News 1 ( Ting Sing Leong PKB2 )

Date: 19/10/2015
Time: 19.00
Source: BBC News
Headline

Brief Description
Having more than 11 moles on arm

Arm Mole Count Predicts Skin Cancer

indicates a higher average risk of skin

Risk

cancer or melanoma. Researchers

studied a large group of female twins ,
collecting information on the skin type,
freckles and moles on their bodies.
Freckles are small usually pale brown
areas of skin, which are often temporary
and usually linked to sun exposure. Mole
are small coloured spots on the skin
made up of cells called melanocytes,
which produce the pigment in the skin.

News 2
Date: 19/10/2015
Time: 21:34
Source: BBC News
Headline
Ancestors Slept Less Than We Do

Brief Description
US researchers studied the sleeping
patterns of traditional societies in Africa
and South America, whose lifestyles
closely resemble ancient hunter
gatherers. They monitored 98 people for
1165 nights and found that they slept for
an average of 6.5 hours per night. The
temperature played a greater role tha
light in shaping sleeping patterns.

Task 4
Title of documentary : Lion
Date : 17/5/2014
Time : 13:45
Source : National Geographic
The lion is one of the five big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family
Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several
subspecies found in Africa. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight,[4]
it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in subSaharan Africa and in Asia, where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir
Forest National Park in India, while other types of lions have disappeared from North
Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000
years ago, the lion was the most wide spread large land mammal after humans. They
were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the
Americas from the Yukon to Peru. Lions spend much of their time resting and are
inactive for about 20 hours per day. Although lions can be active at any time, their
activity generally peaks after dusk with a period of socialising, grooming, and
defecating. Intermittent bursts of activity follow through the night hours until dawn,
when hunting most often takes place. They spend an average of two hours a day
walking and 50 minutes eating. Lions prefer to scavenge when the opportunity
presents itself with carrion providing more than 50% of their diet. They scavenge
animals either dead from natural causes or killed by other predators and keep a
constant lookout for circling vultures, being keenly aware that they indicate an animal
dead or in distress. Most lionesses will have reproduced by the time they are four
years of age. Lions do not mate at any specific time of year, and the females are
polyestrous. As with other cats' penises, the male lion's penis has spines that point
backward. During withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's
vagina, which may cause ovulation. A lioness may mate with more than one male
when she is in heat. In Africa, lions can be found in savanna grasslands with
scattered Acacia trees, which serve as shade;[145] their habitat in India is a mixture
of dry savanna forest and very dry deciduous scrub forest. The habitat of lions
originally spanned the southern parts of Eurasia, ranging from Greece to India, and
most of Africa except the central rainforest-zone and the Sahara desert.