- A kind of jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) upon reaching adulthood can transform itself back to childhood by converting its cells. It may repeat this to live forever.
- To avoid predators, a mother Slow Loris licks its offspring with poison before sending them off to search for food.
- The fungus Cordyceps is able to "mind-control" other insects like ants to climb plants and attach there to become its food.
- Some migratory birds have a "magnetic compass" in their body (a sense called Magnetoreception) to help them navigate using Earth's magnetic field.
- The biggest egg in the world is the ostrich egg. It could take as many as 30 chicken eggs to equal its volume, and up to 2 hours to hard boil.
- The catfish father keeps the eggs in his mouth until they are ready to be hatched.
- The largest frog in the world is The Goliath Frog of Gabon in West Africa and can grow as big as 33cm long and up to 3kg heavy.
July 23, 2011
biology TRIVIA...
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