1.A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
2.Butterflies taste with their feet.
3.Dogs cannot see any colours. They see everything in black and white.
4.In ancient times, pigeons were used to cаггу letters from one place to another.
5.An ostrich lays the biggest egg in the world.
6.Kangaroos use their tails for balance so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
7.The three toed sloth of South America is the slowest mammal. It has an average ground speed of 0.16 km / h They live in trees of tropical rainforests.
8.The female lion does ninety per cent of the hunting.
9.A giraffe has the longest tongue among all mammals. It is about 18-20 inches long.
10.Leopards have spots on their bodies which help them to hide among tall trees. The shadows of leaves keep them hidden.
11.Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. But they run very fast.
12.The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man jumping empire state building in New York.
13.The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three greyhound buses.
14.The noisiest animal is the howler monkey found in Central and South America. It is heard 5 km away.
15.Cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. It can reach a speed of110 km/h.
16.Giraffes have a short – necked cousin, called Okapi. Okapis live in the dense forest of Congo.
