23 interesting facts about Animal Behavior!

1. The European eels spend three years the journey and then travel far inland up rivers, where they stay Up to nine years. They then return to sea and begin  their 3000 mile swim back to the breeding grounds of the Sargasso sea and that without eating!
2. Most traveled butterfly is the monarch butterfly of North America, which migrates 25,00 miles Hudson Bay to Florida and back.
3. Most amphibians lay their eggs in water a leave them. But the male mid wife toad carries eggs in strings around his legs until they hatch.
4. Greatest depth at which sponges have be found living is more than 280,00 feet.
5. An amoeba, a shapeless animal reproduce sexually by fission (splitting nucle apart). The nucleus divides first and the rest of the amoeba follows.
6. Largest octopus is the common pacific octopus which can measure 32 feet the tip of one up to from tentacle to the tip of the opposite one.
7. A potter wasp makes a clay cell stocked with caterpillars, in which she lays eggs. She seals the pot and flies away to die.
8. Whenever ants make a nest by binding leaves with silk.
9. There are more than 200,00 species of spiders.
10. Largest group of insects are the beetles of which 300,000 species are known. The lady bird is not a bird. It is a beetle.:)
11. Spiders eat insects in much large numbers than most people realize. In England and wales for example there are well over 2000,000 spiders in every acre of meadow land. It has been estimated that in one year the spiders in the country eat a weight of insects that exceeds the total weight of the human population of England and Wales.
12. Sea horse has strange eyes, by which it can focus in two different directions at the same time. The eyes of the giant squid are still strange. They have big eyes to clearly in see poor visible conditions.
13. Gastric frog of Australia gives birth its young ones to through its mouth.
14. A butterfly has 120,00 eyes.
15. Dolphins sleep with one of its eyes open.
16. Do you know that an earth worm can pull ten times its own weight and silk worm has eleven brains ?
17. One kg of honey is obtained from 4 million flowers by bees. To collect one ounce of honey, a bee may have to fly about 130 km.
18. Snails can sleep for 3 to 4 years continuously.
19. Some insects can live about a year after their heads have been separated.
20. A house fly has big compound eyes, each having about 40,00 tiny lenses.
21. A termite queen can produce over 300,00 eggs in one day.
22. The largest species of scorpion found in India measures 25 cms from the end of the sting to the the pincers. If it stings, the man dies in about four hours.
23. Wolf spider has 8 eyes, while a honey bee has five eyes.