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Sunday, June 3, 2012

New Smart Phone

7:38 AM Shaikh Asiya Ali No comments

Best smartphones have become incredibly advanced, with multicore processors and cameras that almost make us want to abandon our point-and-shoot cameras for good. Here gathered together the best of the best, with any carrier. Let’s see the top 10 best smartphones of 2012.

Smallest Animals in the World

7:31 AM Shaikh Asiya Ali No comments

Small Animals make excellent pets and companions for people of all ages. They entertain us for hours, surprise us with their intelligence and connect us with nature.Below is list of 10 smallest animals in the world.

Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm (19.2-inch) long

Meet Mr. Peebles. He lives in central Illinois, is two years old, weighs about three pounds and is the world’s smallest cat! The cat’s small stature was verified by the Guinness Book of World Records on 2004.

10. Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height

The world’s smallest cattle is a rare breed of an Indian zebu called the Vechur cow. The average height of this breed of cattle is 31 to 35 inches (81 to 91 cm). The photo above shows a 16 year old Vechur cattle as compared to a 6 year old HF cross-breed cow.

Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall

The little horse was born to Paul and Kay Goessling, who specialize in breeding miniature horses, but even for the breed Thumbelina is particularly small: she is thought to be a dwarf-version of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, the five-year-old Thumbelina is the world’s smallest horse.

Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical adult of the species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae is only about 16 millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch, from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. It shares the title of “smallest” with another lizard species named Sphaerodactylus parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands.

Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just 16 millimetres long – smaller than most fingernails. Some were found to be just 13 mm long. H. denise lives in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 metres beneath the surface.

Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long

The Brookesia Minima is the world’s smallest species of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.

Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long

On January 2006, the world’s smallest animal, fish was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sumatra: a member of the carp family of fish, the Paedocypris progenetica. It is the world’s smallest vertebrate or backboned animal; only 7.9 mm (0.3 inches) long.

Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long

Leptotyphlops carlae is the world’s smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length. Found on the Caribbean island of Barbados, the species –which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably on a U.S. quarter– was discovered by Blair Hedges.

Snake Bite

7:09 AM Shaikh Asiya Ali No comments

Reptile tamer Peter Morningstar has some trouble with a ten foot carpet snake. Peter was called to remove the 15 lb monster from a roof in Brisbane, Australia. The snake turned nasty and sunk its fangs in his face. That's one way to remove a snake. I know Australians can be tough, but I might have tried some other tools first. Luckily the python is nonvenomous and usually kills by squeezing its prey to death.

Snakes generally bite humans on the hands or feet because, well, that is what is available. Most snake bites are from non-poisonous snakes. Among poisonous snakes, there are four major types of venom depending on the snake family.

What should you look out for? It all depends on what country or region you live or wherever you have decided to go for a hike, etc. For example, twenty-five species of poisonous snake live in the United States, and at least one type can be found in every state except Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii. Pit vipers, which include rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths, cause 99 percent of poisonous bites in the United States. Coral snakes cause the other 1 percent. In Panama pit vipers are the cause of a good majority of bites. Worldwide, about 15 percent of all snake species are poisonous to humans.

Especially scary are venoms that are neurotoxins that can cause damage to the spinal cord, brain and even cause people to stop breathing.

See here for more about snake venom and snake bite first aid.

Any snake bite should receive emergency medical care because many people do not know what species of snake bit them, and even non-poisonous snakes can cause infection or an allergic reaction. Each year, between 4,000 and 7,000 people are treated for snake bites in emergency rooms in the United States, with the most bites being reported in North Carolina. Men are bitten about nine times more often than women. Between 1988 and 2008, only 97 deaths in the United States were caused by snake bites.

Globally, some people estimate claim there are more than 100,000 deaths from snake bites each year. A good deal of these occur in tropical regions where a healthy snake population borders agricultural land and human and snake too frequently encounter each other when they would rather not.