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
