9 Misconceptions About Animals

 9. For a long long time it has been believed that lion is the king of beasts. But elephant is smarter and stronger than lion. African Buffalo also can be compared to the lion with its courage and strength. 

 8. It is believed, the hungriest animal in the world is predator. For lion, 20kg food is enough for 2-3 weeks. Anyhow, shrew needs 4 times more food than it weighs. However, the hungriest animal is dragonfly. Within two hour it can eat 40 houseflies. 

 7. We think lion and the tiger are the cruelest animal, but Tuna, which is a kind of fish, is the cruelest animal. It can attack more than ten shoals of fish. 

 6. Most poisonous animal in the land is not snake. Poison Frog can spit poison which can be thousands of times stronger than Potassium Cyanide and 35 times stronger than the most dangerous poison of the central Asian Cobra. With its poison, Poison Frog can kill about 1500 people. 

 5. In sea, most dangerous fish to human is neither shark nor Piranha, it is Candiru. It is also known as toothpick fish. It will enter the human through the urinate origin and it can be removed only by the surgery. 

 4. The most frost-resistant animal in the world is Polar Duck, not a polar bear. The lowest temperature takes the Polar duck is 110 degree Celsius. 

 3. The big eared animal on the earth is not the African Elephant. It is Chinese or Mongolian rabbit. It’s a 9 inch creature but its ears are 5 inch long, more than half length of its body. 

 2. The most patient animal is Camel, because it can survive for a long time without food. But it was far away from the Emperor Penguin, which can starve for 130 days. But bog turtle can starve for 5 years, with its ordinary climate. 

1. Most people believe that shark is the most bloodthirsty animal in the sea, it is not true. In the US, in a single year, more than 5 times of people are attacked by the dog than sharks.