Elephant | Loxodonta africana | Elephas maximus indicus

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

Genus: Elephas

Species: E. maximus

Subspecies: E. m. indicus

Trinomial name : Elephas maximus indicus / Loxodonta africana

Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today

Amazing Facts about Elephants

1. Has hearing range between 1 and 20,000 Hz. The very low frequency sounds are in the "infrasound" range.
2. Humans cannot hear sounds in the infrasound range.
3. Elephant Facts ... Did You know ?
4. Elephants stomp when they walk.
5. Elephants sleep standing up.
6. Sometimes baby elephants lie down to sleep.
7. Elephants bathe. Sometimes the spray dirt on themselves to get the parasites off. Sometimes they bathe in mud
8. Elephants live in herds.
9. They cool off by fanning their ears. This cools the blood in their ears. That blood goes to the rest of their body and cools off the elephant.
10. They poop 80 pounds in one day.
11. Elephants weigh 10,000 pounds. It would take 250 students to add up to 10,000 pounds.
12. They collect food with their trunks.
13. Only grown up ladies and their babies live in the herds.
14. The daddy elephants leave the herd when they are 12 years old.
15. They fight with their tusks.
16. They eat grass and bark.
17. During the wet season they eat things low to the ground.
18. During the dry season they use their trunk to gather food from trees and bushes.
19. They suck up water into their trunks and shoot it into their mouths.
20. Elephants need lots of room to roam and eat. (Some of us think that this must mean they are not happy in the zoo or in the circus.)
21. They can run 24mph for short distances.

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Amazing Facts about Eagle

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Falconiformes ( or Accipitriformes)

Family: Accipitridae

Eagles are large birds of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species (the Bald and Golden Eagles) can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in Central and South America, and three in Australia.

Amazing Facts about Eagle

1. Eyeball length = 35 mm (human eyeball length = 24 mm)
2. Visual acuity is 2.0 to 3.6 times better (depending on the type of eagel) than that of humans.
3. Bald Eagles are not really bald. Their head is actually covered with white feathers. The white feathers on their head comes when they are 5 or 6 years old. Baby eagles are partially covered with down, but when they leave the nest, they have dark feathers all over. The female can be one third larger than the male. They have wide long wings that help them stay in the air. A Bald Eagles wing span is normally 8 feet.
4. Usually they live near the sea. They only live in trees 75 feet or higher. Bald Eagles add to their nest over and over. Sometimes it can take a pair of eagles as long as six weeks to build their nest for the first time. The eyrie is the large nest made of sticks and lined with twigs and green grass. The heaviest nest ever found is 1 ton. (That's 2000 pounds!)
5. They mate for life. The female may lay from one to three eggs and raises one brood (group) a year. If these eggs are destroyed the female may lay more eggs. It takes four weeks for an eagle egg to hatch. Eaglets grow slowly and need a large amount of food.
6. Bald Eagles normally eat fish. Sometimes they will eat snakes and smaller birds. They have long sharp beaks and curved talons to help hold prey. They can fly with 8 pounds of food. Bald Eagles help man by catching rodents and rabbits that destroy grain fields.
7. Eagles have great eyesight that helps them see for one to one and a half miles away. (Thus the term eagles eye) They can dive at 100 miles per hour. Their eyesight and diving ability help them catch food.

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Amazing facts about EarthwormsEarthworm | Lumbricus terrestris

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Annelida

Class: Clitellata

tOrder: Haplotaxida

Suborder: Lumbricina

Families: 18

Number of Hearts: 9

Size: Up to 14 in (35 cm)

Weight: Up to 11.2 g (0.39 oz)

Natural Habitat: Throughout the world

Diet: Herbivorous

Lumbricus terrestris

Interesting & Amazing facts about Earthworms

1. Earthworms can survive only in moist soil. However, too much moisture is also not good for them.
2. Rototilling of the soil can be harmful to earthworms.
3. Earthworms are hermaphrodites i.e. a single individual has both female and male organs.
4. An earthworm can replace or replicate lost segments. However, the extent of this ability depends upon the species as well as the amount of damage.
5. Even though earthworms are hermaphrodites, they need to mate with another worm to produce offspring.
6. Earthworms do not have eyes, but are extremely light sensitive.
7. An earthworm can consume as much as one third of its body weight in a single day.
8. Earthworms usually come out of the dirt after excessive rain storms, since the soil becomes too moist for them to survive.
9. Earthworms can be found in almost every type of soil. At the same time, their number greatly increases with the improvement in the health of the soil.
10. An earthworm does not have lungs. Rather, it breathes through its skin.
11. There are basically four types of earthworms - Nightcrawlers, Garden Worms, Manure Worms and Red Worms.
12. After digestion, earthworms produce excrement that is about the same size as a pin head.
13. In times of drought, an earthworm can dig deep into its burrow, which can be as deep as six feet.
14. Entire body covered with chemoreceptors (taste receptors).

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