Interesting Animal facts

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Sivakumar Surampudi is the Divisional Chief Executive of the Agri Business Division. He is also the Chairman of Technico Agri Sciences Limited, and Vice Chairman of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries in the UK and USA.

Sivakumar has conceptualised and spearheaded the execution of the path-breaking ITC e-Choupal model. Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management Anand, (IRMA), Sivakumar worked with a farmers' cooperative for six years before joining ITC in 1989.

Every Sunday Sivakumar tweets about fascinating science stories with #SundayScience.

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Introduction

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart

Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails

Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble

Turtles can breathe through their butts

Butterflies taste with their feet

Snakes smell with their tongue

Dolphins see with sound! Their echolocation system tells them the size & shape of a target and whether it's calm / frightened

A shark can see through in the cloudy water because of its particular membrane present in its eye called tapetum lucidum

The sweat glands of dogs are located in their paws

A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in three seconds flat - faster than a Ferrari Enzo!

The fur of white arctic fox turns dark in summer and blends in with the environment

The large surface area of elephant's ears serves as a heat radiator and helps them to cool

Goats have rectangular pupils that allow extensive peripheral vision

Relative to their body size, chameleons have the longest tongues among the animals

Penguins can jump to a height of 6-9 feet in the air

A hippo's sweat acts as a sunblock, moisturizer, and an anti-biotic

Shrimps can only swim backward as they don't have fins

Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish is the only species known to live forever

End of Sunday Science session