Important Facts about Animals

Important Facts about Animals

• The Gorilla, when angry, stands up and beats its chest.
• The Gibbon is a tailless ape found in East Indies. Its arms are very long. It is the least intelligent of the ape.
• A tortoise can live up to 200 years.
• Baby alligator has fine rows of teeth in its mouth when it is born.
• The African lungfish can survive out of water for four years.
• Snail, earthworm and centipede are the living beings found in the soil.
• The animals having no backbones are called invertebrates.
• The animals having backbones are called, vertebrates.
• The Vampire bat lives on blood of other animals.
• The amphibians are the animals that live partly on land and partly in water.
• The guinea-pig is not a pig. It is a rodent found in South America.
• Plankton is the name for very tiny living things found floating near the top of water in the seas. These are eaten by the whales.