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Favourite special interest facts

Chloé

Hello everyone,

I hope that you are all feeling okay. I was wondering whether you could please share your favourite facts about your special interests. I think that it would be a good way for me to distract myself from feeling upset, and maybe it will help other people too.

Thank you.

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  • Since I’m new here, I just found this thread, hope it’s okay for me to revive it. 
    I can’t really decide, but here are a few very cool facts:

    - The blood of a sperm whale can store eight times more oxygen than that of a human and they’ve got the largest bio-sonar in their head. Thus, they can produce 230db click-sounds while hunting in depths of nearly a kilometre.

    - Penicillin was discovered by accident (well, everyone knows that, but it’s still funny to me)

    - Humpback whales regularly create new songs and their migration patterns are observable through researching where those songs are sung

    - African Forest Elephants are constantly moving to find food although they live in rich rain forests. They can’t differentiate exactly what they’re eating so they know exactly how much to eat of each plant so even if they accidentally eat poisonous plants, they won’t die. 

    - Elephants are able to perceive very distant sounds like running water, rain, or other elephants communicating via infrasound through sensitive pressure receptors in their trunk and their feet.

    (I can’t really stop, but I’ll cut it of here)

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  • Since I’m new here, I just found this thread, hope it’s okay for me to revive it. 
    I can’t really decide, but here are a few very cool facts:

    - The blood of a sperm whale can store eight times more oxygen than that of a human and they’ve got the largest bio-sonar in their head. Thus, they can produce 230db click-sounds while hunting in depths of nearly a kilometre.

    - Penicillin was discovered by accident (well, everyone knows that, but it’s still funny to me)

    - Humpback whales regularly create new songs and their migration patterns are observable through researching where those songs are sung

    - African Forest Elephants are constantly moving to find food although they live in rich rain forests. They can’t differentiate exactly what they’re eating so they know exactly how much to eat of each plant so even if they accidentally eat poisonous plants, they won’t die. 

    - Elephants are able to perceive very distant sounds like running water, rain, or other elephants communicating via infrasound through sensitive pressure receptors in their trunk and their feet.

    (I can’t really stop, but I’ll cut it of here)

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