Most Popular Animal Facts
1. Hippo milk is pink.
2. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
3. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
4. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
5. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
All Animal Facts
1. It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
2. Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
3. Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
4. A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
5. Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
6. An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
7. Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
8. Lobsters have blue blood.
9. The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
10. Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
11. Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
12. The octopus does not have a blind spot.
13. The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
14. The cat brain weighs about 30g.
15. Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
16. A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and paws also carry the cat's scent.
17. The costliest cat ever is named Little Nicky, who cost his owner $50,000. He is a clone of an older cat.
18. One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
19. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
20. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
21. Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
22. Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
23. There are more chickens than people in the world.
24. The world's oldest crow is 118 years (estimated age).
25. The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
26. Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
27. A 4 foot walrus penis bone sold at auction in 2007 for $8,000.
28. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
29. Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
30. A dork is a whale's penis.
31. Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
32. Flies are deaf.
33. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
34. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
35. Hippo milk is pink.
36. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
37. The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.
38. The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus.
39. The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
40. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
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Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.
The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h).
An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means “tiny dog in the sky.”
Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but
domestic cats are not mentioned.
Pork is the world’s most widely-eaten meat.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren’t any at that time.
The coyote is a member of the dog family and its scientific name, “canis latrans” means barking dog.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle – a group of geese in the air is a skein. More animal collective nouns
The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
It is impossible to out-swim a shark – sharks reach speeds of 44 mph (70 km/h). Humans can run about 21 mph (35 km/h).
The sailfish is the fastest swimmer, reaching 68 mph (109 km/h), although a black marlin has been clocked at 80 mph (128 km/h).
The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
Dolphins can reach 37 mph (60 km/h).
Of the 650 types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
A blue whale weighs as much as 40 rhinos.
The eel is the only fish in the world that spawns in the middle of an ocean but spends its adult lives in rivers.
The scales of a crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
A snail has two pairs of tentacles on its head. One pair is longer than the other and houses the eyes. The shorter pair is used for smelling and feeling its way around. (Some snail species have only one pair of tentacles, thus they have just one eye.)
The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 42 lb (19 kg), caught in 1934.
The largest jellyfish ever caught measured 7’6″ (2,3 m) across the bell with a tentacle of 120 ft (36 m) long.
The largest giant squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4 tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m (35 ft) long.
The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal: its eyes measure 16 inches (40 cm) in diameter.
Domestic cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
Sharks are immune to almost all known diseases.
Sharks and rays also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been used as sandpaper.
Animals also are either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed – and so is Kermit the Frog.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
Some bird species, usually flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper and lower lids to blink.
Fish and insects do not have eyelids – their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other “normal” fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up.
Measured in straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 106 mph (170 km/h). Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 94 mph (150 km/h).
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 21 million people.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
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