– ABOUT SLEEP

• Lizards go into a long, deep sleep for almost a season.
• Cow sleeps around 4 hours.
• Python sleeps around 18 hours.
• Giraffe sleeps around 2 hours.
• Cat sleeps around 12 hours.

– Things you need to know about the TIGER!

• A tiger can see six times better at night than most of us.
• The tiger’s whiskers are very sensitive and can sense the movements or vibrations in the air.
• They help the tiger move in the dark and find its prey.
• A tiger’s sense of hearing is so sharp that it can make out the difference between the rustling of leaves and sound of an animal moving on the grass.
• The ears of the tiger can move in different directions and this helps to catch him the sounds from all around.
• Tigers make different sounds for different purposes e.g- when it is angry, when it callout a tigress.
• It can also roar or snarl. its roar can be heard up to 3kms away

– Danger To Animals!

• The tiger is one of the most alert animals. And yet, today tigers are in danger.
• Elephants are killed for their tusks, rhinoceros for its horn, tigers, crocodiles and snakes for their skins.
• Musk deer are killed just to make a little scent from its musk.
• Some forest areas that are protected by our government these are:
• THE JIM CORBETT NATIONAL PARK in UTTRAKHAND and ‘GHANA’ in BHARATPUR district of RAJASTHAN.
• In these areas nobody can hunt animals or destroy the jungle.

– A Snake Charmer’s Story!

• Sapera’s are also called KALBELIYAS.
• NAAG GUMPHAN- Designs of this kind are used in Rangoli, embroidery and
as well decoration in Saurashtra, Gujrat and South India.
• The Snake Charmers recognize a snake bite by its bite marks.
• The snake charmers collect or make many medicines with the help of
plants, which they found in forests.
• Snakes are helpful for farmers as they eat rats in the fields, otherwise rats
would eat the crops.

– ONLY FOUR TYPES OF SNAKES ARE POISONOUS IN INDIA!

• Cobra,
• Common krait,
• Russel’s viper (Duboiya),
• Saw- scaled viper (Afai).
• A snake has two hollow teeth ( fangs). The poison enters the person’s body through these fangs.
• The medicine for a snake bite is made from the snake’s poison and is available in all govt. hospitals.

– From Tasting to Digesting:

• Our stomach’s temperature is about 30°C.
• The juice in our stomach is acidic in nature.
• Most rice grows in Kalahandi district (Odisha).
• Rice is even sent to other states from here.
• Despite of that much production of rice – There are many poor people in Kalahandi.
• Muslin cloth is used to strain something.
• Atreyapuram town is in Andhra Pradesh.
• Glass jars and bottles are dried well in the sun before filling them with pickles so that no moisture is left in them.
• Given below are some food items and some simple methods
by which these could be kept fresh for 1-2 days. Match the correct pairs: