Interesting Animal Facts

Here is a list of all the interesting animal facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to different animals which is very interesting.

Interesting Facts About Animals:

• Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water!
• Fishes were there even before the dinosaurs!
• Goldfish lose their colour if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water!
• Octopus have 3 hearts!
• Kangaroos have 3 vaginas!
• For every human, there are 200 million insects!
• Dogs can make approximately 100 different face expressions!
• The head of a jellyfish is called the ‘Bell’!
• The average hen lays 228 eggs a year!
• Cats spend 66% of their life asleep!
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases!
• Hippopotamuses are born under water!
• Female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd!
• Flies always launch backwards for a quick getaway!
• Birds need gravity to Swallow!
• The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes!
• Frogs can swallow with their eyes open!
• The stomach acids found in a snake’s stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair!
• A lobster’s blood is colourless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue!
• It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky!
• Bulls can run faster uphill than down!
• Until they are about a year old, baby blue whales gain an incredible weight of 91 Kg each day!
• A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight!
• duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world!
• If you were to shave a tiger’s fur, its skins would still have stripes!
• Elephant’s tusks are the longest teeth in the world!
• A camel’s hump doesn’t store water at all, it stores fat!
• Sharks loose teeth each week!
• The sloth is the world’s slowest mammal, so lazy that algae grow on its furry coat!
• The world’s smallest cockroach is only 3 mm long!
• Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours.They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once),but this is rare!
• Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day (and your mother thought you slept a lot)!
• The low-frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature!
• At 15 inches, the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet!
• Seahorse can see in 2 different directions at the same time!
• Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air!
• An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts!
• A tiger’s tail can be up to one-third of its total body length!
• Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth!
• Tigers move both legs on the same side of the body simultaneously when they walk!
• A duck`s quack doesn`t echo. No one knows why!
• Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating!
• The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly!
• The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year!
• Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk!
• The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes!
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours!
• A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water!
• A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet!
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside!
• An animal epidemic is called an epizootic!
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes!
• Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds!
• Lobsters and Jellyfish are biologically immortal, they can live forever!
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel!
• Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and prey!
• The hippopotamus kill more humans annually than lions, crocodiles, or snakes!
• The cuddly animal koala bear, as it is often called, is not a bear at all, it’s a marsupial! It sleeps for up to 18 hours a day!
• Elephants use their trunks to help them stay cool. First,they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. They often follow that with a sprinkling of dust or mud to create a protective sunscreen of dirt on their skin!
• All tigers have similar markings on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning king!
• Over the course of her life, a female tiger will give birth to an approximately equal number of male and female cubs!
• A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation!
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
• A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute!
• Reindeer’s hairs are hollow inside like a tube!
• Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk!
• White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf!
• The smallest dog is the Chihuahua!
• Keeping cats can increase the chances of mental illness and cause suicidal behaviour in women!
• In 2005, a sheep in turkey committed suicide by jumping off a cliff and 1500 sheep followed!
• Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food!
• African elephants only have 4 teeth!
• Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper!
• The mouth of a jellyfish is also its anus!
• To take care of their herds, powerful male dolphins occasionally rape weaker males!
• Giraffes can’t yawn!
• A snail can sleep continuously for 3 years!
• Hamsters are colour blind!

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