Bat Facts

Bats are amazing creatures, that are a very important to us! Here are some facts about bats:

• Bats are not birds or rodents, they are mammals like humans, but belong to a special group of mammals called "Chiroptera", which is Greek for "hand wing".
  
  
• Fruit-eating bats eat up to 3 times their own body weight in a night. That is like a 10 year old child eating about 500 or 600 hamburgers.
  
  
• The smallest bat, the Kitti's Hog-nosed bat, is the size of a bumble bee! It lives in Thailand.
  
  
• The largest bat is the Flying Fox bat from Indoneisa. It has a wingspan of up to six feet!
  
  
• Bats make up nearly one-quarter of the identified mammal species in the world.
  
  
• The Wrinkled-faced bat lives in Mexico and Central America and has a chin flap within built in transparent eye- windows that are pulled over its face and eyes when it sleeps.
  
  
• A Short- tailed fruit bat can scatter 60,000 seeds in a single night. This aids the growth of the forest.
  

Frog Facts

• Frogs can be found on every continent in the world exceopt Antarctica.
  
  
• Your tongue is attached at the back of your mouth. Frog's tongue's are attached at the front of their mouths.
  
  
• Frogs that live in very cold parts of the world will hibernate over the winter, which means that they go to sleep for a long period of time. Some of the frogs that hibernate have a lot of sugar in their bodies which they use as antifreeze!
  
  
• Frogs tongues are covered with a sticky substance that they use to catch their food.
  
  
• Some frogs retract their eyes when they swallow food. They will use their eyes to help push the food down their throat.
  
  
• Tree Frogs have sticky pads or suction like disks on the tips of their fingers and toes which aid in climbing.
  
  
• What do you call a group of frogs? An "ARMY" of Frogs.
  
  
• What do you call a groups of Toads? A" KNOT" of Toads.
  
  
• Humans get warts from viruses, not from frogs and toads.
  
  
• The longest lifespan known for a frog is 40 years.

Fish Facts

• The largest salmon on record is a Chinook salmon that weighed 57 kilograms.
  
  
• When salmon are swimming upstream, they can jump 2 metres into the air!
  
  
• A female salmon can lay up to 6,000 eggs in one nest.
  
  
• Salmon return to streams to spawn by swimming upstream. During this time, they don't eat any food at all.
  
  
• The longest known trip ever taken by a salmon was a Chinook salmon that traveled 3,845 km upstream to spaw.