Interesting quick facts about animals. Interesting facts about animals. The fastest, strongest, most beautiful animals in facts and figures
1. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
2. Breastfeeding a baby is not at all an easy task for whales. After 10-12 months, small whales are born in the womb, up to a third the size of an adult whale (and in the case of the Blue Whale, this is 10 meters). The mother uses her muscles to splash the milk into the baby's mouth, which holds tightly to the nipple (yes, whales have them). The fat content of whale milk is about 50%, which is 10 times the fat content of human milk. Accordingly, the cubs grow, gaining up to 90 kilograms per day.
3. Pigeons can fly thousands of kilometers and still end up exactly where they were going. And the Arctic tern flies more than 40,200 kilometers a year. Many birds use ferromagnets built into them by wise nature to navigate along the Earth's magnetic fields. But a 2006 study showed that pigeons also remember noticeable features on the ground and navigate by them.
4. Research recent years showed that moles have quite acute, albeit limited, vision. And they most often do not like what they see, since the penetration of light usually means that a predator has entered the hole.
5. The giraffe's brain is about 5 meters above its body. It is quite obvious that with such an original design of the neck, the problems of delivering blood to a vital organ must somehow be solved. Not only is the heart of giraffes twice as strong as that of cows, but the unique structure of the veins prevents a sudden rush of blood when lowering the head down. And the skin of the legs should be unusually stretched so as not to allow blood to stagnate in the legs.
6. The eyes of lizards are equipped with orange glasses, because there are a lot of fat droplets in the retina, colored orange. This is where it turns out that these animals have light filters. This means that lizards see the world differently than we do. And not just lizards. To many birds, what we see as red appears green.
7. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
8. The weight of an ostrich egg can reach 1.5 kg.
9. During the First World War, one of the South African monkeys received a medal and was even awarded the military rank of corporal.
10. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.
11. Rats appeared on Earth 48 million years earlier than humans.
12. There are about 400 breeds of domestic dogs on Earth.
13. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
14. Moth butterflies have caterpillars that live in water and gnaw on aquatic plants.
15. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
16. About 70 percent of living creatures on Earth are bacteria.
17. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!
18. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
19. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.
20. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.
21. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.
22. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.
23. Sharks are immune to cancer.
24. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
25. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.
26. Hippos are born under water.
27. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.
28. A mole can dig a 76-meter-long tunnel in one night.
29. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.
30. The black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
31. When there is not enough food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight.
32. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.
33. It takes 40 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
34. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.
35. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
36. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
37. A moth has no stomach.
38. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”
39. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.
40. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
41. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.
42. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.
43. Over the past 4,000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.
44. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
45. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
46. The word “orangutan” means “jungle man” in some African languages.
47. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.
48. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
49. Crocodiles swallow stones to dive deeper.
50. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
51. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.
52. Goshawks are not found in just one European country- Iceland.
53. Chameleons can throw out their tongue a distance equal to half the length of their body. In addition, its eyes are able to rotate independently of each other, so the chameleon can look in all directions at the same time without moving its head.
54. Electric generators of the South American electric eel can generate voltage up to 1200 volts at a current of 1.2 A. This is enough to light six hundred-watt light bulbs.
55. Ferrets sleep up to 20 hours a day.
56. The French call the pigeon a “flying rat.”
57. Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs and wolves.
58. Tigers not only have striped fur, but also striped skin.
59. The gar fish has green bones.
60. A goat has a square pupil, and in some ungulates it looks like a heart.
61. An octopus has a rectangular pupil.
62. A horse has 18 more bones than a human.
63. Giraffes have the largest heart and the highest blood pressure of any land animal.
64. Giraffes have a completely black tongue, the length of which can reach up to 45 cm.
65. The blood temperature of Antarctic fish can reach -1.7 degrees Celsius.
66. The heart of a whale beats only 9 times a minute.
67. The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.
68. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly. In addition, it is the only bird that walks standing.
69. In the Falkland Islands there are 350 sheep (700,000) per inhabitant (2000), and in New Zealand there are 20 sheep.
70. A leaf-cutter ant can lift and move loads that weigh 50 times its own weight.
71. The mass of an elephant's brain is approximately 0.27% of its body mass.
72. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
73. When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so happy that they fed them all to death.
74. One ostrich egg can make eleven and a half servings of omelettes.
75. An adult whale inhales 2400 liters of air in 2 seconds.
76. If a bat heard its cry, with which it locates, unreflected, it would go deaf. Therefore, before emitting a locating cry, the mouse makes a squeak, which causes the muscles of the hearing aid to tense, and it perceives a loud cry normally.
77. Each bee hive contains 20 - 60 thousand bees. The queen bee lays almost 1,500 eggs per day and lives up to two years. Drones, whose only job is to help the queen, live up to 24 days and do not have a stinger. Worker bees (all sterile females) - usually work until death (about 40 days), collecting pollen and nectar.
78. There are 321 species of hummingbirds in the world (for example: sword-billed, ruby, ruby-headed, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, racket-tailed, giant (swallow-sized)
79. An iguana can stay underwater for up to 28 minutes.
80. A zebra is white with black stripes, not the other way around.
81. There are approximately 500 zoos in the world.
82. There are more muscles in the caterpillar’s body than in the human body.
83. Belize is the only country in the world where jaguars are protected by law.
84. A rat can go without water longer than a camel.
85. A tit feeds its chicks a thousand times per day.
86. B ancient Egypt The main pests of the fields were considered not beetles or even locusts, but... hippopotamuses.
87. The female armadillo has a unique ability. In stressful situations, it can delay childbirth for up to two years.
88. When attacking their prey, sharks close their eyes so that the struggling prey does not injure them.
89. A skunk cannot bite and smell at the same time.
90. Mola Mola fish (or ocean sunfish), lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at a time.
91. The speed of movement of the snail is about 1.5 mm/sec.
92. A male emperor moth can sense and find a female of his own species from a distance of two kilometers.
93. A tiger has five toes on its front paws, and four on its hind paws. Tiger claws reach a length of 8-10 cm.
94. A species of starfish called Lunckia columbiae can reproduce its entire body from a 1-centimeter-long particle.
95. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.
96. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.
97. A flea can jump 33 cm in one jump. If people had the same jumping ability, a person could jump 213 meters!
98. About 4,000 species of frogs and toads are known on Earth.
99. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.
100. Hippos, after elephants, are the heaviest mammals on Earth. Their weight can reach 4 tons.
Every day, reading a poem, a story, a fairy tale, showing pictures, the mother introduces the child to the diverse animal world! This is an elephant - it is big, and the tallest is a giraffe, very beautiful bird a parrot can learn up to a hundred words.
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/ Animals of the Arctic
ARCTIC ICE
It seems incredible that where the temperature does not rise above - 10 o C, Arctic animals can live and reproduce. And yet, even the coldest and most inhospitable parts of the Earth are inhabited. The fact is that some animals have adapted in a special way to retain their own body heat. For example, the body of penguins under their plumage is thickly covered with warm down, and the skin of polar bears is very thick and waterproof. In addition, all polar animals have a dense layer of fat under their skin.
Life for animals in Antarctica is possible only on the coast. The interior of the continent is uninhabited.
Polar bear.
At the end of autumn, a female polar bear digs a den in the snow. In December - January, as a rule, two bear cubs are born, but only in the spring will they leave the den for the first time.
A polar bear cub is born very small, blind, deaf and completely defenseless. Therefore, he lives with his mother for two years. The skin of this bear is very dense, waterproof and absolutely white, thanks to which it easily finds shelter among the whiteness of the surrounding ice. He swims remarkably well - this is facilitated by the membrane that connects the pads of his paws. The polar bear is the most large predator in the world.
A polar bear usually weighs between 150 and 500 kilograms. The mass of some representatives exceeds 700 kilograms.
Pinnipeds.
On cold ground and the endless ice floes drifting in the Arctic are home to various species of pinnipeds; these include fur seals, seals and walruses. By origin, these are terrestrial animals that have mastered the marine environment: in the course of evolution, their body has adapted to life in water. Unlike cetaceans, pinnipeds were only partially modified by this adaptation. So the front paws of fur seals turned into flippers, on which they can lean on land to raise the upper body; seals learned to move on the ground by crawling on their bellies.
Pinnipeds have huge nostrils, and in a short time they can inhale the amount of air needed to stay underwater for about 10 minutes.
Pinnipeds feed not only on fish, but also on crustaceans, mollusks and krill, which consists of tiny shrimp.
Fur seal similar to a sea lion, but has a thicker skin and a shorter and sharper snout. The male is much larger than the female and can weigh four times as much.
Sea Elephant. The largest pinniped species in the world: the weight of a male can reach 3,500 kilograms. It is easily distinguished from the female by the swelling on its head, similar to a short trunk, from which it gets its name.Sea leopard. With its spotted skin, this seal resembles the predator of the cat family, from which it borrowed its name. The leopard seal is very aggressive and can sometimes even eat a fellow seal if it is smaller.
Walrus.
This long-tusked mammal lives in the Arctic seas, making short seasonal migrations. A male walrus is huge: it can weigh 1,500 kilograms, while a female's weight rarely reaches 1,000 kilograms. The walrus has a massive, wrinkled body covered with sparse bristles.
The strong voice of the walrus resembles both the roar of a lion and the lowing of a bull; while sleeping, on ice or in water, he snores loudly. He can relax for hours, lounging in the sun. The walrus is irritable and obstinate, but he will not hesitate to come to the aid of his brother, who is being attacked by hunters.
Long tusks are indispensable in the life of a walrus: he uses them to defend himself from enemies and to drill into the seabed; With the help of tusks, the walrus climbs onto the shore and moves along the ice floe or ground. The length of the fangs of larger representatives reaches one meter!
Little walruses are nursed by their mother for two years, and for the next two years they remain under her protection.
Under the skin of the walrus there is a thick layer of fat, which serves as both protection from the cold and a reserve reserve in case of hunger.
Penguins.
Penguins- these are birds, but their wings are not suitable for flight: they are too short. With the help of wings, penguins swim, like fish with the help of fins. Penguins are found only in the southern hemisphere. They live in large colonies on land, but some species can make long migrations in the open sea.As a rule, penguins lay only one egg. Baby penguins find refuge from the cold in the lower folds of their parent's abdomen. The plumage of penguin chicks is usually dark brown; over time, they acquire the characteristic black and white coloration of adults.
Emperor penguin colonies sometimes number 300 thousand individuals.
/ Interesting Facts about animals of savannas and prairies
Among the grasses of the savannah. In the savannah there are periods of drought when there is a shortage of food. Then numerous herds of animals go in search of more favorable conditions. These migrations can last for weeks, and only the hardiest animals manage to reach their goal. The weaker ones are doomed to die.
The savannah climate favors the growth of tall and lush grass. Trees, on the contrary, are rare here.
Baobab not so much tall tree, however, the diameter of its trunk can reach 8 meters.
Buffalo.
The African buffalo, along with the hippopotamus, is considered one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. Indeed, if a buffalo is wounded or feels danger to itself or its cubs, it does not hesitate to attack the aggressor and kill him with its powerful horns. Even the lion tries to avoid meeting him, as he is not sure of the outcome of the battle. Therefore, only buffaloes that have strayed from the herd, or old and sick animals that are unable to defend themselves, are attacked by predators.
Zebra.
The zebra skin is original and easily recognizable. At first glance, all zebras seem the same, but in fact, each animal has its own stripe pattern, like human fingerprints. Countless attempts have been made to domesticate zebras (domesticate them like horses), but they always end in failure. The zebra does not tolerate riders or other loads on its rump. She is very shy and difficult to approach even in nature reserves.
Zebras lack horns and other means of defense and flee from predators. Once surrounded, they defend themselves with their teeth and hooves.
How to spot predators? Zebras' vision is not very sharp, so they often graze next to other animals, such as giraffes or ostriches, which are able to notice the approach of predators earlier.
A pursued zebra can travel at speeds of 80 kilometers per hour, but not for long.
The stripes on a zebra's skin can be used to identify different types of zebra. The stripes on the croup are especially significant in this sense.
Leo prefers open spaces, where he finds coolness in the shade of rare trees. For hunting, it is better to have a wide view in order to notice herds of grazing herbivores from afar and develop a strategy on how best to approach them unnoticed. Outwardly, it is a lazy beast that dozes and sits around for a long time. Only when the lion is hungry and forced to pursue herds of herbivores or when he must defend his territory does he emerge from his stupor.
Lions do not hunt alone, unlike cheetahs and tigers. As a result, all members of the lion family live together for a long time and the grown lion cubs are not expelled from it, unless the conditions in the hunting territory become critical.
Usually a group of females goes hunting, but males rarely join them. The hunters surround the prey, hiding in the tall grass. When the animal notices the danger, it panics and tries to escape at a gallop, but most often falls into the clutches of other hidden lionesses that it has not noticed.
A characteristic feature of a lion is a thick mane in males, which is not found in other representatives of the cat family.
A lioness usually gives birth to two cubs. To become adults, they need about two years - all this time they adopt the experience of their parents.
A lion's claws can reach 7 cm.
Giraffe.
In an effort to survive, all animals have evolved to provide their species with sufficient food. The giraffe can feed on tree leaves that other herbivores cannot reach: thanks to its six-meter height, it is taller than all other animals. A giraffe can take food from the ground, as well as drink water, but to do this, it must spread its front legs wide apart in order to bend over. In this position, he is very vulnerable to predators, because he cannot immediately rush to flight.
The giraffe has a very long, thin and soft tongue, adapted for plucking acacia leaves. The lips, especially the upper ones, also serve this purpose. The giraffe picks off leaves growing at a height of two to six meters.
The most favorite food of giraffes is tree leaves, especially acacia; its thorns apparently do not bother the animal.
Giraffes live in herds, divided into two groups: one contains females with cubs, the other contains males. To win the right to become leaders of the herd, males fight by striking their heads with their necks.
When running, the giraffe is not very fast or agile. When running away from an enemy, he can only count on a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
Cheetah.
The cheetah's "secret weapon" is its flexible body with a strong spine, curved like the arch of a bridge, and powerful clawed paws that allow it to rest firmly on the ground. This is the fastest-footed animal of the African savannah. No one can imagine an animal running faster than a cheetah. In short moments, it reaches speeds of over 100 kilometers per hour, and if it didn’t get tired quickly, it would be the most feared predator in Africa.
The cheetah prefers to live in small groups of two to eight to nine individuals. Typically such a group consists of one family.
Unlike other members of the cat family, the cheetah's claws never retract, just like dogs. This feature allows the animal not to slip on the ground when running; Only the claw of the thumb does not touch the ground.
The cheetah climbs trees and surveys the savanna from above to discover herds of grazing herbivores that could become its prey.
The skin of a cheetah is not always covered with spots; sometimes they merge, forming stripes, like the king cheetah.
A long tail serves as a steering wheel - they can quickly change the direction of running, which is sometimes necessary when pursuing a victim.
Elephant.
The African elephant was threatened with extinction both because of hunting, to which it became a victim at the beginning of the 20th century, since there was a great demand for ivory products (from tusks), and because of important changes made by man in its habitat. Now elephants live mainly in giant national parks, where they are studied by zoologists and protected by security guards. Unfortunately, this is not enough to stop elephants from being killed by poachers. The situation is different with the Indian elephant, which has never been in danger because man has used it for various jobs for centuries.
The African elephant is different from the Indian elephant. It is larger, its ears are larger, and its tusks are much longer. IN South-East Asia elephants are domesticated and used for various jobs. African elephants They cannot be tamed due to their more independent nature.
Like the giraffe, the elephant prefers to eat tree leaves, which it plucks from the branches with its trunk. It happens that he knocks down an entire tree to the ground to get food.
Tusks and trunks are two of the elephants' miraculous survival tools. The elephant uses its tusks to protect itself from predators and uses them during drought to dig up the ground in search of water. With a very mobile trunk, it picks off leaves and collects water, which it then puts into its mouth. The elephant loves water very much and, at the first opportunity, climbs into a pond to freshen up. He swims great.
The elephant willingly hides in the shade because its huge body has difficulty cooling down. Its huge ears serve this purpose, with which it rhythmically fans itself to cool itself.
Just as children hold their mother’s hand, so baby elephants walk holding the elephant’s tail with their proboscis.
Ostrich.
The natural environment in which the ostrich lives determined the final adaptability of this bird, the largest of all: the ostrich's mass exceeds 130 kilograms. The long neck increases the ostrich's height to two meters. A flexible neck and excellent vision allow him to notice danger from afar from this height. The long legs give the ostrich the ability to run at speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour, usually fast enough to escape predators.
The ostrich prefers open spaces where it can see everything from afar and there are no obstacles for running.
Ostriches do not live alone, but in groups of varying numbers. While the birds are looking for food, at least one stands guard and looks around the area to spot enemies, primarily cheetahs and lions.
Ostrich eyes are surrounded long eyelashes, which protect them both from the African sun and from dust raised by the wind.
Ostriches build a nest in a small depression, digging it in sandy soil and covering it with something soft. The female incubates the eggs during the day because her gray coloration blends well with her surroundings; the male, with predominantly black feathers, incubates at night.
Females lay from three to eight eggs in a common nest, and each of them takes turns incubating the eggs in turn. One egg weighs more than one and a half kilograms and has a very strong shell. Sometimes it takes a baby ostrich a whole day to break the shell and hatch from the egg.
The ostrich's beak is short, flat and very strong. It is not specialized for any particular food, but serves to pluck grass and other vegetation and grab insects, small mammals and snakes.
Rhinoceros.
This huge pachyderm lives in both Africa and South and Southeast Asia. There are two species of rhinoceroses in Africa, distinct from the Asian ones. African rhinoceroses have two horns and are adapted to habitats characterized by large spaces with very few trees. The Asian rhinoceros has only one horn and prefers to live in forest thickets. These animals are on the verge of extinction because they are ruthlessly hunted by poachers for their horns, which are in high demand in some countries.
Despite its mass, the African rhinoceros is very mobile and can make sharp turns while running.
A female rhinoceros usually gives birth to one calf every two to four years. The baby stays with his mother for a long time, even when he grows up and becomes independent. Within an hour, a newborn calf can follow its mother on its own legs; moreover, it usually walks either in front of her or on the side. It feeds on mother's milk for a year, and during this time its weight increases from 50 to 300 kilograms.
Male rhinoceroses, like many other animals, fight for the right to become the leader. At the same time, they use the horn as a stick, that is, they hit with the side, and not with the tip. It may happen that during a single combat the horn breaks, but then it grows back, albeit very slowly.
A rhinoceros's eyesight is poor; it sees only close up, like a nearsighted person. But he has the finest sense of smell and hearing; he can smell food or an enemy from afar.
Ro / Interesting facts about animals of the jungle and rainforest
In the Amazon forest.
Rainforests characterized by lush vegetation; under trees with tall trunks, despite the fact that their crowns let in little light, a dense undergrowth grows. It has high humidity - precipitation is frequent here and is conducive to the development of plants of any type. Such an environment is almost ideal for supporting the life of countless animals that find food there in abundance. Naturally, this environment is especially favorable for small and medium-sized animals, which, even more often, can move with dexterity.
Pelican.
This bizarre bird with a distinctive beak is found on all continents and, depending on its habitat, has slight differences in shape and size. Its most typical habitat is sea coasts and lakes. It feeds on aquatic animals, mainly fish. These birds fish in a special way at low tide. They gather in groups and beat the water together with their wings, scaring the fish and forcing it to swim towards the shore, where it is clearly visible and its maneuverability is difficult. The fish become easy prey for the pelicans; they fill their beaks with it, on the lower part of which there are expandable throat sacs. The prey is taken to the nest and calmly eaten there.
Pelican- a very large bird, reaching 1.8 meters in length, and its wingspan is up to 3 meters. In search of food they are able to dive to depths.Pelicans- birds are social, live in numerous colonies, get food together and build nests.
American white pelican most lives in the southern part of the United States of America, Mexico and Central America. During the breeding season, birds living in more northern areas move to the south, where the climate is milder and more favorable for the development of chicks. The plumage of pelicans is almost completely white, with only light yellow spots on the chest and wings.
The pelican's nest is a bulky structure made of reeds, dead wood and feathers. When adult birds bring food to the nest for their chicks, they pull it out of the parents’ throats with their beaks, already half-digested, which makes it easier for them to digest the food.
The female lays two or three bluish or yellowish eggs and incubates them for about 30 days. The chicks are born completely naked. The plumage grows over the next 10 days. The female is slightly smaller in size than the male.
Sloths so named for the extreme slowness of their movements, reminiscent of movements in slow motion filming. The constantly wet skin of sloths serves as a breeding ground for microscopic algae, which is why the animals' fur acquires a greenish tint, making them almost invisible among the foliage.Jaguar.
An animal similar to a leopard, but larger; It is also distinguished by a special pattern on the skin: ring-shaped dark spots, inside of which there are smaller specks. Jaguars hunt alone and mainly on the ground, although they crawl well in trees and swim. Having caught prey, the predator usually hides it somewhere in a secret place and then eats it piece by piece.
Jaguars give birth to two or three young. Like all predators, they teach their growing babies to hunt.
Tapir.
The most common South American species is land tapir, lives near bodies of water. It swims well and can cross fairly wide rivers; Sometimes tapirs even dive to get the stems of aquatic plants that serve as food for them.
The dense foliage of the Amazon forest is home to a wide variety of wild birds. Here stroll the red-brown hoatzin and the crested serima, whose legs are better suited for running than wings for flying. Quezal builds a nest inside a termite mound and the termites do not cause him any disturbance. The eagle owl, a nocturnal predator with a long crest on its head, lives in the most impassable places, and therefore ornithologists have not yet been able to figure out its habits.
This tiny bird (size from 5.7 to 21.6 cm; weight from 1.6 to 20 g) with a long curved beak is capable of flapping its wings so often that it manages to hang almost motionless in the air, sucking nectar from a flower. This is the only bird in the world that can fly backwards.
Swordbeak Hummingbird. When fluttering, this bird makes more than 50 wing beats per second. So it can freeze motionless in the air or fly at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. The swordbill's beak is very long and straight, whereas other hummingbirds have a curved beak.
g rhinoceros can reach a length of 1.5 meters.
We rarely think that another life is in full swing around us. Fluffy, feathered, growling, meowing creatures live their amazing lives. Scientists have discovered so many interesting facts about animals! Here are some of them.
Pets
The dog's tail is a mood barometer
Everyone's favorite - dogs don't wag their tail chaotically, as some people think, but quite consciously. Scientists confirmed this by examining 30 dogs. It turns out that the dog, being in a complacent mood, waves its tail to the right. If the dog’s day is “not going well”, if the dog is sad, then the tail swings are more directed to the left.
Cat is a doctor
Scientists have confirmed that the owners of “murkas” live 10 years longer than people who do not have these fluffies at home. A person stroking a cat's pulse decreases and their headache goes away.
Animals of Belarus
Wise hare
The saying “trembles like a hare’s tail” is very far from the truth. The fluffy ball of fur on the long-eared tail is not shaking out of fear. This is a cunning strategic maneuver that a chess player would call a gambit (sacrifice a little to gain an advantage).
The quivering tail distracts the attention of the pursuer, who tries to paw the runner precisely by this white mark. However, along with the skin, the tail fur is easily separated, helping the hare gain such important minutes for salvation.
Badger - designer
Badgers live in large families. There's no room for everyone in a small hole. So smart animals have to build underground burrows-palaces. The underground dwellings of badgers turn into complex labyrinths, which have many “rooms” for different purposes: bedrooms, living rooms, storage rooms.
Beavers are builders
Beavers build their underwater dam houses in the middle of the pond - away from predators and prying eyes. The height of their houses is more than a meter, and the longest beaver dam reached 0.7 m. But no matter how securely the animals hide their shelters, they can be seen from... space! Yes Yes! Beaver dams are the only animal structure visible from space.
Shy bison
This huge bull has practically no enemies. But he doesn't like to graze in open places, on public display. Therefore, he eats hastily, filling his stomach with practically unchewed grass. The bison learned to make chewing gum from it. After grazing, the bull goes to a secluded place, regurgitates hastily swallowed grass and chews it. The herbal chewing gum is swallowed again, but now into a different part of the stomach.
Thrifty mole
A mole hole can have up to 6 floors, which are connected by many storage rooms with different goodies!
Animals of Africa
Rhino is a poor fellow
Rhinos are very unlucky because of their horns. For some reason, it has long been believed that these horns have miraculous powers and are capable of not only healing diseases, but also bringing good luck and wealth. The deepest delusion! A rhinoceros horn is not even a horn at all, but a long tuft of tightly fused hair.
Giraffe - sprinter
The long-necked animal giraffe is completely wrong to be considered clumsy and clumsy. If necessary, it is capable of accelerating to “car” speed - 50 kilometers per hour.
Tiger and lion. Who is stronger?
People consider the lion to be the king of beasts, although this title is more suitable for another representative of the cat - the tiger. It is much larger than a lion: it weighs more than 300 kilograms, while lions weighing over 230 are rare.
In a fight between a tiger and a lion, the striped giant will most likely win: of all predatory animals, it has the most powerful teeth, and it has more experience in hunting alone than a lion accustomed to living in a pack. The tiger rarely misses its prey: thanks to its good camouflage (striped skin) and silent, soft gait, it sneaks up on its prey unnoticed and delivers a crushing blow with lightning speed.
Elephant is a neat guy
The clumsiness and clumsiness of the elephant are greatly exaggerated. If he suddenly happens to wander into a china shop, then, contrary to popular belief, he will not cause the slightest harm to its contents.
A cautious and clumsy elephant by nature, before taking a step, it feels the space in front of it with its sensitive trunk - and only then puts its front leg on the ground. Taking the next step forward, he steps with his back foot exactly in the footprint left by the front. And the giant’s trunk is so flexible and dexterous that it can even accurately lift a pin! What can we say about a porcelain cup or saucer?
More facts
Miracle filter
It was not people who invented drinking purified water. Seagulls learned to filter undrinkable salty sea water much earlier. The tonsils of these birds are designed in such a way that they filter and desalinate sea water, making it quite suitable for drinking.
Fish with legs
There are fish that feel great on land. This is a tropical creeper fish, the Pineapple. If hard times come in its native reservoir (the river becomes shallow or there is too little food), the slider climbs ashore and goes to hiking to other, more fertile places.
With the help of sharp spines, the fish can not only move quickly on the ground, but even climb tree trunks. And the special structure of the gills allows the persimmon to breathe oxygen from moist air.
Who is the biggest in the world?
The largest land predator is not a tiger at all, but polar bear. On average, it weighs about 500 kilograms, and large specimens weigh up to 800! Moreover, half of the body weight is subcutaneous fat, which, like a warm sheepskin coat, warms the bear in the severe Arctic frosts. Even when the thermometer shows 60 degrees, the animal is not cold. Fat also helps the polar bear swim, keeping it in the water like a life jacket.
Silly butterflies 
Contrary to popular belief, butterflies are not attracted to the source of light, but to darkness. They look for the most secluded, darkest corners, but choose them, focusing precisely on the illuminated areas of the surface. According to “butterfly logic,” darkness is located directly behind the light source: so stupid moths fly towards the fire, scorching their delicate wings.
The smartest bird
If the popular TV game "Smartest" were played among birds, the crow would win the top prize. She not only learns quickly, showing miracles of ingenuity in obtaining food, but also... does not mind having fun!
One of the favorite pastimes of crows is riding on the gilded domes of temples. Shiny surfaces attract these birds. After unsuccessful attempts to drag “such beauty” into the nest, the crows find another use for the inclined surface. They use it as a downhill slide and slide down on their bellies to the edge of the dome, braking with sharp claws. Of course, such games cause significant damage to domes. But the crows themselves are absolutely delighted with such an amusement park.
Conclusion
Amazing animals and birds! Watch them, love them and do not offend them.
The only European country where goshawks are not found is Iceland.
Chameleons can throw out their tongue a distance equal to half the length of their body. In addition, its eyes are able to rotate independently of each other, so the chameleon can look in all directions at the same time without moving its head.
The electric generators of the South American electric eel can generate voltages of up to 1200 volts at a current of 1.2 A. This is enough to light six hundred-watt light bulbs.
In order for an ostrich egg to be hard-boiled, it must be boiled for at least 40 minutes.
Ferrets sleep up to 20 hours a day.
The French call the pigeon a "flying rat."
Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs and wolves.
Tigers not only have striped fur, but also striped skin.
The gar fish has green bones.
The octopus has a rectangular pupil.
A horse has 18 more bones than a human.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.
is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly. In addition, it is the only bird that walks standing.
In the Falkland Islands there are 350 sheep (700,000) per inhabitant (2000), and in New Zealand there are 20 sheep.
The leafcutter ant can lift and move loads that weigh 50 times its own weight.
The mass of an elephant's brain is approximately 0.27% of its body mass.
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so happy that they fed them all to death.
One ostrich egg can make eleven and a half omelettes.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
If a bat heard its call, which it uses to locate, unreflected, it would go deaf. Therefore, before emitting a locating cry, the mouse makes a squeak, which causes the muscles of the hearing aid to tense, and it perceives a loud cry normally.
Each bee hive is home to 20-60 thousand. The queen bee lays almost 1,500 eggs per day and lives up to two years. Drones, whose only job is to help the queen, live up to 24 days and do not have a stinger. Worker bees (all sterile females) - usually work until death (about 40 days), collecting pollen and nectar.
There are 321 species of hummingbirds in the world (for example: sword-billed, ruby, ruby-headed, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, racket-tailed, giant (swallow-sized:).
There are approximately 500 zoos in the world.
The caterpillar's body has more muscles than the human body.
A tit feeds its chicks a thousand times per day.
The female armadillo has a unique ability. In stressful situations, it can delay childbirth for up to two years.
The Mola Mola fish (or ocean sunfish) lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at a time.
The speed of movement of the snail is about 1.5 mm/sec.
The world's largest reptile (and most dangerous to humans) is the saltwater crocodile.
A male emperor moth can sense and locate a female of his species from a distance of two kilometers.
The front paws have five toes, and the hind paws have four. Tiger claws reach a length of 8-10 cm.
Guys, this year, in the magazine, we read a lot about animals. Let's summarize and remember the most interesting.
1 Chameleons can move their eyes in different directions at the same time.
2 The squirrel is the best gardener. Millions of trees grow because squirrels forget where they hid their seeds.
3 An elephant tooth can weigh up to nine kilograms!
4 Mammals have red blood, insects have yellow blood, lobsters have blue blood.
5 On average, cows poop 16 times a day.
6 Ants never sleep. Instead, they take eight minutes of “rest” twice a day. The queen ant rests for 90 minutes a day.
7. Basenji is the only dog that cannot bark.
8. Only half of a dolphin's brain sleeps. The other half is awake at that time and monitors the surrounding situation.
9. A flea can only move by jumping; the muscles of its legs are designed like catapults. They accumulate energy and “shoot” the flea into a jump.
10. A giant squid's eye is the size of a basketball.
11. Hippos give birth underwater to protect their babies from falling!
12. A swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.
13. A 20-meter eel can produce enough energy to light 12 light bulbs.
14. Snakes see through their eyelids.
15. Rats can laugh if you tickle them.
16. A mole can dig a tunnel up to 300 meters long in one night.
17 Because of his constant smile, the quokka is known to be the happiest animal.
18 Navy seals can hold their breath for two hours.
19. When oysters need to reproduce, they can change their sex.
20. Crows are so smart that they love to play pranks! They can even sneak up on a dog from behind and playfully grab its tail with its beak.
22. Humpback whales make the loudest sound of any mammal, it can be heard 20 kilometers away!
23. Horses have a good memory, they can remember things, people they met, as well as skills they mastered several years ago.
24. Zebras run in zigzags to escape predators.
25 Ladybugs can clean up food after themselves.
26. A narwhal's skin color depends on its age: the lighter the skin, the older the narwhal.
27. Koalas have fingerprints similar to human ones.
28. All meerkats have responsibilities in the group in which they live.
29. Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues!
30. When spider monkeys meet, they hug each other.
31. Cats have 32 muscles in each of their ears.
32. The bats Are they the only mammals that can fly?
33. Left-handed polar bears.
34. A goldfish has a memory of 3 seconds
35. Even after a jellyfish has died, it can still sting.
36. Dung beetles can carry loads up to 50 times their body weight.
37. The heart of a shrimp is in its head.
38. A snail can sleep for three years in a row.
39. A chipmunk's cheeks can stretch from nuts and food to three times the length of its head.
40 A tiger not only has a striped skin, but also a body.
41 Seahorses swim “holding hands” by tying their tails together.
42. An ostrich's eye is larger than the size of its brain.
43. Wolves can eat 20 kg of meat in one meal.
44. Butterflies taste food with their feet.
45. The golden eagle can fly at speeds of over 250 km/h.
46. Poison frog - arrow can kill 2200 people.
47. Lions cannot roar until they are 2 years old.
48. Skunks can spray a protective stink within a 10 meter radius.
49. Sharks lived before dinosaurs! Shark fossils date back 450 million years.
50. Unlike most cat species, ocelots are excellent swimmers.
51. Prairie dogs live in burrows that have a separate bathroom, children's area and sitting area.
52. The sailfish is the fastest fish and reaches a speed of 115 km/h.
53 The male penguin “offers” his hand and heart to the female, giving her a stone. If she accepts it, she puts this gift in her nest.
54 The peacock is considered the most beautiful bird among Galliformes. The peacock is a very close relative of the rooster.
55. A newborn elephant weighs about 100 kilograms.
56. Marmots whistle when they are in danger.
57. Emperor penguins can dive to depths of up to 500 meters and can hold their breath for 18 minutes.
58. There are 50 million monkeys in India.
59. Flies buzz with the note FA.
60. Blue whale weighs as much as three elephants.
61. Gibbons have the longest arms of any primate.
62 Goats burp frequently.
63. Catfish have taste buds throughout their body.
64. The spray can hit prey with spitting from a distance of 1.5 meters.
65. Wombats have square-shaped poop.
66 Llamas have no hooves.
67. When porcupine babies are born, they have soft quills that harden after a few days.
68. A camel can go without water for two weeks.
69. Elk has very sensitive horns.
70. Geckos sometimes eat their tails after losing them.
71. During its life, a busy bee produces one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
72. The rate of reproduction of rats is so high that under favorable circumstances, 2 rats could produce offspring of 1 million rats within a year and a half.
73. Some moths can grow as big as the palm of an adult's hand.
74. Jackal cubs are born underground.
75. A grasshopper can jump a distance 20 times its body length.
76 In flamingos, their beautiful color comes from the algae, diatoms and small crustaceans they eat, which are rich in carotene.
77. You can recognize turtles by their sound: males grumble, females hiss.
78 Betta fish can survive without water for several hours.
79 Dragonflies can fly in any direction - forward, backward and to the sides. These are the fastest flying insects, their speed reaches almost 100 kilometers per hour.
80 Blue whales- the largest animals on Earth.
81 People were able to photograph a living giant squid only in 2006. These half-ton monsters live at a depth of 200 meters to a kilometer.
82 The buzzing of a bee is produced by four wings, which beat 11,400 times per minute. The flight speed of a bee is 25 kilometers per hour.
83 The Asian giant hornet bites the most painfully of all insects. Here it is found in the Primorsky Territory.
84. The Tarantula spider can live without food for two years.
85. A wounded or frightened possum will fall over dead, its eyes glazed over, its mouth foaming, and its anal glands emitting a stench. After the danger has passed, the possum revives and recovers.
86. There are no snakes in Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica.
87. Geese love blueberries!
88. Silver ants of the Sahara Desert can live in temperatures up to 158 degrees.
89. Goat milk has 5 times less fat than cow milk. Cow's milk takes an hour to digest, goat's milk takes 20 minutes.
90. Scorpios glow in the dark.
91. Seagulls can drink salt water. They have special glands that remove excess salt from the body.
92 Red pandas use their furry tail as a blanket to keep warm.
93. The only dog whose tongue is not pink is the chow chow
94. Japanese macaques have learned to buy goods from vending machines.
95 Unlike land turtles, sea turtles do not retract their heads into their shells.
96. Emus cannot walk backwards.
97. Sponges create their own special chemicals that they secrete in the water to protect them from predators.
98. Mice have more bones than humans: about 230. Humans have 206.
99 On average, a chicken lays 190 eggs per year.
100. If a lion and a polar bear start fighting, then the polar bear will win
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