ANIMALS

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS

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

2.                 The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

3.                 The world’s smallest dog was a Yorkshire Terrier, which weighed just four ounces.

4.                 Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.

5.                 On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

6.                 Deer have no gall bladders.

7.                 Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.

8.                 In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.

9.                 The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

10.            China owns all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

11.            Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to have truly blue eyes.

12.            Some cats are allergic to humans.

13.            If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can't hop they use their tails for balance.

14.            Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

15.            The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of alphabet.

16.            The average fox weighs 14 pounds.

17.            The fear of animals is called zoophobia.

18.            Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.

19.            Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.

20.            Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.

21.            If you have a fear of chickens, then you actually have Alektorophobia.

22.            Ailurophobia is the fear of cats.

23.            lchthyophobia is the fear of fish.

24.            Suriphobia is the fear of mice.

25.            Apiphobia is the fear of bees.

26.            The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.

27.            Alligators can live up to 100 years.

28.            A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

29.            Cam's lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.

30.            To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

31.            It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.

32.            Male rabbits are called “bucks." females are “does."

33.            Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.

34.            Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.

35.            Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.

36.            Cows have one large stomach that is divided into four compartments to go through the different stages of digestion.

37.            An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.

38.            A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.

39.            A reindeer’s eye change colour through the seasons. They’re gold during summer and blue in winter.

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

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

42.            Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

43.            A black panther is really a black leopard.

44.            The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.

45.            A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

46.            A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.

47.            Tigers have striped skin as well as their fur.

48.            Hippos can run faster than humans!

49.            The Latin name for moose is alces alces.

50.            The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.

51.            Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.

52.            The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.

53.            Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

54.            The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an elephant.

55.            George Washington’s teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.

56.            Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

57.            Goats and sheep are seasonal breeders.

58.            An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

59.            Deer can’t eat hay.

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

61.            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.

62.            The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.

63.            On average, cows poop 16 times per day!

64.            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.

65.            Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10.000 B.C.

66.            Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.

67.            Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine is harmful to dogs.

68.            No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.

69.            The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.

70.            The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

71.            Elephants are covered with hair.

72.            A ‘haw’ is the third eyelid of a cat, which can only be seen when the cat isn't well.

73.            A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.

74.            The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times.

75.            At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

76.            Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.

77.            An estimated 1 million dogs in the U.S. have been named primary beneficiary in their owners’ wills.

78.            It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

79.            A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

80.            A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.

81.            When young abalones feed on red seaweed their shells turn red.

82.            Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.

83.            The hippopotamus is born underwater.

84.            One million stray dogs and 500,000 stray cats live in New York City metropolitan area.

85.            You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.

86.            An elephant's trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk from it per day.

87.            The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.

88.            A large group of goats is called a herd.

89.            Squirrels cannot see the color red.

90.            A starving mouse will eat its own tail.

91.            Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.

92.            Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

93.            Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.

94.            Alligators cannot move backwards.

95.            The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the labrador retriever.

96.            The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.

97.            Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.

98.            Hippo's sweat is pink.

99.            In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

100.       Giraffes have no vocal cords.

101.       There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States.

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

103.       Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine!

104.       Cats can hear ultrasound.

105.       Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow’s to get blood to its brain.

106.       Some dogs can smell dead bodies underwater!

107.       Baby whales can gain up to 200 pounds per day.

108.       Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.

109.       Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

110.       Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack.

111.       A cheetah’s lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild.

112.       Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.

113.       Polar bears are the world’s largest land predators.

114.       Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.

115.       A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.

116.       Dik-diks weigh between three and six kilogrammes.

117.       Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.

118.       In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes on their back feet and African jerboas have three.

119.       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.

120.       Dogs can see better when the light is low.

121.       Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.

122.       79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.

123.       Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

124.       An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

125.       The animal on the Firefox logo is not a fox, but a red panda.

126.       The average dog can run about 19 mph.

127.       Snakes do not blink.

128.       A squid’s eye can get as big as a basketball.

129.       A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.

130.       There are currently over a million animal species upon planet earth.

131.       Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors similar to a color-blind human.

132.       Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years.

133.       The crocodile’s tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.

134.       Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph.

135.       The Basenji is the world’s only bark-less dog.

136.       Goats are quite agile creatures and in some cases they can jump over 5 feet.

137.       The hippopotamus's skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘pink sweat’.

138.       The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago.

139.       The Irish deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago.

140.       It costs approximately $10,000 to train a federally certified search and rescue dog.

141.       The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.

142.       A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.

143.       The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.

144.       According to records there are 50 million monkeys in the world!

145.       There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.

146.       Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by humans.

147.       The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest.

148.       There are over 2700 types of snakes in the world and they live in deserts, forests, oceans, streams, lakes.

149.       Cows from different areas have a different moo accent.

150.       The male goat is called a “buck” or “billy”.

151.       The female goat is called a “doe” or “nanny".

152.       A baby goat is called a “kid".

153.       Dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can be used to identify them.

154.       Frogs don’t drink water. They absorb water through their skin.

155.       An adult lion's roar is so loud; it can be heard up to five miles away.

156.       There are approximately 450 million goats around the world.

157.       Dalmatians are completely white at birth.

158.       A beaver’s teeth never stop growing.

159.       Goats and octopus’ pupils of their eyes are rectangular.

160.       African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.

161.       The scales of a crocodile are made of certain, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.

162.       Crocodiles eat stones.

163.       Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.

164.       Cheetahs were trained by man for hunting as long as 3000 BC.

165.       Horses can’t vomit.

166.       Both male and female caribou grow antlers.

167.       Alternate American names for the Elk are the moose and the Wapiti.

168.       A group of frogs is called an army.

169.       Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.

170.       A male gorilla can eat 40 pounds of food a day.

171.       A group of whales is called a pod.

172.       When giraffe’s age increases their fur darkens.

173.       You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

174.       Scientists had to go 45 million years back in history to find the elephant’s oldest ancestor.

175.       Tiger Day is the last Sunday in September.

176.       A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

177.       Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.

178.       A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

179.       African elephants have bigger ears than Indian elephants.

180.       There is no record of a human being attacked by a healthy wolf.

181.       The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: Cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.

182.       Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

183.       The lifespan of a bush baby is 14 years.

184.       Monkeys can learn to use money.