Here are
the 100 great facts about animals, which might be unknown to most of YOU.
1.
Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
2.
A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost
be held in the palm of the hand.
3.
Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can
roar like lions.
4.
A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty
kills a year.
5.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
6.
Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins,
whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
7.
Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in
China.
8.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans,
although not as colorful. Deer have no gall bladders.
9.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green
areas.
10.
Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat
animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small
mammals.
11.
In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear
while they’re moose hunting. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
12.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that out of the 1,200
species of bats, only 2 can walk on ground. These are the Vampire bat and the
Burrowing bat.
13.
Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.
14.
The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants,
humpback whales and human females.
15.
Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to
have truly blue eyes.
16.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
17.
If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t
hop – they use their tails for balance.
18.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become
pale!
19.
Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream
lying down.
20.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy
dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
21.
A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds (4
kg).
22.
The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North
America.
23.
During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to
drop bombs.
24.
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb
into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
25.
It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if
they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
26.
Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will
make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
27.
Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which
is 1.4 billion tons every year.
28.
Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
29.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
30.
Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a
single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
31.
Pear and apple seeds contain arsenic, which may be
deadly to dogs.
32.
The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is
as long as three Greyhound buses.
33.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own
body.
34.
At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long –
no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
35.
There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its
body to kill six cats!
36.
The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to
see all four of their legs at all times.
37.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back
again depending on which is best for mating.
38.
Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.
39.
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.
40.
The word “peacock” doesn’t actually apply to both the
male and female birds.It’s only the males that are called peacocks, while the
females are called peahens.
41.
The hippopotamus is born underwater.
42.
A bat can eat up
to 1,000 insects per hour.
43.
Squirrels cannot see the color red.
44.
The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
45.
A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
46.
Birds can recognize landmarks, which they use to help
them navigate.
47.
Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats
than any other animal.
48.
Approximately 100 people die each year when they are
stepped on by cows.
49.
The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also
considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.
50.
The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
51.
A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of
the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.
52.
Hippos can run faster than humans!
53.
The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are
eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.
54.
A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
55.
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
56.
An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
57.
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.
58.
‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.
59.
The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000
Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
60.
On average, cows poop 16 times per day!
61.
The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in
seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals
would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had
actually rained cats and dogs.
62.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.
63.
Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of
dolphin.
64.
The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
65.
Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything
with caffeine is harmful to dogs.
66.
No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is
how individual tigers can be identified.
67.
A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
68.
Snakes do not blink.
69.
If you have a fear of chickens, then you actually have
Alektorophobia.
70.
The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are
color-blind.
71.
According to records there are more than 50 million
monkeys in the world!
72.
Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by
humans.
73.
Dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and
can be used to identify them.
74.
Frogs don’t drink water. They absorb water through their
skin.
75.
There are over 210 breeds of goats in the world.
76.
An adult lion’s roar is so loud; it can be heard up to
five miles away.
77.
Horses can’t vomit.
78.
A group of frogs is called an army.
79.
Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
80.
There is no visual difference between male and female
herons.
81.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
82.
Hyenas regularly eat the faeces of other animals.
83.
Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
84.
African elephants have bigger ears than Indian
elephants.
85.
There is no record of a human being attacked by a
healthy wolf.
86.
Hummingbirds are the only birds who can fly backwards.
87.
There are no ants in Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica.
Before they’re even born, sand tiger sharks eat their twin brothers and
sisters!
88.
Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They’re 98% water.
89.
Pikachu is a mouse type Pokémon.
90.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
91.
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels
that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
92.
The heart of the shrimp is located in its head!
93.
Elephant's are the only elephant that can't jump.
94.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.
95.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is
penguin urine.
96.
Bats always turn left when leaving cave.
97.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
98.
Frogs can't vomit. If one absolutely has to, then it
will vomit its entire stomach.
99.
Capuchin Monkeys pee on their hands to wash their feet.
100.
Flamingos are naturally white their diet of brine shrimp
and algae turns them pink!
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