Here Fido – Fetch!Posted: May 25, 2012
And you guessed it, the topic for today is the boomerang. Some boomerang facts you might not have known:
- Boomerangs are not solely native to Australia – Boomerangs have been found world-wide, including Egypt. Our favourite pharaoh, King Tut possessed a few boomerangs, some plated in gold – now that’s my kind of stick!
- Not all boomerangs are designed to return – there are two types: ‘returning’ and ‘hunting’. The non returning ‘hunting’ variety are typically used to knock down the prey and travel straight, rather than curved.
- The oldest ever found boomerang is about 30,000 years old and was found in a cave in Poland. It was made from a mammoth’s tusk
- The smallest boomerang to travel over 20m was weeny s a teeny-48mm