Animal facts

•Flying fish

The flying fish cannot fly like a bird,but it leaps into the air,up to 3m and then glides for about 200 m before splashing back .It usually does this only when frightened .

•Egg laying mammals

Bee-size baby

Platypus is a mammal,although it lays eggs .It grows up to 60 cm long ,lives in a burrow and hunts in the water .It is found in Australia .Only a few mammals lay eggs .

•Bee size baby

A new born kangaroo measures only about 2cm .It crawls into its mother’s pouch and stays there for six months,feeding on milk and growing .

•Musical insects

Insects have no voice .The noise they make are all produced by their wings or legs .The rapid movement of their wings or legs make that noise .Grasshoppers sings by rubbing their legs against a rough patch on their wings .Crickets use their wings to make sound .

•Unique pattern

No two zebras have exactly the same pattern of strips like human fingerprint ,each zebra’s stripe pattern is unique .

•Vampire’s dinner

Vampire bats are found in South America, feeds on blood .They laps blood by bitting asleep animals without disturbing them .The bat’s saliva contains a substance which stops the flow of blood from clotting .

•Great hunters

Although sharks have poor eyesight,but they have an excellent sense of smell .They can smell blood diluted a million times in water and thus can detect a wounded animal in the sea .All living animals produce a small amount of electricity .Sharks can sense this electricity and find where animals are hiding .