06/10/2022
26. The Giant Pacific Octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood.
They are also able to change their colour and texture to camouflage themselves in a blink of an eye.
27. A flea can jump distances 200 times their body length.
They are able to jump 10 inches (25cm) vertically and up to 18 inches (45 cm) horizontally, making them one of the planets best jumpers relative to its size. It’s equal to a human jumping as high as the Empire State Building in New York.
28. The male seahorse goes through pregnancy and gives birth to babies. They are the only animal on earth where the male carries the baby rather than the female.
The male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies—as many as 2,000 at a time.
29. Pufferfish can contain a tetrodoxin, a toxin that is up to 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide to humans. There is enough toxin in one pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans, and there is no known antidote.
Amazingly despite this, some pufferfish meat is considered a delicacy in Japan. The meat called Fugu, is expensive and only prepared by licenced chefs with over 3 years of rigorous training who remove toxic parts of the meat for diners.
30. The loudest animal relative to size is the Water Boatman, which measures at just 12mm long, but can produce 99 dB of sound by rubbing its genitalia across its abdomen.
This is the equivalent noise level of operating a circular saw, or a drill.
