The opossum in your yard just gave birth to twenty-five babies. Each one is the size of a honeybee.
After only twelve to thirteen days of pregnancy — the shortest of any North American mammal — she delivers up to twenty-five young at once. Blind. Deaf. No fur. Barely formed. They look like pink jellybeans with oversized front arms.
The moment they're born, they crawl. Unassisted. From the birth canal to the pouch. Three inches of fur. For a baby the size of a bee, that's the longest journey of its life.
They can't see. They can't hear. They navigate by instinct and gravity alone, pulling themselves forward with those tiny arms until they reach the pouch and find a ni**le.
She has exactly thirteen ni**les. Up to twenty-five babies are making the climb. The first thirteen to latch on stay attached for the next two months. The pouch closes around them and they fuse to the ni**le while they finish developing — eyes, ears, fur, everything that wasn't ready at birth forms inside the pouch.
This system has been running for roughly seventy million years. Opossums survived the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs. They outlasted saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and every ice age since. The short pregnancy, the massive litter, the pouch — it's not primitive. It's the oldest working reproductive strategy on the continent.
She only lives one to two years. She compensates by doing this twice a year. The math works because it's been working longer than most mammal lineages have existed.
🐾 If an opossum is in your yard this spring:
- A mother with a swollen pouch is carrying developing young — she's not injured or sick, she's working. Leave her alone and she'll move through your yard on her nightly route
- By late spring, the babies ride on her back — up to thirteen small opossums clinging to the mother as she forages. It looks precarious but they rarely fall
- If you find a baby opossum alone and it's smaller than seven inches nose to tail, it needs help — contact a wildlife rehabilitator. Larger than seven inches and it's likely independent
- Opossums eat ticks, carrion, slugs, and fallen fruit.
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Montessori is an educational pedagogy that focuses on the individual child and his needs. The concepts behind the pedagogy were consolidated by Dr. Maria Montessori in the beginning of the 20th century. Her concepts in regards to teaching children based on their needs and personal interest lead to the Montessori educational method of today. There are four areas of learning in a Montessori 3-6
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Practical Life
In this section of work, the child finds materials and Exercises of his everyday life from pouring water from a jug to a glass, or learning how to tie a shoelace. These activities help the child to properly take care of himself so that he may feel as though he is independent and does not have to rely on an adult for his basic needs.
Sensorial
Activities in this section allow the child to refine each of his senses. He will become a child who can appreciate color or texture differences, organize his thoughts and objects in his environment and who has a refined sense of pitch from the music he may hear around him.
Language
The child is taught language through a specific progression of lessons where he first becomes aware of the different sounds in a word. The child then learns the language phonetically until the point where he is taught the different "rules" in a given language and the exceptions to those rules he will need to know in order to spell and read fluently.
Mathematics
The child first learns to count from 1-10 through the understanding of the concept that those numbers represent a specific amount. Through each material, the child will learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and truly understand what each one means in their deeper sense. Through this method of teaching, Montessori offers the child a strong and solid foundation in the understanding of mathematics.
Overall, what makes this method of learning so different compared to the conventional form of education we have today, is that the teacher does not stand in front of the class and teach each child the same lesson all at once. Each child is allowed to learn at his own rhythm in a way where he feels as though he is in fact not learning or being taught.
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We share with you some interesting facts about tigers:
1. Tigers are the Largest of all big Cats
Of all the big cat species in the wild, tigers are the largest and the heaviest. An adult Siberian tiger can weigh up to 320 kg and measure 11 feet in length (head to tail), while the male Bengal tiger from India can measure up to 10 feet in length and weigh 250 kg.
In fact the second largest cat in the wild, the African lion measures 8 to 9.5 feet in length and weighs up to 190 kg is a bit smaller.
2. Tigers can make different sounds
Tigers are blessed with the ability to communicate in several distinctive sounds with each other. They use it to display their mood, affection, distress, and dominance to others. They can hear ultrasonic and low-frequency sounds. They rotate their ears to catch any source of sound.
Some of the sounds which we may hear on tiger safari are territorial roars, distress calls by cubs, affectionate chuffing, wrestling sounds, mating roars, moaning, grunting, and whining.
3. Tigers can Climb Trees
Yes, you heard right. Tigers can easily climb trees but they seldom do so, except when the cubs are young. Their sharp and retractable claws provide a powerful grip to hold the tree trunk and climb up comfortably. And as they grow old their body weight hinders them to do so.
Despite this, there are records of adult tigers climbing trees to catch leopards and monkeys.
4. Tigers Love Water
Tigers are fond of water and spend many hours dousing at the edge of lakes, ponds, rivers, and waterholes. They submerge themselves, soaking up to the neck during the hottest time of the day.
Tiger CubsTiger cubs at play
They can drink up to 15-20 gallons of water and are excellent swimmers.
5. A Tiger’s Night Vision is 5-6 times better than humans
Humans have a layer of dark pigment cells behind the retina which absorbs extra light, whereas tigers and other nocturnal animals have a layer of reflective tissue behind the retina called tapetum lucidum, which provides a second opportunity for the eye to catch the light, thus improving their night vision manifolds.
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