell in all four layers of the forest. All types of creatures are represented, from tiny insects to large mammals. – Floon
Did you know: Educating children as young as possible will help them to cope with the sudden step up on the concepts they will have to learn when they begin day care or even school, and giving them a head start over other students will help them to adapt and cope with the new situations much easier then their peers are able to. Research has shown it can actually help to make them more intelligent overall, even up to their adult years. – Emberly
Dod You Know: A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water. – Tweet
Did you know: It takes 1,000 years for a INK cartridge to decompose even more when it is inside a landfill. Each year 300 million of these cartridges are thrown away. This amounts to 75,000 tons of trash. Re-manufactured or recycled cartridges are just as good as new ones. When you buy recycled cartridges at a slightly cheaper price you are not sacrificing quality you are saving money and the planet. – Tweet
Did you know: Summer Sickness No. 1 for kids is Enteroviruses. Source: Water contaminated by human feces, such as lakes and under-chlorinated pools. Signs: Upper-respiratory infection; diarrhea and vomiting; pinkeye; skin rashes; and blisters in the mouth and on the hands and feet. Can lead to viral meningitis. Symptoms develop three to seven days after infection. Treatment: None. Clears up after a few days. – Wisp
More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests.
A total of 103 children took part in the London study, of which 85 were given the drug as a precaution after a classmate received a diagnosis of swine flu. Of those, 45 experienced one or more side-effects. The most common was nausea (29 per cent), followed by stomach pain or cramps (20 per cent) and problems sleeping (12 per cent). Almost one in five had a “neuropsychiatric side-effect”, such as inability to think clearly, nightmares and “behaving strangely”, according to the research, published in Eurosurveillance, a journal of disease. Wisp
