Animal Oddities

An eagle can live twenty days without food and a condor forty days.

The intervals between the meals of large serpents like the anaconda or boa vary from twenty to 200 days.

Flying fish do not usually rise more than three feet above the sea, but they have been known to fall on a deck as much as twenty feet above the water.

Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw. In some parts of the world there are sheep that have most of their fat in their tails. The fat of the tail is very soft and is sometimes used as butter.