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Hey Vsauce, Michael here. Do you know what's weird? No-no, like what actually is weird? Think about something that you find weird, ok now, to another person that thing you just thought of, might not be weird at all, it could be a regular occurrence. "Weird" Is it actually our tendency to see things though a narrow view, Who knows maybe we’re the weird ones from another’s perspective. So why does this happen? Well, the answer to this, lies in a book written by Dr. Ammondrog Bendover, In this book a character by the name of imaboutobuss observes various strange happenings around her and goes on a wild chase to escape supposed aliens sponsored by the CIA to steal her organs and eventually in chapter 69 it is revealed that she was in a mental asylum the whole time. Now this book was published by Dr. Bendover, a known psychologist. To show the perspective of schizophrenic patients but this brings up an interesting point, were we perhaps the weird ones all along? After all are you truly sure that what you experience, what you touch, taste, smell and feel every emotion, every thought, every single event in your whole life was real? Even perhaps normal. Who truly sets the standard for what is normal?

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Family gives you love, encouragement and support

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family is the one who gives you support, encouragement, love and a home

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Dedication
Innovation
Inspiring
Enthusiastic
Boldness

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Guess it.. is this animal a mammal or in the category of birds? Yj

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Guess it.. is this animal a mammal or in the category of birds? Yj

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her name is princess

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bird bird

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I think Environment is very important because now we are facing climate change,pollution and etc . Everyone needs to do their part eg. using public transport instead of cars, bring ur own Tupperware box to buy food .

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this is cookie

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During my research I stumbled across a video that shows how a dog being alive for a few hours as it react to sounds and moving his ear around, while trying to see what is going on here. Base on my reaction while looking at this I felt disturb by the image and the fact that his head is still alive and sad to hear a dog can’t even have a body.

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My hobby is to play takraw because it is fun and Sepak Takraw has become competitive much like the game of volleyball. But, because this game evolved from the fun of just trying to keep the ball from hitting the ground, we don't just try to keep the ball up and smash it down on the other team, they try to look cool while they do

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My favourite hobby is drawing I like to draw because I found it interesting.I will only draw if I find the picture interesting I started to like drawing when I was primary school drawing will also teach me how to combine shape or colour but sometime when I draw I don't have patient I tend to get angry to myself for drawing to slow or ugly in order for me to draw I need to be somewhere quiet and alone because when I draw some people tend to disturb me and like they will comment on it.

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My hobby is to wrestle people. My idol is The Miz. I like him because he has inspired me.I also like his theme entrance.

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everyday i reach home i’ll find him and give him a hug wkwkwkw

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My favourite hobby is Sepak Takraw . Sepak takraw is known as malay traditional sport where anyone are welcome to learn .. I am a player for Csc team and my position in the team is striker and feeder .. At first it was hard to learn about sepak takraw and people thinks that girls are too weak to learn and participate in this sport . As few month goes by , i was selected to represent my team into Singapore First Women Perses Competition , it was my first experience to represent my team and i had no confidence but after my coach giving my team a word and support , we gain our confident and give our best as a team .. We managed to get placed in semi- finals .. for that day onwards , i was really interested in sepak takraw .. I learned from my mistake to be better and push away all the negative comments from people

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My favourite hobby is working out as it helps to calm my mind and it helps to improve heart and lungs and it improve  my quality sleep i also get to push to my max limit in carrying weights
I usually workout 1-1.5 hrs 4-5 times a week and sometimes if I’m bored

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qns 4

my family thought me alot of value and one of them is responsible. my mom thought me alot of ways to work on myself when i grew uo married . i tend to always help my mom out when she needs a lending hand . Now i’m used to the responsible that i have at home , everyday when i reach home i wash up and help my mother at the kitchen .

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My hobby is baking. Baking is my hobby because when I get to bake something like foods or pastries or cookies I get to try something new or taste my own baking or even trying like a new recipe. Besides that when I get to bake something I get to let my mind not be too stress. When I bake I get to have a positive mindset too. Also when I bake something new if its not nice or its not how its supposed to turn out I can try it again next time and improve it so that when I bake again I will improve and so that I can teach others when they ask me for help.

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my hobby is cooking. I like cooking because it entertained me when im bored. Eventho sometimes i fail, i didnt give up but i dont try it again because my mom will scold me cause she said im wasting money and food. Sometimes i seek help from my helper on what should i put into my food so that my food will taste nice.

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A loving family gives comfort and joy. Children will learn to feel a warm welcome of family and enjoyed their parents food and learn how to cook, read and write. Laughing together as a family while watching comedy shows with them and spent time together and also having a brother is actually more fun as you can imagine like playing games together, studying together and much more.

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Family is important because they will support you no matter what and they are the most important people in our life. They are reliable and dependable. Family trusts you and is there for you, even in your failures and they teach you the importance of family values. I love to go out eat dinner

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Family is a group of people that always love us unconditionally and always supporting us from far .. People who we can trust and seek for help whenever we need help with our problem .. Family are important because of how they can accept us for who we are and how we end up to be , family is the only group of people where we could get support when we needed it and also get the fullest love from people that grow us up since we were young .. In my family we learn the values about respecting one another and have patient .. Respecting one another is important values to our family and i learn that to treat people better if you what to be treated the same .. in our family we always giving advice to one another when they needed it and always be there for one another .. thats how we treated each other another , showing love is important so that nobody will feel left out .. During our free time , we usually go our fishing and camp at the beach .. we normally bbq at the beach with my family and also create a family activities like for example catching , race , whipped cream face and also blind mice ..

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from what i can see rn the environment is getting better sometimes but i feel like the world need more responsible people so that the world will have new ways to save the world but overall i can feel like sg is very clean

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This is the list of values:
Loyalty
Industry
Sincerity
Love
Care
Respect
Responsibility
Integrity
Empathy
Harmony
Creativity
Honesty
Courage
Passion
Compassion
Perseverance

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33 Curious and Fun Coyote Facts _ FactRetriever.com (2)

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A family is a social group of people who stay together under the same roof in a society. It comprises two or more adults like parents and grandparents and young children who are bound in a relationship by birth or blood. They are collectively known as family members. Family is important because they can offer support and security coupled with unconditional love,they will always look to see and bring out the best in you even if you cannot see it for yourself.The values that I learned from family is to respect each other. Every weekend my family and I will always go prawning.

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Family is something you love and care for your family members. It helps us aware and look out for one another when having problems in studies, work or other things.

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I Choos basketball as a hobby is because it is one of the common everyday sports. People can play it anywhere like in the gym, school, park, and house. What you need to prepare is only your energy and the ball. This is the most strenuous cardiovascular activities and it helps you to burn your calories more.

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when i’m bored i tend to sleep or listen to music just to past time , music makes me calm in a way that i will eventually sleep .Other then listening to music and sleeping , i like to spend time with my friends because it release my stress because when i’m with my friends i tend to enjoy myself and hanging out with friends makes me feel love by my surrounding because atleast someone cared avout what i feel . When i hang out i usually talk and play game , listen to song and more just to enjoy

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My favourite hobby is playing cricket because I have so many friends to play in the evening every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, public and school holidays.

Cricket is a sport which is about a bat and ball game. It will be a fun match if we have more players in a team.

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Family is something that u can seek help from and they are ur closest people in ur life with them u get a house to live in and family is important to us is because they are the first people that will help u when u need either physically or mentally

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Family is people u can always confide to whenever u run into some problems.They are always there to help u through tough times as family care for one another

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family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6QJIPTXCo

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Grey Wolf Facts: also GRAY WOLF facts 🐺 Animal Fact Files

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My favorite hobby is playing games because gaming is very fun and exciting and I would play games whenever I am free or after I am done with my homework/housework.

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Family is someone you can love forever.Famioy is something you can share your secret with without family you will never get surpport or advice from them.Family is something that everyone will have cause family mean love if you family help us with alot of stuff such as happiness,advice and support sometime family advice is better cause they will always think positively

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family means that you have someone that will love you unconditionally no matter what you are or do. Family is people who you can trust with everything without the feelings of judging. For example, if your going through rough time, you can talk to your family members about it so that they can give you advise or they can cheer you up! Family will share happiness and joy together and will help each other whenever they need support.

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A family is a group or more parents and their children living together as a unit. A family is very important because they can offer support and security coupled with unconditional love. They will always look to see and bring out the best in you even if you cannot see it for yourself. Our family will always be there for us and will always helps you overcome your problems. I learn how to be responsible and being honest. For example by being responsible, myself as an older sister i have to show good examples to my younger siblings and also help around the house when my parents are not around. Being honest is very important because we must have trust for each other. Always tell your family the truth even if u did something wrong. You can talk things out with them and solve the problem. Well sometimes i always said to myself that i love my mom more than my dad but really i treat them equally. Normally my family and I will gather around the dining table and we play some board games whenever my parents are not busy. It is really fun spending time with my family.

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Family is a the people you grow up around you, the people you spent time with and support each one another through tough times. Family is important to us because without their moral support their courage their hardwork we won’t be where we are today. Besides that family are the one you will look forward to talk when your friends are not there. Values I learn from my family is respect. Respecting one another is important because if we do not respect one another some things can happen. Another values is honesty. Honesty is very important because if your not honest when there is a problem in your family you won’t be able to solve it without honesty. There is no difference in how I treat different family members in my family because I treat them all equally and same because they are all humans and humans makes mistake. Normally I would go out with my family to eat at a restaurant or my family and I will go for a walk at the garden or do something interesting and fun.

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What are your thoughts and opinions on Singapore Greenplan 2030? What part do you think you can play towards achieving the targets?

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What do you feel about these latest measures?

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What do you feel about these latest measures?

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Post your thoughts, opinions and feelings regarding the latest measures below. Remember to write your name at the Subject.

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COVID-19: Singapore will remove group size limit and safe distancing requirement from Apr 26

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What is the message that you remember from this video?

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What is the message that you remember from this video?

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YOUR SELF RESPECT HAS TO BE STRONGER THAN YOUR FEELINGS - Motivational Speech

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Here are some examples of core values from which you may wish to choose:

Dependability

Reliability

Loyalty

Commitment

Open-mindedness

Consistency

Honesty

Efficiency

Innovation

Creativity

Good humor

Compassion

Spirit of adventure

Motivation

Positivity

Optimism

Passion

Respect

Fitness

Courage

Education

Perseverance

Patriotism

Service to others

Environmentalism

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Here are a list of values that you can use, if it is need.

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Here are a list of values that you can use, if it is need.

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Below is a list of core values commonly used by leadership institutes and programs. This list is not exhaustive, but it will give you an idea of some common core values (also called personal values). My recommendation is to select less than five core values to focus on-if everything is a core value, then nothing is really a priority.

Core Values List
Note: many of the personal values listed above came from a list I received while working with The LeaderShape Institute.
Integrity Reports

I use my core values to create my annual Integrity Reports. Writing these reports is a yearly ritual that forces me to think about how I am living out my core values in real life.

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Want to discover your core values? Browse this core values list to see more than 50 common personal values and beliefs.

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scientists discover a new snake and name it after salazar slytherin - cnn

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Scientists discover a new snake and name it after Salazar Slytherin

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The fictional world is colliding with the scientific one.

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OK, a lot of people don't like arachnids. But c'mon, these little guys are simply stunning.

Seven new peacock spiders have been described in the journal Zootaxa.

And just like their cousins in the Maratus genus, they all live in Australia and they all feature those amazing iridescent colours that the males will flaunt during courtship.

The man behind the descriptions is Museums Victoria's Joseph Schubert, a 22-year-old peacock spider specialist.

He's now written up 12 of the 85 known species in this group. He often gets sent specimens to identify, but also conducts fieldwork.

The names of the new species are Maratus azureus, Maratus constellatus, Maratus laurenae, Maratus noggerup, Maratus suae, Maratus volpei, and Maratus inaquosus. Most are from Western Australia,

"My favourite species would have to be Maratus constellatus," he said.

"I ventured all the way to Kalbarri to find this species which is about a seven-hour drive north of Perth. The patterns on the abdomen to me just look so much like Starry Night by van Gogh, hence the name constellatus which means starry in Latin.

"A few of the spiders in this paper were named after the people who had discovered them. A lot of the species are actually discovered by citizen scientists who'd documented the locality data and taken photos of the spiders and sent images to me. Considering how many peacock spider species have been discovered in the past few years, I certainly think that there are more out there to be found."

Peacock spiders are generally very small, about the size of a grain of rice. It's the males that sport the ostentatious colouring; females have a more mottled look made up of browns, blacks and beiges.

Males will wave their abdomens and legs during a courtship dance. Some even have flaps that can be extended like a fan - hence the association with peacock birds.

There has been a flurry of new species discoveries in recent years, and given their popularity it's likely many more previously unrecognised species will be identified in the future as people go looking for them.

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Peacock spiders show more of their colours

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OK, a lot of people don't like arachnids. But c'mon, these little guys are simply stunning. Seven new peacock spiders have been described in the journal Zootaxa. And just like their cousins in the Maratus genus, they all live in Australia and they all feature those amazing iridescent colours that the males will flaunt during courtship.

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moth is not disgusting oki (to some of y'all)

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As the balmy, orange autumn sun slides beyond the horizon each evening, an often overlooked spectacle begins to occur all around us.

For when the many animals, including ourselves, settle down for the night, a new cast of characters emerges, setting about their daily business.

It is simply incorrect to think that moths are boring, brown, jumper-munching pests

Not least the majority of the UK's 2,500 or so species of moths. Notice it's the majority, for there are some species that fly during the day. And that some is, in fact, many more than there are species of butterfly, with which they are often mistaken.

But having more species of day-flying moths than we have butterflies is just the beginning of a fascinating journey into the world of UK moths, all of which can be enjoyed by taking part in Moth Night.

Moth Night is an annual event organised by the charity Butterfly Conservation and Atropos, the UK butterfly and moth enthusiasts' journal, to encourage recording and raising awareness of these incredible winged insects.

"It is simply incorrect to think that moths are boring, brown, jumper-munching pests," says Dr Richard Fox, head of recording for Butterfly Conservation and avid moth enthusiast.

He says that many moths are very brightly coloured and have beautiful, intricate patterns on their wings. And some of the moths that fly at this time of year have wings with hues of yellows, oranges and even pinks to match the turning autumnal leaves.

"Moths are much more diverse, much more important in the environment and just as beautiful as butterflies," he says.

There's no doubt that moths are important to the ecosystem. As adults, many species visit flowers to drink nectar and in doing so aid plant pollination. And moths, particularly the young, are a major source of food for a wide range of predators.

For example, blue tits are moth caterpillar munching machines, whose chicks alone consume at least 35 billion moth caterpillars in Britain each year.

But moths aren't just sitting ducks and have a variety of amazing defences at their disposal, making them far more fascinating insects than their reputation, and place in the food chain, suggests.
More than meets the eye (and ear)
Moths are all around us, day and night, it's just we usually fail to see them. They often hide in plain sight, using extraordinary colours and patterns to blend in with their surroundings to look like things like tree bark, leaves or twigs in an attempt to avoid being eaten.

And many moths have 'ears' that can detect the echolocating hunting calls of bats, allowing them to take evasive action such as suddenly changing direction, performing aerial loops and spirals, even shutting their wings and plummeting earthwards to avoid being eaten.

There are even some species that can make their own squeaks to confuse or deter predatory bats. And these are not the only sounds moths make: like birds, some male moths are quite musical, producing ultrasonic calls as part of their courtship of the female.

But not only can moths hear, squeak and sing, they can also smell. Females produce scents, called pheromones, to attract males, who use their antennae to pick up this scent as it wafts on the air. Feathered antennae have a greater surface area, making them more sensitive - essential for many, as the amount of pheromone produced by the female is tiny and quickly becomes diluted in the open air. It's quite amazing to think that male emperor moths can home in on a female from a distance of up to five miles (8km) away.

Although not always obvious, some moths are capable of amazing feats of aerial precision. Take the remarkable hummingbird hawk-moth, it can beat its wings an astonishing 80 times per second. This allows for a precise hovering flight while drinking nectar and rapid, darting flights between flowers. The wing beats are so fast creating an audible hum but is sometimes too fast for the human eye to follow.

The middle of winter is not a time usually associated with moths and butterflies because most need a high internal body temperature in order to fly. A few species, such as the winter moth, are able to fly on freezing nights with body temperatures below zero degrees Celsius using very little energy.
Night of the moth
Most moths in this country are home grown, that is they live here all year. But a few are migrants, such as the silver Y, that arrive every year to breed and their offspring then leave for the return journey. However, most of the moths that arrive at this time of year are pushing the boundaries of their current ranges in the hope of establishing new colonies.

These migrant moths are, explains Dr Fox, "A normal part of our amazing native wildlife, just like other iconic migratory species such as red admiral butterflies, cuckoos, swallows, ospreys and basking sharks.

"The fact that they include such wonderful creatures as the hummingbird hawk-moth, the massive convolvulous hawk-moth, stunning crimson speckled or the sinister death's-head hawk-moth just adds to the interest of migratory moths," he says.

And moth migration is the theme for this year's Moth Night celebrations, focusing on sightings of the palm-sized convolvulus hawk-moth. With its 12cm wingspan, it is one of the largest moths in Europe so you'd expect they'd be easy to find but only a few hundred arrive in the UK each year, mainly during late summer and early autumn - so keep your eyes peeled.

By submitting your results, you'll be helping build up a picture of all our migrant moths and could reveal important information about the effects of climate change on UK moth populations. "Especially as our climate continues to warm, so the migrants of Moth Night 2015 may be resident species in the UK in 10 or 20 years' time," says Fox.

Over the last 15 years, around 40 species of immigrant moths have appeared in the UK for the first time, with a small number, such as the black-spotted chestnut, becoming established. Other species that were occasional migrants, like the sombre brocade, Blair's mocha, flame brocade and clifden nonpareil, are now established UK residents.

If you fancy exploring the fascinating world of moths for yourself then there are a few simple things you can do to attract moths to your garden. Migrant moths will come to moth-traps, but can also be attracted to hanging ropes soaked in wine and by painting a mixture of sugar, syrup and beer onto a post or tree trunk.

"Attending an event where local moth experts are running light traps is a fantastic way to discover the wonderful world of moths and Moth Night 2015 provides a perfect opportunity."

If you'd like to take part, Moth Night runs from 10 - 12 September and using #MothNight on social media.

You can follow Jeremy Coles and BBC Earth on Twitter.

Like BBC Earth on Facebook and follow us on Instagram.

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As the balmy, orange autumn sun slides beyond the horizon each evening, an often overlooked spectacle begins to occur all around us. For when the many animals, including ourselves, settle down for the night, a new cast of characters emerges, setting about their daily business.

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western ground snake a.k.a sonora semiannulata ; its harmless.

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Pyrenean Ibex

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Did you know that "Pyrenean Ibex" went Extinct twice

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A tigon or tiglon is the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion thus, it has parents with the same genus, but of different species. A pairing of a male lion with a female tiger is called a liger, also by portmanteau.

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The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid called the tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines.

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lets go back to the Cretaceous period :)

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lets go back to the Cretaceous period :)

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Dinasours :

dinasours lasted for 165 Million years back then , why did the dinasours extinct ? : it is because of the volcanic eruptions , climate change , sea level change and other impacts of changes .

here's my 2 fav Dinasours tht i've loved back when i was still a kid :

Sauropod and Tyrannosaurus
Sauropod : sauropod is so cute that their heads are small but they have long necks and tails !! yet they are in the largest group of dinasours. & they are harmless :)

Tyrannosaurus : i call it the Gangster dinasours as they're deadliest Dinasours in history , has long necks and heavy tail . they are powerful as an Elephant .

they all specifically under :
Carnivores.

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Scientists drilling off the coast of West Antarctica have found the fossil remains of forests that grew in the region 90 million years ago - in the time of the dinosaurs.
Their analysis of the material indicates the continent back then would have been as warm as parts of Europe are today but that global sea levels would have been over 100m higher than at present.

The research, led from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany, is published in the journal Nature.

It's emerged from an expedition in 2017 to recover marine sediments in Pine Island Bay.

AWI and its partners, including the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), used a novel cassette drill-mechanism called MeBo to extract core material some 30m under the seafloor.

When the team examined the sediments in the lab, it found traces of ancient soils and pollen and even tree roots.

Warning from 'Antarctica's last forests'

Deepest point on land found in Antarctica

Journey to the 'doomsday glacier'

The interpretation is that this sector of West Antarctica, in the geological period known as the Cretaceous, featured temperate rainforest and swamp conditions - the kind of vegetation you will find on New Zealand's South Island today.

"We have a really nice X-ray movie through the sediment core," said AWI's Prof Karsten Gohl, who spearheaded the expedition on Germany's Research Vessel Polarstern.

"It's like we've drilled into a modern swamp environment and you're seeing the living root system, small plant particles and pollen - but this is all preserved from 90 million years ago. It's amazing."

Modelling work suggests average annual temperatures in this Cretaceous environment would have been in the mid-teens Celsius; summer averages would have been in the 20s.

But the vegetation must have been pretty special because, being so far south, it would have had to endure three to four months of polar darkness.

The Nature paper's first author is AWI's Dr Johann Klages. "Probably these plants, they had a much more effective way of shutting down for a much longer amount of time and then come back successfully," he speculated.

"That was quite an interesting adaptation, which is not present right now on the planet, but which can evolve," he told BBC News.

Seeing the White Continent as we do today with its kilometres-thick ice covering, it's a challenge to the imagination to think of such productive conditions. But BAS director, Prof Jane Francis, says there have been several periods in Earth history when Antarctica's great glaciers were absent.

This study, she says, represents the first evidence for Cretaceous forests so close to the South Pole - just 900km away, at what would have been about 81-82 degrees South latitude.

"And, yes, there probably were dinosaurs in the forests," she explained. "If you go to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, you'll find a whole range of fossils - things like hadrosaurs and sauropods, and primitive bird-like dinosaurs. The whole range of dinosaurs that lived in the rest of the world managed to get down to Antarctica during the Cretaceous."

To sustain the warmth these animals and the forests enjoyed, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - must have been three or four times current levels. If today the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is just above 400 parts per million (ppm), back then the figure was certainly above 1,000ppm and maybe as high as 1,600ppm.

BAS co-author Dr Robert Larter commented: "The world was a different place in other ways that would have contributed to the climate differences at this time. In particular, the positions of continents and the patterns of ocean currents were different.

"However, there is no doubt that the biggest factor leading to such a warm climate was the extremely high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere at that time. It is worth noting that if the current rate of CO2 increase continues (44ppm increase over past 20 years), we will reach a CO2 level greater than 1,000ppm in less than 300 years."

The MeBo seafloor drilling system

"Meeresboden-Bohrgerät" is German for "seafloor drill rig"

It's lowered to the seabed with a specially designed cable

This also delivers power, and carries commands and video

An operator drives MeBo remotely from the deployment ship

System has a magazine of pipes to lengthen the drill string

Mebo can penetrate mud and rock to a depth of up to 80m

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

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'Dinosaurs walked through Antarctic rainforests'

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Scientists drilling off the coast of West Antarctica have found the fossil remains of forests that grew in the region 90 million years ago - in the time of the dinosaurs. Their analysis of the material indicates the continent back then would have been as warm as parts of Europe are today but that global sea levels would have been over 100m higher than at present.

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The fastest land animal is the cheetah, which has a recorded speed of between 109.4 km/h (68.0 mph) and 120.7 km/h (75.0 mph). The peregrine falcon is the fastest bird, and the fastest member of the animal kingdom, with a diving speed of 389 km/h (242 mph).

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Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes Dance in Flowers || ViralHog

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Size:

32 to 47 inches long

Size relative to a 6-foot human:

What is a lynx?

Lynxes are medium-size, solitary wildcats that roam the forests of North America, Europe, and Asia. While their name comes from a Greek word meaning " to shine "-because of their reflective eyes-their defining features are the prominent tufts of hair above their ears, and their short, stubby tails.

There are four species of lynx. The Eurasian and Iberian lynx are found in Western Europe and Central Asia, and were once thought to be the same species despite the smaller size of the Iberian lynx. The other two species-Canada lynx and bobcats-live in North America. Bobcats, or Lynx rufus, got their name from their short-or bobbed-tail. But even experts can sometimes struggle to tell them apart from the other species.

Appearance

Lynx are usually a light brown, red, rusty, or gray color with dark spots for camouflage. Their fur grows thicker in winter to keep them warm in cold climates.

They are recognizable by the pointed black tufts of hair at the ends of their ears, beard-like fur around their cheeks, long legs, and short, stubby tails with a black tip. Their tufted ears may function like antennae to help them hear, detect movement above their head, or simply to keep their ears warm-but scientists have yet to discover the exact reason.

(Read about an all-black Canada lynx seen for the first time ever.)

Lynx bodies are adapted for life in deep snow. Their long legs help them move through the thick powder and their large, webbed paws have hair underneath to keep them warm and stop them slipping. Those paws hit the ground with a spreading toe motion to help the animal walk on top of the snow, forming the perfect snowshoe.

Bobcats, however, don't need to travel through thick snow in search of snowshoe hares, so they have smaller feet without hairy soles. You can also tell the bobcat by the smaller tufts on its ears, and the white underside of its tail.

Diet and population

Lynx are skilled hunters due to their great hearing and eyesight so strong that they can spot a mouse 250 feet away.

They tend to live in dense forests where there is plenty of cover to ambush their prey. Lynx aren't able to keep up the chase over long distances so once they've spotted their prey they'll silently stalk it until the perfect moment. Pouncing, they grasp their victim with their front claws and kill it with a bite to the throat.

These stealthy cats avoid humans and hunt at night, so they are rarely seen. They usually target one primary prey. For Canada lynx, that's the snowshoe hare and for the Iberian lynx, it's the European rabbit. Meanwhile, bobcats have a more varied diet of rabbits, hares, rodents, and sometimes birds, while the larger Eurasian lynx hunts deer and other small animals.

(Lynx take epic 2,000-mile treks-but why is a mystery.)

Lynx have also been known to kill farm animals, such as sheep and goats, particularly when the livestock is left to graze near the edge of a forest. In Norway, the government compensates farmers for the 10,000 or so sheep that are lost to lynx each year.

Reproduction

Lynx are largely solitary animals that make dens under fallen trees, in dense vegetation, or in abandoned burrows.

During mating season-which takes place at the end of the winter or in early spring-females will only breed with one male. Rival males will screech at each other as they fight over the female. About two months after mating, females give birth to a litter of between one and four kittens that she will raise herself with no involvement from the male.

(Out of the shadows, these are the wildcats you've never seen.)

By using camera traps and tagging kittens, researchers have learned that young lynx become independent at 10 months of age and head out to find their own territories after 20 months. Females have smaller territories than males and don't stray as far from home, and there are some reports of mother-daughter pairs hunting together. Once a young lynx has established its own territory, it is ready to reproduce.

Threats to survival

The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Iberian lynx as endangered, while the Eurasian and Canada lynx and the bobcat are classified as of least concern. They are threatened by the loss and fragmentation of their habitats, humans who trap them for their valuable fur, and issues affecting their prey, such as disease and climate change.

Conservation and reintroduction efforts have proven successful in reversing the decline of the species. For example, the Eurasian lynx has been successfully reintroduced across Europe in countries including France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Iberian lynx has grown tenfold across Spain and Portugal.

(Here's how the Iberian lynx became the biggest comeback in cat conservation.)

However, these are not without their challenges. The reintroduction of three pairs of Eurasian lynx to Croatia in 1973, 70 years after the last native animal was lost, seemed successful at first. But the population suffered from inbreeding, and there are now new projects aiming to add genetic diversity into the population by introducing new members.

Editor's note: This story was originally published on April 11, 2010. It has been updated.

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In the coldest parts of the world, insulation is essential for survival.

One way is to have a good thick layer of blubber under your skin. But anyone that's seen a walrus flopping across the beach knows that fat can have its downsides. To stay both warm and agile, fat won't do.

The Arctic fox can withstand polar winters, surviving long periods below -20 °C (-4 °F), thanks to some incredible adaptations.

One of the most distinctive is its fluffy coat, which changes colour from brown to white and grows longer for the bleakest season. In certain areas it can double in length; on its underside the longer fur helps insulate the fox from the cold ground when it sits or lies down and even the soles of its feet are furry.

When it curls into a ball, nose tucked under its tail, only the thickest fur is exposed to the elements.

"The winter-time coat ranges between 45-60mm [long], but offers a very high thermal insulation compared to its length," says Stephen Midgley of the Arctic Fox Center in Súðavík, Iceland.

Air is a good insulator because it's not very dense, so heat only moves through it slowly

"Altogether the arctic fox can tolerate very low temperatures of -70 °C. It always surprises you just how thin they really are when you pick them up and all the fur compresses against their little bodies."

The reason this coat can protect the fox from such extreme cold, despite being only a few inches thick, is down to its structure.

Beneath the longer outer hairs is a softer, denser layer that accounts for 70% of the fur. This traps a layer of air next to the skin. Air is a good insulator because it's not very dense, so heat only moves through it slowly.

Many polar specialists use this trick.

Human explorers wear down jackets, filled either with the insulating feathers of geese or an artificial fibre that mimics them.

You wouldn't describe a sheep as furry

The muskox native to Greenland and the Canadian Arctic grows its own sweater. The fur closest to its skin is known as qiviut. Like that of the Arctic fox, it grows for winter and is shed when temperatures warm up in the spring.

An adult muskox can shed up to 3.5kg (8 lb) of this underfur, which can be spun to make what many consider the warmest wool in the world. The long guard hairs can reach the ground on older animals, meaning their shaggy coat can be over 1m (3ft) long in places.

Still, the idea that they are the furriest animals on Earth won't satisfy most people. First, we have to agree what fur is.

Even if you've embraced the hipster beard phenomenon, you probably don't consider yourself furry. Likewise, you wouldn't describe a sheep as furry. Yet fur, hair and wool are chemically the same thing: a fibrous protein known as keratin that animals also use to make quills, nails, hooves and horns.

The furriest creatures either have a lot of follicles or grow multiple hairs from each one

It is human language that makes distinctions between these structures.

The commonly-held notion is that fur is soft, thick and relatively short. Wool is similarly dense but each strand is fine and grows longer.

Meanwhile, hair is more likely to be sparse and coarse, and can grow staggeringly long. The current world record holder for the longest hair is Xie Qiuping of China, whose 5.62m (18.43ft) of hair is almost as long as a giraffe is tall.

Whatever you call it, the stuff all grows from specialised cavities in the skin called follicles. The furriest creatures either have a lot of follicles or grow multiple hairs from each one.

Chinchillas are rodents that live at elevations of 3,000-5,000m (9,800-16,400ft) in the Andes Mountains of South America.

Sea otters in the north Pacific were hunted to near-extinction

To survive in the bitter cold, they have very dense fur. They achieve this by growing more than 50 fine hairs from each follicle. Their fur is considered to be the softest in the world.

This has not escaped the attention of hunters. Both the short-tailed and long-tailed chinchilla are classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to severe hunting since the 19th century.

Otters have also come perilously close to extinction due to their pelts. Their thick coats are especially adapted to their semi-aquatic lifestyle.

Again, they have two layers of fur: an inner insulating layer protected by waterproof guard hairs. This prevents water from making contact with their skin and leaching away heat.

Clearly, the sea otter is the furriest creature on Earth

The combination of warmth and waterproofing is exactly what made otter pelts so sought after. Sea otters in the north Pacific were hunted to near-extinction: there were just 2000 left in the wild when the commercial trade in their fur was banned in 1911.

In a 2010 paper, researchers compared the hair densities of Eurasian otters and sea otters. They found that Eurasian otters have up to 80,000 hairs per square centimetre of skin, while sea otters have an astonishing 140,000 hairs per sq cm.

By comparison, Arctic foxes and chinchillas both have 20,000 hairs per sq cm, and a muskox has just 420 per sq cm. Clearly, the sea otter is the furriest creature on Earth.

Why the sea otter? It all comes down to family history and environment.

All marine mammals keep warm with a layer of blubber under their skin, except sea otters.

That is because sea otters belong to a family called the Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, weasels and wolverines. Compared to other marine mammals, they are relative newcomers to life at sea, so rather than evolving a layer of blubber independently they have adapted their existing fur.

This forces them to keep their coats in top condition. Dirt can compromise the waterproofing of their fur, affecting both their body temperature and buoyancy.

To ensure that this doesn't happen, adult sea otters groom and fluff air into the fur of pups to keep them afloat.

When conservationists try to rehabilitate rescued pups, they have to take over this job. They spend hours a day brushing the coats of fluffy babies until they are sea-worthy. Fortunately the pups are already squee-worthy.

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In the coldest parts of the world, insulation is essential for survival. One way is to have a good thick layer of blubber under your skin. But anyone that's seen a walrus flopping across the beach knows that fat can have its downsides. To stay both warm and agile, fat won't do.

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If you try to imagine a speedy predator, you might envision the muscular body of a cheetah at full sprint, or the aerodynamic pose of a peregrine falcon dive-bombing a pigeon. Both are marvels of evolution, optimised over countless generations to push against the boundaries of speed and acceleration. They move their relatively large bodies at mind-boggling speeds.

But there is another class of speedy predator: one that channels all of its power into moving just one or a handful of specific body parts, while the rest of the animal remains virtually motionless. By doing so, these predators have moved beyond the acceleration rates of the swiftest cat or bird. Far, far beyond.

Take the smashing mantis shrimp. The attacks it performs with its club-like mouthparts are so fast, and so brief, that their exact speed went unappreciated by scientists until about 15 years ago - when our high-speed camera technology finally caught up.

When those acceleration rates were formally clocked, they were breathtaking: thousands of times faster than anything previously seen in nature.

And what does the mantis shrimp do with its astonishingly quick weapons? It uses them to attack an animal virtually synonymous with sluggishness: a snail.

"It's super counterintuitive," says Sheila Patek at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "It's changing what biologists think speed and acceleration are actually for."

Mammals and birds are out-accelerated by animals that generally lack a reputation for speed

This is the world of super-fast acceleration: a world in which things do not always make immediate sense.

We can probably all accept that humans are not the swiftest members of the animal kingdom. But many of our closest relatives, the mammals, are capable of astonishing speeds and accelerations. So, for that matter, are many birds.

It probably helps that mammals and birds can control their body temperature. Even on a chilly morning, these animals can keep their muscles relatively warm, which means those muscles can respond quickly to provide a sharp burst of speed. So if any four-limbed animal is capable of super-fast acceleration, it seems like it would make sense for it to be one of these furry or feathered species.

But this is not so.

In fact, mammals and birds are out-accelerated by animals that generally lack a reputation for speed: reptiles and amphibians.

The extent to which the acceleration was higher was unexpected

A tiny reptile called the rosette-nosed chameleon holds the current record among the amniotes: that is, animals that give birth on land, meaning reptiles, birds and mammals. It can flick out its tongue so rapidly that it briefly accelerates at 2,590m/s/s - about 170 times faster than the 15m/s/s maximum acceleration of the cheetah or the peregrine falcon.

Christopher Anderson, now at the University of South Dakota, published this extraordinary finding in January 2016.

Anderson knew that many chameleons can accelerate their tongues at rates exceeding 500m/s/s to catch flies and other insects. But he also knew that biologists had tended to study larger chameleons with a body length - not including the tail - of at least 10cm. These species are easier to handle.

However, many chameleons are much smaller than that, including the 5cm-long rosette-nosed chameleon. These chameleons feed in the same way as their larger cousins, by flicking out their tongue.

Muscle simply cannot accelerate at these astonishing rates

In a 2012 study, Anderson had shown that the muscles controlling the tongue are larger, relative to body size, in small chameleons than in big ones. This suggested that small chameleons should be capable of greater tongue accelerations than larger species.

His hunch proved correct, although the 2,590m/s/s figure he calculated still came as a surprise. "The extent to which the acceleration was higher was unexpected," he says.

Although it is the rosette-nosed chameleon's relatively large muscles that help it outcompete other species, the real secret to its accelerating tongue - and, in fact, the secret to super-fast acceleration in general - lies elsewhere.

Muscle simply cannot accelerate at these astonishing rates. No matter how finely-tuned or powerful a muscle is, it can never contract quickly enough.

Apart from human technology like catapults, elastic structures are rarely used in our corner of the animal kingdom

However, a contracting muscle can instead stretch an elastic structure and hold it in a stretched state - or, better still, keep it stretched with some sort of latch. When the latch is released, the elastic structure snaps back into its normal length. This releases energy so explosively that a small and lightweight structure, like the chameleon's tongue, can be accelerated at a tremendous rate.

This means that understanding super-fast acceleration means identifying those elastic structures, and the latches that keep them stretched tight and ready to release. In the case of the chameleon, it appears to be elastic fibres in the tongue itself that help it to unfurl so rapidly.

In theory, mammals could also benefit from these elasticated weapons. But apart from human technology like catapults, elastic structures are rarely used in our corner of the animal kingdom. It is only reptiles and amphibians that have evolved them. For instance, some salamanders can accelerate their tongues at almost 4,500m/s/s.

Why are these animals, but not mammals and birds, optimised for this sort of super-fast attack?

Anderson, working with his colleague Stephen Deban of the University of South Florida in Tampa, has devised an explanation. Paradoxically, it might be precisely because reptiles and amphibians are sometimes slow and sluggish that they have become kings of acceleration.

Chameleons and salamanders might have evolved to be super-fast because of their tendency to be super-slow

Because mammals and birds keep their muscles warm enough to work efficiently no matter the ambient temperature, they rarely experience any shortfall in performance. A predatory mammal can chase down its prey in the cool of dawn or on a warm afternoon.

Reptiles and amphibians do not have this luxury. If the ambient temperature is cold, their muscles are generally cold, stiff and slow to respond.

Elastic structures offer these animals a way to catch a meal even when their muscles are cold. These elastic structures show less of a drop in performance with temperature than muscles do. Anderson and Deban think that might be why so many "ectotherms" - animals that do not control their body temperature - have evolved them.

The idea suggests that chameleons and salamanders might have evolved to be super-fast because of their tendency to be super-slow.

"I think their hypothesis is a good one," says Patek. "Chris and Steve's papers have shown beautifully that this is a great way to circumvent temperature dependence of motion."

The temperature in that tiny volume of water briefly rises to levels normally associated with the surface of the Sun

Patek's interest in super-fast acceleration began over a decade ago while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in Berkeley. There she began studying the way some species of mantis shrimp use their club-like mouth parts to repeatedly thump marine snails into submission, smashing open the hard shells to feed on the soft tissue within.

However, the research was difficult, because each smashing mantis shrimp attack unfolded far too quickly to be visible to the naked eye.

The turning point came when a BBC film crew with a high-speed camera offered to rent the equipment to Patek and her colleagues. "That made it possible to see these movements for the first time," says Patek. "It opened up the next 12 years or so of research."

Those first measurements, taken at 5,000 frames per second, showed that peacock mantis shrimps could accelerate their clubs at an eye-popping 104,000m/s/s; comfortably 20 times as fast as any amphibian or reptile.

The peacock mantis shrimps accelerate their clubs so rapidly, they generate an area of unusually low pressure in the water. This encourages the formation of vapour bubbles. Those bubbles quickly collapse again, but when they do they release a massive amount of energy in the form of heat. The temperature in that tiny volume of water briefly rises to levels normally associated with the surface of the Sun.

Maybe plenty of animals achieve these super-fast accelerations

The poor snail finds itself facing a double-whammy: the impact of the shrimp's club itself, and a super-hot shockwave.

Back in 2004, when Patek and her colleagues published their findings on peacock mantis shrimp, the acceleration they had documented was a world record. The elastic spring in the shrimp's exoskeleton could trigger extreme accelerations that no other creature seemed capable of matching.

A key feature behind the shrimp's accelerative prowess was a tiny saddle-shaped spring in its exoskeleton: a spring similar in appearance to those used in some engineering applications. Such springs distribute stress in three dimensions to reduce the chance of failure.

But why would one shrimp stand head and shoulders above all other animals when it comes to accelerating?

There were a few potential answers to the question.

Two vicious-looking pincers are held open in a pose that is ominously reminiscent of an old-fashioned mantrap

Most obviously, perhaps the shrimp is not terribly unusual. Maybe plenty of animals achieve these super-fast accelerations. But because they are so fast, and so likely to involve small structures, they have simply gone unnoticed by biologists.

To some extent this seems to be true. Equipped with their state-of-the-art recording equipment, Patek and her colleagues began hunting for other examples of super-fast acceleration, and within a couple of years they came across insects that can comfortably beat the peacock mantis shrimp's record.

But the way these insects harness their abilities also hints at a fundamental problem with super-fast acceleration: one that might reduce its likelihood of evolving.

Trap-jaw ants live in the tropics. As their name implies, they have an unusual set of jaws.

They also turn their power on their own bodies

Two vicious-looking pincers are held open in a pose that is ominously reminiscent of an old-fashioned mantrap. The comparison is apt, given that the ant can release an elastic structure in its head to snap those jaws shut on its prey.

Like the mantis shrimp, the trap-jaw ant hauls open its jaws using muscle power, stretching elastic structures in its head in the process. When that elastic energy is released the jaws shut.

Perhaps partly because those jaws are operating in air rather than water, and so meet less resistance, they accelerate faster than mantis shrimp clubs. They reach a peak acceleration in the order of 1,000,000m/s2: ten times greater than the shrimp.

The trap-jaw ants have found an intriguing use for their powers of acceleration. As well as snapping their jaws shut on small insects to stun or kill them, they also turn their power on their own bodies.

By carefully orientating its body just before triggering its jaws, a trap-jaw ant can ensure that its jaws strike the ground just as they snap shut. This sends the ant's head whiplashing upwards with such force that it is launched off the ground and cartwheels through the air.

Paradoxically, super-fast weapons are very slow

The ants use these inelegant leaps to quickly dodge out of the way of a predator. As it happens they are a favourite food of reptiles armed with elastically-powered super-fast tongues - but the ants can accelerate far faster than the reptiles' tongues.

Patek and her colleagues speculate that this behaviour might have come about by accident. What is now a useful escape mechanism might have begun as an inconvenient side-effect of running around armed with a potent weapon.

In other words, super-fast weapons might be difficult to control, and that could reduce their likelihood of evolving.

There is another factor that might explain why super-fast acceleration appears to be rare in the animal kingdom. Paradoxically, super-fast weapons are very slow.

After their study of the peacock mantis shrimp, Patek and her colleagues decided to turn their attention to a related group that had the potential to achieve even great accelerations.

I truly expected the fish-catching mantis shrimp to be faster

Spearing mantis shrimp such as the zebra mantis shrimp have mouthparts shaped like tiny, hydrodynamic javelins, rather than fat clubs. They use these sharp javelins to pierce the flesh of passing fish, which they then eat.

Fish can clearly outpace snails, so logic would suggest that spearing mantis shrimp accelerate their streamlined weapons at rates that far outpace anything seen in smashing mantis shrimp. But they do not. In a 2012 study, Patek and her colleagues discovered that spearing mantis shrimps achieve peak acceleration rates about 100 times lower than their smashing shrimp cousins.

"I truly expected the fish-catching mantis shrimp to be faster," says Patek. "That's the paradigm we all work with. Why be fast? So that you can chase after fast prey."

The mantis shrimp flipped that accepted wisdom on its head. Slower shrimps target fast prey, while faster shrimps target slow prey.

"Clearly being fast helps a cheetah catch fast prey," says Patek. "But when you leap up to these much higher accelerations, these animals are doing something else entirely."

It scuttles over to the snail, slowly primes its weapon, then lets rip with a truly super-fast acceleration

She now thinks she has worked out what is going on. Using muscle power to stretch an elastic structure takes time and effort, and the more elastic energy you want to store, the greater that initial expenditure. Similarly, we find it quick and easy to draw the string on a child's toy bow, but pulling back the string on a full-size longbow takes more muscle power and more time.

Mantis shrimp have also come up against this problem, Patek thinks, and have had to make trade-offs.

A spearing shrimp must react quickly when a fish swims near enough to become a target. It needs a weapon that can be primed and fired quickly. So spearing shrimps have sacrificed one kind of speed for another, ditching speed of weapon acceleration for speed of weapon priming.

In contrast, a smashing mantis shrimp does not have this problem. If it spots a tasty-looking snail it can take its time. It scuttles over to the snail, slowly primes its weapon, then lets rip with a truly super-fast acceleration. " It takes a lot of time to be ultrafast," Patek has written.

But when circumstances allow an animal to become super-fast, the rewards can be enormous.

The force of a blow is determined by both the mass of the weapon and its acceleration. A tiny mantis shrimp cannot evolve a particularly massive weapon, but by accelerating the small weapon it has at 100,000m/s/s, it can achieve an astonishingly powerful impact.

The harpoon can reach peak accelerations of about 50,000,000m/s/s

"I have this chart I show in my lectures now which shows the peak force of a mantis shrimp, which is an animal that's about three or four orders of magnitude smaller in body mass than an alligator," says Patek. "But its peak force is right in line with the alligator's jaw. It's just an alternative mechanism for fracturing or puncturing prey, and in the mantis shrimp's case it means it can eat a far larger snail than it could if it were using its jaws to break open the snail."

However, it is not clear whether or not this "you have to be slow to be fast" idea plays out in all circumstance. Impressive though they are, the 1,000,000m/s/s accelerations achieved by trap-jaw ants are no longer world-beating.

Their record has been blown out of the water by the humble jellyfish.

The stinging cells or "nematocysts" that can make jellyfish so dangerous are yet another super-fast structure, built on the principle of elastic energy storage.

Jellyfish are not constrained to attack only slow-moving prey with their ultrafast weapons

The jellyfish allow water to flow into their nematocysts, causing them to swell up like tiny balloons. The nematocyst walls contain elastic proteins that stretch as the cells expand.

When the cell is triggered and that elastic energy is released, a microscopic harpoon-like structure shoots out of the nematocyst. The harpoon can reach peak accelerations of about 50,000,000m/s/s: 50 times the peak trap-jaw ant acceleration.

"I am not aware of any faster process on the cellular level," says Thomas Holstein of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, who helped make those measurements.

Unlike mantis shrimp, jellyfish are not constrained to attack only slow-moving prey with their ultrafast weapons. A fast-swimming fish or shrimp is just as likely to be stung.

"Patek's hypothesis doesn't apply for nematocysts," says Holstein. "They are weapons designed for extremely rapid action in order to hit rapidly-moving targets."

Perhaps that is in part because jellyfish are armed with battalions of nematocysts, rather than carrying a single super-fast weapon. Even if one nematocyst fails to hit a fast-moving target, there are dozens more primed and ready to fire. It might be the ultimate ultra-fast weapon.

I am not aware of any faster process on the cellular level

What makes this all the more astonishing is the fact that the cnidarians, the group of animals that includes jellyfish, is one of the most ancient on Earth. Jellyfish have been a feature of the oceans for over half a billion years. Given that nematocysts are a defining feature of the group, they might have been achieving super-fast accelerations for much of that time.

"This stuff has been around a really, really long time," says Patek. It has just taken time for us to develop the technology to appreciate it.

We can only imagine what secrets remain locked away in the world of super-fast acceleration. But, in a realm where fast is slow, there is a good chance that future discoveries will be every bit as counter-intuitive as those we have already made.
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My hobby is to play sepak takraw. I love to play sepak takraw because it is fun when u can play with ur friends. I started to fall inlove with this sport when i was in Kindergarten when my brother introduce the sepak takraw ball to me. During primary school,my cca is Sepak Takraw.I felt honoured to represent the Sepak Takraw team in my primary school as a captain.I felt so happy when my team won in the National School Games in 2015 as a champion. I still love to play sepak takraw now because of the stunts/skills they make to strike.

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my hobby is to play skateboard && guitar 😔🖤 .  why skateboard ? it is bcs of my brothers , i was grew up being a shadow of my brothers as i am close w them , my brothers been in a local competition , and they've won couple of times , yet skateboardding is v risky , with those deadliest tricks and may cause fractures or even we cn die bcs of it ! . Guitar , my dad was in a rock band bck then when im still haven't existed yet , my dad was a bassist , guitarist and singer , back when 1992 we used to have our own Recording Studio , right after i born which is arnd 2006 , my dad stopped w his musician things as he told me he wanted to focus on me because im the only girl in the family ;) . so i learned to play Bass guitar first then the Acoustic guitar , so without my father and my 2nd brother , i guess until now i dont know what the hell is Guitar. fun fact: my 2nd brother was in an indie-rock band too .

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family is the one that is the most most important to us in our life and without them we wont be having fun with them knowing how funny is them and family is also the one that who will always support us no matter they agree or disagree and family time will always make us bond more as we always spend our time in studies/work. and i love my family veryy much :)

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Family are people who are related to us by birth or relatives. Family gives us moral support. Family is everything. No. I usually spend time with them by doing my hobbies together with them.

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family is where you can share all your problems and what you feel about yourself to them . they are your trusted friends which you can depend on when you feeling low .

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Family is someone who is important to us , without them we will not even be here in the world. Family is also the one who support us and taking care of us and making sure that we are happy. They are the one who love us too

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Family is defined as a specific group of people that may be made up of partners, children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.

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Family is someone you can turn to when you’re having problems and difficulties :)

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Families provide a setting for personal growth. They are the only one who will be our guide forever

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family is the one that is taking care of you and without them you wont even be born :)

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Family will be by your side no matter what. Family will also give you all the care and support. They will encourage us.They will also love you no matter what.

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Family members encourage us and give moral support. They love you no matter who you are

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family will motivate u and encourage u

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family gives fullest support and love , u will feel secure with people around u , whom you can always count on .

so please , love ur family bfore its too late

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Let's use this column to share with each other what we know about family. There are many areas that we can explore about this topic. Mainly
1) What is a family?
2) Why is a family important to us?
3) What values do you learn from your family?
4) Is there a difference in how you treat the different members of your family?
5) What do you normally do with your family?

Take a look at the video here and hear what some little children have to say about family.

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What is family? (with subtitles and audio description)

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what happen when u abandoned alot of plastics.

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ozone a.k.a O3 , is an active gas by three oxygen atoms. it occurs to be natural and a man-made in the earth's upper atmosphere ; stratosphere , lower ; trosposphere. ozone affects like on earth in either good or bad ways.

stratosphere:
is the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere
troposphere:
the lowest region of the atmosphere.

but why isit ozone is so important ??:
so far as i know that , ozone is a gas in the atmosphere tht protects every living thing on the earth from UV a.k.a ultraviolet rays from the sun. so , the ozone layer acts as a shield to absorb the UV rays and by keeping them frm doing damage at the earth's surface.

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The world has some good news to look forward to amid the novel coronavirus outbreak: a hole in the ozone layer is in recovery.

According to New Scientist, a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has continued to recover, leading to changes in atmospheric circulation.

The ongoing recovery has, according to ScienceAlert, stopped many dangerous changes in the Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere.

In the late 1980s, ozone depletion was driving southern air currents further south, causing a change in rainfall patterns and ocean currents, the publication reports.

The changes suggest the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned the production of ozone-depleting substances, is finally working.

New satellite observations and climate simulations, shared in a Science Daily research paper on Wednesday, show that the changing wind patterns have led to the ozone layer's recovery, according to Antara Banerjee of the University of Colorado Boulder and her colleagues.

Banerjee added that the ozone layer is expected to fully recover to 1980s levels by the 2030s in the Northern Hemisphere and by the 2050s in the Southern Hemisphere. The particular Antarctic hole in question is expected to recover by the 2060s.

'Many investigations' taking place in China about animal-source of novel coronavirus

New Scientist points out that ozone-depleting substances have a long lifetime, meaning full recovery of the ozone layer won't happen for another few decades.
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This news isn't intrinsically connected to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent halting of harmful industry practices, but some positive environmental impacts have occurred because of the worldwide decrease in emissions.

In an attempt to slow the rapid spread of COVID-19, economic activity has been hugely limited, resulting in a decline in CO2 emissions, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.

In a statement, the WMO said cuts in emissions don't mean the world must stop its fight against climate change.

A study conducted by Severe Weather Europe says the world typically sees an increase in CO2 emissions in the colder months in the Northern Hemisphere. However, this year has been different.

"We are noticing an interesting development, as the CO2 levels are currently increasing at a much slower rate than expected," the study's authors wrote.

"Looking at the last 12 months of CO2 data from Mauna Loa observatory (in Hawaii), we can see the CO2 rise last year and this season, which shows slower growth than expected."

On Twitter, Kris Karnauskas, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, suggested the lower emissions could be linked to reduced economic activity amid the pandemic but cautioned that this was not certain.

"I'm not certain this is caused by #COVID19 but there have only been two years since 1975 when CO2 rose less since the first of the year," Karnauskas wrote.

Countries practising extreme lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like Italy and China, have seen a drastic decline in air pollution.

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Questions about COVID-19? Here are some things you need to know:
Health officials caution against all international travel. Returning travellers are legally obligated to self-isolate for 14 days, beginning March 26, in case they develop symptoms and to prevent spreading the virus to others. Some provinces and territories have also implemented additional recommendations or enforcement measures to ensure those returning to the area self-isolate.

Symptoms can include fever, cough and difficulty breathing - very similar to a cold or flu. Some people can develop a more severe illness. People most at risk of this include older adults and people with severe chronic medical conditions like heart, lung or kidney disease. If you develop symptoms, contact public health authorities.

To prevent the virus from spreading, experts recommend frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. They also recommend minimizing contact with others, staying home as much as possible and maintaining a distance of two metres from other people if you go out.

For full COVID-19 coverage from Global News, click here.

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meaghan.wray@globalnews.ca

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Ozone layer repairing, redirecting wind flows, new study says

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The world has some good news to look forward to amid the novel coronavirus outbreak: a hole in the ozone layer is in recovery. According to New Scientist, a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has continued to recover, leading to changes in atmospheric circulation.

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Please have a look at this video guys. It's about how the irresponsible use of plastic and Styrofoam is affecting the oceans and a what a group of children in Hawaii are doing to make things better.

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Kids Take Action Against Ocean Plastic | Short Film Showcase

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we need to save environment so that we dont have global warming. we need to use the 3Rs to save the nature . Also by that all the wild animals and the marine world can lived without anything that make them suffer

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Personally i think the environment is getting better from before as some countries are experiencing lockdown.

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environment is very important to us because we get water,power and oxygen from the environment it also help to clear pollution and it also a large habitat for animals

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mother nature needs to be taken care by all of us , climate changes it is bcs of us , we all are suppose to play our part by not to litter arnd and burn unnecessarily.

environment : it can be biotic and abiotic & it includes physical , chemical , e.t.c

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Lets explore as much as we can about our environment. Mainly about the air, land and sea on planet earth.
I found this video about the environment. Its in easy English and has some good vocabulary that is good for us to remember when talking about the environment.

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Latest Development on Covid-19 measures: Phase 2!

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Latest Development on Covid-19 measures: Phase 2!

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After reading the article, please comment on how you feel about Phase 2 starting on 19 June.

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SINGAPORE - Singapore moves into phase two of reopening the economy on Friday (June 19).

Businesses are putting in place safety measures and making adjustments as they get ready to welcome customers, and government service centres and libraries are among the public facilities set to reopen progressively.

"Phase two is a significant step in moving towards a new 'Covid-19-safe' normal," said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.

From eateries and retail shops to tuition centres and sports facilities, here's all you need to know about phase two from June 19 and what you can do to stay safe.

Phase 2 of Singapore's reopening: What you can do from June 19

Most businesses and social activities will be allowed to resume from Friday. The announcement comes about two weeks after phase one started on June 2.

Under phase two, retail outlets will be allowed to reopen with safe distancing measures in place, and food and beverage (F&B) dine-in will also be allowed, although there must not be more than five diners per table.

Find out what other activities will be able to resume.
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Dining in, shopping, swimming and more: How safe are these activities as Singapore enters phase 2?

With phase two of reopening due to start in two days, a range of restrictions will be eased, and the new default approach is for most activities to be allowed to resume. But this comes with some risks.

The risk of any activity is tied to how it is conducted, experts say. To gauge whether something is safe, factors to keep in mind include: crowds, close contact and enclosed spaces; communication; cleanliness; and the duration of an activity and diversity of contacts.
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Government service centres, libraries among more public facilities to reopen progressively in phase 2

More public spaces will progressively be made accessible again, including public libraries, various government service centres and common areas in public housing estates such as playgrounds and fitness corners.

However, programmes and activities which require physical presence will resume in small groups with reduced density, intensity and duration.
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No more food sampling or product testing: What to expect when retail outlets reopen in phase 2

Retail establishments, which will be allowed to open physical stores on Friday (June 19), will have to adhere to strict safety measures including occupancy limits, frequent cleaning and disinfection of common areas, and implementation of the Government's visitor check-in system SafeEntry.

Enterprise Singapore (ESG), the Housing Board (HDB), Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released a joint advisory for retail establishments and lifestyle-related services on Tuesday detailing the guidelines and rules that business will have to follow.
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Seating arrangements at hawker centres to change to align with phase 2 dine-in measures

Seating arrangements at hawker centres will be changed to accommodate the new safe distancing measures for dine-in during phase two of the post-circuit breaker, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Tuesday (June 16).

The Government announced on Monday that dining in at food and beverage outlets, including at hawker centres, will be allowed from Friday, subject to safe distancing principles during this new phase.
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Many restaurants to resume dine-in on June 19, but some caught unawares by phase 2 announcement

Many eateries say they are ready to seat diners again on Friday (June 19 ) after a thorough cleaning of their premises.

Restaurateur Karen Cheng said all her three Japanese outlets - Sushi Kimura in Palais Renaissance, Ichigo Ichie in Robertson Quay and The Gyu Bar in Stevens Road - will be open for dine-in.
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Tuition and enrichment centres to cut class sizes and tweak lesson schedules

Tuition and other private enrichment centres will implement additional safety measures, including reducing class sizes and rescheduling some lessons, before they are allowed to resume operating from Friday as Singapore moves to phase two of reopening.

Private or home-based tuition, and piano, dance and drama lessons are examples of classes that can resume with the reopening. Singing or voice training classes will not be allowed.
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Increased safety measures at sports facilities as demand surges

Sports facilities here are enhancing safety measures and hygiene protocols in preparation for reopening on Friday (June 19).

These venues, which include stadiums, swimming complexes, sports halls, hard courts, gyms, fitness studios and bowling centres, were on Monday given the green light to reopen in two days. This also applies to those located in condominiums, golf and country clubs.
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CCAs to resume gradually in schools, group activities of up to 5 students for PE lessons

Schools will try to restart CCAs that can be conducted by coaches, instructors or CCA teachers through digital means. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG

More school activities, including co-curricular activities (CCAs), will be allowed to resume as students from all levels will return to school daily from June 29.

CCAs will resume in stages as they are "essential elements of school experiences", said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in a statement on Wednesday (June 17).

The ministry said that schools will try to restart CCAs that can be conducted by coaches, instructors or CCA teachers through digital means. These include dance, computer programming, art and robotics.
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MOM says maids can soon spend their rest days outside but should do so on a weekday

While maids can spend their rest days outside, they should seek the consent of their employers to do so on a weekday. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

As Singapore enters phase two of its reopening on Friday (June 19), domestic workers can once again meet up with their friends outside their place of residence.

But there are strict conditions, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Wednesday.

While they can spend their rest days outside, they should seek the consent of their employers to do so on a weekday, when public spaces are less crowded.
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One visitor a day for nursing home residents allowed in phase 2; some activities for seniors to resume

Nursing home residents will be allowed to have one visitor a day for up to 30 minutes from Friday (June 19), when the second phase of reopening the economy starts.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced the details in a statement on Wednesday spelling out various measures to support seniors, such as the resumption of senior-centric activities and daycare services at most senior care centres and active ageing hubs.

The ministry said each nursing home resident will be allowed a maximum of two designated visitors to minimise the risk of infection within the nursing homes, though only one can visit each day.
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Ikea to reopen on June 19 but fans of the store's meatballs have to wait a bit longer

While those looking to furnish their homes will be able to visit Swedish retailer Ikea come Friday (June 19), fans of the store's meatballs will have to wait a little longer to taste the popular signature dish.

The two Ikea stores in Alexandra and Tampines will reopen on Friday when phase two of the post-circuit breaker period begins, said Ikea Singapore in a statement on Wednesday.

However, its food operations, including its restaurants, bistros and food market, will remain closed until further notice.
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SportSG introduces strict physical distancing measures ahead of reopening of sports facilities in phase 2

When sports facilities reopen on Friday (June 19), they will have to follow strict physical distancing measures announced by national sports agency Sport Singapore (SportSG) in an advisory issued on Wednesday (June 17).

Venues such as stadiums, swimming complexes, sports halls, hard courts, gyms, fitness studios, golf courses and bowling centres, including those in condominiums, golf and country clubs, are among the facilities that will be allowed to reopen in two days.

The operating capacity of these facilities is restricted to 10 sq m per person, or a maximum of 50 people per facility.
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No grappling in MMA, no rugby tackles as sports resumes in Singapore

Kicking and punching are acceptable, but not grappling and restraining. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

No scrums, no grappling and no contact. Several sports will take on a very different look after Sport Singapore (SportSG) issued broad guidelines for the safe resumption of sporting activities on Wednesday (June 17).

These include limited contact for combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts. Kicking and punching are acceptable, but not grappling and restraining, while only non-contact shadow sparring and non-contact technical work with a coach, including using pads, paddles and shields, are allowed.

Singapore's Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion and The Straits Times Athlete of the Year Constance Lien said the guidelines were within her expectations and those of her gym Evolve.
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Beaches, carparks and recreational facilities in nature areas to reopen from June 19

Visits to Singapore's nature areas for recreation will be possible again from Friday (June 19), with previously closed areas, such as carparks and dog runs in parks, as well as beaches, being reopened to the public.

But while more activities will be allowed in phase two of the gradual reopening of the economy, the National Parks Board (NParks) and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) reminded people on Wednesday evening that they should carry them out safely, by adhering to measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19, like limiting groups to just five people.

Park facilities including playgrounds, skate parks, hard courts, fishing areas, dog runs, beaches, lawns and fields, shelters and carparks will be reopened, said NParks.
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Migrant workers must stay in dorms on rest days in initial period of phase 2: MOM

With daily movement in and out of dorms, there is a need to be vigilant to ensure that workers remain Covid-19 free. PHOTO: ST FILE

Migrant workers must continue to remain in their dormitories on their rest days as the second phase of Singapore's reopening starts on Friday (June 19).

This is to minimise the risk of a new wave of infections, said the Ministry of Manpower on Thursday.

It added that the movement of workers beyond workplaces pose additional risks of cross-infections with the general community.
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Phase 2 of Singapore's reopening: All you need to know from June 19

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SINGAPORE - Singapore moves into phase two of reopening the economy on Friday (June 19). Businesses are putting in place safety measures and making adjustments as they get ready to welcome customers, and government service centres and libraries are among the public facilities set to reopen progressively.