Wondrous Facts about Creatures

☼ Bats are the only mammals with wings. Although flying squirrels can jump from trees and glide, they can’t truly fly like bats can.

☼ The Central American salamander Bolitoglossa dofleini can extend its tongue more than half its body length in 7 milliseconds, 50 times faster than you can blink an eye.

☼ Bees can be trained to detect bombs.

☼ Tomatoes have more genes than humans.

☼ There are about 173,000 venomous species, from lizards to spiders and fish.

☼ Scientists can locate colonies of penguins from space just by looking for dark ice patches of penguin poop.

☼ Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6-foot (1.8 m) person jumping 780 feet (238 m) into the air.

☼ The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

☼ An ostrich’s eye is bigger that its brain.

☼ A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

☼ Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 m in length.