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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.        Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
2.        Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
3.        Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
4.        Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.
5.        Some species of fish have voices.
6.        Suriphobia is the fear of mice.
7.        Spiders have transparent blood.
8.        Starfish have eight eyes - one at the end of each leg.
9.        Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
10.     Squirrels cannot see the colour red.
11.     Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
12.     Starfish don't die of old age.
13.     Starfish don't have brains.
14.     Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.
15.     Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
16.     The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.
17.     The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.
18.     The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
19.     The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $16,400 US Dollars.
20.     The average dog can run about 19 mph.
21.     Termites work 24 hours per day and they do not sleep.
22.     The average dolphin eats one third of its weight on food each day.
23.     The average housefly lives only two weeks.
24.     The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
25.     The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.
26.     The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
27.     Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
28.     The Basenji is the worlds only bark-less dog.
29.     The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.
30.     The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.
31.     The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
32.     The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
33.     The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
34.     The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.
35.     The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant.
36.     The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months.
37.     The cat brain weighs about 30g.
38.     The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.
39.     The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
40.     The colour red doesn't really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.
41.     The costliest cat ever is named Little Nicky, who cost his owner $50,000. He is a clone of an older cat.
42.     The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.
43.     The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
44.     The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.
45.     The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
46.     The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.
47.     The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
48.     The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
49.     The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump.
50.     The female goat is called a “doe” or “nanny.”
51.     The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.
52.     The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
53.     The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.
54.     The hippopotamus is born underwater.
55.     The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
56.     The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
57.     The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.
58.     The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
59.     The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
60.     The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
61.     The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.
62.     The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
63.     The Great Horned Owl has no sense of smell.
64.     The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute.
65.     The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.
66.     The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns.
67.     The Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago.
68.     The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
69.     The Kangaroo's ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.
70.     The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
71.     The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.
72.     The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
73.     The Latin name for moose is alces alces.
74.     The lifespan of mammals is about 1 and a half billion heartbeats.
75.     The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
76.     The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years.
77.     The lifespan of a bush baby is 14 years.
78.     The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
79.     The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6 months
80.     The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
81.     The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
82.     The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
83.     The male goat is called a “buck” or “billy.”
84.     The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
85.     The life of a housefly is only 14 days.
86.     The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
87.     The Mayans and Aztecs symbolised every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.
88.     The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
89.     The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
90.     The most expensive cow in the world was sold $1.3 million.
91.     The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish.
92.     The octopus' testicles are located in its head.
93.     The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.
94.     The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
95.     The scales of a crocodile are made of certain, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
96.     The most yolks ever found in one chicken egg was nine.
97.     The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the Labrador retriever.
98.     The octopus does not have a blind spot.
99.     The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
100.  The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.

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