Antelope Takes Out Cyclist by Meera Dolasia 10/31/11

17 year old biker Evan Van De Spuy was speeding across the dust terrain close to Pietermartizburg, South Africa when a Red Hartebeest Antelope suddenly hit him. Evan was dazed and didn't know what hit him neither did the antelope but Travis Walker witnessed the terrifying scene, luckily he had a camera sitting on his handle bars.

Evan along with the Antelope got up dazed but not permanently damaged. The Red Hartebeest antelope are the largest species of antelope that can weigh up to 330lb and run up to speeds of 30 miles per hour. They have a fantastic smell and hearing but very poor eyesight a sure reason for the collision.

The Pig Gymnast By Meera Dolasia

With a positive attitude you can do anything! A pig born earlier this year in China's Anhul Province has this same attitude, she was born with no hind legs which could have led her to a boring life of suffering. Her kind owner, farmer Ge Xingping hand fed her for the first few weeks and then later taught her to walk on her front legs like a gymnast giving her the title "Pig Gymnast". He simply took the time to help her to lift her self up ad then making her walk on her 2 feet, the little time that he took saved her. I think Ge Xingping is a great man that really knows how to care for his animals. The news of this amazing pig really astonished me, I never thought it could be, next thing you know spider pig is going to show up.

A similar condition happened to a child when he was born, he had the same attitude to keep living life. Here he is...

Animal Predatory

The video that I have chosen takes place in the Kruger park in South Africa. Take a look for yourself!

The predator in this video are the lions and the prey are the buffaloes. At the start you can see that the lions are trying to camoflauge/ Hide in the grass until the buffalo get close enough or spot them. The case in the video is that the buffalos spotted them and started to run.

The baby buffalo was caught because it was a slower prey compared to adults therefore the calf is more vulnerable. The buffaloes are the lions food, if there were no buffalo a piece of the food chain would go missing. The lions wouldn't starve because they do hunt other prey such as gazelles, sometimes elephants and even small creature like hogs. 

World Records Day- by Meera Dolasia

 

Thursday November 17 was a day where people try to pull off the most amazing things to try and get their name in that special book. This day is called Guinness World Record Day, this memorable day has been going on for the past 7 years.  These stunts go from the most bizarre to the most heart stopping.

This year stunts ranged from catching arrows blind folded to people fitting into a pair of underpants. The stunt that really was exciting for was the man that caught arrows blind folded. Believe it or not I have caught flying arrows and that was pretty hard, just thinking of being blind folded scares me. Meanwhile a 90 year old yoga teacher was getting her award and in Florida 221 people had the largest hula hoop class.

The grand prize was awarded to stuntman, Denni Dusesterhoeft for the most heart stopping record. He ran 120 meters while being totally on fire. This earned him the “Full Body Burn” award.

I would love to have my name in the Guinness World Record Book but I wouldn’t go to the extent of having myself on fire.

http://www.dogonews.com/2011/11/22/video-of-the-week-guinness-world-records-day-2011

Rabbit Births Per Year (Graphs)

These graphs are showing the rabbit population. They are showing how many rabbits are being born over a time of 10 years. From what I can see from these graphs over the years the rabbits population is increasing. Also if I look at the line graphs I can see that each year the populations are being doubled, i can get this information from year 8 to 10. I can see that in year 8 the population was at 500 and in the 9th year the population was at 1000 and in the 10th year it took a massive leap to 2000. As you can see from my example it doubles each year. If i had to choose a graph that would help me more in finding information on rabbits population i would choose the line graphs because in line graphs they give you a good idea of what the population is but in the pie grap that i gave  they just give proportions of the "pie" so i don't know what the population is (there were no numbers to show me).

Nicomimi Emotional Cat ears

Necomimi is a amazing new japanese invention. Those japanese always coming up with the coolest things. The Necomimis are soft fluffy cat ears that respond to you emotions. The cat ears are straped on with a cool head band that has brain wave sensors, the sensors have recently beem used in the medical field. These sensors pick up your emotions and then the cat ears move according to your emotions. If you are concentrating the ears shoot up and if you are relaxed down flop the ears. The coolest part is when you try concentrating and relaxing the ears swirl in circles.

The Nicomimis are just for fun but if you start to think bigger think of what these cat ears could do for the mentally disabled. These cat ears could be the key to knowing what the people who cant speak are thinking. The cat ear of course would be upgraded to more emotions. But these cat ears don't come cheap, they are a few hundred dollars. 

http://www.dogonews.com/2011/11/14/fluffy-cat-ears-the-latest-fashion-accessory-from-japan

Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Tape

Ever wonder how geckos can stick to any surface upside down or even sideways?  The answer to that is easy, it because they are sticky. This is true but there is a lot of science behind it, geckos and others like them have thousands of little hairs on their feet and their legs called Satea and at each end of the hairs there are little suction like flat surfaces called spatula. 

Scientists in Germany have mimicked the geckos ability to stick to walls using a re-usable adhesive tape. This tape is  so strong that a 20x 20 cm square of it is able to support a adults weight. Unlike other tapes this tape is re-usable meaning that you can just rip it off and reuse it and amazingly enough it doesn't leave any marks behind. What surprised me the most is that this tape can be used underwater.

Even though scientist have known the secret behind sticking to suraces finding the material that can meet this challenge has been a challenge. The biggest difficulty for the scientists were creating little hairs like the ones the geckos have that is able to stick and hold to ANY surface.

The only drawback from releasing this monster tape to shops is first it is still in experimenting stages and the scientist may not be able to find a suitable price. But if it does come out i sure would be the first to buy!

http://www.dogonews.com/2011/11/10/gecko-inspired-adhesive-tape-can-hold-up-and-adult-and-be-re-used