Interesting Animal Facts
1. The Basenji is the world’s only bark-less dog.
2. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
3. Cats can hear ultrasound.
4. 100 people could fit into the mouth of a blue whale.
5. Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.
6. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
7. Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their mother's length in the womb.
8. Blue whales' eyes are quite small in relation to their massive bodies—about the size of a grapefruit.
9. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
10. A leech has 32 brains.
11. A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
12. Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females’ polar bears do.
13. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
14. The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years.
15. Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton.
16. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
17. Spray from a blowhole of a blue whale can shoot three stories high.
18. Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but excellent sense of taste.
19. The only mammal where the female is the taller of the two genders is a type of antelope called the Okapi.
20. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
21. The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
22. There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the world.
23. A blue whale heart is the size of a Mini Cooper.
24. Deer have no gall bladders.
25. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
26. In just the first 56 days of life, the larva of the polyphemus moth eats about 86,000 times its birth weight.
27. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
28. Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.
29. Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
30. Skinks usually have long, tapering tails that can be shed and regenerated.
31. The Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago.
32. Afghan hound is the dumbest dog.
33. Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.
34. The opossum plays dead for self-defence as most predators won't eat animals that are already dead.
35. The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as “Pink Sweat”.
36. The largest Giant Pacific Octopus ever caught weighed about 600 pounds, the tentacles on the beast spanned upwards of 33ft in length.
37. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
38. The average Panda consumes between 20-40lbs of food per day. They can spend up to 16 hours eating.
39. An armadillo can walk under water.
40. French poodles did not originate in France; they came from Germany.
41. An adult whale can be twice the length of a city bus.
42. A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.
43. There are some species of snails that are venomous. Their venom can be fatal to humans.
44. Single elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
45. The capybara is the world's largest rodent, which can weigh more than 100 pounds.
46. A rabbit is not able to vomit.
47. Cows from different areas have a different moo accent.
48. There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland.
49. Ants don’t have lungs.
50. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.
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