Nature-india

The various personnel of the Salvation Army have been organizing efforts in Tokyo and will be sending a team to provide assistance to Sendai, in Japan that have been severely affected by the earthquake and Tsunami. If you want to contribute to the earthquake relief, you can sms, JAPAN or QUAKE and send it to 80888 to make a donation of $10 from your phone. You may also visit the site SalvationArmyUSA.org.

    Google has also taken a step to provide help to the Japan victims. You can see the tsunami alert that has been posted in the Google’s frontpage. But now, Google has also launched the Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake that shall help a lot to help people connect that have been displaced to various places as a result of the Japan’s disaster.

  In 2004, a dead sperm whale washed up on the shore on Taiwan. This monster of a whale was 17 meters long (56ft), and weighed over 50 tons. As the whale began to decompose, there was a build up of gas within the whale that had no way to escape. Eventually, the pressure of the gas build up was so great, the whale exploded, covering bystanders, shops and vehicles nearby in whale entrails.

  A long story short, when a queen bee becomes sexually mature, she will go on a mating flight with several of the male drone bees. When one of the males mates with the queen, its genitals explode and snap off inside of the queen. This stops any other drone from mating with the queen, ensuring the dead drones paternity.

 The Camponotus Saundersi, along with several other species of ants, defence mechanism is to explode when things aren’t going good. The ants have two oversized, poisonous glue filled, glands that run the length of its body. The ants have the ability of burst these glands at any point, sprayingpoisonous glue over any would be attackers.

  Certain species of Horned Lizard, commonly referred to as the Horned Toad, have the ability to shoot streams of blood from their eyes at attackers. This is a last resort, if its previous attempts to ward off attackers fail. This blood can be shot up to five feet at approaching enemies.

  A 13 foot (3.9m) Burmese Python was discovered by park rangers in the Everglades National Park which had burst, after swallowing a 6 foot (1.8m) Alligator. Both monstrous reptiles died due to the event but it was surely an eye opener for the park rangers. Burmese Pythons are not native to the Everglades National Park, but have thrived in the swamps after being dumped by their owners.

  Spontaneous Human Combustion can cause a human being to burst into flame with no source of ignition. This event is often put down to three causes. Paranormal, whether its ghosts or aliens, this is often claimed to be the cause. Natural, a large increase in gas, or raised blood alcohol. Or unnatural, an outside source of ignition such as a cigarette or match. There have been over 200 reported cases of spontaneous combustion in the last 300 years.

Fruit:

The Sandbox Tree, also known as Possumwood or Jabillo, is an evergreen tree found in tropical regions of North and South America. These trees can grow to 30m (100ft) with leaves that are 2ft wide. Not only is the trunk of this tree covered in thousands of spikes, but it’s milky sap is poisonous. The sap was used by the Carib people to make poison arrow heads. So where’s the explosion? I hear you cry! Well the fruit that grows on the Sandbox Tree, disperse its seeds by explosive dehiscence. Dehiscence is where a mature fruit opens to release its seeds. The Sandbox Tree’s fruit, does not only open, but explode, earning it the name Dynamite Tree because of the sound this causes. Not only do they explode, but they explode with such force, that they often wound people and livestock that happen to be walking