Video: Australian hospital accepts the smallest patient weighing lighter than a paper clip
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
One of the Australian hospitals recently brought such a small patient that it was as easy as shelling pears to lose him not just in a crowd, but even on a clean table! Baby Boop is only about a centimeter long and weighs less than a gram, which is lighter than even the smallest coin!
History, alas, is silent about who exactly the good Samaritan who found Boop and brought her to the hospital, but this man was clearly in a hurry and acted promptly, because otherwise the baby would not have survived. Boop turned out to be a dwarf flying couscous.
The dwarf flying couscous is a marsupial animal, which means baby Boop somehow fell out of her mother's bag and was doomed to die alone. Couscous spend 87% of their life in trees, at least 15 meters above the ground, which means the chances that Mom Boop would find her baby on the ground is extremely small.
Doctors at Australia's Wildlife Hospital gave the baby the best treatment. However, upon examination, it turned out that Boop was completely healthy, and the fall did not affect her health, but taking care of such a baby is a very troublesome business. Even adults of such animals are quite small - a maximum of 8 cm, and weighing about 10 grams. And baby Boop is so small that even the most ordinary paper clip is heavier than her.
Despite their small stature, dwarf flying couscous can fly quite long distances in a jump - up to 25 meters. This is possible thanks to the leathery membrane between the legs and the long tail, which the couscous maneuvers during flight.
Now baby Boop is receiving the best care, and when the baby grows up and gets stronger, she will join other patients in the hospital and, most likely, they will adapt her for life in the wild, so that she can then be released.
In the same Australia there is a special hospital where babies of bats and bats are nursed. Who would have thought, but judging by the photographs from this shelter, these winged babies no less adorable than kittens and puppies.
Recommended:
"Little Manhattan" weighing 2.5 tons. Little Manhattan Sculpture in Pure Marble
The miniature version of Manhattan, which is called "the heart of New York", weighs as much as 2.5 tons and looks like a giant block of marble. The sculpture Little Manhattan was carved from pure marble by Japanese sculptor Yutaka Sone, inspired by the city's stunning panoramas. The project took two years
The Fukan meteorite is a precious space gift weighing 1000 kg
The recent fall of a meteorite in Chelyabinsk became another reminder to mankind that it is too early to talk about the safety of our planet. Everyone, young and old, spoke about this cosmic "guest". Along the way, we remembered other space objects that flew to Earth. One of the most unusual is the Fukang meteorite, a real precious gift from the Universe
Paper clip sculptures by Pietro D'Angelo
Most of the sculptures can be said in Tsvetaev's lines: "who is made of stone, who is made of clay …". But the works of the talented Italian artist Pietro D'Angelo are created … from paper clips. It would seem that the pampering of pure water, however, having seen how the human body "grows" from the smallest stationery, it is difficult not to admire such a creative experiment
Lighter than air. Amazing Feather Installations by Isa Barbier
To create beauty, to create her works of art, French artist Isa Barbier uses magic. The annotation to one of her works says so: feathers, air and magic. Magic, as well as sleight of hand, explains the fact that the artist's feathers become lighter than air, hang in space and form amazing geometric shapes soaring above the ground. The Suspended Feather art project consists of just such fluttering feather installations
Hospital collage! Colorful Hospital in Baltimore
Collage is also an art form! It also has its own professionals and even geniuses. After all, how, if not a genius, call the Brooklyn artist Spencer Finch, who created the facade of one of the Baltimore hospitals, which is one huge multi-colored collage?