Tkvarcheli - the city at the mercy of nature

We offer a look at the ghost town of Abkhazia Tkvarcheli (Tkuarchal), which was founded in 1942 as an industrial center of Abkhazia, but is almost completely deserted because of the war in 1992 - 1993 and subsequent economic sanctions. Together with the surrounding villages Akarmara, jantuh and fields city's population reached 40 000 people, but now it seems to be completely deserted.

Oresund Bridge - a unique structure, which has no analogues in the world. It connects Denmark and Sweden and is the bridge turns into an underwater tunnel that allows you to continuously and smoothly pass the courts.

The most expensive chemical element (200 ths. USD) osmium isotope 187Os. In the periodic table it has the number 76, this is the most dense substance in the world (platinum group metals).

Astronomers first observed as a black hole swallows the star and "spits" remnants into space


He and other processes of individual scientists have ever seen. There are examples and falling stars in the big black hole, relativistic jets and powerful substances that are emitted from them away. But now they recorded together for the first time and almost simultaneously.

"These events - a rarity - says one of the authors of discoveries, astronomer Sort Van Welz (Sjoert van Velzen) of Johns Hopkins University. - We first saw everything - from the destruction of a star and to start a conical jet, everything that happened within a few months. "

Events for which scientists have followed in December 2014, unfolded at 300 million light years from Earth. Unhappy star in size was similar to our Sun, but a black hole, although of the supermassive located in the active centers of large galaxies, as their standards are not so high and considerably easier to "our", located in the center of the Milky Way.

After receiving information about the first observation of the meeting made by ground-based optical telescopes, Van Welz colleagues sent them an arsenal of tools, waiting for the next event. And just in time: soon nascent relativistic jet images were obtained in X-ray and radio wavelengths, as well as in the visible range.

Such plasma jet escaping from the centers of active galaxies in just one or two opposite sides, remains one of the most spectacular and obscure phenomena of space. The speed of the plasma in these approaches the light, and a red-hot, it begins to emit intense radiation over a broad spectrum of wavelengths. However, the mechanism of origin of such emissions is still unclear - likely to give birth to their complex interactions of magnetic fields from accreting into the black hole matter. Perhaps the new observations of this impressive phenomenon will give way for a more precise hypotheses.

Researchers reveal mystery of the origin of water on Earth

Water covers more than two-thirds of the surface of planet Earth, but its exact origin still remained a mystery. Scientists have for a long time could not figure out whether water was present on the planet during its formation or the water arrived to our planet later, possibly together with comets or meteorites.

Currently, researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa using a modern method of analysis, called an ion microprobe, found that the stones from the Baffin Island, located in Canada, shall indicate that the water is present on our planet since the time of its formation.

The method of ion microprobe allowed researchers led by Dr. Lydia Hallis from NASA Astrobiology Institute of the University of Hawaii to study tiny inclusions of glass in these stones and find within these inclusions even more tiny amounts of water. Defined for this water ratio of hydrogen to deuterium, scientists were able to pinpoint that the water has a terrestrial origin. The hydrogen / deuterium varies with the different water bodies in the solar system, so the definition of this relationship allows to determine with certainty the origin of the samples of water.

Cosmos atrosanguineus - a flower that smells like chocolate

These fabulous creatures have a unique vision and are able to move with incredible speed. Being active hunters, they can see better than the complicated military image processing software, and can strike the victim with the power of 22-caliber bullets.

                   Slow death of Phobos

The moons of Mars, Phobos has already begun to collapse under the influence of tidal forces of Mars - to such conclusion the team of scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center. And the visible signs of this process - long furrows around a large crater Stickney on Phobos.

Previously it was assumed that the grooves - the consequences of a collision with another Phobos heavenly body, because of which there was a crater Stickney. It appears, however, that the center of grooves - not the crater center is located in another place near it. Also grooves are of different ages.

Now it is assumed that Phobos is a solid core surrounded by a layer of powdery regolith thickness of about 100 meters. Under the influence of tidal forces from Mars regolith behave like elastic fabric, but can not withstand the stresses and cracks. This model is the way It affirms observations. The same fate may expect satellite of Neptune - Triton.

Each year, Phobos reduces the height of the orbit of 2 meters because of the attraction of Mars. It is assumed that during the 30-50 million years he collapses and falls to the surface of Mars.

   Earth-like planet found in 39 light-years from the Sun.

The rocky planet nearly the size of Earth, but is characterized by high temperatures has been discovered by astronomers at a relatively short distance from the solar system. A new celestial body told the journal Nature.

GJ1132b exoplanet about 1.2 times larger than Earth. It consists mainly of iron and rock. The diameter of the celestial body - about 15 thousand kilometers, and weight - 60 per cent more. A person standing on the surface, would have felt the force of gravity, 20 percent greater than the Earth's. This is the nearest Earth-like planets - three times closer to the solar system than its counterparts.

However, from its star (dwarf Gliese 1132, about five times less than the Sun) planet separates a short distance: the latter receives 19 times more radiation than the Earth, which is why the temperature of the surface, according to the calculations of astronomers, varies between 136 and 306 Celsius.

Thus, GJ1132b too hot for humans, but may have a dense atmosphere. Scientists believe that it strongly resembles Venus. In its atmosphere prevailing helium and hydrogen. If the last surface was GJ1132b water, oxygen and carbon dioxide can also be preserved in the atmosphere.

Astronomers hope to test these hypotheses by direct observation with telescopes of the next generation - for example, the James Webb telescope (to be launched in 2018). So scientists will be able to see the color of a sunset on the planet - and, consequently, to assess the heat that rises from its "fried" the surface, as well as the wind speed.

Most of the famous astronomers rocky planets much hotter: The surface temperature there exceeds two thousand degrees. Previously, the closest to the solar system Terrestrial rocky exoplanet was discovered at a distance of 127 light years.

"Our ultimate goal - to find a twin of the Earth, but on the way we found a twin of Venus. We suspect that there is an atmosphere reminiscent of Venusian, and we can not wait to sniff it, "- said study co-author David Charbonneau (David Charbonnneau) from Harvard.

The image of the protoplanetary disk around a young star HL Tau, located 450 light-years from Earth. Built using a radio interferometer ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array). Age star is about 100 thousand years - it is at an early stage of stellar evolution.

Red-legged hermit crabs (lat. Ciliopagurus strigatus), living in the coastal waters near Hawaii and in the Red Sea, is considered one of the most brightly-colored hermit crabs living in the world's oceans.

Purple and orange body and white striped legs make it extremely attractive to aquarists all over the world. For visual appeal added one more valuable quality: red-hermit crab likes cleanliness and actively cleans the aquarium from harmful cyanobacteria, filamentous algae and debris.

The fish have demonstrated the ability to super vision

Some fish and amphibians in real life possess supernormal fantastic heroes. As researchers found, in poor visibility, they can at the genetic level, "include" infrared superzrenie.
According to Reuters, talking about some of the representatives of the freshwater fish, such as salmon. The findings are published in the journal Current Biology. According to scientists, when navigating in muddy freshwater fish "include" in the eyes of a special enzyme - an enzyme Cyp27c1, of direct relevance to vitamin A, which is just responsible for visual acuity in poor visibility conditions. From the standpoint of chemistry, enzyme changes at the molecular level of vitamin A, making a modification to vitamin A1 vitamin A2 and switching the sensitivity photoreceptors in the wavelength range. That is, in fact, the fish are starting to see in infrared light. Similarly, some amphibians are shifting their eyes from the ground at underwater.
"We do not know exactly at what stage of evolution of the enzyme Cyp27c1 acquired such skills. However, the fact that it is used as fish and amphibians, suggests that the function was formed millions of years ago, "- he shared the representative of the University of Washington School of Medicine Dr. Joseph Corbo. The enzyme was also detected in bull frog and zebrafish fish (zebrafish). Dr. Corbo said that copies of the gene that controls the enzyme, there are people, but they are inactive. Scientists believe that the results of the study can be used in optogeneticheskih developments in the treatment of neurological diseases.
Earlier, scientists have found yet another feature of the fish by the example of cave tetra Astyanax mexicanus - the ability to "turn off" him to save energy. According to National Geographic, in caves inhabited by these fish, it is very difficult to find food, so the underwater inhabitants need to conserve energy. The researchers determined the amount of oxygen that is consumed part of the brain responsible for vision, and came to the conclusion that the absence of such a seemingly important sense organ allows you to spend 15% less energy. "The researchers also found that the average brain (responsible for vision) in the blind Mexican tetras is much smaller than those species that are able to see. The absence of blind tetra compensate for a large number of taste buds and omnivorous "- the newspaper notes.

Cosmic catastrophe defined shape and composition of the young Earth


Scientists have explained why the composition of the Earth is so similar to the composition of the silicate meteorites - and still do not like them.

By submitting new space missions to distant asteroids, leading the search for meteorites fell to Earth, astronomers like to explain: "It will allow us to look into the past of the solar system and our planet." Readers are often left at a loss, although the idea here is simple enough. It is shown that asteroids were formed about the same time far as the planets. However, unlike the planets billions of years of their lives they were boring. Asteroids (those that remain) are not faced with other bodies, they were not active geological and tectonic processes even more. They do not have hot core - all the chemicals of the early Solar System preserved them almost intact.

It is believed that the young buds of the Earth, mostly served as an ancient class of meteorites chondrites - the most common, and consist mainly of silicates. Indeed, the isotopic composition of elements constituting chondrites, close to the isotopic composition of our planet. But here's the rub: the content of silicon, potassium, sodium and they are much higher, but the world more magnesium, calcium and aluminum. This inconsistencies long time could not explain.

American scientists have put a series of laboratory experiments in which the samples were subjected to different pressures chondrites, simulating the formation of the young planet. Radioactivity and, most importantly, the heat from the shock colliding bodies is heated it was melted and stirred. Heavier elements gradually fell closer to the center, and gradually formed the iron-rich core. These events have also studied in the laboratory at this chondrites example, showing that the crust is formed as a result of the same composition as meteorites themselves.

The difference, according to them, there is because of the new bombing young bark. Part of it after such attacks provided ejected into space. Heat is converted to dust and gas magnesium, aluminum, calcium, sodium, etc. - But calcium, magnesium and aluminum quickly settled back, whereas the remaining elements left Earth. However, the very nature of the bombing remains unclear. When it happened? What was the planet colliding with the body and what caused their appearance near the Earth? It remains to find out.

                   The polar caps of Mars

The polar caps on Mars - the huge area of the carbon dioxide with a mixture of dust and frozen water, which is so great that even visible from Earth. The polar caps are subject to strong seasonal fluctuations, strongly proliferating in the Martian winter and "contracting" with the arrival of spring. The biggest cap is currently located at the north pole of Mars.

Enrolment of recruits astronauts for Mars exploration


The US space agency announced the upcoming gathering of applications for participation in the missions to Mars. The names of the new recruits, who will pass the hard pre-selection and subsequent testing will be announced in mid-2017.

The official announcement about the opening of a set of astronauts appeared on the official website of NASA. For future astronauts set strict requirements. Applicants must be US citizens, have the documents about the end of an accredited educational institution in the United States with a degree of not lower than bachelor's degree in engineering, biology, physics or mathematics. In addition, the candidate space travelers must have experience in the specialty for at least three years, or to provide documents on the presence of at least a thousand hours of flight as commander of the jet.

In case the bidder will be the first stage of selection, he will be tested for physical endurance and tolerance of long flights. It is expected that consideration of applications wanting to become astronauts will take place from 14 December 2015 until mid-February (year not specified in the report, but, obviously, refers to 2016 minutes). The names of qualifiers will be announced in mid-2017. Applications for participation in the training program for astronauts accepted online usajobs.gov. "The next generation of astronauts will inspire exploration of Mars, will reach new heights, leaving traces of man on Mars" - addressed to future recruits head NASA Charles Bolden.

According to the agency, a new generation of astronauts will fly "to any of the four spacecraft in the course of their careers." In particular, it is called the International Space Station, some two commercial ships, developed by US companies (probably talking about projects SpaceX and Boeing), as well as the ship Orion - the brainchild of the company Lockheed Martin.

According to NASA, is now in the "combat reserve" the space agency are 300 astronauts, 47 of which are involved in the program. "In the near future we will need more," - noted in the NASA.

Recall popularizing exploration of Mars US space agency has been doing for a long time. In late August, at NASA there was a special form, fill that Earthlings will make their names in the history of exploration of Mars. All names will be written on a special microchip that will travel in 2016 to the Red Planet as part of a space mission InSight. The exact dates of the beginning of the colonization of Mars is unknown - according to the latest NASA, the astronauts will be able to land on the Red Planet in the mid 2030's.

4 billion years ago, Jupiter threw out another major solar system planet


The idea that we have no time was the fifth giant - in addition to the current Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - resounding even in 2011. In any case, it was her modeling of the evolution of the solar system has allowed precisely enough to come to the orbits of Mars and Earth.

Most likely, the heavenly body thrown casual game of gravity, the impact is very large neighbor - Saturn or Jupiter. However, one of the gas giants is to blame the entire planet in exile, it was unclear. The new work of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto points to Jupiter.

Vanished Planet, the researchers suggest, belongs to the same class as the Neptune and Uranus. It was an icy giant, is not as large as the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, but much denser - and more massive. As one of them managed to joining the gravitational battle, and conquer this planet, breaking her powerful attraction to the sun, throw it away?

Typically, this happens when a close convergence of massive planets. In the process they disperse each other, and one of them is thrown out of the system, becoming the eternal lonely orphan skitalitsey in desert expanse of interstellar galaxy. So could "work" and Jupiter converging with the Sun from more distant regions of the solar system.

Canadian astronomers have considered the impact this process could have on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn - Callisto and Iapetus. Computer modeling has shown that these are the processes that culminated in the expulsion of the entire planet, about 4 billion years ago, could cause one of these satellites in the orbit, where it remains today.

"Jupiter is able to throw the fifth giant planet, while receiving the moon from orbit like Callisto, - says one of the authors of Ryan Cloutier (Ryan Cloutier). - This is impossible for Saturn: Iapetus otherwise would have too perturbed trajectory, which could not have become what it has become today. "

It is worth noting that all this still does not mean that such a convergence of Jupiter's ice-giant, completed his ejection from the Solar System really happened. While this is - only circumstantial evidence, obtained by the purely theoretical. By and large, even the very existence of our fifth giant planet no more than a hypothesis. But this picture of a lonely, exiled from our home stellar rogue planet is still hurtling somewhere in the dead space of the Milky Way, it is no less fascinating.

In addition to the Red Book, which since 1958, scientists are making endangered species of animals and plants, there is the Black Book. It includes animals and plants have disappeared forever from the face of the earth because of the destructive human activities.

These lights in the shape of flowers open, when there are people underneath

Architects and designers do not get tired to amaze. In Jerusalem there was a pedestrian fantastic opportunity to become parties to show almost 9-meter street lights made in the form of giant flowers, disclosed to them as soon as someone approaches, whether it is a man or even a passing tram.

How to tell the creators of this miracle, their "urban flowers" were not aimed at the fight against chaos, their main goal was to beautify the city and to remind people that in the world there is always a place for miracles, fantasy and a pleasant surprise.

Scientists have created a model of a time machine

Scientists from the Australian University of Queensland created a computer model to make travel time. Physicists managed to send the past two photons, which successfully went back, despite the fact that one of these particles has met in the past with them.

Australian physicists from the University of Queensland set out to create a computer model of time travel. After a while they succeeded. According to information received from the Western press, the researchers plan to prove the prediction in 1991 about the displacement of a quantum particle in time. It's about the journey of man, or any special apparatus in this case did not go, and it all comes down to the displacement of an elementary particle.

Physicists managed to create a model of a single photon transfer via the so-called wormhole in space and time. It considered two versions of events. In the first case it come into force paradox in which a quantum particle in the past cooperated with itself. In the second photon is normally closed during vremepodobnuyu curve and prevented from ever there back in time spiral. Both cases, according to researchers, are combined in a single unit two different theories: quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein.

Recall, the first travel in time began the great Albert Einstein, proved the possibility of temporary displacement. Despite this scientific world is still skeptical of this idea, since the meeting on time traveler with his ancestors a catastrophe - the man simply did not come to light.

It is true this theory, known as "the paradox of the grandfathers", or the paradox of time continuums, eliminates the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It is not surprising that an Australian scientist who united theory of relativity with quantum mechanics, managed to prove that, at least, the photon can meet yourself in the past without catastrophic consequences for ourselves in the present.

         White-faced saki (Saki Monkey)

White faced saki - Pithecia Pithecia - rare monkeys from the northern part of South America. They live in the rain forests, drier forests and even in the savannas of the Amazon in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. Males have a mass of 1.5-2 kg, and is heavier than females. The body length of 15 inches, 20 inches of tail. Coat color black, the front part of the head, forehead and throat of males are bright, almost white. Sometimes the head is reddish. Wool is thick and soft, tail long and fluffy. The tail is not prehensile. In females, the overall color is brown and monotonous. Around the nose and mouth lighter bands. Females have a body length of 33.5 cm, tail length 34-43,5 weight of 1.5-1.9 kg of body length (males) 33-37,5, tail length 35-44,5 cm, weight 1.9 -2.1 kg.

Bananoed Livingstone (Tauraco livingstonii)

Bananoed, also known as Toorak, is the ancestor of the family «Musophagidae», which means, of course, "bananoedy." However, what is remarkable about these birds do not eat bananas.

Why flying squirrel - the cute animal in the world?

If the world staged a competition for the most cute animals, Siberian flying squirrel definitely would get the first place.

Although these creatures are called flying squirrels and, in fact, they do not fly, as it were gliding through the air, through the membrane, opens between their front and back legs. Due to this "adaptation" proteins can be raised to a height of over 100 meters, in case they need to escape from a predator or simply move to another tree.

Medusa killer size of a fingernail. It lives in Australia. Unlike other jellyfish, a brain and eyes. The consequences of the fatal meeting with her, from paralysis to brain hemorrhage. 4 tentacles, 5 thousand. Stings. The poison 100 times more dangerous than cobra venom. Antidotes yet.

The longest snake living in captivity has become a python Fluffy (7.3 m.)

                 Great colorful dove

Scientists: Based on gold created the darkest material

Employees Technological University. Abdullah created a material that can absorb 98.43 visible and infrared spectrum, which makes it almost completely black. For more information on this in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Physicists said that while working on a story inspired by the structure of beetle elytra Cyphochilus, which is one of the white creatures on the planet. The new material was made from gold, or rather of the gold nanoparticles, each of which is an object of complex shape, but rather the scope of which is attached a rod. The nano-sized spheres literally absorb photons in itself, working as a kind of waveguide if arranged randomly.

According to the authors, these technologies have, in principle, there is no limit to the absorbed light. Based on the gold nanospheres can develop a dye capable to absorb and 100 percent of the light from violet to infrared.

It should be noted that in the experiment using the physics of the material layer, whose thickness does not exceed 10.2 micrometer - absorption was 98.43%. In the event of the same 60-degree angle from the vertical allowed to achieve absorption of 99.7%.

Banana spider or a Brazilian Wandering Spider.

In 2007, the monster hit the Guinness Book of Records as the originator of the largest number of human deaths. These spiders are dangerous not only to their poison, but also their own behavior. Banana spider - the most poisonous spider creatures do not sit still, and wander through the land, hiding in cars, houses, clothes and shoes. This increases the probability of encountering poisonous animals.

NASA released a list of 20 most intriguing extrasolar planets


Staff at the US space agency NASA released the main site office list, which included 20 of the most intriguing extrasolar planets. Such work experts conducted specifically for the 20th anniversary of the opening of the first such planet.

By the 20 th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet NASA staff compiled a list of 20 such planets, as experts believe, it has become the most intriguing. The list was posted on the main site office. In the first place in this list was the extrasolar planet called Kepler-186. Its scientists have discovered a year ago. The radius of the planet is similar to Earth's radius.

Second place went to Osiris exoplanet that orbits a star resembling the sun. On this exoplanet blowing very strong wind. In third place was a system called Kepler-11, there are six planets. Recall that called exoplanets planets orbiting a star that is not the sun.

                          Poitou Donkey

Poitou Donkey (Baudet de Poitou), or mammoth donkey well, or "age-donkey" extremely friendly, gentle and obedient creature belongs to one of the oldest breeds in France.

Despite his advanced age, this breed is still obscure. It is believed that long-haired donkeys came to the territory of the province of Poitou in France since the Roman conquerors, who appreciate them long thick hair and high performance quality.

The result is a breed of Poitou, whose members today are the largest in size and the best workers among donkeys.

In the Middle Ages in the circles of the French nobility possession of Poitou donkey it was considered a symbol of high status and its excellent qualities have been known even at the royal court.

At the end of the last century, this rare breed was virtually forgotten - in 1977 around the world there are 44 Poitou donkey. However, the joint efforts of breeders breed managed to revive, bringing the number of mammoth donkeys up to 400 individuals, 180 of which - Thoroughbreds. Due to the successful breeding program, every year a few lucky ones are able to buy these amazing animals in private ownership.

The greatest pride of the Poitou donkey - shaggy dark brown or black hair, called «cadanette», which is in the form of long cords hanging down almost to the hooves.

It is not trimmed because Poitou fur softer and longer than that of other breeds. Animals with long hair are valued above all. Thoroughbred Poitou donkey must have a white belly and two white rings - around the eyes and nose.

80-year-old man rolls the stray dogs on the small train
There are people who can never sit idle. These, of course, applies to 80-year-old pensioner Eugene Bostic from Fort Worth (Texas). In recent years, he did nothing that was engaged in the construction of the steepest trains in the world. The only clarification - this is the coolest train ... for the homeless dogs! This vehicle Eugene rolls abandoned animals from which was once abandoned by their owners.

                               Fenech

An animal with a funny name "Fennec" (accent on the first syllable) - a relative of our normal fox, greatly inferior to her in size. Fenech (lat. Vulpes zerda) belongs to the family of canids, being the youngest of his representative - it is less than the normal domestic cat. Fenech has an unusual appearance: short pointed muzzle, large eyes, small teeth, hairy paw feet, and most importantly - the huge, fifteen centimeter ears.

Homeland Fenech - deserts of Africa (they are most common in the Sahara), which determines the lifestyle and habits of the animal. To escape the heat, Fenech burrows, which is carried out day and night come out to hunt. Fenech prefer to live in the thickets of grass and bushes, where they find food. These little foxes live in large families, consisting of a pair of parents, young puppies, and sometimes - a more grown-up children. Sometimes in one den settles several clans. Fenech like to "talk", delivering information through barking, yelps and howls.

The hunt Fenech prefer an individual style, as well as other foxes. Interestingly, the animals are omnivorous and consume everything that can dig eggs, small animals, including insects, roots and fruits of plants. Fenech thrifty - they set aside some food for a "rainy day", can be a long time without water.

Another feature Fenech - agility and jumping ability. With his modest growth they can make jumping height of 70 centimeters! Nocturnal allowed Fenech develop phenomenal hearing, smell, and vigilance in the dark.

Fenech create permanent pair parents own their own territory. Estrus females lasts only two days, and the males at this time are very aggressive, seek as much as possible to tag your site. Mating season begins in January and fevarle, and in March or April is born offspring. In the hole with soft bedding appears two to six pups, which weigh only 50 grams.

Over the next two weeks the female remains in the nest with her cubs and the male brings her food. The mother does not admit it to the newborn, therefore, food Fenech-Pope puts at the entrance to the burrow. The first time the kids at risk to leave the den at the age of five weeks. Up to three months, they learn the surrounding area, and then begin to make more distant attacks. Just at that moment, the female stops producing milk.

Starting from 6-9 months of age, young Fenech reach sexual maturity, but some of them stay with their parents, helping them to raise these litters. Fenech live up to 10-12 years.

In areas of its natural habitats Fenech being destroyed because of the valuable fur. However, these animals are caught and alive, because it is the only species of fox, which can be tamed and contain at home!

                             Pangolin

This wonderful animals appeared on Earth 66 million years ago! These little creatures mammals. Their body length of 30 to 88 cm, tail is about the same. These amazing creatures live in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. They live in forests and in open areas. In pangolin very long tongue (40 cm), covered with sticky saliva. This saliva attracts many insects. They feed exclusively termites and ants. Pangolin nests are not only dining room, but also a kind of "cleaning station": an animal to sit in front of angry ants and rastopyrivat flakes and insects crawl under them, starting to bite pangolin, but he suffers; after a while pangolin scales dramatically closes crushing ants.
They live alone. It breeds once a year. After 150 days after mating, 1-3 cubs are born. The kids are well developed, covered with soft scales, which hardens in a few days. A month later, the little pangolin begin to feed on insects.

In an emergency, pangolins curl up into a ball, which is open only to the power of a lion or a tiger.
This kind of dying out due to the fact that many illegal companies are killing these animals for meat and scales.

                           Sacred Scarab

Surprisingly, the most common beetle, the whole meaning of life consists in driving dung balls, may be associated with any deity.

And, nevertheless, the sacred scarab (lat. Scarabaeus sacer) in ancient Egypt was a highly respected member of the order Coleoptera. Priests even inserted it instead cut the heart of the dead during their mummification. This unusual action was to symbolize the flight of the soul and the rebirth of a person in the spiritual world.

The very same ice balls from the ancient Egyptians was the symbol of movement sunlight, because Scarab directs his load always strictly from east to west, as if repeating the path of the sun across the sky. He does it for very practical reasons - so much easier to navigate in space. All beetle gathered will serve him for the food and for the development of the offspring.

Interestingly, the scarabs themselves agree there any manure, while for their children, they are choosing the best, in their opinion, the best - sheep. It is in the process of skiing, the period which lasts from March to July, and an acquaintance of the future married couple.

After the male and female knurled few balls, they buried them in separate wells and sprinkle on top of the ground. Now we can begin to procreation. Perhaps scarabs shy, again especially for mating dig a deep hole, a length of 10 to 30 cm, which ends with a large nest chamber.

Fertilize the female, the male goes about his business, and future mother puts a rather large egg in one of the balls, following the cardinal rule: Every kid should have its own house. And for the season it may have about a dozen offspring. This and its mission ends - scarabs, like most bugs, do not care about posterity.

After 5-12 days the egg hatches the larva, which is a month with a slight turn into a pupa. It will take another two weeks to pupa developed into an adult. However, young scarabs are in no hurry to get out into the hostile outside world: they prefer to sit in the so-called "False cocoon", while seasonal rains soften its hard shell. Some even manage to spend so winter.

Adult black scarabs. Matt Young and old beetles, whose life had time to pull and "rub" is shiny. The average specimen of 2.5 to 3.7 cm, and the sexual dimorphism underdeveloped, i.e. layman is very difficult to distinguish male from female. Experts also note on the inside edge of hind tibia of male red-haired golden fringe, which is not in females. The eyes of both sexes are large, and a weak frontal keel. The back of the cheeks and the crown in the small seed. The legs and lower body are covered with dark brown hairs.

Interestingly, the sacred scarab live not only in Egypt. They can be found in all the southern regions of Western Europe: in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and in the extreme south of the steppes of Ukraine, in the Crimea and Georgia.

   Why the cat lies on a sick man's place?

The most common home "healers" are considered to be a cat. If the landlord fails to establish a relationship of trust with them, the cats are able to find and treat the sore spots of the owner. They lay down on this place, purr, warms it with its warmth - and the pain recedes. The serious situation the cat for several hours can not move away from the patient. According to statistics, cat lovers are turning to doctors almost 5 times less often than those who do not.

1. With Cardiovascular Disease
There are many stories about how the cats rescued people from heart attack and hypertensive crisis. Cat may even warn of a possible attack. Cat owners know that their pets are sometimes begin fins, when their host is severely irritated or tense.
The cat in the house reduces the risk of recurrent myocardial infarction. The man who recently had an attack, normalize blood pressure and pulse after it for a few minutes pat beloved cat.

2. In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
Stroking cats good for digestion. Short-haired or hairless cat (Sphynx, Siamese, Oriental, Abyssinian, Tonkin, Korat, Egyptian Mau) is usually better than other breeds treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and urogenital system.

3. When stress and fatigue
Cats are able to relieve fatigue, stress, migraine, lower blood pressure, normalize the heartbeat. Excellent therapists and neurologists are considered long-haired cats - Siberian, Angora, Persian, Burmese, Norwegian Forest Cats that help people who suffer from insomnia, irritability, depression.

Black cats take a person twice as much negative energy than cats of other colors. Red cats themselves give positive energy. Cats cream color "tone" our energy, well, gray-blue - calm. White the cat - unsurpassed in terms of doctors.

4. To enhance immunity
If you listen to every day a cat purring, running on a frequency of 4 - 16 Hz, this is a positive effect on immunity. Scientists suggest that purring is similar to ultrasound treatment that speeds healing, growth and strengthening of bones. Persian cats are able to relieve joint pain and symptoms of osteoarthritis.

5. To increase the life expectancy
Scientists of the Institute of Gerontology investigated the effects of cats on the life expectancy of their owners and came to the conclusion that people who all their lives were held in the house cat live on average 10.3 years longer than those who did not have cats. In cat owner indices blood pressure and better blood cholesterol were lower.

6. Cat and acupuncturists
Cats can also act as "acupuncturist" when they climb on the host and Murch, produce claws that irritate the reflex zones, as in the present session of acupuncture. This method of treatment has long been used in folk medicine.

7. Cats as the energy information unit
Bioenergy believe that the cat - it's a real energy-meter. In their view, if the cat is often rests on the head of his master, he is likely to hypertension or a tendency to headaches. If the favorite rests on the left shoulder or arm, it speaks about the problems with the heart. The cat lies on the back, if the "feel" of kidney problems, his feet - if the owner is suffering reduced pressure or frequent colds.

   

4-year-old Dutchman Mario spent his adult life working at the zoo in Rotterdam, caring for giraffes. Recently, a man found a severe form of cancer.
   He asked the administration of the zoo for a while to live close to their pets.

Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo management has allowed Mario to live close to giraffes, for whom he cared for many years. According to employees of the zoo, the animals know man and understand how difficult it is now necessary.

Mario virtually unable to walk. To carry out the last wishes to help the representatives of the Dutch special volunteer service. In addition to the farewell to the animals, the man wanted to have a little party to the last time to communicate with their colleagues around the zoo in an informal setting.

Benefactor of abandoned animals in the Fukushima exclusion zone

All we know about radiation accident at the Fukushima-1. More than 150 thousand people were forced to leave the infected area, unfortunately, not all the owners took with them pets. He was a man who did not leave the animals starve. His name is Naoto Matsumura, is a construction worker who lives in the Exclusion Zone, and takes care of the smaller brothers. Naoto - the only person living in the 20-kilometer exclusion zone.

     Six years of living with the wolves

The couple, Jim and Jamie Dutcher (Jim and Jamie Dutcher) spent six years living in a tent in the woods among a pack of wolves in an attempt to understand the way of life and the essence of these animals. They lived without electricity or running water, in the most savage primitive conditions, without leaving the place, even in winter, when in the woods of Idaho crackled almost Siberian frosts. Judging from the photos made by them, and then published on their website and in the media, they have managed to establish a very close with the wolves, almost familial relationship and look there, where few of the people managed.

                             Tuatara

It belongs to the genus that inhabits the earth 95 million years. Her relatives were plesiosaurs Award (marine reptiles that lived during the Jurassic period). Currently tuatara is the only member of this wonderful family, but this kind of dying out.
The body length of 76 cm, weight 1.3 kg. The life expectancy of these beautiful creatures 60 years, but can live 100 years and more. They reach sexual maturity at the age of 15-20 years. Lay 8-15 eggs.
Tuatara are listed as endangered by IUCN. As they reproduce slowly, they protect their hard to save the species.

           The tiger as a pet and animal

A Brazilian family has got as a pet real tigers.

It so happened that many years ago Ary Borges and his wife had saved two tigers from the zoo, they decided to temporarily shelter the animals in his house.

But soon become attached to them and could not refuse. Now in their home lives of seven Tigers. They behave like ordinary domestic cats love to play, sleep and eat a lot of meat.