10 Horrible Facts About Animals

(1)

The pearl fish swims into a sea cucumber’s anus
and lives inside it in the day time, coming out
at night.The sea cucumber breathes through
its anus, so can’t keep the fish out! 

(2)

There are
more than 70,000
types of slug and
snail in the world.
Let’s hope they
never hold a
big party! 

(3)

Spiders inject flies and bugs with a
chemical which paralyzes them and
dissolves their insides. The spider then
sucks out the liquid as it can’t chew. 

(4)

Salamander larvae change form, becoming killer predators
if they sense the vibrations created in water by swimming
tadpoles. They grow longer, stronger bodies and broader
heads so that they can kill and eat the tadpoles.

(5)

The vampire squid has the largest eyes of any animal for its
body size. The squid is 28 centimetres long (11 inches) and its eyes are 2.5 centimetres (1 inch across). The equivalent would be a person with eyes the size of table tennis bats!

(6)

The only mammals that don’t get
lice are anteaters, armadillos, bats,
duck-billed platypuses, whales,
dolphins and porpoises.

 (7)

The caterpillar of the polyphemus moth in North America
eats 86,000 times its own birthweight in the
first 56 days of its life. It’s equal to a human baby
eating 270 tonnes (nearly 600,000 pounds) of food!

 (8)

Chameleons can change their skin colour to
hide themselves (camouflage) – but they also
change colour according to mood. Some go grey
when depressed.

 (9)

Komodo dragons are lizards 3 metres (10 feet) long. They aren’t poisonous, but there are so many bacteria in their mouths – growing in rotten meat between their teeth – that a bite from one often leads to blood poisoning and death.

 (10)

The aye-aye is a nocturnal mammal
from Madagascar that has one very
long, bony finger on one hand.
It looks so frightening that
local people believed contact
with an aye-aye led to death,
so they killed most of them.

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