Chit-Chat & Today’s Photo … O Sol Sunset
TODAY’S PHOTO : Thanks to Elaine (O Sol) … sunset at Ponta do Sol seafront a week or so ago.
These panoramic images are fantastic, not only do you have a 360% land view, but you can even go up into the sky. How do they do that? MADEIRA PANORAMIC
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Came across a fantastic website the other day – loads of useless information – here are some on animals
Is a world population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals. There are more than a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird species is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.
Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
I know it has nothing to do with Madeira but thought it might bring a smile
1Very interesting jim , its scary to think of all them insects out there.
Another cloudy day this side today , but very warm. Its the last night of the Festival in Caniço de Baixo tonight with fireworks at 11.
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