- A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand. Cool!!
- Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions. Amazing!!
- The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- The only animal is dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
- Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
- Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China. Interesting!!
- Deer have no gall bladders.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die. Interesting!!
- A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food. Cool!!
- For every human in the world there are one million ants. Amazing!!
- If you lift a Kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance. Interesting!!
- If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
- Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
- A single elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds. Amazing!!
- The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
- A housefly hums in the key of F.
- During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
- It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
- Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
- Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does. Amazing!!”
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Amazing!!
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs. Amazing!!
- Cows have four stomachs.
- The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses. Amazing!!
- A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
- There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
- Hippos can run faster than humans!
- A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second. Cool!!
- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. Interesting!!
- The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in WW2 hit an elephant.
- A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Cool!!
- If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one. Interesting!!
- The ostrich has two toes oneach foot which gives it greater speed. Cool!!
- The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish.
- Killer Whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
- Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
- The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
- A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
- A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period. Cool!!
- A large group of goats is called a herd.
- Squirrels cannot see the colour red.
- The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
- A starving mouse will eat it’s own tail.
- Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
- A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
- The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the Labrador retriever.
- The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
- The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animals to have ever existed in the world.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- Butterflies can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
- There are roughly twenty four thousand species of butterflies.
- Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.
- Dogs can see better when the light is low.
- 79% of pet owners sleep with their pets. Amazing!!
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