Strange Facts about Animals

1. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!


2. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
   


3. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
   


4. Cat urine glows under a black-light!
   


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


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


7. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
   


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


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


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


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


12. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
    


13. The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
    


14. A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
    


15. The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!
    


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


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


18. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
    


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


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


21. Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
    


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


23. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! Breeders and trainers keep a dog's nose prints on file as part of its permanent record and insurance companies now require them whenever a dog is to be bonded. At one time paw prints were used as a means of canine identification, but these proved less accurate than noses.
    


24. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
    


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


26. Butterflies have approximately 12,000 eyes.
    


27. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. There was a cat in Japan that said neow. A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, rather than on smell.)
    


28. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their head cut off.
    


29. A heard of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
    


30. A Crocodile weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human's jaw exerts a force of about 140 to 180 pounds.
    


31. The Chow is the only dog that has a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.
    


32. A common Labrador bites with 125 pounds of force.
    


33. The giraffe can open and close its nostrils at will, can run faster than a horse and makes almost no sound whatsoever. The first giraffe ever seen in the West was brought to Rome about 46 B.C. by no less a personage than Julius Caesar.
    


34. The giraffe's tongue is 18 inches long. It uses it's tongue to rip leaves off branches for consumption. It also uses it's tongue to clean it's nose when unwanted visitors like tree ants decide to visit. In comparison, if a human had such a tongue, one would be able to clean the top of one's head, one's nostrils and one's ears.
    


35. Though the giraffe's neck is about 7 feet long, it contains the same number of vertebrae as a mouse's, which is seven.
    


36. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
    


37. At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long, no bigger than a large waterbug or a queen bee.
    


38. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
    


39. A newborn polar bear cub weighs a lot less than a newborn human, only about 1-1.5 pounds. Yet when fully grown, polar bears reach weights of up to 1,600 pounds.
    The Polar Bear is one of the only large land mammals that has absolutely no fear of man. It will stalk people at every chance and has been known to charge large groups of hunters, sometimes into heavy gunfire, not slowing down even after its vital organs have been hit repeatedly.
    


40. Almost half of all the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
    


41. Two rats can parent 15,000 rats in less than a year.
    


42. Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relatives the pocket mice, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air the breathe.
    


43. A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
    


44. A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
    


45. The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
    


46. Most varieties of snakes can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
    


47. A Python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six month period.
    


48. The Blue Whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
    


49. Alligators, dolphins, crocodiles, frogs, porpoises, turtles, water snakes, whales and several other watergoing creatures will drown if kept underwater too long. Unlike fish, these animals require a certain amount of air in order to survive.