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05/10/2022

71. Lungfish are the only fish that have both lungs and gills.
This allows them to survive when the water in their ponds/lakes dries up.

72. Electric eels are in fact not eels, and give a shock strong enough to knock out a horse.
In the Tennessee Aquarium an electric eel’s tank has been hooked up to a computer programmed to send out a tweet whenever the eel produces enough electricity. 30

73. The yellowhead jawfish incubates its eggs in its mouth.
The male gathers up all of the eggs once they’ve been fertilised and stores them in his mouth until they hatch.

05/10/2022

63. Tardigrades can survive in space and go without eating for more than 10 years.
Tardigrades are microscopic animals with crazy endurance abilities. They can survive in temperatures as high as 149oC or as low as -272oC and pressures 6 times more intense than the bottom of the ocean. They also look like tiny bears! 28

64. Duck-billed platypus don’t have ni***es, instead they concentrate milk to their belly and feed their young by sweating it out.
The milk emerges from pores in the skin of the abdomen which the platypus puggles then lap up.

65. Echidna’s are relatives of duck-billed platypuses and have a beak, spikes, a kangaroo-like pouch, and lays eggs.
They are small at just 30–45cm and are known as spiny anteaters. One of the few egg-laying mammals, echidna lay a tiny egg which is then transferred into a kangaroo-like pouch where it then hatches.

23/07/2022

31. The howler monkey is the loudest land animal. Its calls can be heard from 3 miles (5 km) away.
At its peak, the howler monkey can produce sounds that reach 140 decibels. That’s as noisy as a jet engine, on take off!

32. There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
There’s over 45,000 known spider species, with the venom of a few only known to be dangerous to humans.

19/07/2022

19. A common garden snail has 14,000 teeth.
Their microscoptic teeth are called radula, and some species actually have over 20,000 teeth.

20. A Blue Whales tongue can weigh as much as a car, or a small adult elephant.
A Blue Whales tongue can weigh approx. 2.7 tonnes, or 6,000 – 8,000 pounds (2,720 – 3,630 kg).

16/07/2022

29. Pufferfish can contain a tetrodoxin, a toxin that is up to 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide to humans. There is enough toxin in one pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans, and there is no known antidote.
Amazingly despite this, some pufferfish meat is considered a delicacy in Japan. The meat called Fugu, is expensive and only prepared by licenced chefs with over 3 years of rigorous training who remove toxic parts of the meat for diners.

30. The loudest animal relative to size is the Water Boatman, which measures at just 12mm long, but can produce 99 dB of sound by rubbing its genitalia across its abdomen.
This is the equivalent noise level of operating a circular saw, or a drill.

16/07/2022

26. The Giant Pacific Octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood.
They are also able to change their colour and texture to camouflage themselves in a blink of an eye.

27. A flea can jump distances 200 times their body length.
They are able to jump 10 inches (25cm) vertically and up to 18 inches (45 cm) horizontally, making them one of the planets best jumpers relative to its size. It’s equal to a human jumping as high as the Empire State Building in New York.

28. The male seahorse goes through pregnancy and gives birth to babies. They are the only animal on earth where the male carries the baby rather than the female.
The male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies—as many as 2,000 at a time.

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16/07/2022

Plumeria Frangipani.

Плюмерия Франгипани.

12/07/2022

2. Flamingos are not pink. They are born grey, their diet of brine shrimp and blue green algae contains a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that makes their feathers pink.
Flamingos in zoos often lost their colouring, until zoo keepers supplemented their diets. 2

3. Otters “hold hands” while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other.