Nov 30, 2008

Silly little facts.. III

Now some interesting little trivia about animals...

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Chimps in the wild live about 40 years and many in captivity live over 50 years.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
Reptiles do not perspire, and do not have any oil glands.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland.
A Blue Whale's tongue is about the size and weight of a full grown African elephant, and its heart is compared to the size of a Volkswagon beetle.
Jellyfish have been in the Earth's oceans for over 650 million years, they were here before the dinosaurs!
A cockroach can live for 9 days without its head.
Most giraffes are bisexual.
Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
Butterflies breathe through their bodies because they don't have lungs.
An elephant's trunk contains more than 100,00 muscles.
Hummingbirds can fly short distances upside down.
Fish sleep.

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