Chapter Six (Animal Edition!)
Animal Edition! Yay!1. Hippo milk is pink.
2. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
3. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
4. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
5. There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
6. A group of pugs is called a grumble.'
7. Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
8. In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes. Ewww.
9. Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
10. Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies. Again, EWWW!
(I usually make 10 fun facts in a Special Edition, but there were so many animal fun facts, so I made more!)
11. When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
12. Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
13. The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee. (LOL)
14. A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days. Um...wow.
15. Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it. Smart.
16. There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
17. Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape, like lizards with their tails.
18. 15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations. That must be REALLY traumatizing for them...
19. Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you. Ew!
20. Penguin poop can be seen from space. Wait WHAT?!
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And I actually knew these facts!
I <4 Divergent so much!!