10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 3

Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects-3

221. The cuckoo does not build a nest.

222. The ostrich is the largest of all living birds. it is a strange sort of bird and eats stones.

223. Because of the size and position of their eyes, ducks can see everything around them for approximately 340 degrees without turning their heads.

224. The eye of the ostrich is bigger than its brain.

225. The ostrich does not need to drink. It can make its own water internally and gets the rest from vegetation.

226. One out of five of all birds live in the Amazon rain forests.

227. An owl can turn its head around in an almost complete circle.

228. Though the name ‘centipede’ means a hundred legs, most centipedes actually have much fewer. The common centipede has 15 pairs of legs and is an agile hunter.

229. The millipede, like the centipede, is not an insect nor does it have a thousand feet. It has a worm- like segmented body with up to 240 legs.

230. The mosquito, though tiny in size , is man’s major enemy. Frail and weak in appearance, it does harm far greater in proportion to its size. It has 47 teeth. The female causes much more harm as it thirsts for blood both as food and also to enable it to lay eggs.