Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Monday, January 10, 2011

Whale/Balena/鲸鱼






Whales are not amphibian, they are mammals because they cannot live out of water and only live under water, while still breathing air. In fact when they beached, the men drenched the dry skin of the whales with water or covered it with wet cloths. The cetaceans could not stand dehydration and after a while the body collapse under its own weight.



Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Stockfish/Stoccafisso/柴魚



n pl -fish, -fishes
(Cookery) fish, such as cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air
[of uncertain origin. Perhaps from stock (in the sense: stem, tree trunk) because it was dried on wooden racks. Compare Middle Dutch stocvisch].
 
Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003.



 Stockfish up for drying




 
Dried fish
  


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Jesus can walk on water, but He's not the only one.



More than 1,200 animal species have evolved the ability to walk on water. Tiny creatures such as insects and spiders can do it, and larger ones such as some reptiles, birds and even mammals have also developed this talent.




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