Without plants and animals, our life would be impossible. Think about it for a moment. The food we eat comes from plants. Plants produce food by pollination, an activity carried out by bats and birds, bees and butterflies.
Today is a very historic day as the whole world come together to celebrate World Wildlife Day. We bring to you interesting facts about wildlife as we join the world in celebration of this day. Happy World Wildlife Day
- The kingfisher bird inspired the design of bullet trains.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- The Hyperion is the tallest living tree and is found in California
- The largest flower in the world Rafflesia arnoldii is found in Indonesia. Who’s travelling there this holiday?
- Starfish don’t have brains
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.
- Anteaters can consume 35,000 ants and termites in a single day.
- About 3 – 6 billion trees are being cut down annually.
- Pandas spend up to 16 hours a day eating. The rest of the day they typically sleep.
- Beneath the white fur of polar bears is their dark skin. Yeah right, they have a black skin.
- The star-nosed mole has 25,000 sensory receptors on its nose.
- Octopuses have nine brains — one central brain, eight at the base of each arm, for movement control — and blood the color blue from a protein called hemocyanin
- Kangaroos can’t walk backwards
- A heard of buffalos can kill a lion. They can fight back a pride of lions
- Female killer whales go through menopause
- Elephants stay pregnant for an average of 22 months. One stubborn baby, however, stayed put for 700 days. That’s almost two years.
- The tongue of a whale weighs about 2.7 tonnes. That is as much as an elephant
- A snake in one Nigerian zoo went a year without food and did not die. The longest on record is two years.
- Flamingoes stand on one leg to stay warm. Keeping one leg close to the body, one theory goes, conserves heat
- A giraffe’s tongue is 21 inches long.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Lions, Elephants are some of the animals present in Nigerian Forests
- The killer whale is actually a dolphin
- Dolphins can jump as high as 20 feet out of the water.
- A blue whale’s heart weighs around 1,500 pounds, the largest of any animal. (Guiness book of records)
- Crocodiles can’t stick out their tongues.
- Elephants mourn and even bury their dead relatives.
- Pythons do not produce venom.
- 10 thousand species of animals are discovered each year
