A Big Book of Little Stories Book 6: Chapter 2 - Strange but True 

Listen Up: A Reading Adventure with John Maytham · 4 November 2025 · 2m

Speaker 1: Chapter two, Strange but true? Did you know it is impossible to sneeze with your Speaker 1: eyes open a tissue? Both giraffes and humans have seven vertebrae bones in their necks. Speaker 1: Giraffes use their long necks to reach the leaves from the higher branches of trees, Speaker 1: while buck can only reach the leaves on the lower parts. Did you know that Speaker 1: a giraffe's tongue is long enough to lick its ear. Did you know that chimpanzees Speaker 1: are really smart. They can be trained to recognize numbers and can identify numbers far Speaker 1: quicker than humans. Did you know some animals change their colors very quickly to camouflage Speaker 1: themselves when they need to hide. When a chameleon or an octopus moves from one Speaker 1: surface to another of a different color, their skin color adapts to that of the Speaker 1: new background so that they can't be seen by their enemies. If an octopus is Speaker 1: attacked, it can shoot out a cloud of dark ink, which irritates its attacker. Who Speaker 1: are the best jumpers? Spring Bucks can jump high and far. Good athletes can jump Speaker 1: further than eight meters. The African lion can jump a distance of ten meters and Speaker 1: The Australian kangaroos can jump up to thirteen meters, but the flea is the champion. Speaker 1: It can jump up to three hundred times its body length. Imagine if a flea Speaker 1: was half a centimeter, it could jump over your head. If we had the jumping Speaker 1: ability of the flea, we could jump over a soccer stadium. Did you know if Speaker 1: you hold a magnet in or above sand, or…

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