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- Animals I Met On The Beach In Thailand
by Carrie Boyko, CEB © Carrie Boyko I Met this Golden Retriever in Thailand This post has been a long time coming. After a New Year's trip to Thailand, I came home with literally thousands of photos. It was so overwhelming that I began to collect...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals Ii
Some mammals are simply amazing. 1.) Tiger Image Source Tigers are the strongest and largest of all cats in the world.They eat bears, birds, crocodiles, deer, domestic cattle, elephants, fish, frogs, gaurs, leopards, mice, monkeys, moose,...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals Ii
Some mammals are simply amazing. 1.) Tiger Image Source Tigers are the strongest and largest of all cats in the world. They eat bears, birds, crocodiles, deer, domestic cattle, elephants, fish, frogs, gaurs, leopards, mice, monkeys, moose, pythons,...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals
Here are some of the most peculiar and unusual facts about some mammal species. 1.) Musk Ox Image Source Who’s got the toughest skulls in the world? Musk Oxen can repeat head bangs up to 20 times at 32 km/h. Ouch!!! The urine of this unusual...
- Amazingly Bizarre Facts About Extraordinary Arthropods In The World
Arthropods are invertebrate animals having exoskeleton (external skeleton), segmented body, and jointed appendages. Scorpions, butterflies, crabs, centipedes and many others are examples of Arthropods. Arthropods can be found anywhere in the world. There...
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Interesting Facts About the Amazing Elephant
Elephants are among the most popular animals in the world due to their enormous size. Here are some unusual facts you may want to know about elephants – the largest land-dwelling animals in the world.
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1.) With its enormously large size and heavy built, Elephants can dive for a few seconds and use their trunks as snorkel.
2.) The male species of Elephants can be extremely dangerous and deadly. No other animal causes more carnage when angry, and no force can stop them when angry.
3.) Bull elephants kill more than 300 lives every year while in musth.
4.) Elephants possess the keenest hearing organ in the world. Flapping a female’s ears can bring ultrasonic sounds to a male as far as 10 km.
5.) Elephants have the longest pregnancy period among all other animals lasting up to 22 month. The female usually gives birth to a 140 kg baby – one of the largest baby animals in the world.
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6.) The Elephant is a very strong creature. The Elephant’s trunk can hold up to 270 kg and carry 9,000 kg.
7.) The male Elephant’s musth secretion smells like 1,000 goats in a pen.
8.) Elephants are known of their ability to send sound waves through their feet.
9.) Elephants are extraordinary for their ability to predict tsunamis through infrasound. Elephants have exceptional sense of hearing and smell.
10.) The hearing receptors in their ears, trunks and feet are sensitive to vibrations and have special receptors for low frequency sound and are exceptionally well innervated.
See also
- The Eight Nostradamus of the Animal Kingdom
- The 10 Fastest Animals in the World
- The 12 Toughest Animals in the World
- Animals I Met On The Beach In Thailand
by Carrie Boyko, CEB © Carrie Boyko I Met this Golden Retriever in Thailand This post has been a long time coming. After a New Year's trip to Thailand, I came home with literally thousands of photos. It was so overwhelming that I began to collect...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals Ii
Some mammals are simply amazing. 1.) Tiger Image Source Tigers are the strongest and largest of all cats in the world.They eat bears, birds, crocodiles, deer, domestic cattle, elephants, fish, frogs, gaurs, leopards, mice, monkeys, moose,...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals Ii
Some mammals are simply amazing. 1.) Tiger Image Source Tigers are the strongest and largest of all cats in the world. They eat bears, birds, crocodiles, deer, domestic cattle, elephants, fish, frogs, gaurs, leopards, mice, monkeys, moose, pythons,...
- The Most Amusing And Bizarre Facts And Traits Of Mammals
Here are some of the most peculiar and unusual facts about some mammal species. 1.) Musk Ox Image Source Who’s got the toughest skulls in the world? Musk Oxen can repeat head bangs up to 20 times at 32 km/h. Ouch!!! The urine of this unusual...
- Amazingly Bizarre Facts About Extraordinary Arthropods In The World
Arthropods are invertebrate animals having exoskeleton (external skeleton), segmented body, and jointed appendages. Scorpions, butterflies, crabs, centipedes and many others are examples of Arthropods. Arthropods can be found anywhere in the world. There...