Spiders that hunt at night often have a special layer at the back of their big eyes. It acts like a mirror to bounce light back into the eyes. On a dark night, this reflected light makes the spider's eyes seem to glow!
Amazing animal facts
Amazing animal facts
By the time it is a year old, the average blue
whale weighs 28 tons!
Beaver dams are typically 4.8 to 28.8
metres long!
A female lemming can get pregnant at the age of 14
days and give birth about 20 days later!
A three-toed sloth would
take about half an hour to walk the length of a football field!
A
bird found in South America is so smelly that it is called
‘pava hedionda’ or ‘stinking pheasant’. It
smells like cow manure!
A cheetah can run at speeds up to 110
kilometres an hour, for only for a few hundred metres. It is also
the only cat that cannot completely retract (sheathe) its
claws.
JULY 17, 2000
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