How About Some Milk?

It takes about 350 squirts for each gallon of milk from a cow.

 Picture From News Wise

 A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime, but is unable to produce milk until after it gives birth for the first time.  Today, farmers use machines to milk more than 100 cows per hour. Before milking machines were invented in 1894, farmers could only milk about six cows per hour.

Cockatoos: Louder Than All The Rest

The cockatoo is the loudest of all the parrots. 

Picture From Oakland Zoo

Their loudness comes from a history of having to communicate long distances with one another in dark, thick forests. Their vocalizations serve a number of functions, including allowing individuals to recognize one another, alerting others of predators, indicating individual moods, maintaining the cohesion of a flock and as warnings when defending nests

Caution: Caterpillar Crossing

Caterpillar hair can be a cause of human health problems.

Picture from Jig Zone

Caterpillar hairs sometimes have venoms in them and can inflict serious human injuries ranging from urticarial dermatitis and atopic asthma to osteochondritis, renal failure, and intracerebral hemorrhage. Skin rashes are the most common, but there have been fatalities. Caterpillar hairs have also been known to cause kerato-conjunctivitis. The sharp barbs on the end of caterpillar hairs can get lodged in soft tissues and mucus membranes such as the eyes. Once they enter such tissues, they can be difficult to extract, often exacerbating the problem as they migrate across the membrane.

Canada Geese...Not Just In Canada Anymore

 Canada Geese can only be found in a few areas outside of the United States and Canada.

Picture From All About Birds

Canada Geese have reached northern Europe, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Scandinavia. Canada Geese were also introduced as a game bird into New Zealand and have become a problem in some areas by fouling pastures and damaging crops.

Bobcat Babies On Thier Own

Bobcat babies are evicted from their mother's territory between eight and eleven months old and expected to fend for themselves.

 Picture from Defenders

After beginning to eat solid food around two months old, bobcats are taught to hunt around five months of age.  Afterwards, they are turned out from their mother's care and expected to survive on their own, while finding their own territory to occupy.

Apes vs. Monkeys

Have a hard time telling a monkey and an ape apart?  You're not alone!  Here's  the most simple way to tell the two apart. 

Picture from Live Animals List

Most monkeys have tails and most apes do not.  Also, monkeys are more likely to be in trees, using their tails for balance.  Also, apes are generally a lot larger than monkeys.

How 'Bout That Howl

Howling is a wolves' form of communication, and they howl for many different reasons.

Picture from National Geographic

Wolves howl to assemble the pack, usually before and after hunts, to pass on an alarm, to locate each other during a storm or unfamiliar territory and to communicate across great distances. Wolf howls can under certain conditions be heard over areas of up to 50 miles.  When howling together, wolves harmonize rather than chorus on the same note, thus creating the illusion of there being more wolves than there actually are.

Sea Turtles Leaving The Shore

After taking to the water for the first time, male sea turtles will not return to shore again. 

 Picture from Gulf Mex

Females however, will come ashore to lay their eggs on sandy beaches during the nesting season.  During the first three to five years of life, sea turtles spend most time floating in seaweed beds. Once the sea turtle has reached adulthood it moves closer to the shore.

The Red Panda's Picky Diet

 This rare animals is a picky eater due to it's inability to digest cellulose.

 Picture from One Big Photo

The red panda mainly eats bamboo and will spend up to 13 hours a day searching for and eating bamboo. The red panda only eats the young, tender shoots and leaves. They will also eat fruit, berries, blossoms, insects, and bird eggs.

Multiple Mole Thumbs

Moles have polydactyl forepaws, meaning they have an extra thumb next to the regular thumb.

Picture from Wikipedia

 While the mole's other digits have multiple joints, the extra thumb has a single, sickle-shaped bone which develops later and differently from the other fingers.  This supernumerary digit is species-specific, as it is not present in shrews, the mole's closest relatives.