Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don’t learn the password) go hungry.ġ1. Superb fairy-wrens teach their eggs ‘a secret password’ that the young can sing when they hatch. A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.ġ0. They can run at speeds of 43 miles per hour, taking strides of 5 meters at a time.ĩ. The kick of an ostrich is so powerful it can kill a lion. Half of its brain sleeps while the other half remains awake, alerting the creature to come up for air to prevent drowning. A bubble of vapor is trapped behind the water stream that explodes at 200 decibels – enough to stun and even kill its prey.ħ. It has a specialized claw that shoots jets of water at up to 62 miles per hour. The snapping shrimp is one of the loudest known living creatures. Jellyfish have been around for more than 650 million years, outdating dinosaurs.Ħ. A blue whale’s heart beats 8-10 times per minute, and can be heard from up to 2 miles away.ĥ. Their aortas (main blood vessels) are large enough for a human to crawl through.Ĥ. A blue whale’s tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. They can then glide across the water’s surface for up to 655 ft, the length of two football fields.Ģ. Flying fish reach a speed of 37 miles per hour underwater before they break the surface to soar up to 4 ft in the air. Below are 33 of the most incredible facts about animals, that will leave you quite amazed. Animals with incredible resilience and clever design flutter, crawl and bound the earth’s surface. But some of the incredible feats of evolution in the animal kingdom aren’t obvious at first glance and slip by unnoticed, unless you look even closer. If one chooses to pause for a moment and look, fascinating and beautiful systems can be found everywhere. Examples of nature’s sheer beauty and intelligence exist all around us.
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