Baby whales gain up to 200 pounds every day. After about a year inside its mother's womb, a baby blue whale emerges weighing up to 3 tons and stretching to 25 feet. It gorges on nothing but mother's milk and gains about 200 pounds every day for its first year.
Baby blue whales, or calves, are born big, but it takes a hefty diet to grow to the unparalleled full size of an adult blue ...
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Movement is the principle of design that recreates action on the canvas. The main reason this happens is because diagonal lines represent movement to us. When our eyes see something going diagonally, we think it is moving. This is why diagonal lines often lead us to what’s called the vanishing point in the art world.
There are often diagonal lines - whether clearly painted or ...
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There are a couple of different ways to highlight text in a Word document or in Google Drive without using the mouse. The first way is one of the answers listed above. You can hold the shift key down and use the up and down arrows to highlight parts of the text. This is good for highlighting a sentence or two, or even a paragraph in the middle of a document.
The second way to ...
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There are four different kinds of art: visual art, literary arts, performing arts, and multidisciplinary arts. Most people are familiar with visual and performing arts. Visual arts include paintings, photographs, ceramics, and sculptures, among other kinds of art. Performing arts are typically what people think of when they think of the works of Shakespeare - people on the stage - as well as ...
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Every year, there are tens of thousands cases of animal abuse. When witnessing animal abuse, many people will avoid confrontation and let it go on, but the best thing to do is to report it, especially to an animal hospital.
The most common form of animal abuse is neglect and abandonment, meaning the owner is either unable to care for the animals in their care or simply just leaves ...
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Giraffes are the tallest living animals on the earth, measuring up to 18 feet tall with their neck being around 53% of their height. With their incredible height and long blueish-black tongues, the giraffes are able to feed off of the tallest of trees which supplies them with their nutrition of leaves, flowers, and fruits.
Giraffes live in herds that consist of related females and ...
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Zebras are very easy to spot because of their bold markings of black and white stripes. Zebras feed mostly on grasses, but their efficient digestive system allows them to absorb more nutrients from their food, so they can also eat shrubs, twigs, barks and leaves.
Zebras heavy striping makes it harder for prey to attack. If they stay within a herd, the stripes from all of the zebras ...
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Pigs are omnivores that live off of a wide range of food similar to humans. In the wild, pigs are foragers, mostly eating leaves, roots, fruits, flowers, and grasses. When being raised or farmed by humans, pigs are commonly fed corn and soybean meal with added mixes of minerals and vitamins to help the pig maintain a healthy weight or to gain weight.
There are many similarities ...
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Beavers were desirable in the late 1800’s by individuals in the medical field to the back country person needing some extra warmth, causing them to be hunted to near extinction. The beaver population in North America was once upward of 60 million, but after an increase of beavers being trapped in order to skin them for their pelts, the population is now between 6-12 ...
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Hyenas are a carnivorous mammal that first came to be in Europe. There is scientific proof that dog-like hyenas existed 15 million years ago but became extinct when extreme climate changes occurred. The hyena soon came into existence and is now found in most parts of Africa and southern parts of Asia.
The hyena family was split into two different groups; the dog-like hyena and the ...
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