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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.        Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.
2.        You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
3.        You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
4.        A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
5.        A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colours of its environment.
6.        Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
7.        If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale.
8.        After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
9.        Alligators can live up to 100 years.
10.     Alternate American names for the Elk are the moose and the Wapiti.
11.     A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
12.     Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.
13.     A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
14.     Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
15.     Hippo milk is pink.
16.     If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
17.     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.
18.     It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
19.     You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
20.     Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.
21.     When giraffes age, their fur darkens.
22.     The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
23.     Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.
24.     The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
25.     On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
26.     Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
27.     On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
28.     On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
29.     Penguin poop can be seen from space.
30.     Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
31.     Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
32.     Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
33.     Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.
34.     Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
35.     Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
36.     Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
37.     Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
38.     The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.
39.     The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
40.     The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.
41.     The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
42.     The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old.
43.     Most of a hog's sweat glands are in its snout.
44.     The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
45.     The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
46.     The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years.
47.     The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
48.     The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers.
49.     The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
50.     The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.
51.     The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
52.     The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
53.     Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
54.     Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.
55.     Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
56.     Turtles can breathe through their butts.
57.     Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
58.     A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
59.     A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
60.     A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
61.     A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.
62.     A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.
63.     A group of frogs is called an army.
64.     An elephant's trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk from it per day.
65.     A moth has no stomach.


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