Somehow the most casual garden game and the fastest racquet sport on earth at the same time.
Fun fact: A shuttlecock can leave the racquet at over 300 mph, making it the fastest hit object in any sport.
Six-foot legs, seven vertebrae in the neck, and a tongue that could lick its own ears if it fancied.
Fun fact: Their two-metre neck has the same number of vertebrae as a human's — just seven.