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A The sun bear of south-east Asian rain forests, weighing only 27 kg and 1.4 m tall, is the smallest bear in the world.

Most of the mammals, including apes and chimpanzees, are colour blind.

House lizards are perfectly harmless. They neither bite nor are they aggressive. In fact, they help humans by eating insects like flies and mosquitoes. But these are poisonous when they contaminate our food.

The Virginia opossum, a marsupial nocturnal animal, lives in America and Australia. It has as many as 21 babies at one time - more than any other mammal. The young are only a centimetre long, and all of the babies together, weigh only a couple of grams.

The Queen Alexandra, the largest butterfly, has a wing-span of 25 cm. It is facing the risk of extinction. The smallest butterfly has a wing span of not more than 1 cm. 

To make 1 kg of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers by travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the Earth.

The sturgeon is a large, bottom feeding fish, and it is the source of valuable caviar (delicacy food as salted roe) and a translucent gelatin. A single sturgeon once yielded an astonishing UK £ 189350 worth of caviar (mass of eggs).

Jellyfish and Seaweed were the first living species on the Earth.

Orchid seeds are so small and light that one million of those would weigh less than a gram.

The trunk of baobab tree, in Kenya, is so huge that some people build their homes with the hollowed out trunks.


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