FACT BOMB - THE MOUSES.

theonlyway (69)in #factbomb • 6 years ago (edited)

Greetings friends of the Steemit community, on this occasion and as a contribution to the initiative promoted by #farms, brought you FACT BOMB - THE MOUSE .

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Extreme smell

The mice have an extraordinary sense of smell, the sense of smell of mice is highly developed, since they not only record the common odors, but also the presence of chemicals and although they breathe through the nose, the air also passes through a patch in skin with several odor receptors that are similar to hair and are called "Cilios", also have a second organ called "nasal homero", which is used mainly to detect pheromones, thanks to these characteristics of their sense of smell can distinguish poisons When a rat dies the others smell it to know what it ate and thus avoid it, for them the poisons used by men to eliminate them only last a generation.

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Humans have also used them, they have used it to detect anti - personnel mines in the land, and since they are light weight they can pass over them without detonating them.

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Amazing reproduction.

the reproduction of these rodents can begin to reproduce from two months of age and they can do it up to 13 times a year, having up to 14 young per litter, that is, each female can have up to 182 young per year, but the laboratory rats they have up to 20 young, the females have a very peculiar characteristics because they are able to keep the semen of the male fertile in their organism until after the gestation for once lit the litter self - fertilize again.

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The world health organization to avoid maximum health problems, points out that there must be two mice per inhabitant.

For example in New York there are six for each inhabitant.

Cooperation with man.

More than eating cheese, mice have had many functions in different areas with humans. One of them is that they have arrived in space, the first one that fulfilled a space mission was carried out in February 1961.

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The first record that has about the participation of a mouse in laboratories dates from 1828, where research was done on fasting, and since then mice have been the most used animal for medical and scientific research in the world.

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Resistance

We know that if a nuclear disaster were to occur cockroaches and possibly rats overflow, they have characteristics that do not resemble vertebrates, starting because it has the ability to stretch enough to pass in narrow gates or places, and can fall from In addition, you can swim and dive perfectly, there is a study that estimates that you can swim for 72 continuous hours.

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They also sing.

It is the male rats that emit sounds of high frequencies imperceptible to the human ear, which they do when they are facing the presence of the females, presumably as part of the courtship they perform to conquer the females, their vocalizations are not simple shrieks, but songs, since it presents similar patterns to the songs of the birds. You can also make your teeth sound when they are happy or nervous and thus keep most of their predators away.

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