99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 2]

99+ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS [PART 2]

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99+ Interesting Facts About Animals [Part 2]

• 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.