facts about animals you don't know by InternetLord 2013/07/13 14:47
A cockroach can live
several weeks with its
head cut off - it dies from
starvation!
A crocodile always grows
new teeth to replace the
old teeth!
A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
A group of geese on the
ground is a gaggle, a
group of geese in the air is
a skein!
A hedgehog's heart beats
300 times a minute on
average!
A hippo can open its
mouth wide enough to fit
a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs
less than a penny!
A mole can dig a tunnel
300 feet long in just one
night!
A snail can sleep for three
years.
After eating, a housefly
regurgitates its food and
then eats it again!
All polar bears are left
handed.
An ostrich's eye is bigger
than its brain.
Bulls are colour blind,
therefore will usually
charge at a matador's
waving cape no matter
what color it is -- be it red
or neon yellow!
Butterflies taste with their
feet.
Camels have three eyelids
to protect themselves
from blowing sand!
Cat urine glows under a
black-light!
Cats have over one
hundred vocal sounds, but
dogs only have about ten.
Dogs and cats, like
humans, are either right or
left handed... or is that
paws?!
Elephants are the only
animals that can't jump.
Most lipstick contains fish
scales!
Nose prints are used to
identify dogs, just like
humans use fingerprints!
On average, people fear
spiders more than they do
death.
Over 10,000 birds a year
die from smashing into
windows!
Porcupines float in water!
The ant always falls over
on its right side when
intoxicated.
The longest recorded
flight of a chicken is 13
seconds!
The original name for the
butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The placement of a
donkey's eyes in its head
enables it to see all four
feet at all times! !
The poison-arrow frog has
enough poison to kill
about 2,200 people!
The sloth (a mammal)
moves so slowly that
green algae can grow
undisturbed on its fur!
The two-foot long bird
called a Kea that lives in
New Zealand likes to eat
the strips of rubber
around car windows!
The world's termites
outweigh the world's
humans 10 to 1!
You are more likely to be
killed by a Champagne
cork than by a poisonous
spider.
Georginia 2013/07/14 18:49
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Munna0gn 2013/07/16 18:30
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Hareesh 2013/07/21 01:38
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