STRANGE AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE

1. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!

2. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

3. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue!

4. A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

5. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

6. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly!

7. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

8. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

9. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

10. A cockroach can live several weeks with it's head cut off!

11. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left-handed?!

12. Bulls are colour blind, therefore they will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what colour it is - be it red or neon yellow!

13. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

14. The Cuttlefish, one of nature's most amazing marine creatures, is the source of sepia ink, hence its Latin name Sepia Officinalis. The ink is discharged as a smoke-screen to confuse its enemies.
Cuttlefish move by forcing a jet of sea-water from a muscular funnel situated between the head and the mantle. This drives them backward - a form of jet-propulsion. The funnel is also used to eject the inky smoke-screen.

14. Animal Mom's Love Baby!

i. Porpoises are mammals and use lungs to breathe but, baby porpoises are born underwater! The mother porpoise carefully pushes her newborn to the surface for its first breath of air.

ii. A newborn hippopotamus does not move, so it's mother pokes and pushes at it until it moves.

iii. A newborn buffalo's mother rubs it with her tongue to make its blood flow properly, which is what she painstakingly dows till it stands on its own!

iv. A female grey whale travels many miles of warm waters, for her baby is born without it's coat of blubber and so, needs the warmth of the seas till it grows one for itself!

15. So Common!

Q. What do bats' wings, elephants' ears, flamingos' legs, rabbits' ears, goats' horns, and human skin all have in common?

A. They all radiate heat to provide cooling for the animal.

15. Rattlesnake
A 'Dead' Rattlesnake can reflexively bite for upto an hour or more after being 'Killed'!