Do you Know?

1. Llamas are reported to be inquisitive, friendly animals. A llama greeting is marked by softly blowing on each other. According to animal experts, a soft blow to a person is the llama’s way of saying hello.
2. Octopi and squids can express emotions by changing the colour of their skin. Normally brown, their skin can become green or blue when they are frightened or trying to attract a mate.
   Young birds such as ducks, geese and shore birds are born with their eyes open.
3. Lobsters like grasshoppers feel no pain. They have a decentralised nervous system with no cerebral cortex, which in humans is where a painful stimuli proceeds.
4. Polyp, fish, worm, plant, crab, mollusc and plankton in symbiotic relationship ( the habitual living together of organisms of different species) make up a coral reef.
5. Not all male lions have manes. Many lion specimens have bare shoulders. Some male lions in Central Africa have more than a slight ruff of hair at each side of the chin.
6. An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets famished.