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Herbaceous plants, or herbs, have leaves but lack a persistent woody stem above ground. We tend to think that herbs are small plants growing close to the ground. However, some herbs can grow very high. Look at the images below and pick the plant which is not a herb.
On image #1, you can see a banana. On image # 2, you can see a bamboo that can reach 50 meters in height. Image # 3 features Cyperus papyrus which was used by our ancestors to make paper, dishware, boats, and other useful things. All those are herbs. At the same time, image #4 features a tree. It's called dwarf birch and it's the smallest tree on the planet. Its average height is only 2 cm!
In 2015, a German gardener Hans-Peter Schiffer grew the highest sunflower on the planet. How high was the sunflower?
As it turned out, cultivating gigantic sunflowers is very hard. The sunflower is easily damaged by strong winds and hail.
3.28 meters
9.14 meters
15.67 meters
30.49 meters
Which bird do the French call "a flying rat"?
Pigeons got this nickname because they tend to mess around at landfills searching for food. As a result, pigeons, just like rats, can transmit diseases, from allergies to really serious illnesses, such as parrot disease. By the way, pigeons are more dangerous as disease transmitters than rodents because they can infect larger areas.
Pigeon
Crow
Magpie
Jackdaw
Which color is the tiger's skin?
The tiger's skin has the same stripes as the fur. Each animal has a unique stripe pattern, just like us humans have unique fingerprints!
Yellow
Pink
Striped
White
As you might know, not all birds can fly. But even flightless birds are trying to conquer the skies from time to time. Which flightless bird manages to stay airborne for as many as 13 seconds?
Penguins spend most of their lives in the water. Over the course of evolultion, their wings transformed into some kind of flappers that make them great swimmers. Ostrich is the biggest among flightless birds. It's too heavy to fly. To get off the ground, the ostrich would need very large and strong wings. Kiwis are flightless birds native to New Zealand. They weight 3 to 3.5 kgs and are 50 to 80 cm long. This bird has hairlike feathers and short legs. As for the hen, it can only fly a few meters.
Ostrich
Hen
Penguin
Kiwi
The number of this "thing" in a chicken egg can reach 9. What is it?
You can come across an egg with two yolks pretty often.
Mass (kg)
Number of years the egg was hatched by the hen
Number of yolks
Number of rotations the egg can make
Which image does not fit in this row?
It's a common mistake to think that the whale is the biggest fish on the planet. The truth is that the whale is not a fish but a mammal. So it would be right to call it the biggest animal on Earth.
Whale
Shark
Catfish
Pike
What is the only animal not mentioned in the canonical books of the Old Testament?
The cat is only mentioned in the Letter of Jeremiah, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament. Here are Jeremiah's words against idolatry: "Upon their bodies and heads, sit battes, swallowes, and birds, and the cats also." (Letter of Jeremiah, 1: 21).
Dog
Sheep
Horse
Cat
What did the Europeans call the giraffe when they first saw it?
They thought it was the hybrid of camel and leopard.
Tigereer
Hippolion
Camelopard
Deerephant
Which of these animals is born underwater?
Rhino, buffalo, and crocodile are all born on land. By the way, crocodiles hatch from eggs!
Crocodile
Hippo
Buffalo
Rhino
As you know, humans can stand on their head. Which animal also has this amazing skill?
Bear
Monkey
Jerboa
Elephant
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