LONDON ZOO IN PICTURES

 

LONDON ZOO IN PICTURES




                                                               Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!
                                                               His beak holds more than his belican.
                                                               He takes in his beak
                                                               Food enough for a week.
                                                               But I'll be darned if I know how the helican.
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Bee trivia:
Given they had a choice of honeycomb design they cleverly rejected triangles and squares and opted for hexagons which use less wax.

Honey has no sell by date. Some found in the pyramids is still edible after 3,000 years. The 'best before' date in shops is normally more than a year.

The old chestnut that bees are technically unable to fly was based on the assumption their wings were rigid. But they twist and rotate, enabling them to not only fly but also carry payloads of nectar, to make honey, and pollen, as a source of protein for their colony.

Honey bees will tap about two million flowers and fly 50,000 miles (twice round the earth) to make one pound (454g) of honey.

When faced with a shortage of pollen, bumble bees will damage plant leaves by eating them in order to make the plant flower earlier – sometimes as much as a month before. Scientists have tried to replicate this by damaging plants but the best they could manage was five days earlier.

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