-Some moth species drink the tears of
hoofed animals such as cattle, deer, horses,
tapirs, pigs and elephants.
-The largest locust swarms can contain up to
50 billion insects. and over1,000 sq km of land.
Such swarms can devour enough crops in a single
day to feed around half a million people for a whole
year.
-At night, scorpions are said to be able to use the
stars to navigate and orient themselves.
-The Australian water-holding frogs survives long
desert droughts by shedding the outer layers of its
skin to form a cocoon that it fills with water.
-When it find water, a thirsty desert tortoise may
drink more than 40% of its own body weight in
water in just over an hour.
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