Interesting Facts 59

A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.