Animal Eyes

Chances are you’ve experienced the painful sting of a bee. Interestingly, bees also sting each other. If a rogue bee tries to infiltrate a hive in order to steal some nectar, guard bees, which are stationed at the hive’s busy entrance, will detect the intruder by scent and try to bite and sting it!

It’s fascinating that the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, the blue whale, feeds on nothing but krill, shrimp-like creatures that are among the smallest sea-dwellers. But it takes 36 metric tons of krill a day to allay an adult blue whale’s hunger. That’s the weight of 25 cars!

Foxes do love to play and have been observed playing around with dog toys abandoned in people’s gardens. They are also cheeky enough to steal golf balls and run off with them! This doesn’t usually go down so well with the golfers…