Interesting trivia and facts about animals

  Some interesting trivia about animals, scientists and great leaders:           1. In Iceland, the government laws do not allow the persons to keep the dogs as pet animals.      2. Octopus has three hearts.  3. Crocodiles can’t move their tongues and also can’t chew any thing. But their digestion capacity is very effective and they can even digest the steel-nails.  4. Whales: Their weight is approximately 160 tons and is equal to weight of 3o elephants. The baby water whale can swim 22 miles per hour and drinks 130 gallons milk in a day. They can store 1000 gallons of water in their bodies, each.  5. Enamel is 10 times stronger than the tooth.  6. The smallest complete meaningful word in English language is “Go”.  7. Golden city in India: Jaisalmer city (Rajasthan). Its circumference is 35 kilometers. All the buildings in that city are constructed by the locally available yellow stone, and the entire city shines like gold in the sunlight, hence he name.  8. The milk of the camel never gets spoiled, that means the milk never breaks into solid and liquid parts.  9. Gold fish can remember anything, just for three minutes only.  10. Only the male frogs can produce the sounds like “beka beka”.  11. To produce one liter of honey, the honey bees have to secure it from one million flowers, such a tedious task.  12. The teeth of the rat grow throughout its life (as long as it lives).  13. The just born kangaroo is only 1 inch in length.  14. Among all the animals, only chimpanzee has the intelligence to recognize its … [Read more...]

10 interesting points

  1. Lightening that appears in the sky: It is momentary (blink of the eye-lid) and is equal to hundred million volts of electricity.  2. Chromosomes: Human-beings contain 48 chromosomes. The kray fish type animals contain 200 chromosomes.  3. Geep: The living creature born to sheep and the goat, after their sexual union is called “Geep”.  4. Life-span of sharks: They live for 100 years, like humans.  5. The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.  6. Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.  7. A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.  8. Zebras can't see the colour orange.  9. A lion’s roar is so loud that it can hear up to a distance of five miles.  10. Dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.     … [Read more...]