101 Amazing Facts About Animals by Jack Goldstein

Author:Jack Goldstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fun, facts, trivia, biology, ecology, environment, tiger, lion, bird, eagle, monkey, ape, primate, spider, crocodile, dung, poo, cat, dog, clam, oyster, shark, educational, species, gross
ISBN: 9781783331703
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2013
Published: 2013-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Collective Nouns

Here are some rather unusual collective nouns...

A shrewdness of apes

A siege of bitterns

A bellowing of bullfinches

A gulp of cormorants

A murder of crows

A busyness of ferrets

A whoop of gorillas

A hover of trout

A gaze of raccoons

A crash of rhinoceroses

Creepy Crawlies

A cockroach’s brain is not in its head but in its body. If it happens to lose its head somehow it can still live for nine days - but it will eventually die as it won’t be able to eat!

The diving bell spider lives its life underwater, and breathes by making a bubble full of air at the surface, then living inside it!

Dragonflies have a life span of just one single day.

Desert snails can hibernate for up to four years when they sense the air becoming dry!

A flea can jump more than 200 times its own height - this would be like a grow man leaping to the top of the empire state building!

For every human on this planet, there are one million ants.

A given weight of spider silk is around five times as strong as the same weight of steel.

Some centipedes have more than three hundred legs!

Tarantulas can survive for two years without food.

The rhinoceros beetle can carry more than eight hundred times its own bodyweight - that would be like you lifting up a tank!

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