• If you search around the world in almost all wet places - algae, ice, streams, hot springs, lakes, oceans, and perhaps your home yard - you may encounter a water bear, one of the most unlikely creatures The animal is barely visible, its small body is divided into four sections, covered by leather that protects it, and it has eight legs, each with a set of claws, which is called the water bear because it resembles the bear in its outer shape and its labyrinthine walk.
The water bear is also called "slow walking." There are hundreds of species, and females are grown from one egg to 30 eggs at once, and tens of thousands of this tiny creature can be found in just a handful of wet soils. The water bear is the algae that grows on the surfaces.
The bears can stay alive even in the harshest environments: "I kept some bears in an empty air environment for eight days, then placed three days in helium gas at room temperature, (458 degrees below zero) and in the end, when returned to normal room temperature, lived again. "These bears can also hold up even if exposed to levels of x-rays It is worth hundreds of times the radiation that kills a human being, and it is theoretically able, at least, to stay alive even in a thousand DONC external period of time.
The secret of the possibility of a water bear is its ability to enter into a death-like condition that slows down its metabolic process to less than 0, 0 percent of its normal rate, so that it is almost nonexistent.In order to enter this condition, its legs are pulled into its body and water is replaced by sugar When the natural conditions and the wet environment are restored, they recover within a few minutes and a few hours, and on one occasion, an attempt to revive a water pump whose vital functions For 100 years!
Yes, there is no doubt that these little creatures crawl silently in a wonderful way.