ANIMALS

On this page you will find a whole bunch of usless animal facts. You’ll find out things about your cat or dog that you never knew.
Updated 12/21/05
-An average dairy cow produces four times its body weight in manure each year.

-Kiwis are the only bird that hunts by smell.

-A birds eye keeps everything in focus at all times.

-Elvis had a pet monkey named Scatter.

-A sheep trained to turn the lights on and off will leave them them on 82% of the time.

-A blind chameleon will still change color to match its surroundings.

-All dogs except the Chow have a pink tongue, the Chow’s tongue is bluish black.

-Nine out of ten extinct species were birds.

-Lions sleep 17 hours per day.

-Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.

-Mouse sex only lasts five seconds.

-Florida officals recieve 8,000 complaints each year about alligators.

-Pigeons have three sets of eyelids.

-Male monkeys go bald just as men do.

-Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails.

-About one third of all species of snakes are venomous.

-The stomach of a hippo can be up to 10 feet long and hold up to 400 pounds of food.

-An Elephant’s tusks never stop growing as long as it lives.

-If left alone, a dog will spend up to 3 hours a day remarking its scent posts.

-The horseshoe crab has sky-blue blood.

-A snapping turtle can only swollow when its head is under water.

-When given unlimited access to mice, cats will kill about 15 before stopping.

-Lobsters and jellyfish never stop growing.

-The seahorse is the only fish that swims upright.

-Cat milk is 10% protein where cow milk is only 3%.

-Crocodiles can’t move their tongues.

-The pouch on a pelican’s beak can hold up to 2 gallons of water.

-A homing pigeon will not be able to find its way home if a magnet it attached to their neck.

-The speckles on a bird’s egg are as individual as a fingerprint.

-The upstroke of a bird’s wing moves it forward, the downstroke only keeps it airborn.

-A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel.

-A freshly hatched crocodile is three times longer than the egg it came from.

-Polar bears are left-handed.

-Elephants are not afraid of mice.

Updated 3/14/05
-A snail can sleep for three years.

-Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

-All polar bears are left handed.

-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.

-A blue whales testicles are the size of a family car.

-Robins eat three miles of earth worms in a year.

-An oyster changes sex several times during its life.

-Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do.

-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.

Updated 2/24/05
-Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.

-Skunks can accurately spray their fluid up to ten feet.

-A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

-Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in show drifts.

-A slug has four noses.

-A turtle can breath through its butt.

-An ant can detect movement through five centimeters of earth.

-A hippo can open it’s mouth wide enouth to fit a four foot child inside.

-Bats always exit a cave to the left.

-A crocodile can’t move it’s tongue.

Old Ones
-When mating, a hummingbird’s wings beat 200 times a second.

-Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.

-Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey’s (Jackass).

-Rabbits and horses cannot vomit.

-If birds could sweat they wouldn’t be able to fly.

-Sloths sneeze slowly. They also give birth upside down…. slowly.

-Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.

-A whales heart beats about once every 6 and a half seconds.

-The average American Bald Eagle weighs about 9 pounds.

-A chicken’s top speed is 9 mph.

-A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.

-Argentina’s falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.

-The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

-Lobsters like to eat lobster.

-To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.

-Crocodiles can’t move their tongues.

-Wolves could bark like dogs, they don’t because they don’t want to.

-An adult crocodile can go two years without eating.

-A roadrunner purrs when it is content.

-A cow has four stomachs.

-The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.

-Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz.

-The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

-A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.

-A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.

-Both gorillaz and housecats purr.

-A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break.

-The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking.

-Whales and Buffalos both stampede.

-The top speed of a pigeon in flight is 90 mph.

-Squirrels cannot see the color red.

-Chimpanzees will hunt ducks if given the opportunity.

-Sheep snore.

-A group of jellyfish is called a “smack.”

-One humped camels run faster than two humped camels.

-Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.

-Emus cannot walk backwards.

-Camel’s milk does not curdle.

-Armadillos can catch malaria.

-The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil.

-Black sheep have a better sense of smell then white sheep.

-The English Sparrow is not a sparrow and it comes from Africa, not England.

-Baboons cannot throw overhand.

-Lions are the only cats that live in packs.

-To get a gallon of milk, it takes about 345 squirts from a cow’s utter.

-A warthog has only 4 warts, all of which are on its head.

-The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century england was seven years in prison.

-Even bloodhounds cannot smell the difference between two identical twins.

-Cows and cats both get hairballs.

-Camels are born without humps.

-Anteaters can flick their tongues 160 times a minute.