Facts about animals
• penguins have an organ on their forehead between the eyes that de-salinizes water. It can be seen only as a small hole.
• elephants can't jump.
• sheep in scotland faint if you jump out at them.
• bats always exit a cave to the left.
• a giraffe can clean it's ears with it's 21 inch tounge.
• a giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
• a hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot child inside.
• a hippo can run faster than a man.
• a horse can sleep standing up
• a horse has 35 square feet of skin.
• a house fly only lives for 2 weeks.
• a hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• a jellyfish is 95% water.
• a kangaroo can hop 30 feet at once.
• a kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is on the ground.
• a large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
• a lion's roar can be heard a mile a way.
• a male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
• a millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.
• a 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute
• a blind chameleon can still change colours to match its environment
• a blue whale's heart only beats nine times per minute.
• a cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
• the weddell seal, can travel underwater for seven hours without surfacing.
• a chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• a cockroach can live several weeks with it's head cut off.
• a cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
• a crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old ones.
• a crocodile can't move it's tongue.
• a crocodile will some times eat other crocodiles.
• a crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.
• a dragonfiy only lives for a day.
• a female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• a 2 year old horse has 6 incisors.
• a pig's orgasim lasts for 30 minutes.
• a rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
• a rodents teeth never stops growing
• a shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
• a shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
• a snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
• a species of earthworm in australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
• a starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
• a strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as steel wire of the same length.
• a typical double-bed mattress contains as many as 2 million house dust mites (demodex folliculorom)
• a rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• a woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.
• a zebra is white with black stripes.
• abe lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and she drank the milk.
• according to a recent scientific study, hard rock music makes termites chew through wood at twice the speed.
• you can tell a turtle's sex by it's sound. Males grunt, females hiss.
• all polar bears are left-handed.
• polar bears are the only mammals with hair on the soles of their feet.
• earth worms are hermaphrodites.
• of the many species of the world, 1/4 are bats.
• a goldfish kept in dark rooms will turn white.
• if a frog's mouth is open for too long it will suffocate.
• sharks are immune to cancer.
• after eating, a house fly regurgitates its food and eats it again.
• an elephant can smell water 3 miles away.
• an elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.
• an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
• anteaters prefer termites to ants.
• armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
• armadillos can be house broken.
• armadillos can have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• goats' eyes have rectangular pupils
• black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes
• it takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound
• the difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their belly. The male blue crab has the washington monument and the female blue crab's belly is shaped like the u.s capitol
• mice, whales, elephants, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra
• all porcupines float in water
• the poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers
• when angered, the ears of the tazmanian devil turn pinkish red
• a cat has four rows of wiskers.
• cats' urine glows under a blacklight
• an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
• the memory spand of a goldfish is three seconds
• all swans and sturgeons in england are property of the queen
• the 2 foot long bird called a kea that lives in new zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber aound car windows
• the honey badger can withstand hundreds of african bee stings that would kill any other animal.
• cats can hear ultrasound
• the cheeta is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
• a lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
• a female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples
• the sumatran tiger has the most strips of all the tiger subspecies, and the siberian tiger has the least
• tigers' paw prints are called pug marks
• kiwi birds are blind, they hunt only by smell
• all elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no bone just only fat
• giraffes have no vocal chords
• a fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse
• the mola mola or ocean sunfish lays up to 5 000 000 eggs at one time
• when opossums are playing opposum they aren't really "playing" they pass out from fear
• stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans
• rhinos are part of the same family as horses, and thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn
• a ducks' quack doesn't echo
• dogs and humans are the only animals that have prostates
• the placemant of a donkey's eyes in it's head enables it to see all four feet at one time
• camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand
• emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards
• cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs only have 10
• hamsters love to eat crickets
• many hamsters blink one eye at a time
• the underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog.
• roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
• all snakes on the island of tasmania are poisonous
• the fingerprints of koala bears are almost in indistinguishable from those of humans , so much that they could be confused at a crime scene
• emus have double plumed feathers and they lay emerald/forest green eggs
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