Bird of the Day: Coppersmith Barbet (Athoor, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu)
Coppersmith Barbet
Did you know? Thrushes take hundreds of power naps a day, a few seconds at a time, in mid-flight. Otters fall asleep floating on their backs, sometimes holding paws with their friends so they don’t drift apart. Giraffes snooze only 20 minutes a day, often curled up with their heads on their own rumps. Brown…
Mushrooms are actually a variety of fleshy, umbrella-shaped fungi (singular:fungus). They are very strange organisms because they have no stems, leaves or roots. They feed on tissues of other plants or animals, living or dead. They look like plants at first sight, but their cell walls are made not of cellulose but chitin, the…
Today is Lunar Eclipse. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon dives into Earth’s shadow, during the satellite’s full phase. But eclipses don’t happen every month because the moon’s orbit around Earth is slightly out of plane with the planet’s path around the sun. When the moon, Earth and sun line up exactly right, a total lunar…
Thats beautiful!