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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