-A dragonfly has a lifespan of
24 hours.
-A bee must visit 4,000 flowers
in order to make one
tablespoon of honey.
-Humpback whales create the
loudest sound of any living
creature.
-Bald eagles may use the same
nest year after year, adding
more twigs and branches
each time. One nest was
found that had been used for
34 years and weighed over
two tons.
-Great White Sharks can go as
long as three months without
eating.
-A bee can see the colors
green, blue and ultra-violet -
but red looks like black.
-A giant squid’s eyes have a
diameter of 15 inches which
are the largest of any animal.
-Mayflies live for a year or
more as larvae; but as adults
they live for only a few hours.
-Bats always turn left when
leaving a cave.
-3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs
suffer from hearing loss due
to inbreeding.
-Hummingbirds are the only
animal that can also fly
backwards.
-Polar bears are the only
mammal with hair on the
soles of its feet.
-The African Elephant has a
gestation period of 22 months
while a short-nosed bandicoot
gestates for 12 days.
-The cockroach is the fastest
animal on 6 legs covering a
meter a second.
-The mortality rate if bitten by
a Black Mambo snake is over
95%.
-Ticks are second only to the
mosquito as the most
dangerous parasites to
humans.
-According to one study, plant
and animal species are
becoming extinct at the rate
of 17 per hour.
-The only 2 animals that can
see behind itself without
turning it's head are the
rabbit and the parrot.
-A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000
times stronger than humans.
-Killer Whales (Orcas) kill
sharks by torpedoing up into
the shark's stomach from
underneath, causing the shark
to explode.
-Bald eagles can actually swim!
They use an overhand
movement of the wings that is
very much like the butterfly
stroke.
-Hummingbird’s consume half
of their weight in food daily.
A hippopotamus can run
faster than a man.
-A large swarm of locusts can
eat 80,000 tons of corn in a
day.
-Most elephants weigh less
than the tongue of a blue
whale.
-Female fleas consume fifteen
times their weight daily.
-A cockroach can survive for
about a week without its head
before dying of starvation.
-When a dolphin is sick or
injured, its cries of distress
summon immediate aid from
other dolphins, who try to
support it to the surface so
that it can breathe.
-The whale shark has over
4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only
3mm long.
-A rhinoceros beetle can
support up to 850 times its
own weight on it's back. That
would be the equivalent of a
man carrying 76 family-sized
cars around on his back.
-Mosquitoes have been found
to prefer biting people with
smelly feet.
-A dragonfly can spot an insect
moving 33 feet away.
-Certain Chinese and American
alligators can survive the
winter by freezing their heads
in ice, leaving their nose out
to breath for months on end.
-Polar Bears are capable of
jumping as high as 6 feet and
can run as fast as 25mph.
-Sea Otters use so much
energy that they need to eat
as much as one-third of their
weight each day.
-The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights
were made of spider web
filaments until the 1960’s.
-The sailfish, the swordfish and
the mako shark have all been
clocked at swimming over
50mph.
-Mosquitos are attracted most
to the color blue.
-The male penguin incubates
the single egg laid by his mate.
During the two month period
he does not eat, and will lose
up to 40% of his body weight.
Honeybees have hair on their
eyes.
-The heart of a shrimp is
located in its head.
-Over 10,000 birds a year die
from smashing into windows.
-An adult lion's roar can be
heard up to five miles away,
and warns off intruders or
reunites scattered members
of the pride.
-The only continent without
reptiles or snakes is
Antarctica.
-Some frogs are able to be
frozen and then thawed, and
continue living.
-A group of herring is called a
seige.
-A Holstein's spots are like a
fingerprint or snowflake.
-No two cows have exactly the
same pattern of spots.
-Cats prefer to eat their food
at 86º F, which is why they
don't immediately gulp down
the half-eaten can of food
from the refrigerator.
-A goldfish is the only animal
that can see infrared and
ultraviolet light.
-One in 5,000 North Atlantic
lobsters are born bright blue.
-A snail can sleep for 3 years.
-A group of jelly fish is called a
smack.
-The oceans contain 99
percent of the living space on
the planet.
-The fingerprints of koala
bears are virtually
indistinguishable from those
of humans, so much so that
they could be confused at a
crime scene.
-There are 701 types of pure
breed dogs.
-There are about 100 breeds of
cats.
-A tiger's paw prints are called
pug marks.
Over 100,000 birds, whales,
seals and turtles worldwide
are killed by plastic rubbish
every year. Marine life, in
particular turtles, is prone to
mistaking plastic bags for
jellyfish, ingesting them and
dying of intestinal blockage.
-Infant beavers are called
kittens.
-The fastest bird, the spine-
tailed swift, can fly as fast as
106mph.
-Slugs have 4 noses.
-Armadillos have four babies
at a time and they are always
all the same sex.
-Spotted skunks do
handstands before they
spray.
-Bird droppings are the chief
export of Nauru, an island
nation in the Western Pacific.
-A cow gives nearly 200,000
glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cheetah can reach a top
speed approaching 70 mph.
A newborn kangaroo is about
1 inch in length.
-Greyhounds can jump a
distance of 27 feet.
Yak milk is pink in color.
-An iguana can stay under
water for 28 minutes.
-Of the approximately 200
eggs laid by a female
leatherback sea turtle an
average of two will survive
their youth and grow to
sexual maturity.
-Dolphins sleep with one half
of the brain at a time, and
one eye closed.
-A woodpecker can peck 20
times per second.
-For every person there are
rougly 200 million insects.
-An electric eel can produce a
shock of up to 650 volts.
-The leech has 32 brains.
-Camels have three eyelids to
protect themselves from
blowing sand.
-The Galpagos Tortoise has a
potential life span of 200
years.
-A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
-The average outdoor only cat
has a lifespan of about three
years. Indoor only cats can
live sixteen years and longer.
-The cheetah is the only cat in
the world that can't retract its
claws.
-The praying mantis only has
one ear.
-Dragonflies are one of the
fastest insects, flying 50 to 60
mph.
-Elephants are the only
animals that can't jump.
It takes a lobster about seven
years to grow to be one
pound.
-The membranes in a dog's
nose, if unfolded and laid out,
would be larger than the dog
itself.
-Large kangaroos can cover
over 30 feet with each jump.
A group of owls is called a
parliament.
-Of all known forms of animals
life ever to inhabit the Earth,
only about 10 percent still
exist today.
-A rhinoceros's horn is made
of hair.
On average, pigs live for
about 15 years.
-Elephants have been found
swimming miles from shore in
the Indian Ocean.
Sharks apparently are the
only animals that never get
sick. They are immune to
every type of disease
including cancer.

Interesting!...but darn long.

Thank you,
The one i found interesting is that of snail, you mean if i kill a sleeping snail, it will still be sleeping in my pot of Okro soup?

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