Some interesting facts about animals

- Goshawk can be met only in one European country, in Island.

- Chameleons are able to throw their tongue at the distance twice smaller than the length of their bodies. And its eyes are able to move not depending from each other, so this reptile is able to watch in several directions at the same time without moving its head.

- Electric eel is able to give the electrical energy equal to 1200 volt. That would be enough to give the energy to six light bulbs.

- To prepare the egg of the ostrich, it is necessary to boil it 40 minutes.

- Polecats sleep more than 20 hours a day.

- French people call doves "flying rats".

- Jackals have one pair of chromosomes more than dogs and wolves.

- Tigers have not only striped hair but also striped skin.

- The fish known as garpike has green bones.

- The eye-apple of octopus is rectangle.

- Horses have 18 bones more than people.

- Giraffes have the biggest heart in the world and the highest blood pressure. Their tongue is black and may be 45 centimetres long.

- The temperature of the blood of fishes in Antarctica may be -1, 7 C.