Australian Competitions Club

Enter now for your chance to win a QPAC and Queensland Museum prize pack including:

Family Pass (4 tickets) to see The Snail and the Whale at QPAC on Friday 13 January at 12:30pm
Family Ticket (2 Adults + 2 Children) to Hadron Collider at Queensland Museum
Family Ticket (2 Adults + 2 Children) for the Sciencentre at Queensland Museum
 

The Snail and the Whale, a musical adaptation of the beloved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, makes its way to QPAC these holidays as part of QPAC's SummerSet program.

To celebrate, QPAC and Queensland Museum have teamed up to bring you a summer filled with amazing discoveries, including a Family Pass to see The Snail and the Whale. Once you've finished, head over to Queensland Museum and get up close to Queensland’s wildlife at their new gallery, Wild State on Level 4. The prize also includes family passes so you can check out their latest exhibition, Hadron Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment and have some hands-on fun at the Sciencentre.

Find out more about snails and whales with these fun facts from Queensland Museum scientists:

Whales... did you know:

1) The largest living creature is a blue whale.

2) The largest skull in the Queensland Museum collection is a 5m long Sperm Whale that stranded at Turkey Beach near Gladstone.

3) A strap toothed whale in the collection has large pig like tusks that wrap around its upper jaw so it can’t open its mouth more than 6cm, so it sucks in squid using its long snout like a straw.

4) Ambergris (whale vomit) is used in making perfumes.

5) Baleen, hairy plates in the mouth of some species of whale, are made from the same material as your fingernails.  (The plates allow the whale to trap small shellfish such as krill. The whale can get rid of the mouthful of water, which passes out through the hairs, before swallowing the shellfish so its tummy doesn’t get bloated with water).

Snails... did you know:

1) Land snails have a toothed tongue called a radula - like a file with rows of tiny teeth that they use to scrape their food which is often fungi, lichen or detritus.

2) Some land snails are carnivores and their toothed tongue (radula) has rows of lance-like teeth for consuming flesh of creatures such as worms or even other snails.

3) Most land snails have two pairs of tentacles on their head – the longer, upper pair has eyes while the lower, shorter pair is used for smelling & feeling its way around.

4) Land snails have different shaped, coiled shells varying from flat to turban-like to long, pointed ones. Slugs are snails that have no shell and snails with partial shells are known as semi-slugs.

5) Most land snails are hermaphrodites meaning they possess both male and female reproductive organs… each snail still needs to mate with another snail but both can produce eggs.

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Competition closes 10am AEST 09/01/17.