Strange Animal Trivia

I saw this on Encarta and thought it was fun. The answers are given below.

Stranger Than Fiction
By Amy Leigh Morgan

It’s often said that fact is stranger than fiction. That’s especially true when it comes to the natural world. Take a look at the truths, half-truths, and outright lies listed below and see if you can tell the difference between them.

Fact or Fiction

1. Bacon tastes salty because pigs don’t have any sweat glands.

2. Sharks will suffocate and die if they stop moving

3. Camel spiders inject an anaesthetic into the flesh of their sleeping victims, and then eat them alive while they slumber.

4. Birds can’t burp, so if you feed an Alka-Seltzer tablet to a seagull it will die from the pressure caused by the medication in its stomach.

5. There is a South American lizard that can walk on water.

6. In the jungles of Indonesia, there is a flowering vine that can (and does!) eat small reptiles.

7. The red dye carmine, used in everything from lipsticks to Coca-Cola, can only be obtained from dried, ground-up bugs.

8. The pit bull terrier can lock its powerful jaws when it bites.

9. The only enemy of the polar bear (besides man) is the sea wolf, Lupus maris.

10. There is a type of turtle, native to Australia, that can breathe through its butt.