INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS
1. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
2. The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
3. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
4. The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
5. When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
6. The leech has 32 brains.
7. An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
8. The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
9. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.
10. Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour.
11. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
12. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
13. The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
14. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
15. Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
16. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
17. According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
18. Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
19. Snakes can see through their eyelids.
20. When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
21. The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
22. The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
23. Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
24. 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
25. Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect... each eye is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
26. Crocodiles never outgrow the pools in which they live. That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
27. Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
28. Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
29. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
30. Male anglerfish physically attach themselves to females early in life. The females continue to grow but the males don't. The males are parasites. Over time, they lose most of their inner organs and depend on the female's bodies to survive. Two males may live off one female.
31. The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
32. Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
33. Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
34. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
35. A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
36. The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
37. Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
38. Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark and sense movement.
39. Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
40. Crickets have ears on their front legs.
41. On a beach holiday, you are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.
42. A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
43. A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
44. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
45. Shrimp can only swim backwards.
46. If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
47. The pistol shrimp catches its prey by surprising it with a loud banging noise made with its claws.
48. The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back
49. A Platypus is one of two mammals that lays eggs and nurses it's young on milk - the other is an echidna.
50. Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
2. The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
3. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
4. The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
5. When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
6. The leech has 32 brains.
7. An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
8. The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
9. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.
10. Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour.
11. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
12. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
13. The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
14. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
15. Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
16. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
17. According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
18. Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
19. Snakes can see through their eyelids.
20. When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
21. The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
22. The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
23. Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
24. 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
25. Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect... each eye is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
26. Crocodiles never outgrow the pools in which they live. That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
27. Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
28. Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
29. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
30. Male anglerfish physically attach themselves to females early in life. The females continue to grow but the males don't. The males are parasites. Over time, they lose most of their inner organs and depend on the female's bodies to survive. Two males may live off one female.
31. The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
32. Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
33. Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
34. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
35. A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
36. The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
37. Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
38. Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark and sense movement.
39. Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
40. Crickets have ears on their front legs.
41. On a beach holiday, you are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.
42. A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
43. A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
44. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
45. Shrimp can only swim backwards.
46. If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
47. The pistol shrimp catches its prey by surprising it with a loud banging noise made with its claws.
48. The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back
49. A Platypus is one of two mammals that lays eggs and nurses it's young on milk - the other is an echidna.
50. Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
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