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Dear Fellow Members, The First introductory meeting was held at Fine center,Pune, on 28th of October. The next formal meeting will be announced soon. Till ..
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Dear member, We cordially invite you for iamfine Meeting at Fine Centre on 19th Dec 2013. Evening 6:30 pm onwards. Please send a confirmation mail by Wednes..
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Dear member, We cordially invite you for iamfine Meeting at Fine Centre on 26th Dec 2013. Evening 6:30 pm onwards. Please send a confirmation mail by Wedn..
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Dear Friends, we are gathering for morning walk near Pashankar Show Room - Sus Road, on 15th Feb 214 at 6 Am. hope to see you all. Stay fit. Regards..
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Dear members, We have made functional teams in order to improve our activities, participation and communication. The teams are : 1. Adventure/cycling /activities ..
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Dear Members, We are meeting at 6.45 am on 12.12.2014 at Technospace, Mhalunge, Off Bangalore Mumbai Highway, Pune. We are meeting to celebrate i am fine day and share ..
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12.12.14 was celebrated as i am fine day. The members met at 6.45 am for a regular meeting, discussions and sharing followed by a breakfast. It was a beautiful d..
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"I am fine" Pune to Goa Cycling tour starts on Monday. All the best to all the members. Wishing all the cyclists all the best all the time. Happy cycling. ..
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Congratulations Mr. Vaidy for successfully completion of Mumbai Marathon. Mumbai: The 2015 edition of the Mumbai Marathon started on Sunday at 5:40 am in wh..
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Animals,Birds -Interesting Facts-1
Date : 10/01/2014
- Do you know that African Grey Parrot is considered to be the most talkative and most intelligent bird in the world? It often whistles ,clicks or make other sounds.If you have this parrot as a pet, you can expect to listen regular sounds of alarm clocks,video games,telephones as well as dripping water!
- An amazing fact - A birds heart beats 400 times per minute while resting and up to 1000 minutes per minute while flying! In humans ,it can be anywhere between 60 to 100 minutes per minute while resting .
- Do you know that Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird in the world ! It can reach speed in excess of 200 miles ( more than 320 KMs) per hour.
- Have you heard about a barking shark? Swell Shark is a species of fish that can bark like a dog.
- Crows are considered to be fifth smartest animal in the word. Here is the list of worlds top 5 smartest animals: Chimps,Dolphins,Elephants, Cephalopods & Crows.Although many scientist also put sheep,parrots and dogs also among top 5 intelligent animals in the list of 10 most intelligent animals!
- Have you seen Goldfish -a fish which is multicolored !But do you know Goldfish can loose its color? But why & how? If Goldfish is kept in dim light ,it looses its color.Similar to humans,it needs sunlight to keep its pigment.
- Do you know that the mosquitoes prefer to bite people who have just eaten a banana or have smelly feet!
- Do you know that the roosters can not crow if they do not fully extend their necks!
- Do you know a cat can not taste sweetness as it does not have receptors for sweetness !
- Do you know a shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes! More Facts about Ocean Animals
- Did you know that mosquito repellents do not repel! They just block mosquitos sensors so they do not realize that you are there!It is like you having a blocked nose and unable to smell anything!
- Do you know that 12 honeybees have too spend their whole lives to make a teaspoon of honey!
- Do you know that elephants were known as oilphants .We started calling them elephants only after 14th century!
- A goldfish is the only animal that can see the infrared and ultraviolet light!
- A chameleons tongue can move at the speed of 21 km/hour (13mph) .It depends upon temperature and other conditions.Chameleons tongue shoots out to a distance of up to one and half times their body length ,catch an insect prey on the its sticky end and then retract back into chameleons mouth in a flash !
- Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up in the morning!
- Do you think cows bite grass off the ground, the answer is no !Rather they curl their tongues around it and pull !
- Frogs breathe through their skin in hibernation . Trivia about Amphibians
- Here is a cute fact!When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin,it searches whole beach to find a perfect pebble to give as a present to her ! 100 Facts about Penguins
- July 22 is celebrated in many countries as Rat-Catchers Day!
- The longest migration bird : Do you know that the arctic tern makes the longest migration every year,it flies about 20000 to 25000 miles (32000 to 40000 kilometers) each year from Arctic to Antarctic and back again !
- Dolphins have names by which they call each other just like humans do! A study at University of St.Andrews in Scotland said that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other and respond when they hear their own call played back to them.The dolphins are acting like humans;they hear their name ,they answer back!
- Did you know that there is only one species in insects which can turn its head and the name of that species is the praying mantis!
- Tigers are excellent swimmers and can swim upto 6.5 kms at a stretch! More Facts about Tigers
- Do you know that female cats tend to be right pawed,while male cats happen to be more of left pawed.And another surprising fact about cats is that a cat can not climb head first down a tree because every claw on a cats paw points the same way.A cat must back down to get down from a tree!
- Cats and Dogs: Cats can make about 100 different sounds .Dogs make only about 10 different types of sound.
- Do you know that to completely drain out the blood of an average human,it would take at least 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once.
- Do you know that parrots do not have vocal chords! They produce sound by pushing air out of their trachea.
- Gorillas have senses very similar to humans including hearing,taste,sight,touch and smell!
- Bees have 4 wings and their buzz is the sound made by their wings which beat 11,400 times per month.
- Flies do not grow.They are born full size.
- Do you know that Sharks have no bones,their skeleton is made up of cartilage. More Facts about Ocean Animals
- Rabbits can see behind them,but have a blind spot in front of their face
- Flamingos are not naturally pink.They get their color from their food-tiny green algae that turn pink during digestion.
- The only known poisonous bird in the bird is the hooded pitohui of New Guinea.
- Do you know that weight of bones in a pigeons body is less than weight of its feathers?
- Do you know elephants can not survive for more than 24 hours without drinking? Thats why they are never too far way from a water source.
- Do you know that rats use their tail to control their body temperature because the can not sweat!.
- Fish do not feel pain! A latest study has discovered that fish donot have brain system or enough sensory receptors to experience sufferings ,fish do not even suffer when they are hooked and fighting for lives.
- A not-so-known fact about fish-The age of a fish can be determined the same way as trees.Fish scales also have one growth ring for every year of age .
- Do you know why dogs are used as detectives?Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air .
- Which is the nosiest animal?.This depends what you mean by noisiest. If you mean the loudest , then blue whales low frequency pulses are considered to be the loudest,they are louder than a jet engine and can be detected more than 800 kms away.On the land, howler monkeys are the loudest ones, who can be heard from 4.8 kms away. In amphibians, it is conqui frog.In birds, oil birds are the loudest.
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