Birds & Water

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  • Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
  • The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
  • The world’s biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds.
  • Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they’ll sink.
  • Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
  • A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time.
  • More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for medicinal purposes.
  • The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.
  • Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly. They never stop moving.
  • More types of fish swim in Brazil’s Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean.
  • The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across – the biggest in the world.
  • Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each leg.
  • Starfish have no brain.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  • A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
  • A shrimp’s heart is located in it’s head.
  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for an animal having the most taste buds.
  • The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
  • How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second.
  • A parrot’s vocabulary is generally no more than 20 words.
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
  • Flamingo’s can only eat with their head upside down.
  • The peacock is a male, and the female, a peahen.
  • Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
  • The ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world.
  • Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
  • A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
  • Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
  • Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
  • The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but can’t fly.
  • Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
  • The pouch under a pelican’s bill holds up to 25 pounds of fish and water.
  • An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
  • The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
  • Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
  • In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.
  • Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble, females make a clicking noise.
  • Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.
  • Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.
  • Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
  • A hummingbird’s heart beats 1,260 times per minute.
  • Flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud.
  • California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings.