CULTURAL QA 07-2021-03 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 How do crows possess higherintelligence long thought a primarily human attribute? A1 ClaireJordan Worked at National Health Service (NHS) June 15 Birds have much denser, morecompact neural tissue than mammals, so they can cram a lot of processing power into a small space. Hence,a crow with a brain the size of an almond can be as bright as a chimp with abrain the size of an orange. Q2 Which South Indian language is easyfor a Hindi speaker? A2 GopalkrishnaVishwanath Decreasing proficiency order: English/Hindi/ Tamil/Kannada/Gujarati/Malayalam11h ago (57 words in this answer) None of them are easy. However Telugu and Kannada might beless difficult than Tamil and Malayalam for the average Hindi speaker. In the reverse case Malayalam andTelugu speakers find it easier to learn Hindi than Kannada speakers. Tamilspeakers find it very difficult. Just my opinion. I might be wrongand you might not agree. Q3 How can I take my pet bird (Indianringneck) from Dubai(UAE) to India (Chennai)? A3 TamedPets (Vijay.AR) , lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (1984-present) AnsweredSeptember 21, 2018 Its very tough to bring a bird fromother country to India as the processes are so long and tiring. The process involves approvals fromboth the countries. NOC from Wild life department orequivalent department from the country of origin and the receiving country. CITES docs from the country oforigin. NOC from Animal quarantinedepartment or equivalent department from the country of origin and thereceiving country. Explanation and justification fromthe owner to do the transit. Proper licensed Live-Cargo agent todo the transaction. Apart from all these fill yourpockets with money to spend here and there and you need to be patient for 3months duration to complete all the process. Wehave facilitated a pet lover for bringing a Congo African Grey Parrot to Indiasome 3 yrs back. But fortunately his pocket was full :-) *Note: Green Indian Ringnecks arecovered under wildlife protection act 1972. If your ring neck is of any othercolour mutations, then all these processes are applicable.Else nothing canmove. 9092772233 www.TamedPets.com | | | | | | | | | | | TamedPets.Com is here to provide Healthy pets with professional and auth... TamedPets.Com provides Healthy pets with professional and authentic knowledge and service to pet and animal love... | | | Q4 Why do birds sing before dawn? A4 KenSaladin Textbook author and professor emeritus Mon Singing is a very energy-consuming activity. Therefore it generates a lotof body heat. Songbirds tend to concentrate their mostdemanding activities in the cooler hours of the day. They need light and goodvision to hunt, butthey don’t need to be able to see well to sing. So some species (like mockingbirds)begin singing while it’s still dark, begin foraging at first light, and remainrelatively quiescent during the hotter part of the day. In addition, singing attractspredators, most of which hunt by sight, so there’s a measure of safety in doingmost of one’s necessary singing (for territorial advertisement and mateattraction) while it’s too dark for predators to see well. Q5 When oncologists themselves arediagnosed with cancer, do they tend to worry less or more than average cancerpatients? A5 BruceDoran March 18 I had a dear friend who was aneurosurgeon. He specialized in an extremely rare and very aggressive braincancer. About twenty-five years into his career he started having headaches. Heignored them at first, but they got worse. He got a cat scan. Reviewing hisown films, he remarked to the radiologist, “Well, I’ve seen this before. If Iwere anyone else I’d send him to me, but I doubt even I could save this patient”. He went back to his office andcalled his estate attorney. Six months later he was dead. He was almost supernaturallyundramatic about this, even though he knew in advance every detail of thehorrors that awaited him. I like to think he was honouringthe memory of all his patients, who had bravely borne his own fate before him. Q6 Is it normal for birds to losefeathers? A6 GinaEarl , former Retired Hallmarker Answered Tue Yes, they shed their feathers at least once a year and often twice. In males they can grow new brightfeathers for the breeding season to attract mates and then they lose them later on and grow anew set. Birds never lose their feathers allin one go, it’s a progressive thing. You will sometimes see birds with tattylooking breast - theseare commonly females who have used feathers from their breast to line the nests. As you don’t often see whichfeathers are lost ifyou see a bird with very few feathers (often a caged bird) then it may be sickin one way or another. I am only generalising here as there are manyreasons for a bird to lose its feathers from moulting to sickness. 2NDANSWER- Tarkarri , lives in Rural Victoria Australia AnsweredTue Yes. Birds moult. Old feathers arereplaced with new ones.If your bird is losing enough feathers for it to startlooking slightly bald then it is either plucking feathers due to boredom or hasan illness that affects feather growth. They should be checked for health byyour vet. Q7 What was the Vahana of Daksha inHindu mythology? A7 AkshaySanathan Dharma Thu Daksha don't have any vahana . He himself is vahana or hesacrificed himself as eternal servant of lord veerabadra. After understandingthe truth lord veerabadra & lord vishnu are same and eternal devotees ofMaheshwara 👆You can seehere Daksha standing left side of lord Veerabadra You can see here Daksha standingRight side of lord veerabadra You can see here goat headed Dakshastanding on Right side of lord veerabadra.(pictures not added) Q8 What are some things that youroncologist did not tell you when you were diagnosed with cancer? A8 Answeredby Nicole DiMonda-Brambila June 27 A lot!!! This is a great question,primarily because this is usually never discussed, which is so unfortunate. In many instances we listen to our doctor, especially our oncologistbecause we trust what they tell us and we trust they haveour best interest in mind. This is not always the case, and many times it’smore important to these Drs to follow protocol, rather than really engage withthe patient. I was diagnosed in august 2018 with metastatic breast cancer. Myoncologist, one of the top in the nation I will add, drew diagrams, told mewhat meds I was going to take, etc. However, she never once discussed exercise, diet, mental health, anxietyand all the other issues that come with cancer. I wish she had, because Iwould have been successful in helping myself in so many more ways than justbeing told you will take this med, get this reaction and if you do we have thisdrug. Never spoke about countering the effects, the natural remedies whichdramatically help, none of it. Every oncologist should offer awell rounded plan, discussing everything that effects one, mind, body and soul.If you have an oncologist, or any doctor, don’t ever be afraid to speak your mind. Askquestions, challenge them and let them use all their medical knowledge to helpbetter your life. That’s their job. Demand they do it right!! General knowledge Q9 Who invented pani puri? A9 Answeredby Harshit Gaur Wed Draupadi was the first one toinvent pani puri. According to a legend, in theMahabharata, Draupadi invented the Pani Puri. When the Pandava brothers,Draupadi, and their mother Kunti were in exile after losing their kingdom in agame of dice, Kunti threw Draupadi a challenge. Profile photo for Luca Guala Q10 How do rails not collapse or buckleunder the weight of a train? A10 LucaGuala Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering & Transportation Economics,University of Cagliari (Graduated 2000)Updated May 27 Actually, they do, in various occasions. When this happens it iscalled “failure” and it’s something that is not supposed to happen too often. Just like asphalted roads sometime collapse or buckle under the weight ofa truck, also rails can fail in much the same manner. A typical cause offailure is the passage of a train that is too heavy for the axle weight forwhich a given railroad is rated. Other causes of failure are repeated passegesof trains that are not too heavy, but very close to the design limit (in thiscase the failure happens for fatigue, which can be avoided with an adequatemaintenance routine). A railroad can collapse or buckle also because the trainis too fast, and the weight moves from one point to another too rapidly,causing the rails to “bounce” and dislocate the ballast underneath. Of course there can also beexternal causes such as landslides, earthquakes and air crashes that can make arailroad fail But let’s see how, normally, railscan support the weight of a train. The rails are made of mild strength steel. Their profile is such thatthey are very rigid against curvature in the vertical plane. The tall “stem” separating therolling surface from the base does not have only the duty to lift the rollingsurface from the ground, but it also provides most of the strenght and rigidityin the vertical direction. How does it do that if it’s so thin? Well take aruler and try to bend it. Easy isn’t it? Now hold it sideways and try to bendit against its thicker width. Not so easy any more. Now, the rails cannot hold the weight of a fully loaded train over anyspan, just by virtue of their shape, so they have to besupported at regular intervals. For this reason, the rails are supported bysleepers. Until recently, sleepers were made of wood. today in Europe, they areusually made of reinforced concrete, except on minor railway lines. Thedistance between the sleepers leaves only a short span of rail suspended, andtherefore limits the buckling to a very small amount and makes sure that thisamount of buckling stresses the metal within its “elastic deformation range”from which it can recover almost instantly and without leaving any trace ofresidual deformation, just like when you bend the blade of a a kitchen knifenot too much, and after you leave the blade this returns in its original straightshape. The interval between sleepers depends on the axle-weight for which therailway is rated and the intensity of traffic, and typically ranges between 60and 75 cm centre to centre of adjacent sleepers. Also the sleepers must be placed in such a way that they will notdislocate upon the passage of a train. For this reason,they are placed on a “ballast” made with gravel. This may seem a ridiculouslyrough and cheap solution, but it’s instead a very sophisticated way to build a“bed” over which placing the sleepers so that they will not move with time andalso drain the rainwater The ballast is not made with any gravel readily available: the size ofthe grains and also their surface roughness and shape are accuratelyselected. Too fine or too thick grains are rejected, and the stones are brokenand crushed so that the grains will present sharp angles and cause a high gradeof friction when piled up. Rounded gravel from a river cannot be used asballast. The ballast is placed in layers and each layer must have specificcharacteristics. Special machines are used to stabilize the ballast sothat it doesn’t move once it’s put in place. The ballast in turn is placed on the ground surface through a layer ofsoil which has been compacted so as to distribute the weight and vibrationsto a vast area of natural soil undeneath. So, the reason why rails do not collapse or buckle under the weight of atrain is because raiways are a complex engineering structuremade to support the weight of a moving train over and over in time withoutcollapsing or buckling. All the above QA are based onQuora digest on 02-07- 2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 03-07-2021 Thisposting has 2059 WORDS and approx. 205 sentences. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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