Fish Facts

• The stone fish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
• A slug has four noses.
• Octopuses have 3 hearts.
• A goldfish can live up to 40 years.
• A starfish doesn't have a brain.
• Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.
• The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!.
• Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.
• Starfish have eight Fish - one at the end of each leg.
• The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.
• When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black "ink".
• Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.
• The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown.
• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."
• At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

          Post By : Faizan Raza Khan.