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99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 2]

99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 2]

99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 2]
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  • A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.
  • The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times.
  • At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
  • Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
  • Fireflies are the only creatures that give off light without generating heat.
  • Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.
  • Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.
  • Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.
  • It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
  • A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
  • A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
  • When young abalones feed on red seaweed their shells turn red.
  • Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.
  • The hippopotamus is born underwater.
  • Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.
  • A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
  • One million stray dogs and 500,000 stray cats live in New York City metropolitan area.
  • You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
  • An elephant’s trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk from it per day.
  • The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.
  • A large group of goats is called a herd.
  • Squirrels cannot see the color red.
  • The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
  • A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
  • Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
  • Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.
  • Birds can recognise landmarks, which they use to help them navigate.
  • The starfish is the only animal capable of turning its stomach inside-out.
  • Male dogs will raise their legs while urinating to aim higher on a tree or lamppost because they want to leave a message that they are tall and intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa try to run up tree trunks while they are urinating to appear to be very large.
  • Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
  • About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.
  • Sharks are immune to cancer!
  • Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.
  • Alligators cannot move backwards.
  • The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the labrador retriever.
  • The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.
  • Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.
  • A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
  • Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
  • Hippo’s sweat is pink.
  • Whale milk is 50% fat.
  • In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.
  • In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
  • The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
  • The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.
  • Giraffes have no vocal cords.
  • Starfish have eight eyes – one at the end of each leg.
  • There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States.
  • After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
  • A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  • Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine!
  • Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.
  • The Mayans and Aztecs symbolised every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.
  • When a male tiger and female lion mate they make a tigon, when a male lion and female tiger mate they make a liger.
  • French poodles did not originate in France – they came from Germany.
  • The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months.
  • Elephants don’t drink through their trunks like a straw.
  • Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their mother’s length in the womb.
  • Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.
  • Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin A and niacin than cow’s milk.
  • Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but excellent sense of taste.
  • Cats can hear ultrasound.
  • Tuna fish can swim 40 miles in a single day.
  • Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.
  • Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.
  • Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow’s to get blood to its brain.
  • Blue whales have large enough aortas (the main blood vessel) for a human to crawl through.
  • Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water!
  • More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the US at Thanksgiving.
  • Baby whales can gain up to 200 pounds per day.
  • Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
  • Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack.
  • Barn owls hunt mostly small mammals such as the short-tailed vole.
  • A ducks quack does echo, it’s just almost impossible to hear.
  • A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild.
  • Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.
  • Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.
  • Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton.
  • Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
  • Polar bears are the world’s largest land predators.
  • Hippos attract mates by urinating and defecating.
  • Butterflies can only see the colors red, green and yellow.
  • Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.
  • There are roughly twenty-four thousand species of butterflies.
  • A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.
  • Dik-diks weigh between three and six kilogrammes.
  • Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.
  • Fireflies are also known as lightning bugs.
  • Noctule bats fly before sunset, whereas Pipistrelles appear soon after sunset.
  • In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes on their back feet and African jerboas have three.
  • Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.
  • Dogs can see better when the light is low.
  • Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.
  • Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.
  • 79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
  • Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
  • Many species of owls have special feathers for flying silently.
  • An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
  • The animal on the Firefox logo is not a fox, but a red panda.



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