10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 17

Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects-17

371. It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell.

372. Cattle are the only mammals that are retro-mingent (i.e., they pee backwards).

373. Insects have yellow blood , while octopuses have blue.

374. A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.

375. Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb it though their skin.

376. The kangaroo rat can live without water all its life.

377. A snake bite has no effect on the pig because its skin is so thickly lined with fat that the poison fails to reach its blood stream.

378. The jackrabbit is not a rabbit. It is a hare.

379. The rarest monkey in the world is that hairy – eared mouse lemur, which lives in the rain forests of eastern Madagascar.

380. The ground woodpecker of South Africa, found nowhere else in the world, is the only woodpecker that shuns trees and feeds entirely on ground insects.