Animal Facts

[samx 1,095]

Daily(ish) I send acyd animal facts as his reward for trading for me. Here are some from this week.

 

Swans can eat up to 8 pounds of food. depending on size. but they eat 1/4 of their body weight a day

 

The Shawnee name for elk is wapiti, which means “white rump.”

 

Orangutans will often use their feet to eat

 

Giant Pandas are no longer endangered

 

the color of an eggshell will be from chickens can be determined by the color of the chicken's earlobe

 

[Masu Chan 429]

Orangutans are gamers.

[Gustav 6,129]

Domesticated foxes are a thing in Russia.

 

Sloths move really slow, but they can hit really fast if they need to. Multiple people are generally needed to handle one.

 

The largest woodpecker in the US has been maybe-or-maybe-not extinct since 1944. That was the last time it was conclusively sighted, but evidence (some recent) has popped up here and there since then that suggests it might still be around somewhere. It's expected that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will officially rule on this one way or another this spring, but it will remain something that bird people look for either way.

[Subject056 858]

Moose send their young across roads to test if it is safe/if there are vehicles. If a calf gets hit by a car the Mother will know it's not safe and turn back. If the calf doesn't get hit the Mother will then try to cross the road.  

[Daniel Janser 1,983]

1 hour ago, Subject056 said:

Moose send their young across roads to test if it is safe/if there are vehicles. If a calf gets hit by a car the Mother will know it's not safe and turn back. If the calf doesn't get hit the Mother will then try to cross the road.  

Savage

[Daniel Janser 1,983]

4 hours ago, samx said:

The Shawnee name for elk is wapiti, which means “white rump.”

in German we call 'elk' also 'Wapiti'... the word 'Elch' (sounds in German similar to 'elk') is used for 'Moose' and the word 'Moos' (with an elongated 'o') is used for 'Moss'...

[Grape 528]

The Peregrine Falcon can dive at speeds over 200mph

[eagle_3450 278]

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[samx 1,095]

alright y'all I can here to share my animal facts I don't care about yours 

[samx 1,095]

1 minute ago, eagle_3450 said:

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

what the actual fuck are you talking about 

[eagle_3450 278]

2 minutes ago, samx said:

what the actual fuck are you talking about 

Missiles can be animals too