Do You Know?

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Verma (Science Teacher)

• The golden dart poison frog from South America is so poisonous that an adult contains enough poison to kill about 2200 people.
• Dogs are colour blind and short sighted.
• The biggest butterfly is the birdwing butterfly. It has a wing span of 28cm.
• Camels can go for weeks without drinking water but when they reach some source of water they can drink upto 57 liters of water without pauses.
• The largest cat in the world is the Siberian cat which weighs 360Kg and is 2.8m long.
• Foxes can run at a speed of 48Km/hr
• Average age of a Gorilla is 50 years.
• All invertebrates are not small. The pacific Octopus has arm spar of about 7m.
• The largest lizard is the Komododragon which grows over 3m long and weighs over 100Kg.
• Parrots are bird but they are also long living.
• A sulphur-crested parrot was found to be 120 years old when it is died.
• The longest snake is the Anacondus snake. It can grow upto 10m in length when it is grown up.
• The biggest bear is the polar bear. It is also the largest meat eating animal. It can grow upto the size triple than a tiger. The polar bear can run at a speed of 56Km/hr over long distances.
• The blue whale can produce a kind of sound under the water which can be heard upto 900Km.