Wacky & Weird Facts: Animals Part 12

 

Hawks have a vision that’s about eight times more accurate than humans. They have up to one million photo receptors in the retina compared to only 200,000 in humans.

There are little tiny holes or pores in chicken and other bird eggs that allow baby birds to breathe in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide. A chicken egg has more than seven thousand pores.

The esophagus of a leatherback  sea turtle is lined with papillae (sharp prongs) that enable the turtle to dine on jellyfish.

One in two million lobsters is blue, but one in every three million can be yellow-orange, and even more rare are white lobsters. Each of these colors only shows up once every few years.

The Pacu fish, native to South America, was found in New Jersey in June of 2015. It’s a relative of the flesh-eating piranha and is known for its distinctive teeth, which bear an eerie resemblance to human teeth. Luckily, the Pacu fish is not going to bite your face off  because it primarily eats plants and is considered mostly harmless to humans.

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