True or False Bermuda has no lakes or rivers True: It is mandatory for every household to collect rainwater using the roofs as catchments. The water is then funneled into tanks under every house. Although there are no natural rivers, springs or freshwater ponds. Bermuda is blessed with four natural stores of the freshwater underground. They…
White stork The young ones of the white stork are known to switch homes. Before becoming fully mature, the nestlings abandon their own nest and enter another brood with younger and fewer chicks to maximise their chances of getting more food.
Imagine meeting a snarling black beast with a gaping mouth and strong gleaming teeth in the dead of the night! You could meet such an animal on the Australian island of Tasmania, now the only home of the animal known as Tasmanian devil. It was once abundant in mainland Australia. But when the Aborigines came,…
Do you know how the beautiful mountains of South India, the ‘Nilgiris’, got their name? In the mid- 19th century, a species of tree soaring 65m tall, with a smooth steel-blue bark, was planted in these mountains on a large scale, to meet the locals’ requirement of fuel wood. The tree was a native of…
