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Showing posts with label Animal Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animal Facts. Show all posts

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.

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.        Iguanas, Koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
2.        In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
3.        In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they're moose hunting.
4.        In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
5.        In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.
6.        In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male.
7.        Goats and octopus’ pupils of their eyes are rectangular.
8.        In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
9.        In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
10.     In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
11.     It costs approximately $10,000 to train a federally certified search and rescue dog.
12.     It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
13.     In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes on their back feet and African jerboas have three.
14.     It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.
15.     Killer Whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
16.     It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
17.     Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.
18.     It is possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to their own poison.
19.     It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
20.     It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
21.     Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.
22.     It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
23.     'Jaws' is the most common name for a goldfish.
24.     Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
25.     Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.
26.     Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
27.     Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
28.     Kittens are born both blind and deaf.
29.     Lobsters have blue blood.
30.     Lonomia obliqua is the world's deadliest caterpillar.
31.     Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
32.     Male dogs will raise their legs while urinating to aim higher on a tree or lamppost because they want to leave a message that they are tall and intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa try to run up tree trunks while they are urinating to appear to be very large
33.     Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
34.     Male rabbits are called "bucks," females are "does."
35.     Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
36.     Many species of owls have special feathers for flying silently.
37.     Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.
38.     Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
39.     Minnows have teeth in their throat.
40.     Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.
41.     Koala Bears are not bears.
42.     More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the US at Thanksgiving.
43.     More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
44.     Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
45.     Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
46.     Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.
47.     Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
48.     National Dance Like A Chicken Day falls on 14th May every year.
49.     No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
50.     No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.
51.     Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
52.     Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
53.     Noctule bats fly before sunset, whereas Pipistrelles appear soon after sunset.
54.     Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
55.     On average, cows poop 16 times per day.
56.     Most domestic turkeys are so heavy they are unable to fly.
57.     On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
58.     On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
59.     One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.
60.     One million stray dogs and 500,000 stray cats live in New York City metropolitan area.
61.     One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
62.     One survey reports that 33 percent of dog owners admit they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on answering machines while they are away.
63.     Only female bees work.
64.     Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
65.     Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.
66.     Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.
67.     Only male fireflies can fly.
68.     Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
69.     Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
70.     Pikachu is a mouse type Pokémon.
71.     Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
72.     Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
73.     Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
74.     Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.
75.     Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
76.     Polar bears are the world's largest land predators.
77.     Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.
78.     Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
79.     Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
80.     Rooster is simply a male chicken.
81.     Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
82.     Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.
83.     Scientists had to go 45 million years back in history to find the elephant’s oldest ancestor.
84.     Porcupines float in water.
85.     Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
86.     Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.
87.     Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.
88.     Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
89.     Sharks are immune to cancer.
90.     Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.
91.     Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
92.     Slugs have 4 noses.
93.     Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.
94.     Snails breathe through their feet.
95.     Snakes do not blink.
96.     Snails can live up to 15 years.
97.     Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
98.     Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs.
99.     Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water.
100.  Some lions mate over 50 times a day.