Humans are both red meat and white meat. It depends on what muscle the meat is coming from. The main determining factor of meat color is its concentration of a protein called myoglobin. Within muscle fibers, myoglobin stores and transfers oxygen from the blood to the cellular machinery.
Ants, and insects in general, don’t have hearts like humans have hearts, but they do have an organ called a dorsal vessel that pumps something called hemolymph, which is similar to blood…
All animals that are viviparous (give birth to live young instead of laying eggs) have umbilical cords. Since mammals are gestated inside their mothers, all baby mammals are born with…
An average cow will provide nearly 400 pounds of beef. On average, a beef steer weighs over 1000 pounds, but the entire cow doesn’t make it to the table. There…
There is no documented evidence that has shown premium pet food to be any healthier than regular pet food. Premium pet food seems to be a marketing gimmick and a…
Birds communicate in various ways, but I’ll be focusing only on audible communication in this post. Robert D. Magrath, a behavioral ecologist at the Australian National University, co-authored multiple studies…
Angus beef is beef taken from an Angus cow. Angus is a breed of cattle with its own unique characteristics. Angus cattle are known for having genes that make their…
A Florida entomologist in the 1960s found that he could turn about half of a mosquito’s body weight into fat if he handfed it specific foods. More recently, a study…
While there is authoritive source for this that I could find, the phrase it is based on a Hindi translation for the word jungle.
While most fish rest by reducing their activity and metabolism, the way fish “sleep” is different from the way land mammals sleep. Most fish don’t have eyelids, but they do…
