Amazing Animal Facts
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When thirsty, a camel can swig down 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
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Bees have to suck about 4 million flowers to produce 1kg of honey.
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A butterfly has 1200 eyes.
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A blue whale needs 3 tonnes of food everyday.
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Caterpillar has 2000 muscles, as compared to man who has only 656 muscles.
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The colour of cuttle fish blood is blue and it has 3 hearts.
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In average housefly lives for one month.
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The only three animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are - the rabbit, chameleon and the parrot.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
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A ducks quacks does not echo and no one knows why.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
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It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
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The fingerprints of koala is undistinguishable from those of humans.
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The tip of cheetah's tail is white.
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Sponge does not eyes, ears, brain, mouth and muscles.
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Spiders feed on insects that they catch in sticky silk webs. All spiders have eight legs.
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Honeybee lives in hives made of wax. They make honey from the nectar they collect from flowers.
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A honeybee makes a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
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Seals and Penguins are found in Antarctica. They are powerful swimmers. They have thick layers of fat to keep them warm.
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Eagles hunt with their strong feet and sharp claws called TALONS.
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Ducks uses their webbed feet like paddles to push through the water.
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Camels have padded, two-toed hoofs. As they walk, their toes spread apart giving them extra support in sand.
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Snakes smell with their tongue.
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Cheetahs can run faster than 60 miles an hour.
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Ostrich are the biggest animal in the world and weigh 300 pounds and are 8 feet tall. They cannot fly.
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Owls have sharp eyes and supersensitive ears to help them hunt in the dark.
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Octopuses in the ocean protect itself from huge sharks by shooting out a cloud of ink and then zipping away.
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Ducks feathers are covered with special oil which helps keep it dry when it dives in water to catch fish.
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Monkeys use long tails to help swing through the trees. It is like having an extra arm.
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Mother crocodile moves her babies from the nest to the water in her mouth.
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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
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The hippo skin is 1 1/2 thick ,so a solid bullet won't pass through it.
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Anacondas are the heaviest ,exceeding the reticulated pythoningirth.
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Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.
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Polar bear 's skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiberoptics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
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Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours sleep per day.
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Chocolate kills dogs as it affects a dog's heart and nervous system.
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A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear.
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About half the animals found below the ocean depth glow. The light serves to attract prey and mates.
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Bird droppings are white because they contain the uric acid.
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The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat from Asia.
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Dolphins is a brainy animal and have bigger brains than the brains of humans.
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A cat's heart beats twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats per minute.
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The largest cat breed is the Ragdoll.
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The rabbit and parrot are the only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
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The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
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Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
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Spiders have transparent blood.
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Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer.
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The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
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Starfishes don't have a brain.
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The giraffe is the only animal born with horns.
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The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.
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Blue whales are the biggest animal.
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The fastest water mammal is the dolphin.
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The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
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Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
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Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
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A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a human's.
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The dumbest domesticated animal is turkey.
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The queen ant lives up to ten or twenty years.
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The queen feeds her eggs her own saliva.
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Earthworms have five pairs of hearts, close to the front of their bodies.
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The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
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Turtles have no teeth.
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
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Horses often go to sleep standing up as well as lying down.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
- Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.
- To vomit, some frogs spew out their entire stomach, rinse it off with their right hand, and then push it back in.
- Bats manage to hang upside down with ease because their claws lock on to the branch or object from which they hang. When a bat dies like this, it stays in place with its toes locked.
- The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
- A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day.
- Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump.
- Pigs can’t look in the sky.
- Honeybees never sleep.
- Camel’s milk has 10 times more iron than cow’s milk.
- Turkey is the dumbest domesticated animal.