Strange Animal Facts

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A group of ravens is called a  murder.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A shrimp's heart is located in its head.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

All polar bears are left handed.

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, which is rarely visible. If it is visible it could be an indication of ill health.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Chimpanzee DNA and human DNA is about 98.4% identical.

Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks until it starves to death.

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns.  Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

Grasshoppers have white blood.

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Horses and rabbits cannot vomit.

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Koala bears have fingerprints so similar to those made by humans that they could confuse crime-scene investigators.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig

Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Pink Elephants? In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Porcupines float in water!

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

Six toed cats are so common in Boston and surrounding parts of Massachusetts that some experts consider it an established mutation.

Slugs have 4 noses!

Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever.  Dumbest dog: Afghan

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food

St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have. A famous Alpine rescue dog, Barry, who saved the lives of 41 persons 170 years ago, was so well loved that a commemorative portrait was painted of him. The artist, apparently thinking the detail added interest, drew a brandy keg around Barry's neck, launching the "tradition" that lives on today.

Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that  falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, making the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The eagle has sex while going up to 60 mph. in flight, and it is common for both eagles to hit the ground before they finish.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

The Katydid hears through holes in it's hind legs.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

There are more than one million animal species on Earth

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