With the taste in the heels. Flies have 15,000 taste buds spread across their legs.
High voltage. The electric eel, Electroptiorus electricus , can emit a 600-volt discharge for a few milliseconds.
Scrambled eggs. The shark, and not the ostrich, is the animal that lays the largest eggs, which can reach 20 centimeters long.
What a long pregnancy! The alpine black salamander has a gestation period of 3 years and two months.
The precocious monkey. Chimpanzees hold the record for speed of sexual intercourse among mammals: they consume it in just 3 seconds.
Get as low as a worm. Some earthworms, such as the Lombricus terrestris , burrow galleries up to twenty feet deep.
Tungsten microbes. Pyrococcus furiosus bacteria withstands temperatures above 350ºC. The secret of its resistance to heat is explained because it has enzymes whose main component is tungsten.
Slow, but well armed. Some species of snail can have up to 25,000 teeth.
Boneless. The tongue of the adult blue whale weighs four tons.
Mental shrinkage. Canaries lose 20 percent of their brain mass in winter.
