99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 1]
99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 1]
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99+Interesting Facts About Animals [Part 1]
- Gorillas
can catch human colds and other illnesses.
- A
newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm
of the hand.
- Ostriches
can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
- A
lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
- The
female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- The
world’s smallest dog was a Yorkshire Terrier, which weighed just four
ounces.
- Turtles,
water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water
going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
- Almost
half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
- On
average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
- Deer
have no gall bladders.
- There
is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
- Snakes are carnivores, which means
they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and
other small mammals.
- In
Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose
hunting.
- The
bat is the only mammal that can fly.
- The
leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Some
male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
- The
only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human
females.
- Blue-eyed
lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to have truly blue eyes.
- A
tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
- For
every human in the world there are one million ants.
- If
you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it
can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
- If
you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
- Cows
can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
- The
sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of
the alphabet.
- The
average fox weighs 14 pounds.
- The
scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
- Alligators
can live up to 100 years.
- A
single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
- The turkey is one of the most famous
birds in North America.
- A
housefly hums in the key of F.
- During
World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
- Canis
lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
- To
escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it
will let you go instantly.
- It is
much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in
conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
- Even
a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and
sting itself to death!
- Male
rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
- The
flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Animals
generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every
year.
- Ants
never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
- A
group of owls is called a parliament.
- Just
one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill
around 400 litre bottles.
- Apple
and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
- Cows have
one large stomach that is divided into four compartments to go through the
different stages of digestion.
- An
anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
- The
blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as
long as three Greyhound buses.
- A
herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a
day.
- A
grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
- At
birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large
water bug or a queen bee.
- The
smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
- There
is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
- Cats have lived with people for only 7,000
years.
- A
black panther is really a black leopard.
- The
honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
- The
dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.
- A
cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A
dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow
greater flexibility for running.
- Tigers
have striped skin as well as their fur.
- Hippos
can run faster than humans!
- The
Latin name for moose is alces alces.
- The
earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back
12,000 years ago in Spain.
- Baby
horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.
- The
kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds
of tree kangaroos.
- A
woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
- The
great horned owl has no sense of smell.
- Scientists
have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
- The
flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man
jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
- Most
elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
- The
very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an
elephant.
- A garden
caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
- A
moth has no stomach.
- George
Washington’s teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.
- Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
- Goats
and sheep are seasonal breeders.
- An
elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
- Deer
can’t eat hay.
- A
skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
- In
2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to
interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.
- Every
day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.
- If
you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.
- The
ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed.
- Lonomia
obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.
- ‘Jaws’
is the most common name for a goldfish.
- The
most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla
Khan.
- On
average, cows poop 16 times per day!
- The
phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England.
During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down
the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and
dogs.
- The
most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.
- Killer
whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
- Goats were
the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
- Dogs
have sweat glands in between their paws.
- The
fear of animals is called zoophobia.
- We
share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
- We
share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
- Fireflies do not bite or have pincers.
Fireflies are harmless, they don’t even carry diseases.
- Chocolate,
macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine is harmful to
dogs.
- No
two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers
can be identified.
- The
American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States,
was founded in 1884.
- The
longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
- A
whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
- Elephants
are covered with hair.
- A ‘haw’
is the third eyelid of a cat, which can only be seen when the cat isn’t
well.
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