30 strange facts about Animals
- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
- On an average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
- Deer have no gall bladders.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
- Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
- The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- If you lift a Kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
- Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
- A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
- Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
- A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
- The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
- Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale!
- Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
- Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
- A group of Owls is called a parliament.
- Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
- Alligators can live up to 100 years.
- A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
- Turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
- Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
- Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
- Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
- Cows have four stomachs.
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