Strange but True - Animals I

I) Blue whale babies weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth.

II) A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs.

III) Snakes can see through their eyelids.

IV) Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating.

V) Vultures sometimes eat so much they can’t take off again.

VI) The Amazon ‘Jesus Christ lizard’ can run across water.

VII) The biggest Antartic inland animal is a wingless fly measuring about 60 mm long.

VIII) Fleas can jump up to 30 cm, twenty times their own body length.

IX) Bluebottle flies can smell meat from distances 7 km away.

X) Many birds migrate, but the Arctic tern travels furthest. It flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and back again, a trip of 32,000 kilometers.

1. So, all these facts are true but you can’t spell the name of the continent at the South Pole correctly.

   Posted by  on  07/22  at  07:51 PM