True, False, Fact or Myth? (RV)

[Tamsy]

Correct

[Dream Weaver]

T/F:
Only Bloodhounds are used to track suspected poachers.

[Hippotragus]

False - the K-9 unit also uses Malinois, Foxhounds and Bloodhound crosses. The Bloodhounds and Bloodhound crosses are very good at cold (older) scent.

[Dream Weaver]

Top marks there, Hippotragus

[Hippotragus]

Thanks. I did a weekend course at the KNP K-9 unit and fell in love with a Spaniel sniffer dog called Gladys. She was very friendly but some of the other breeds were real professionals and we had to be careful with them.

[Tamsy]

Thanks. I did a weekend course at the KNP K-9 unit and fell in love with a Spaniel sniffer dog called Gladys. She was very friendly but some of the other breeds were real professionals and we had to be careful with them.

Sounds like a brilliant weekend!

[Tamsy]

T/F

There is some truth to Rudyard Kipling's fable of how the leopard got it spots:
“Then the Ethiopian put his five fingers close together (there was plenty of black left on his new skin still) and pressed them all over the Leopard, and wherever the five fingers touched they left five little marks, all close together…

‘Now you are a beauty!’ said the Ethiopian. ‘You can lie out on the bare ground and look like a heap of pebbles. You can lie out on the naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone. You can lie out on a leafy branch and look like sunshine sifting through the leaves …” -Rudyard Kipling

[Dream Weaver]

T

[Tamsy]

Yes, it is true... But I can't remember the reasoning and can't find the website I was reading about this. Sorry that I can't add more information to this. My memory

[Cantona]

T/F?

Most adult elephants die of starvation due to the last of their 7 sets of teeth wearing down which leads to a lack of nutrition causing them to weaken and eventually die.

[Dream Weaver]

Almost T except they only have 6 sets of molars.

[Cantona]

Exactly Dream Weaver, you safely navigated the red herring

[Dream Weaver]

Thanks, Cantona!

T/F:
DNA testing has proved that springhares crossed into Africa from present-day Australia during the years of Gondwanaland.

[Hippotragus]

False - springhares (Pedetes capensis) are bipedal grazing rodents, indigenous to Africa.

[Dream Weaver]

Yes, indeed, Hippotragus