Humans have highly developed brains. Ants never sleep. Elephants can smell water 3 miles away. Snails can grow new eyes… Enjoy this little journey to the miraculous world of animals. Hope you learn a thing or two along the way!
- Birds don’t urinate.
- Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
- Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
- If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
- The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
- A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
- Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
- Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin.
- The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
- Male mosquitos do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
- Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
- Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
- Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
- A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
- A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
- A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
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