Strange But True - Animals !!!

*Lions sleep up to 20 hours a day.
*Gorillas sleep in nests which they build in tree tops.
*Blue whale babies weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth.
*Crickets have ears positioned on their knees.
*Puffer fish puffs it's body to scare away the enemies.
*Salmon live in the sea, but they return to breed in river where they were born.
*A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs.
*Snakes never close their eyes at any time.
*Chameleon lizards can look in two directions at the same time.
*If a lizard's tail is broken off, it can usually grow a new one.
*A bird called Swift spends all it's time in the air. It only comes down to breed.
*Flamingoes are pink because their bodies take the colour of shrimps they eat.
*Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating.
*No two zebras have exactly the same pattern of stripes.
*Squirrels sometimes wrap their bushy tails around their body to keep themselves warm.
*A chameleon can alter it's colour depending on it's mood.
*It takes an elephant calf 6 months how to use it's trunk.
*Flies take off backwards.
*The giraffe has 7 neck bones exactly the same as humans.
*Dolphins and whales talk to each other whistling.
*The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
*Rare African gorillas are sometimes killed to use their hand to make ashtrays.
*The rare kakapo parrot lays one egg every four years.