August 18, 2007

Cats have no ability to taste sweet things.

A horse can sleep standing up.

Cows have four stomachs.

A squirrel had no colour vision; it sees only in black and white. Every part of its field of vision, however, is in perfect focus, not just straight ahead, as with man.

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is lifted off the ground. It needs its tail for pushing off.

A snake has no ears but its tongue, which is extremely sensitive to sound vibrations, can act as its ears when it constantly flicks it and picks up sound waves.

Can you believe it: a hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

When attacked, the petrel, a giant bird of the Antarctic, repels its enemies either by regurgitating food in their face or by squirting a jet of viscous oil from its nostrils with a force that is sufficient to knock a person down.

Flamingos are not naturally pink; they get their colour from their food, which are tiny blue-green algae that change to pink colour pending digestion.

Penguin has an apparatus above its eyes that enables it to transform salt water into freshwater.

An ostrich egg can make 11 and half omelettes!

A rat can fall from a five-story building without injury, so...they’ll make good stunts creatures huh?

Contributed by Arbina Mohsin Qureshi