Nature

Coastal redwood tree in Redwood National Park, California (USA) is one of the tallest trees with a height of 111.25m.

A South African weaverbird’s nest can be up to 4m deep and 7.5m long.

Guitar fishes are ovoviviparous species. They retain their eggs inside them A while they mature. The eggs have abundant yolks them contain sufficient nutrition to feed the young which hatch in the ovary. Viviparous species are also of the same type, but the embryos receive food from the mother.

Angelfishes are mouth-brooders. The female carries the eggs in the mouth until they are hatched. It shows its specialise parental care.

Despite its extraordinarily long neck. Giraffe also has exactly the same number of vertebrae as human beings - just 24.

Most birds in the family of fruit-eating finches are not bigger than sparrows, weighing only 55 g m on an average. To crack a nut, these birds use their beaks to exert the pressure of a mallet (wooden hammer) – of about 15 kg oersa.cm.

The molly fish found in America is so small, that it grows about only an inch and is viviparous (bearing live young ones, rather than eggs).

The albatross bird can fly all day long without flapping its wings. 

Most of the living beings have only one heart, whereas the cattle fish, a strange one, has three hearts.

Flying fox is the largest bat, so called, because of the shape of its nose. Found in the island of Java, it has a wing span of 1.7 m and measures up to 42 cm.


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