Saturday, April 16, 2022

On Zebras, Polar Bears and Chickens

 Adam recently posted a fun fact that made me curious to know more.  I found this article that explains more about zebras having black skin and white stripes and not the other way around.

Then my sister told me she learned that Polar Bears have black skin but appear white due to light reflections on its hollow hairs.  

The next revelation is that  you can determine the colour of a chicken's egg by the colour of its earlobe. A white earlobe means white eggs, a dark earlobe means brown eggs.

I love interesting stuff like this!


17 comments:

  1. Interesting fact about the polar bears!

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  2. I guess I've never been close enough to a chicken to even know they have ear lobes. But quite intriguing stuff. Thanks for the Saturday post!

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  3. Very interesting to know. Happy Easter!

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  4. I did not know this. Very interesting indeed! Hope your Easter goes well. We are to have a messy day of snow and wind.

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  5. When I had chickens, some of them laid green and blue-green eggs. They looked the same as the other chickens, but their legs were a deep olive green. There are a number of chicken breeds that lay a variety of blue, green and pink eggs. They are called Easter eggers.

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  6. I did not know that about the eggs-cool fact

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  7. I just know from your posting...

    Thank you for sharing

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  8. Good on you for researching.

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  9. Fascinating facts! Happy Easter, hugs, Valerie

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  10. Uy no lo sabia siempre se aprenden cosas nuevas. Te mando un beso.

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  11. "I love interesting stuff like this!"

    ... and it is interesting, thank you.

    All the best Jan

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  12. Fun facts, indeed! I always love these little tidbits of information.

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  13. I like stuff like this too. It's why my husband refers to me as a KOOK - Keeper Of Odd Knowledge. Did you know that bluebirds and blue jays aren't actually blue? They're brown but appear blue because of the way the light interacts with their feathers.

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    1. Lol on KOOK Lorraine. And so interesting on bluebirds and blue jays

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  14. Well that's all interesting. I use to collect zebra stuff - all kinds and now I know they are black with white stripes..hard to tell, lol. funny about bears and chickens.

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