Shadows

Curiosities about animals

All these sentences are true.

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
Cockroaches can live without a head for 8 days. They die of starvation.
Penguins can drink sea water. They have a special enzyme that filters the water and releases the salt from their beak.
Giraffes can lick their ears with their tongues.
Snails can sleep for three years.
Bats can sleep upside down. Bats can eat 1000 mosquitoes in 1 hour.
Tigers like swimming.
Mosquitoes like bananas. If you have eaten a banana they are more likely to bite you.
Polar bears eat with their left paw/hand. All polar bears are left-handed.
Frogs can’t drink. They absorb water via osmosis. Some frogs eat mice. There’s a large Argentinean frog that can eat a mouse in one swallow.
The original name for the butterfly was flutterby.
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spary blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there,
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Crocodile only animal & reptile that sheds tear while eating.
There are more chickens than people in the world
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated