Interesting Fact About Flamingos

1- Flamingos live an average of 20 to 30 years.
2- A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
3- Nests are built up by mouthfuls of mud!

Fact About flamingos

4- Males and females look alike.
5- The Andean flamingo has yellow legs and feet.
6- All flamingos feed with their bills upside-down. They tip their head into the water and filter feed, using special adaptations in the top half of their bill, to gather the microorganisms that make up their diet.

7- The flamingo is unique in that the adults, both male and female, provide their young with a type of milk called crop milk.
8- There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
9- Flamingos often stand on one leg, the other tucked beneath the body 

Facts About Toucan

Facts About Toucan

Toucan is a brightly colored bird commonly found in the rain forests of the Central and South America. Toucans are birds with variety in color as well as the size. Bright in color having red, blue, yellow, orange etc. and the size varies from 14 to 30 inches. These birds have a distinguished feature by having a long bill that is approximately half the size of their body. This bill is not very sharp or strong but is made of a tough material and helps the bird in getting food from inside the holes of the trees and help them protect themselves. The birds live on trees in a group of six to seven birds. They have big claws that help them balance on the trees, the two claws are in the front and two at the back. There colorful wings help them ambush with the leaves and the fruits. 

Toucan

They are quite lazy birds and do not fly high or far away, they stay in the jungles and enjoy the fruits of the trees on which they live.

Toucans are forgivers as well as omnivores. Though they mainly eat fruits but also feed upon insects, rodents, reptiles, eggs and chicks of the other birds. Toucans are mostly hunted by the humans, big birds, jaguars and wild cats. There are almost 37 species of toucans. They generally stay alone or with a mate. The female gives 3 to 4 eggs at a time and both together incubate the eggs. The young ones have very small bill which takes few months to develop properly. They are very noisy and make loud sounds.

Toucan

When it comes to rest they roll themselves and sleep in the holes of the trees. The facts show that Toco Toucan with orange yellowish colored bill about 7.5 inches is the largest toucan and the smallest species is the Aracar Toucanet. Toucans are related to woodpeckers.

Interesting Facts About Banana

1- The name Banana has been derived from the Arabic word "banan" which means finger.
2- The banana is a fruit which can be found in more than five hundred varieties in different parts of the world.

Facts About banana

3- Worldwide, bananas are the fourth largest fruit crop.
4- The banana plant is the largest plant in the world which does not have a stem made of wood.
5- Unlike most other fruits that grow on trees, bananas grow on plants.
6-  A cluster of bananas will consist of at least ten to twenty bananas and such a bunch is 
usually known as a hand.
7- Every banana which belongs to a hand is known as a finger.

8- A lot of experts in the field of horticulture state that the banana was the only fruit 
which used to exist during ancient times.
9- A total value of bananas exported in Ecuador is $954.00 million (according to latest 
stats).
10- biggest banana exporter is United States with its firms Dole and Chiquita.
11- A large amount of vitamins like vitamins A, C and E can be found in bananas. Riboflavin, 
thiamine, niacin, frolic acid and many other minerals like iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, zinc and fluoride are some of the other nutrients which can be found in bananas. A lot of essential amino acids like tryptophan, lysine, leucine, threonine, arginine and glycine can be found in bananas.

Facts About Blue Hole

The Blue Hole is located just off of the coast of Belize, near the Ambergris Cave. The Blue Hole began as a limestone cave in our last Ice Age. After ages of erosion the cave collapsed leaving the scenic beauty we see today! The Blue Hole is almost perfectly circular reaching 300m (1000ft) across and 120m (400ft) deep. The blue cave is perfect spot for all divers because of its beauty and geological history.

Facts About Blue Hole