Fun Facts – 11 February 2015

– The northern fur seal, rather than using a layer of fat to keep it warm, depends on its thick fur with some 300,000 hairs per square inch.

– The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body!

– The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.

– Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red light on its head and green lights down its side. 

– The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. The smallest is that of the hummingbird. 

– An electric eel can produce a shock of 600 volts. 

– An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day.

– The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long.

– Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.

– Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.