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Your animals and nature questions and answers

00:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001 |

WE may belong to the same kingdom, but the differences between us and other animals has obviously been one of your concerns lately. Homer wanted to know if, unlike humans, other animals were colour blind Lord Panda and horseman both had answers on the way other animals see things, to view their answers click here.

Do snakes have ears like us, asked Jwl, and if not how do they hear BadBoyBubby had the answer on how snakes deal with sound; to see it, click here.

The idea that we may be able to come back to life if our bodies are frozen, known as Cryogenics, is popular with Hollywood stars, but have frogs already cracked the problem GOBI wanted to know suz_mck reassured GOBI that frozen frogspawn should be ok, to see why, click here.

Then things started getting more cosmic, horseman wanted to know what colour our sky is from space. To see Rhw66 condensed version, or for andy_kj's more expanded version click here.

Sloth wanted to know if the universe really has a centre. To see Toonwatcher's answer, click here.

Back down to earth, well almost, with a question about lightening. djtaz1 wanted to know if lightening travels up or down, and the question certainly attracted a lot of answers. To see Epimindes very in depth answer or Toonwatcher's condensed answer click here. platinum and shine gave two differing answers, and DrPig gave a more balanced version. To see all three, click here.

On a more serious note, Pedro was obviously concerned about the risk of the outbreak of foot and mouth to his pet. To see bballmad's cautionary answer, click here.

Well now you've seen some Animal and Nature questions and their answers, why not ask one of your own Just click here.

by Lisa Cardy

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