When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually grooming each other with their bills to keep clean and neat.Ī bird called the bee eater in areas of Africa thinks that riding around on the backs of other animals is fun! The black-necked cobra, which lives mostly in Africa, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim, to cause it blindness. The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world. Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.Īdult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe. The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.įlying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface. The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds. The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow. There are about 100 billion birds in the world, and about 6 billion of them make their homes in the United States. When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black “ink”. Hummingbirds flap their wings between 50 and 70 times a second! The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard! The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!Ĭhimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.Įlephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
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The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown. Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down!Īn African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day that’s four percent of the elephant’s body weight! Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood. That’s enough to stun large animals and even knock a horse off its feet. 90 to 93 degrees will make it a male 82 to 86 degrees will turn it into a female.Īnimals with some of the longest lives are the Marion’s tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).Īn electric eel can produce a shock of 600 volts. Whether an alligator is a male or female can be determined by the temperature of the nest where the egg is hatched. It is 6 to 8 inches in length and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles per hour. The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. All it needs to drive on the street is a turn signal. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red light on its head and green lights down its side. Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men. The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. You may have heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.
They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder.
Surf’s up porpe!įish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds per square inch. They can also turn on their side or flip completely around. They make no swimming motions and can ride the wake for more than an hour. The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body!ĭid you know porpoises could surf? They are frequently seen riding the bow wave of a ship. The northern fur seal, rather than using a layer of fat to keep it warm, depends on its thick fur with some 300,000 hairs per square inch. One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales.
Scientists figured this out from looking at the structure of their bones. Dinosaurs probably lived to be between 75 to 300 years of age.