Did you know?
- Brook Lamprey date back to Dinosaur times
- Merlin is Ireland's smallest bird of prey and can catch/kill birds larger than itself
- Male Hen harriers feed the female and young by passing over food to the female in the sky and she turns upside down to catch it
- Salmon always return from sea to the rivers they were born in
- Butterflies can taste with their feet
- Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times every second
- Owls don't have eyeballs, they have eye tubes
- Barn owls are normally monogamous, but about 25% of mated pairs 'divorce
- Dog's sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans, but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds
- Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion
- Horses use facial expressions to communicate with each other
- Squirrels can't burp or vomit
- Badgers although its closest relations are other carnivores like the Otter and the Marten, the Badger is as such Ireland's bear
- Pipistrelle bat is a tiny mammal which competes with the Pigmy shrew for the distinction of being Ireland's smallest mammal
