$25 Starbucks Card #3

$25 Starbucks Card #3

This is a Starbucks Gift Card for $25.  Perfect for a gift (Thinking Mother's Day anyone?) or to use for your own Starbucks habit or treat while helping Brandon come home! 


Thanks so much Maureen!



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Amazon Gift Card for $25

Amazon Gift Card for $25

This is a Gift Card for $25.  This is perfect to give as a gift or just to use for normal purchase and help support getting Brandon home at the same time.


Thanks so much Anonymous!



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Summer Days with the Moodys, Book 5

 Summer Days with the Moodys, Book 5

This is a Children's Book.  "The fifth book in the series continues following the life of the Moody family. Join the Moodys on not-just-another summer. Life is always full to the brim and interesting!"  I'm told this book could be of particular interest to our homeschooling families, as it is about a homeschooling family.  It is written by Sarah Maxwell.

Thanks so much Tanya!




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How do some lizards able to dissolve in there environment?

Reptiles have several natural protective mechanisms, including venom, spines and camouflage. Camouflage is the biological ability to change  into a background using body, particularly skin. Certain reptiles have a constant skin tone that matches their natural habitat others are able to change their skin tone to match different habitats. The ability to change according to the environment helps these animals to help them protect from there predators. Some among the species like chameleon change themselves in a perfection that many times they remain unseen evenif the predators go very close to them. Chameleons are able to change colors because of specialized cells in their skins called chromatophores. There are actually specific types of skin cells for each color that the chameleon can produce. The chameleon causes these cells to activate by sending messages from their brains to their skin cells. This ability also helps these animals to go very close without notice towards there prey.

How do bats hunt at night when they can't see in dark?

The traditional thinking tells that bats come at night because they can see clearly in the dark but , this is however a wrong notion. Experiment done on bats tells that bats can fly comfortably even if its eyes are covered by some opaque material. This was possible because they use sound rather than sight to navigate.  This method of navigation is know as echolocation and it is similar in principle to the sonar that submarines use to navigate the ocean. Some bats eat fruit, many bats eat insects and vampire bats in the tropics feed on the blood of animals. To search for insects a typical bat will sweep an area with sound, sending out 10 beats per second.  When the echoes come back from the prey, such as a fly, the sound pulses increase to more than 25 per second.  This gives the bat a better idea of where the fly is moving.  As the bat near to its prey, it sends out more and more sound pulses as many as 200 per second. Some bats are so good at echolocation that they can detect and avoid wires as thin as human hairs. 

Which animal can predict there end?

The elephant is the only species which is having the most powerful memory as compared to other animals. Their normal lifespan is 60-80 years. The elephant listen by using their legs, which feels the vibration beneath the ground and the way for the source of running water. The elephant is the only species which can predict that there end is near and then he leaves the group and goes towards the place where they are born. Elephants, humans, and Neanderthals are the only animals known to have death rituals. If an elephant becomes sick, herd members will bring it food and help support it as it stands. If it dies, they will try to revive it with food and water for a while. Once it is clear that an elephant is dead, the herd will become very quiet. They often dig a shallow grave and cover the deceased elephant with dirt and branches, and will stay at the grave for days afterwards. If the elephant had a particularly close relationship with its deceased peer, it can show signs of depression. There are also reported cases of elephants burying dead humans they have found in this way.

Why do spitting cobras spit venom?

The spitting mechanism is actually an adaptation, which protects spitting cobras, from predators larger than themselves. When threatened, these cobras eject a spray of venom into the eyes of their predator, with incredible accuracy! The spray, although not fatal, causes temporary blindness, which if not treated, results in permanent blindness. Spitting cobras are not particularly muscular, and do not have the strength to squeeze and kill large prey. Their fangs are small and if they bite, they need to hold on to their prey for a long time, before it dies. If they bite a large predator, they will have to bite it and wait till it dies. In this struggle of holding on to larger prey, if the prey gets loose, it can kill the spitting cobra, even after injecting the venom. This is because the venom takes time to kill the predator. Thus, it is important for the spitting cobra to disable its predator, as quickly as possible. Ashe's spitting cobra also commonly known as the large brown spitting cobra, is the largest species of spitting cobra found in world today. Its venom is considered to be the most poisonous of all spitting cobras, and has the capacity to inject twice the amount of venom, any snake can inject in one bite. One bite has enough venom to kill 25 to 30 people.