FACTS OF MAMMALS
THE MOST ADVANCED & INTELLIGENT SPECIES.
2. It is said that
animal with social behaviour like lions have more intelligence.
3. Whales produce loudest
sounds in animal kingdom, if a human being hears that at a close range he
may lose his ear drums.
4. Koalas are the only
mammals which do not drink water the moisture that they take from the leaves is enough which comes from it's diet.
5. Koala is the only
mammal which spends its entire time eating eucalyptus leaves
6. Mammals do not
have pubic bone & clavicals & interclavical are not fused.
7. Kangaroos are
the fastest growing mammals from an inch (new born) to adult 6 feet.
8. Asian female
elephants have no tusks.
9. A group of elephants eat
10-15 tons of grass a day; human beings would take 60-70 years to
eat that much of food.
10. Animals produce 1,
00,000 tons of dung every year & 75,000 tons of dung is
used by dung beetle for laying eggs.
11. Chimps can
remember things better than horses.
12. Cheetahs got
that largest heart despite of their size.
13. Some carnivores
like tigers & canines eat grass to improve digestion by adding some fibre through grass.
14. Cheetah is the
only big cat which can’t retract its claws.
15.
Most of the carnivores consist of razor carnassial through which they
crake the bones & cut flesh.
Figure 1
skull of a saber toothed tiger(xenosmilus)
16. White tiger gene
is obtained from the genes of royal Bengal tiger.
17. Black panther aren't new species of cats, just a variation.
18. Did you ever
wonder, why humans have appendix, it is the remnant of cellulose
digestive system of our ancestors.
19. Cheetahs have
the largest nostrils when compared to any big cat.
20. There are over 1.7-1.8 million species of
animals of that 5000 species are mammals.
21. Mammals are
highly evolved social animals.
22. The largest
mammal in the world is blue whale growing 100 feet.
23.
The smallest mammal in the world is bumblebee bat
no less than an inch.
24. For every 1
person in this world there are 1 million ant’s sounds very huge.
25. The smallest
mammal in regarding the mass is pygmy shrew.
26. A male lion can
consume 40-50 pounds of meat in one sitting.
27. Male lion rest 21
hours a day while female go for hunting.
28. Lion is the king
of the forest & it is forbidden, but a bear can kill it.
29.
The skin of polar bear is black, but the fur is white.
30.
A Tapir eats 200-400 pounds of leaves & fruits a
day including poisonous leaves, at the night it eats clay or mud
to dissociate poison molecules, making it the anti-poison.
31. Monkeys eat charcoal
to dissociate poison molecules.
32. The dark lines
on the face of cheetah allowing them to hunt even under the hot sun, hence they
act as reflectors.
33. Bat is the only
mammal to take flight.
34. The legs of bats
are so thin & fragile that, it will easily break it's bone while walking so
a bat hangs up-side-down.
35.
Bowhead whales have the longest life span of any mammal which is around
200 years.
36.
Sifaka is the only primate which walks sideways.
37.
Vampire bats are the only mammals with antiseptic saliva which
will give numbness to the skin.
38. A baby kangaroo
is just an inch long within 4-5 years it will grow up to 4 feet.
39. If a kangaroo’s
tail is lifted off the ground it can't jump.
40. Just 80-85 cows
are enough to give 1 gallon of milk.
41. As the size
increases there is a prominent reduction in the length of the tail in primates.
42. Peacock does
not lay eggs cause they are male forms of pheasant.
43. Giraffes do not
have vocal cords
44. A male lion's
roar can be heard up to 8 km.
45. No 2 patterns of
tiger, cheetah, leopard, and zebra are same.
46. The largest
tiger weighed around 1200 pounds.
47. The average
weight of an elephant is less than weight of blue whales’ tongue.
48. The eyes of
Tarsier are larger than its brain.
49. Goats were best
pets for early men.
50. Goat has no gall
bladder.
51. Some mammals like rabbit eat their
faeces which is more nutritive than the grass only during nights.
52. Rabbits & lions are
polygamous which mean 1 male will mate with many females.
53. The largest cat weighs 23 kgs but it is on a diet.
54. A dog smell is 1000
times better than man.
55.
Proboscis monkeys are the only monkeys with projection of skin on their nose.
Figure 8 proboscis
monkey
56. An angry hippo
has red sweat.
57. Hyenas have the
largest bite force of any mammals (about 1000 pounds/sq. inch).
58. Few scientists
believe that kangaroo evolved from rats.
59. The prehistoric
whale was a land roaming dog like creature called pakicetus.
60. The largest dog
is Great Dane growing up to 7 feet while the
smallest dog is chi Wawa growing few inches.
61. Chow is the only dog without a pink
tongue.
62.
Kangaroo is the
only animal which can lift its body off the ground with its tail.
63. Duck build platypus & echidna are the only
egg laying mammals.
64. The African wild dog’s scientific name is lycaonpictus which means a painted dog.
65. Grey hounds are
the fastest dogs running about 40-50 kmph.
66. An ant eater is 6feet
in length but it's mouth is less than an inch.
67. Man’s closest
relative is chimpanzee. They meet 95% our body, some cases
doctors even used chimp’s blood for transfusion.
68. The only
mammalian predator of Madagascar is fossa.
69. Elephants can
run as fast as 45-50 km/h.
70. Clouded leopard has the largest canines
of any big cat.
71. The leader for
the group of elephants is an alpha female not the male.
72. New Zealand is the only island where the
sheep population exceed the population of man.
73. The heart of
the blue whale is as big as a school bus.
74. Dolphins sleep
with their eyes open & half brain working.
75. The largest
dolphin is killer whale or orca.
76. The longest
standing mammal on the land in giraffe which is around 20feet.
77. An elephant seal
has 6 inch fact which is more or less equal to the elephant.
78. 3 tow sloths is
the slowest mammal in the world.
80. A dog can smell 1000 times better
than a human being.
81. A rhinosaurs
horn is made of hair a kind of protein.
82. Dolphins are the only animals
with half brain working while sleeping.
83. Dolphins are the only mammals
with their eyes open while sleeping.
85. A camel
never stores the water in their hump in the form water.
86. Camels are the only mammals with
biconcave.
87. A male lion after 1 year is left
alone by its family, as it should become the alpha male of other pride.
88. Cheetahs have the largest heart
when compared to any big cat.
89. A skunk is one animal you should
never mess with because its scent is very very horrible.
90. Humans have remanent of nictitating membrane which is left as a pinck arch near the anterior side of the eye,this is used by our anscistor to prevent the dust from entering into their eyes.
91. The largest bat
in the world is flying fox.
92. There is no carnivorous mammal in Australia except
dingo.
93. Cows can sleep while standing but they can only
dream while sitting.
94. Silver back gorillas are the only primates living
at very high altitudes, even mountains.
95. An anteater eats 10-20 ants per second
96. Duck build platypuses are poisonous
creatures with venom glands present near their legs.
97.Duck build platypuses are the only mammals with bills.
98.
Bactrian camel has 2 humps.
99. Every feline stock before hunting its prey.
100. Over 1 million years ago single species of dog was separated into
wolves & fox.
101.
Aye-Aye is a blizzard
insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
102.
A three toed sloth is the slowest
mammal in the world.
104.
Duck build platypuses are poisonous
creatures with venom glands present near their legs.
105.
A blue
whales heart is as large as a school bus.
106.
Duck build platypus does not have nipples on their breast though it is a mammal & only males have poisonous spine.
107.
Cenezoic era is the golden age of mammals.
108.
Mammals have evolved from a group of dinosaurs called as tetrapod.
109. Red Kangaroo is the largest marsupial on earth with a length of 8-9 feet.
109. Red Kangaroo is the largest marsupial on earth with a length of 8-9 feet.
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FACTS OF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
1. REPTILES ARE THE GOD FATHERS OF
LAND KINGDOM.
2. There are over 8354 species of reptiles.
3. Study of reptiles &
amphibians is called as Herpetology.
4. Snakes account 2700 species, lizards are 5200
species.
5. Almost 1200 species of lizards have the poisonous
saliva which is able to digests tissue within 10 hours.
6. Komodo dragons have vestigial venom glands.
7. Snakes got venom glands when they are yet to evolve
from a lizard.
8. It was proved that first venom gland was produced
& then the hallow fangs as in case of snakes.
9.
Reticulated pythons are the
longest snakes in the world growing up to 35 feet or more.
10. The saliva of Komodo dragon has 80 species of bacteria.
11. Komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world
growing up to 10 feet in length.
12. A bit from Komodo dragon kills you in just 4-6
hours faster than the normal venom.
13. The only venomous lizards in the world are the
Mexico beaded lizard & gila monster.
14. A crocodile has the largest bite force in animal
kingdom.
15. Crocs can't move their tongue as the tongue is attached to the upper part of
mouth.
16. The bite force of alligator snapping turtle is 2
times greater than lion which is around 1002 pound.
17. Spine tailed lizards are the fastest reptiles in
the world.
18. A group & lizards are called longe.
19. A group of crocodiles are called swamp.
20. Tortoises can live up to 200 years not turtles.
21. The reason for the huge life span of tortoises is
because they are one of the slowest animals in the world with slow metabolism.
22. The glasses of the big buildings are washed by
using a wall gecko’s principle.
23. Dwarf geckos are the smallest reptiles in the world
growing up to 2-3cm.
24. Toads are stouter than a frog.
25. Species of toads produce bufotoxin from the
poisonous glands called paratoid glands.
26. Frogs & toads release their eggs in white dense
lather which consist of eggs that is called as spawn.
27.
The most poisonous frog is dart
frogs, which has venom twice as strong as rattle snakes venom.
28.
Jesus Christ lizard or a basilisk
can literally walk on water forming air pockets.
29. Flying snakes are known to cover distances like
600-700 meters.
30. The fastest snake in the world is black mamba,
going up to 20 km/h
31. Birds are dinosaurs.
32. It is believed that most of the bright colour frogs
& toads are poisonous.
33. Both birds & modern day reptiles are classified
under same family called diapsid.
34. Anacondas are the largest snakes in the world,
weighing 200 kegs.
35. Sea snakes are more poisonous than land snakes.
36. All snakes are carnivorous.
37. Amphibians are first to live on land.
38. Any reptile if doesn't bask will die.
39. Crocodiles have bony plates on the body even can’t piers through it.
40. Largest reptile in the world is salt water crocodiles.
41. All reptiles including a tortoise have to shed its
skin.
42. Any snake having blue eyes, is
about to shed its skin.
43. All snakes have come from a
common descendent called the blind snakes.
44. The pygmy leaf tailed gecko is
the smallest reptile in the world.
45. The Pinta island tortoise is most
recently extinct tortoise.
46. All amphibians respire through
skin this is called cutenicious respiration.
47. Cane toads where re located to
Australia from Brazil, it seems that the population of cane toads is more in
Australia than in Brazil.
48.
Gavials have primitive character like no other crocodile.
49. Crocodile produce low frequency sounds which
vibrate & raise water by half a feet.
50. Most of the crocodiles are capable of killing &
eating large prey but a gavial can’t because of its snout.
51. A crocodile can hold its breath about 2 hours under
water.
52. Few reptiles are herbivores like green iguana.
53. Amazingly Nile crocodile are even found in
Madagascar.
54. Crocodiles have amazing power of hearing among
reptiles.
55. Crocodile jaws are capable of crushing bone but it
can even crack an egg very gently.
56.
Wood frogs are capable of surviving
temperature about -40 to -50 degrees.
57. The largest snake ever to live was titan boa it was
about 50 feet in length.
58. Crocodiles were land dwelling lizards like reptiles
during period of dinosaurs rule.
59. Chameleon has 3 different layers in their body to
exhibit many different colours.
60. Galapagos island tortoises are the world’s largest
tortoises growing up to 6 feet & weigh 300-400 kegs.
61. It is proved that turtles lay their eggs at the
same spot throughout their lives.
62. There are some reptiles whose pigmentation is more
activated during breeding season like the Indian peninsular rock agamid. The above
during breeding season &
the bottom during normal conditions.
63.
European adder is capable of
living in places like -10 to -12 degrees.
64.
The largest chameleon in the world
is parson's chameleon of Madagascar about 1 feet.
65.
The only reptile of New Zealand is tuataras.
66. King cobras are the only snake to build & guard
its nest.
67. All sea snakes are cobra family.
68.
All vipers have triangular shaped
head.
69. Inland tipan become black during summer & olive
green during spring season.
70.
Inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world, just few ml of venom can kill 50, 00,000 mice.
71. A chameleon has of vision of 360 degrees.
72. Iguanas, komodo dragons have 2 hemipenises.
73. A female komodo dragon can lay eggs without the
sperm of male.
74. If a frogs mucus is no more no its skin it will
die.
75.
Lizards can give birth to living
once; one such lizard is yellow spotted tropical night
lizards.
76. A thorny devil can eat about 500-600 ants per
minute.
77. Thorny lizards are capable of shooting blood from
their eyes by building high pressure in their eyes when threatened.
78.
Yellow spotted salamanders are
poisonous.
79.
Axolotl salamanders can regenerate
their limbs.
80. A komodo dragon can smell the food up to
10 km, better than any other reptile.
81. Few reptiles eat leaves & fruits.
82. The most recently discovered reptile is bumblebee
gecko.
83. Komodo dragons like to eat rotten flesh.
84. Crocodiles & alligators have strongest immune
system of any reptile.
85. There a snake called hundred pacer, people believe
that after bitten by that snake the victim will die before taking the 100th
step.
86. When a frog, cockroach is allowed into a
devastating tornado, we human will die but frogs & cockroaches never die.
87. The largest crocodile to ever exist is Sarcasuchus which was about 40 feet from snout to vent.
88. The bit force of the crocodile that it may lose its
teeth.
89. A vine snake is bizarre snake with horizontal pupil
like drop.
90.
A ringneck snake is the only one
with a corkscrew tail.
91. Most of the lizards never take water from outside, as
the water which is formed during metabolism is enough which is called metabolic
water.
92.
The solmon island skink
is the only skink with prehensile tail.
93. The early amphibians developed
into reptiles which in turn gave rise to dinosaurs & land dinosaurs which
led to the formation of mammals.
94.
Some
frogs are capable of flying from trees like the Wallace’s
flying frog.
95. There are over 1200 species of
gecko around the world.
96. There are over 2500 varieties of skinks on the earth.
97. Chameleons have 3 layers of chromatophores on their body.
98. Chameleons are the only reptile
with 360 degree vision.
99. All reptiles store most of the
fats not in their stomach but in their tails.
100.
Crocodiles
have a 3rd eyelid called the nictitating
membrane which is transparent & which gives the crocodile a clear vision in
the water.
101. Water
snake & the queen snake of north & South America are alike.
102.All sea
snakes & desert snakes are refining their venom in form of potency.
103. All
snakes are carnivorous.
104. A coral
snake is the only elapid (cobra family) found in America.
105. There are
much species which resembles one and the other like the coral snake which is
highly poisonous & the scarlet king snake which is not venomous.
106.
A king
snake is well resistant to the rattlesnakes poison.
107. There are
limbless lizards which resemble a snake; if it is a lizard it will blink its eyes.
108. It is
believed that they used be a snake with hind limbs, which it uses it for
escaping from the predators.
109. There is
a difference between eyes of a viper which is cat like (vertical pupil) &
cobra species with a round pupil.
110. Since
snakes do not have eye lids they place their head at the centre of the coil to prevent falling of
light.
111.
The
largest viper of western hemisphere is the eastern diamondback rattle snake.
112.
The
stoutest viper is the gaboon viper & has longest fangs of any venomous
snake.
113.
The
longest venomous snake of Africa is the black mamba.
114.
There are
over 23 species of crocodiles in this world.
115.
The only
small lizard which can flick its forked tongue is the blue tongued skink.
116.
A thorny devil
do not drink water by its mouth, instead it have hydroscopic skin which will
transport the water to its mouth.
117.
A komodo dragons mouth consist of 80 species of
bacteria of which more than 10-15 species could be use full for human beings.
118.
Boomslang
is the only snake with sold fangs unlike being hallow which all snakes have.
119.
Boomslang
is the only colubrid which can kill a human being.
120.
Stokes
sea snake has the largest fangs of any sea snake.
121.
Most of
the sea snakes are 10 times more venomous than a land snake in spite of that
they are shy or having fangs in the rare end.
122.
A snake’s
venom is able to cure cancer, liver diseases & even may diseases.
123.
A frilled
neck dragon opens the over lapping scales on its neck & can still walk on 2
legs.
BIRDS or AVES
1.
THEY ARE RULERS OF AIR & QUEENS OF BEAUTY.
2. Study of the birds is called
ornithology.
3. Birds where the second flying creatures on earth
after the insects.
4. Birds are covered with primary & secondary
flight feathers, the primary flight feathers are used in lift & secondary
flight feathers are useful for stability.
5. There are about 10000 species of birds in the world.
6. Birds are very close relatives of reptiles.
7. The earliest dinosaurian bird produced feathers not for flight but for
insulation.
8.
The largest bird to take flight is kori bustard which is about 4-5 feet in
length.
9. Ostrich is the largest & lays the largest eggs
in the world.
10.
Peregrine falcon is the fastest
flying animal in the world hitting a speeds of 360kmph.
11. Some singing birds sing 24 hours to impress females.
12. Peacock does not lay eggs, as it is a male breed
peafowls are females & lay eggs.
13.
Most of the birds with a bent
upper beak called tomial tooth are classified under order accipitrade.
14. Most of the birds have more colour full vision than
human beings.
15.
Birds
have 6-7 X zoom in naturally, some birds
like rappell’s vulture can see a dead prey from the altitudes of 10000-11000
meters from sky.
16. Some birds can close their nostrils.
17. Wedge tailed eagle of Australia can kill a full
grown kangaroo.
18.
Harpy eagle of South America kills & takes small human children weighing about2-5kegs to its
nest.
19. Cassowary of Australia shows some characters of
feathered dinosaurs.
20. An ostrich never
builds nest & lays eggs on the ground.
21. Birds & crocodiles are classified under same
system called diapsida as they have 2 holes on their heads.
22.
Birds are evolved from the
dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx.
23. Bird droppings are some kind of acid which is
highly concentrated once fallen on your cloth it will bleach.
24.
Birds are endothermic animals & so they can even live in cold
regions like the steller's eagle.
25.
There is bird named arctic tern it
travels the longest distance during migration about twice the distance from
earth to moon.
26. Some male singing birds sing 24 hours a day to
impress females.
27. Some birds collect blue or shiny objects on its
nest to impress females.
28. Flying birds have hollow bones.
29. Torrent ducks are capable of standing even on the
most slippery rocks.
30. Ostrich eye is bigger than its brain.
31. The blue macaw is the largest parrot.
32. Philippine eagle is the largest eagle in the words.
33. The heaviest flightless bird in the world to ever
exist is dodo about 50 kg
34. The largest flying creature ever on earth is
Pterosaurs whose wing span was about 45 feet.
35. Albatross has the longest wingspan of any bird
relative to its size about 12feet.
36.
Australian pelican has the longest
beak of about 32 cm long.
37. There are about 15-20 types of beaks in the nature.
38. Parrot has same number of muscles as humans do
& so they can whistle & even some times talk like humans.
39. Birds are amniotic as the embryo is surrounded by
amnion.
40. A fast moving bird with a bent upper beak can smash
through human’s cranium.
41. Humming birds are the smallest birds.
42. Humming bird wing beat 30-40 per seconds.
43. Humming birds are the only birds which can fly
backwards.
44. Male penguins guard their eggs while females go for
hunting & bringing the food.
45.
Condor vulture is the largest American bird.
46. Velociraptor is a feathered dinosaur; they escape from predators by gliding from
tree to tree.
47. About one-third of birds can fly faster than a
cheetah.
48. The size of the feather can range from 2-40cm in
length.
49. Harp eagle are capable of caring up to 5-6 kg load
on their backs.
50. There are some birds which never drink water in
their life as the water produced during metabolism is enough.
51. Most of the birds have 10-20 times better vision
than human.
52. An Albatross eggs take 78 days to hatch.
53. The ostrich egg takes about 2 or 2:15 minutes to
completely get boiled.
54. The bird heart will beat 1000 times when it is in
the flight.
55. Penguins never drink water but eat snow.
56.
Blue capped ifrita & hooded pitohui are poisonous
birds, the poison come from the hidden glands of its wings.
57. The dusky scrub fowls built the largest nests in the world of about 16 feet in length & 36 feet in diameter.
58. Humming bird
builds the smallest neat which is about 2 cm.
59. Birds feed on insects, worms, even
small birds.
60. The most spectacular &
beautiful bird is the lesser bird of paradise.
61. The largest egg of any bird is
the ostrich egg.
62. A bird consists of 4 types of feathers.
63. Even a bird consists of 3 fingers
in its muscle.
64. A baby bird consists of only down
feathers.
65. Every feather consists of a small
hole at the tip through which nourishing takes place for feathers.
66. Most of the high speed flying birds consists of a lid over
the nostrils to prevent dust from entering.
67. Birds are as lucky as they are
descendants of Archaeopteryx which is a transition specie, paleontologists believe that a transition specie is 1 in 10,000 utmost rarest.
68. Humming birds are the only once
which can fly backward.
69. It is proved that in embryonic
stage of a bird it has teeth.
70. It has been proved that the diet
of many species of birds including pterosaurs (not a bird but dinosaurs)
includes fishes.
71. An owl can
rotate its head about 180 degrees this is due to extremely flexible nick.
72. Penguins are the only birds which
have none hallow bones of Antarctica.
73. After the birth of chick father
will give a protein diet for first 2-4 weeks from mouth.
74. The face of the owl acts as radar
dish receiving even minute sounds.
75. No other animal is covered with
feathers like the birds.
76. A bird’s beak is made of same
protein as our hair is made hence their beaks grow life-long.
77.Dancing bird of Paradise its wings around 80 per second while dancing which is comparatively more than the wing beat of hummingbird
77.Dancing bird of Paradise its wings around 80 per second while dancing which is comparatively more than the wing beat of hummingbird
(JOINTED
LEGS)ARTHROPODS FACTS
1. Insects are the most diversified arthropods
in the world.
2. There are over 10-20 millions of
insects in the world but we just know a million.
3. Arthropods include spiders,scorpions,ticks,crustaceans,centipede,millipede & most diverse Insects.
4. The study of insects is called ENTOMOLOGY.
5. Butterflies like monarch
butterfly are poison.
6. Insects larvae are considered to
one of the most protein diet.
7. Caterpillar feed on leaves &
grow 1000 times bigger which weighs around 2 pounds.
.
8. Insects are the first flying
animals on the earth.
9. You never see a flying insect
walk on the land they only hop if their wings are removed.
10. A tick sucks so much of blood
from the animals that a small size of quarter of a bean will become twice as
large as a bean.
11. Insect wings are made up of nervures connections.
12. Insects never talk to each other
instead they communicate with smell which is called pheromone.
13. On an average an insect beats 250 wings beats
per second but midges beat as many as 1000 times a second.
14. Goliath bird eating spider is the
largest spider in the world growing around 30-32 cm
15. Brazilian wandering spider is the most
venomous spider in the world.
16. Insects are covered by minute
hair like structures called Trichobotria
which alerts from incoming predator.
17. The most common spider in the
world is daddy long leg.
18. A honey bee produces about 3
million eggs in her life span.
19. A mosquito takes about 21 days to
complete it's life cycle only in the stagnant water.
20. Most of the flying insects mate
in the mid flight which is called nuptial flight.
21. Person who eats more bananas is
attracted by more mosquitos.
22. All mosquitos are attracted to
blue colour.
23. An house fly consist of 2 eyes
with 4000 hexagonal facets(small blocks).
24. If all house flies &
mosquitoes are eradicated there no imbalance in the ecosystem.
25. Bullet ants have one of the
painful stings in insect kingdom.
26. Trap jawed ants have the highest
bite force in animal kingdom relative to its size.
27. A queen of honey bee's is 10 time
larger & has a life span of 5 years.
28. Praying mantis are the largest
tropical insects in the worlds growing about
30 cm.
29. The largest arthropod ever was the
sea scorpions.
30. A grass hopper can jump 30 times
it's body length.
31. Fire flies have luminescent
bacteria in them & hence they produce light.
32. The largest butterfly is the
Queen Alexandra butterfly.
33. The fastest flying insect is the
dragon flies.
34. The shortest life span of any
animal is may fly which is around 1 hour.
35. Insects attain the fastest sexual
maturity of any creature on this planet.
36. The largest scorpion is emperor
scorpion.
37. The most venomous scorpion is the
death stalker.
38. Black wasps & Hornet are the
Asian deadliest killers.
39. All insects have antennae except
Arachnids.
40. It takes about 50,000 silk moths
for extraction of 1 kg silk.
41. Most of the entomologists believe that insects are the
first creatures to take flight.
42. House flies used to transmit a
disease called Spanish flue which wiped out 2/3rd population of Europe.
43. The deadliest animal in the world
is the mosquito.
44. There are several 1000s or 10000s
of insects yet to be discovered.
45. For every 1 person in the world
there about 1 million ants.
46. Bombardier beetle releases a chemical
substances so hot that the temperature range around 100-110
degrees centigrade.
47. Goliath beetle is the largest
insect in the world.
48. All flying insects can float on
water.
49. You will never see a flying
insects walking in on land.
50. A female mantis will rip off
males head after mating unless if he gets lucks.
51. A female black widow also kills
male black widow after mating & hence the name.
52. The dung beetle stores its eggs
wrapped around the dung 5 times bigger than its size.
53. A cockroach can survive without
its head up to 3 weeks, and dies only because of starving.
54. Cockroaches can survive in the
temperatures around 400-500 degrees centigrade.
55. The funnel web spider & red
back spiders are the deadliest spiders of Australia.
56. The desert six eyed sand spider
is the deadliest of Sahara.
57. Spiders have 6 -8 eyes.
58. Surprisingly DNA of dinosaurs has
been found embedded in stomach of dead mosquito which was trapped in the centre of amber as you have seen in Jurassic park.
59. Male mosquitoes do not feed on
human blood.
60. Ticks suck blood of animals &
become 10 times bigger than it's size which is around 1000 gallons of blood at
single time.
61. Spiders & Scorpions do not
have teeth & so they produce a digestive juice & drink the pulp of the
killed animals.
62. All insects lay
eggs except Scorpions.
63. Some living
scorpions reflect UV ray so they are seen in different colour.
64. Beetles have
metallic coloured wings which are used in jeweller.
65. A tarantula can
live 2 years without food.
66. Maggots are so
healthy that some people around the world have adopted eating them with cheese.
67. Blood of
cockroach is white since there is no RBCs.
68. Cockroaches can
eat any organic matter.
69. Insects are the
only creatures which were not evolved from pre-existing dinosaurs.
70. No insect can
fly above 400-500 feet; their body structure is restricted only to certain
height.
71. The colours on
the butterfly wings are formed by the pigment called cromatophores, this is no
fragile that if we catch hold of wings the pigments will fade.
72. There is a
caterpillar called the Assassin Caterpillar which is capable of killing 5
humans.
73. The main
difference between butterfly & moth is that butterfly consists of a
proboscis for sucking nectar & moths don't.
74. In the deep
caves of Asia pseudo scorpions are found.
75. The African borrowing cockroach
is the largest cockroach growing around 25cm long.
76. ALL insects, spiders are
invertebrates.
77. All insects have homologous mouth
parts that are they have same function but differ in structure according to
food habits.
78. Most of the insects are tropical
living & very few are cave dwelling.
79. Insects have stink glands on
their body by chance if you tough that it will be a horrible smell.
80. The desert centipede is the most
poisonous centipede.
81. Ants are the only animals which
don't sleep.
82. Honey bees visit around 1 million
flowers for nectar everyday
83. All insects are oviparous.
84. The hairs of the tarantula cause severe itching.
85. After mating a female praying mantis
kills male praying mantis.
86. An ant can life 100 times its own body weight.
87. A rhinoceros beetle is the longest beetle in
the world.
88. Insects
like spider wasps’ smell through their legs.
89. It is
proved that only some spiders produce milk apart from mammals which they use it
for producing silk thread.
90. All millipedes are detritivores they feed on
decaying matter.
91. The
brown recluse is one the most deadly spider in the world.
.
92. Spiders of the family troglobitidae have no eyes as they live in cave & are called cave spiders.
94.During mating a female honey bee receives 90 million sperms at a single time.
96. Most of the male tarantulas have palpal-tarsi which is modified part found only in adult males which helps in preventing the attack of female on male during copulation.
97. The diving bell spider is the only spider to live entirely under water.
98. Diving bell spiders breath through its spiracles which is surrounded by the air bubble.
99. Lobsters have 2 pairs of antennae in which one pair of it is used for excretion in the name of green glands.
100. Caterpillar has 3 pairs of pseudo legs which take a rectangular shape & does't do have legs on some segments.
OCEAN CREATURES
1. The oceanic creatures are the
most diversified creatures in the world.
2. These are the only animals with
no geographical barriers.
3. There are about 4-5 millions of
these creature but more than 70% is yet to be discovered.
4. Ocean is the birth of life which
is also called as Haldane soup.
5. The longest creature in the world
is the bootlace worm which of over 200 feet only found in the ocean beds
6. Elm is one of the rare animals
with both gills & lungs.
7. Lamprey has the highest number of teeth relative
to its size.
8. Pirosoma is the most bioluminescent animal in the world.
9. Sea creatures are the first
animals to detect a tsunami.
10. Cone shell is one of the most
poisonous animals in the world.
11. Quahog is a kind of shell having
longest lifespan which is over 400-450 years.
12. An Antarctic sponge is the oldest
known oceanic creature one of its specimen is about 1,500 years old.
13. The giant sunflower starfish is
the largest starfish in the world.
14. Fire urchin is one of the
deadliest of its kind.
15. Starfishes do not have brain.
16. The only well-developed sense organ
in starfishes is the sense of touch.
17.If an alpha female cyclone fish dies male takes the position of female.
18.Mantis shrimp has one of the most powerful claws which is capable of cutting glass.
19.The Transparent tunicate is 97% made of water.
17.If an alpha female cyclone fish dies male takes the position of female.
18.Mantis shrimp has one of the most powerful claws which is capable of cutting glass.
19.The Transparent tunicate is 97% made of water.
CEPHALOPODS
1. Cephalopods include octopus, squid &
cuttlefish.
2. Octopus & squids have 8
tentacles while cuttlefish has 10 tentacles.
3.
The
largest squid is the giant squid growing around 20 feet in length.
4. The largest octopus is the
Pacific giant octopus.
5. A chameleon changes it's colour
in 1min but an octopus changes it's colour in 3-5 sec.
6. All cephalopods grow their arms
after it’s cut.
7. All cephalopods
use jet Proportionality mechanism to escape.
8. An octopus releases poisonous ink
to escape from predators.
9. Only cuttlefish & octopus
have the ability to change colours.
10. Octopus has the
smallest brain in animal kingdom.
11. An octopus can
pass through the hole which is about 20 cm in diameter.
12. ALL cephalopods share a common
thing they are suckers, the poisonous beak to give a bone crushing bite.
13. The most
intelligent invertebrates.
14.
The most
poisonous octopus is blue
ring octopus 10,000
times potent than cyanide.
15. The mimic octopus can mimic 10-12
sea organisms like a snake, eel, fish, a sea weed etc.
16. An octopus will lay 2millions of
eggs in one time.
17. Since cephalopods have poor vision they come with the since of touch
through suckers.
18. An octopus has 1, 00,000 suckers
on the tentacles.
19. All cephalopods
are invertebrates.
20. Some octopus can change their
body shape according to the environment making them the ultimate blenders.
21. Most of the octopus is benthic.
22. There are no bones in the
tentacles of Cephalopod.
23. Baby octopuses are 2 cm in length
or even less.
24. Squids have the largest eyes in
the animal kingdom grow to the size of beach ball.
25. Cuttlefishes don't have to kill
their they can even hypothesis their prey by continues flow of lights through
the body.
26. Cephalopods are closely related to mammals
in regarding their behaviour.
27. One of the fears predator in the
ocean dark world is the red devil called as Humboldt
squid.
FISHES
1. THE MOST DIVERSIFIED ANIMALS IN THE WORLD.
2. The first formed living organisms
are the FISHES.
3. Fishes are gave rise do the land
dinosaurs.
4. Fishes gave rise to the amphibian
where are the fins of the fishes are modified to the limbs for walking.
5. Amphibians are the birth point of
all land dwelling creatures.
6. Fishes-Amphibians-Primitive
reptiles-Dinosaurs-small land dinosaurs-birds-modern dinosaurs-MAMMALS.
7. The largest fish is whale shark
growing around 60 feet in length.
8. The most poisonous fish in the
world is the stone fish.
9.
The mud skipper is the only fish which can even survive without water.
10. Fishes are the only creatures
which come in more than 500-600 different colours.
11. They are the first animals to
have gill slits.
12. The largest predatory fish is
great white shark.
13. The golden fish if taken to a
dark room will become pale.
14. The exoskeletons of fishes are
scales.
15. The lung fishes are the only
fishes with internal nostrils.
16. Keeping an aquarium in the home
will cure disease like depression.
17. The dead leaf fish is a dead leaf
fish.
18. A shark has 30,000 teeth in the
life time.
19. The largest shark to ever live is
the MEGALODON.
20. The most slowest animal in ocean is
sea horse.
21. Male sea horses will take care of
the children not female.
22. IN sea horses male has brood
pouch.
23. Sharks are the only animals with
movable upper jaw.
24. The fastest sea animal is sale
fish which is about 110kmph.
25. The fastest shark in the world is
the mako shark.
26. The most highly evolved shark is
the hammer head shark.
27. ALL sharks small holes under the
mouth which is called as AMPULLAE OF LORENZINI.
28. The flying fishes fly in the air
to escape from the predators like shark.
29. All sharks are cartilaginous fishes.
30.
Sunfish
is the heaviest of all bony fishes.
31. Some fishes migrate from salt
water to fresh water for laying eggs.
32. Salt water fishes like shark
store urine in their bodies.
33. The lion fish is one of the
poisonous fishes in the oceanic world.
34. Puffer fishes are poisonous which
was found accidentally in a research.
35. All fishes swim horizontally but
sea horses don't.
36.
A red
bellied piranha is one the most
dangerous carnivorous fishes capable of killing a human being too.
37.
Fishes
which live in the deep oceans like angler fish produce light on their own with
the association of bacteria.
38. A shark skin is made up of
backward serrated teeth.
39. It is proved that wearing a shark
dress while swimming will allow you to move more swiftly.
40. A shark can smell blood in 10000
gallon of water.
41. The bull shark kills more people
than any other shark.
42. Most of the fishes are acrodont & monodont,that
means the tooth of fish is not having a root & all teeth are of same kind.
43. The perfect blend is made by
leafy sea dragon which was discovered in 2007.
44. Torpedo ray consist of electric
organs & can deliver 2000-3000 volts of electricity.
45. Cod-liver oil from sardine &
shark liver oil from sharks have highest concentration of Omega 3 fatty acid
& vitamin D.
46. All fishes are ammonotelic which is a deadly product of
excretion & can't store it in the body for 4-5 hours or even less.
47. The underwater wrecks are home
for the formation of the new species which was recently discovered.
48. Amazon River dolphins are one of the very few fresh water dolphins.
49. Bull shark kills more people than
any other shark.
50. Most brands of lipstick contain
fish scales.
51.
There is
a fish which can fly off the surface of water they are called flying fish; they
do this as they have overlapping fins.
52. Although fan toothed fish is only
an inch its teeth is as large as humans teeth.
53. Cat fishes have 27500 while human
have 7000 taste buds.
54. A great white shark is of the
rarest fish which can rise its temperature by 2-4 degree centigrade which is
useful in hunting as it is cold blooded.
55. Only fishes to have eyelids are
the sharks.
56. As fishes grow they never produce
new scales instead the scales on the body grow to the size they are called as
growth rings just like a tree has to determine the age of it.
57.One of the most strangest fish is the viperfish which liver in the deep sea.
57.One of the most strangest fish is the viperfish which liver in the deep sea.
58.On the other hand one of the most beautiful face meat the red lipped batfish.
59. Rough eye Rockfish & koi fishes are having the longest lifespan of any fish which is over 210 years.
59. Rough eye Rockfish & koi fishes are having the longest lifespan of any fish which is over 210 years.
60.Frilled shark is considered as living fossil why? take a look cause it is one most primitive sea creature.
61.Nurse shark has antennae like no other shark.
62. Stonefish is the most poisonous fish.
JELLYFISHES
1. THE MOST MYSTERIOUS CREATURES IN THE WORLD.
2. They don't have eyes, brain, blood,
heart all transparent made of 96%of water & rest is organic matter.
3. Some jellyfishes have 4 eyes
allowing them a 360degree vision.
4. The number of tentacles may range
from 4 to 25-30 or even more.
5. The largest jellyfish is the arctic
lion's mane jelly fish growing up to 150-175 feet in length (the
largest ever).
6.
The
smallest jelly fish is the Irukandji growing
no less than an inch or so.
7. The most deadly jellyfish is the
box jellyfish capable of killing a human being in less than a minute.
8. All jellyfishes are social or
gregarious creatures living in groups.
9. Just like the cephalopods they use principle of jet
proportionality for locomotion.
10. Some scientists consider
jellyfishes are the second life forms as they are included in the list of pre-historic oceanic creatures they lived
around 650-700 million years ago so they out dated both dinosaurs & even
crocodiles.
11. The jellyfishes are mainly
divided based up on their body colour some are coloured & some not.
12. Some jellyfishes are edible &
can be eaten.
13. The deadly jellyfish called the
Portuguese man of war is known to deliver current shocks.
14. A jellyfish tentacle consists of
millions of small spines called nematocysts.
15. Jellyfishes have got the fastest
biological contact in animal kingdom in terms of delivering the venom.
16. The blue bottle is so mysterious
that even trans-meters do not work on them.
17. A slick from the tentacle of
deadly jelly fish may be little itchy kind of thing but the next moment you
die.
18. The victims who survived the
attack of jellyfishes has a permanent scars of tentacles on their body.
19. Every jellyfish has to undergo
the larval stage called polyp.
20. There is a jellyfish called
IMMORTAL JELLYFISH is really immortal before it's death it will again undergo
the larval stage called polyp & the
life continue so.
21. Jellyfishes undergo both sexual
& asexual life cycle.
22.They become crazy when red light is allowed to fall on them & violet light is considered as soothing light for them because of the energy of the light,
22.They become crazy when red light is allowed to fall on them & violet light is considered as soothing light for them because of the energy of the light,
CRABS
- Crabs are called as decapods that mean they have 10 legs.
- All crabs are braced with pedipalps(claws) for holding things.
- Crabs have a great delicacy in dinner.
- Every crab in the world is equipped with hard
shell on their body.
- The Japanese spider crab is the largest crab
in the world it's leg span is about 12feet.
- The yeti crab is the most recently discovered species.
- Horse shoe crab is the living fossils because they didn't undergo any evolutionary change since 100million years.
- The smallest of all crabs is the pea crab.
10. Crabs,
spiders, scorpions are classified under same phylum called Arthropods.
11.
Most of
the crabs are omnivorous eating both hydrophytes
& sea animals.
- Crabs don't have teeth in their mouth instead
they are in it's stomach.
- In crabs the head & thorax are combined to
form cephalothorax.
- King crabs & hermet
crabs are otcopoda that means they
have only 8 legs.
- The Japanese crab lives in the deep oceans
& since it devoulped long legs.
- The most colourfull
species are the sally lightfoot
crab.
- The claws of Fiddler crab are the largest,
larger than its own body size.
- The excretory organs of crab are the green
glands.
- Crabs show commensalism
that association between a sea urchin & the crab, the urchin will give
defence & the crab will give
free ride putting it on its back.
- All crabs move sideways because they can't
move their legs forward & backward.
- Crabs never eat food directly they must inject
a digestive enzyme which liquefies the food, then they consume.
- Unlike other sea creature crabs have 2 pairs
of antennae.
- The average lifespan of crab is 10-15 years.
- A hermit crab which is blue in colour can snap
a piece of wood into 2.
- Hermit crabs have gills.
DINOSAUR AND PRE HISTORIC CREATURES.
- All dinosaurs are covered with scales on their body.
- The study of the dinosaur fossils is called PALEONTOLOGY.
- There are 3 main periods of dinosaurs called the Triassic, Jurassic, cretaceous.
- Ankylosaurs are the only creatures with a bony eyelid.
- The largest carnivore dinosaur is the Spinosaurs which was about 50 feet.
- The most deadly creature ever to exist is the T-Rex.
- The bite of a T-Rex is about 8000-10000 pounds/inch on the other hand the bite force of human beings is about 30-32 pounds/inch.
- Amphibiens gave rise to dinosaurs.
- Helicoprion is one of the strangest shark.
- Most of the evolution of smaller animals is due to deadly land dinosaurs.
- Whales would not have been evolved from a small wolf like mammals without a fearsome dinosaur.
- Dinosaurs appeared around 300 million years ago.
- The first ever bird fossil found was the ARCHEOPTERYX.
- Early dinosaur’s birds did not have hollow bones & so they could not fly.
- In an experiment scientists grew feathers on the scales of the bird which could explain the birth of bird from dinosaurs.
- The largest claw of any dinosaurs was the spinosaurs claw which grew about 5 inches or even more.
- During Jurassic period crocodiles where small lizard like reptiles on the ground.
- The largest dinosaurs ever to exist the amphicoelias fragillimus which was about 175-200 feet in length.
- The largest animal to take flight is the Quetzalcoatlus which had a wing span of 45 feet, it was taller than a giraffe while standing.
- Triceratops is the only dinosaurs which had a ball like structure in the place of neck allowing them to rotate their heads & piercing with their horns.
- The descendant of the rhinosaurs was the toxodon
- It was the late Triassic period when the large T-Rex was evolved from a small dinosaur called guan long.
- A part from mammals only dinosaurs and the birds where highly social.
- Dinosaurs close their eyes by shutting their lower eyelid unlike mammals closing their eyes with upper eyelid.
- All dinosaurs’ lay eggs from small too big.
- The first feathery dinosaur was the velociraptor.
- Sarcosuchus was a 40 feet giant crocodile.
28. .Pterosaurs had a beak which was 5 feet long, but modern pelicans grow their beaks about 1 foot.
- A T-Rex roar can be heard up to 30-35 kilometres.
- Embryos of human being, bird, dinosaurs have same features like a tail, teeth in birds.
- A dinosaurs DNA was found to be present in the mosquito which was trapped right at the centre of the amber (stone).
- Longisquama is a rare dinosaurs to have the logest & most strangest spines on it's back but the function is still unknown.
- All carnivores’ dinosaurs are classified under theropods.
- All herbivores giant are classified under sauropods.
- Mossosaurs was a 60 foot giant marine reptile which draged sauropods into the water.
- Megalodon was a 70 foot giant shark.
Dimetrodon is less reptile & more mammal. All reptiles including dinosaurs have excellent sense of smell.
- The largest snake to ever exist was the titan boa which grew 40-50 feet in length which was 3 feet wide.
- Sharovipteryx is one of the rarest dinosaurs to have wings on it hind limbs
- The function of the plates on the back of stegosaurs is still not known, however some palaeontologists believe that it was used in radiating heat.
- Terror birds are so large that their main course of diet included horses.
- The largest frog to ever exist was the beelzebufo (prehistoric) which was around 2 feet or more.
- The largest bird to ever exist is the Argentavis which lived around 6 million years ago & had a wing span of 25 feet.
- The largest mammoth was the Songhua river mammoth which was around 20-23 feet while standing
- There is a transition specie between fishes and 4 legged tetrapod which is amphibian called Itchyostega.
- The largest mammal which ever lived on the earth was the Indricotherium which was around 30 feet while standing.
- Jaekelopterus was a giant 10 foot sea scorpion which lived in fresh water.
- The earliest Ape called luci was thought to be around 8 feet in length.
- According to Sir Charles Darwin due to the hot sun of the Silurian period, there was early drought in the lake so fishes force fully developed lungs & stepped out of the lack as a amphibians.
- The Giant
- Velociraptor had its wings even on its legs, hence they are called the rare 4 winged dinosaurs.
- The largest centipede to ever exist was the artheropleura.
- The largest bear to ever exist was the cave bear.
- The largest big cat to ever exist was the American lion.
