The most amazing facts you need to know about animals

here are a few facts you probably didnt know



  1. A giraffe is able to go longer without water than a camel.


  2. A mother kangaroo keeps a back up embryo inside of her after her first baby enters her pouch. This is in case the first one dies.


  3. Elephants can remain standing after they die.


  4. Baby tiger sharks fight each other to the death before they are born. The winner is the one who will be born.


  5. An albatross can sleep while in the air. Riding air current while asleep allows them to stay in the air for several days.


  6. Honey bees use the sun as a compass to navigate.


  7. Orchids can make a bee drunk. The bee then becomes disoriented and drops its collected pollen into the flower pollinating it.


  8. Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up much the same as humans.
    Elephant sound waves used in communicating are at such a low frequency that humans are unable to hear them.


  9. Putting a small amount of liquor on a scorpion will cause it go crazy and stinging itself to death.

1 comment:

Mr N ICT Teacher said...

Thought you might like this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat_enl_1215177222/html/1.stm