10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 9

Facts of Animals, Birds and Insects-9

281. The trunk of elephant is made up of 40,000 different muscles and it has no bones.

282. The camel can drink 113 liters of water in just half an hour.

283. The flying squirrel uses its flattened tail as a rudder for steering as it leaps from tree to tree. The tail also acts like an air brake.

284. The reindeer is the only living deer species in which both male and female have antlers. They are used as pack animals by the Sami people or Lapps of Russia and Northern Scandinavia.

285. The crocodile has a strange kind of a toothbrush- the plover bird uses its pigeon – li9ke beak to pick bits of food and parasites from in between the crocodile’s teeth.

286. A wild animal is more likely to attack you when you are afraid of it.

287. Snakes are lizards that have lost their legs during evolution.

288. The most poisonous frog in the world I the Kokoi that lives in Columbia. Although only 2.5 cm long, its skin can provide sufficient poison to kill 50 men.

289. The egg of an ostrich is almost as big as a football.

290. The butterfly can fly only if its wing muscles are warm.