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Friday 1 June 2012

Animal Facts: Interesting, Amazing and Wonderful Facts about Animals


Animals are everywhere on the earth like cities, town, villages and forest also. Here are some wonderful amazing information about Animals:-
1.        7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
2.        79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
3.        A 4 foot walrus penis bone sold at auction in 2007 for $8,000.
4.        A baby goat is called a “kid.”
5.        A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
6.        A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
7.        A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
8.        A Beaver's teeth never stop growing.
9.        A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
10.     A black panther is really a black leopard.
11.     A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
12.     A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
13.     A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall.
14.     A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15.     A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and paws also carry the cat's scent.
16.     A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
17.     A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild
18.     A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
19.     A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.
20.     A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
21.     A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
22.     A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.
23.     A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
24.     A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
25.     A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
26.     A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.
27.     A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
28.     African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
29.     A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
30.     A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
31.     A dork is a whale's penis.
32.     A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
33.     A ducks quack does echo, it's just very hard to hear.
34.     A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
35.     A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
36.     A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
37.     A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
38.     A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
39.     A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
40.     A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
41.     A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
42.     A group of frogs is called an army.
43.     A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
44.     A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
45.     A group of owls is called a parliament.
46.     A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
47.     A group of whales is called a pod.
48.     A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
49.     A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
50.     A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
51.     A housefly hums in the key of F.
52.     A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
53.     A jellyfish is 95 percent water
54.     A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
55.     A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
56.     A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
57.     A large group of goats is called a herd.
58.     A killer whale's heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.
59.     A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
60.     A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.
61.     A male baboon can kill a leopard.
62.     A male gorilla can eat 40 pounds of food a day.
63.     A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
64.     A moth has no stomach.
65.     A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
66.     A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
67.     A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
68.     A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
69.     A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
70.     A Polar Bear's outer fur is called 'guard hair'.
71.     A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
72.     A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.
73.     A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
74.     African elephants have bigger ears than Indian elephants.
75.     A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
76.     A single elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
77.     A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
78.     A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
79.     A shrimp's heart is in its head.
80.     A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
81.     A slug has four noses.
82.     A squid's eye can get as big as a basketball.
83.     A snail can sleep for three years.
84.     A starving mouse will eat it's own tail.
85.     A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
86.     A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
87.     A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
88.     A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
89.     A tuna fish can swim 100 miles in a single day.
90.     A whale's heart beats only nine times a minute.
91.     A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
92.     About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.
93.     According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
94.     After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
95.     All bonobo chimpanzees are bisexual.
96.     According to records there are 50 million monkeys in the world.
97.     All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
98.     All dolphins have a different whistle.
99.     All polar bears are left handed
100.  Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.

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