1. The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car, and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.
2. Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue.
3. Giraffes have no vocal chords.
4. The tongue of a chameleon are faster than a fighter jet.
5. The eyes of ostrich’s are bigger than their brains.
6. An ant can lift fifty times of it’s own weight
7. A cockroach can survive without it’s head for nine days. At the end of nine day, it dies because of hunger.
8. A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.
9. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
10. Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.
11. Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks seven
12. African elephants produce approximately 100 kilograms of manure per day. Most of this manure is eaten up by beetles.
13. The hummingbird flaps its wings 55 to 75 times per second. In order to fuel this activity, it eats approximately twice its weight in nectar every day.
14. On average, sharks kill 10 humans every year. Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.
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