10 Animal facts


1.The loudest animal in the world is a smallest 2cm long prawn.

The pistol shrimp is a prawn capable of snapping its claw shut so rapidly, that it creates a bubble which collapses to produce a Sonic blast. The shockwave can reach 230 db, louder than the sound of a gunshot.

2. The world’s deadliest animal mosquito.

Mosquito

The world’s deadliest animal is not shark or lion, its mosquito. According to World Health Organization 7,25,000 people are killed each year from mosquito – borne diseases, such as Malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever.

3.Blue whales

A blue whale tongue can weigh as much as a car, or a small adult elephant. It weight is approximately 2.7 tones or ,6,000-8,000 pounds(2,720 – 3,630 kg).

4.Octopus

The Giant pacific octopus has 3 hearts, 0 brains and blue blood. They are also able to change their colour and texture to comouflage themselves in a blink of an eye.

5.Anteaters

The Giant anteaters consume to 35,000 ants and terminates in a single day. They use their long sticky tongues to slurp up hundreds of ants per minute.

6. Greenland sharks

Greenland sharks are the longest living vertebrates on earth, with one individual thought to be over 400 years old. They are reaching up to 5m un length and live in the cold deep waters of the North Atlantic. They are rarely seen, and little is known about them.

7. Tardigrades

Tardigrades are microscopic animals with crazy endurance abilities. They can survive in space and go without eating for more than 10 years and they can survive in temperatures as high as 1490℃ or as low as -2720℃ and pressures 6 times more intense then the bottom of the ocean. They also look like tiny bears.

8. Bottlenose dolphin

The U.S. military trained bottlenose dolphin and they were used in both the Vietnam and the Gulf to detect enemy swimmers trying to plant explosives on ships.

9. Elephants mourn their dead

Distressed African Elephants mourning a dead family member with trunks extended

Elephants will return to the place where family members died and stand in silence over the bones, sometimes bowing their heads.

10. Cats

Cats were domesticated 9,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt. They were worshipped in Ancient Egypt and some historians reports that it was illegal to kill a cat.


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