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Amazing Animal Facts
- Bees have to suck about 4 million flowers to produce 1kg of honey.
- A butterfly has 1200 eyes.
- A blue whale needs 3 tonnes of food everyday.
- Caterpillar has 2000 muscles, as compared to man who has only 656 muscles.
- The colour of cuttle fish blood is blue and it has 3 hearts.
- In average housefly lives for one month.
- The only three animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are - the rabbit, chameleon and the parrot.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
- A ducks quacks does not echo and no one knows why.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- The fingerprints of koala is undistinguishable from those of humans.
- The tip of cheetah's tail is white.
- Sponge does not eyes, ears, brain, mouth and muscles.
- Spiders feed on insects that they catch in sticky silk webs. All spiders have eight legs.
- Honeybee lives in hives made of wax. They make honey from the nectar they collect from flowers.
- A honeybee makes a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
- Seals and Penguins are found in Antarctica. They are powerful swimmers. They have thick layers of fat to keep them warm.
- Eagles hunt with their strong feet and sharp claws called TALONS.
- Ducks uses their webbed feet like paddles to push through the water.
- Camels have padded, two-toed hoofs. As they walk, their toes spread apart giving them extra support in sand.
- Snakes smell with their tongue.
- Cheetahs can run faster than 60 miles an hour.
- Ostrich are the biggest animal in the world and weigh 300 pounds and are 8 feet tall. They cannot fly.
- Owls have sharp eyes and supersensitive ears to help them hunt in the dark.
- Octopuses in the ocean protect itself from huge sharks by shooting out a cloud of ink and then zipping away.
- Ducks feathers are covered with special oil which helps keep it dry when it dives in water to catch fish.
- Monkeys use long tails to help swing through the trees. It is like having an extra arm.
- Mother crocodile moves her babies from the nest to the water in her mouth.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- The hippo skin is 1 1/2 thick ,so a solid bullet won't pass through it.
- Anacondas are the heaviest ,exceeding the reticulated pythoningirth.
- Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.
- Polar bear 's skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiberoptics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
- Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours sleep per day.
- Chocolate kills dogs as it affects a dog's heart and nervous system.
- A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear.
- About half the animals found below the ocean depth glow. The light serves to attract prey and mates.
- Bird droppings are white because they contain the uric acid.
- The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat from Asia.
- Dolphins is a brainy animal and have bigger brains than the brains of humans.
- A cat's heart beats twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats per minute.
- The largest cat breed is the Ragdoll.
- The rabbit and parrot are the only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
- The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Spiders have transparent blood.
- Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer.
- The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
- Starfishes don't have a brain.
- The giraffe is the only animal born with horns.
- The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.
- Blue whales are the biggest animal.
- The fastest water mammal is the dolphin.
- The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
- Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
- A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a human's.
- The dumbest domesticated animal is turkey.
- The queen ant lives up to ten or twenty years.
- The queen feeds her eggs her own saliva.
- Earthworms have five pairs of hearts, close to the front of their bodies
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
- Turtles have no teeth.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- Horses often go to sleep standing up as well as lying down.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
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