Interesting animal facts, all species have their
own unique abilities. Enjoy this little journey to
the miraculous world of animals. Hope you
learn one thing, or two along the way.
(1). Humans have highly developed brains.
(2). Ants never sleep.
(3). Elephants can smell water 3 miles away.
(4). Snails can grow new eye.
(5). Australian termites can build mounds
twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
(6). Birds don’t urinate.
(7). Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have
lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and
the queen may live as long as 15 years.
(8). Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
(9). If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground
it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
(10). The horn of a rhinoceros is made from
compacted hair rather than bone or another
substance.
(11). The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat
can walk.
(12). Bats always turn left when leaving a
cave.
(13). A tarantula spider can survive for more
than two years without food.
(14). Even when a snake has its eyes closed,
it can still see through its eyelids.
(15). Despite the white, fluffy appearance of
Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin.
(16). The average housefly only lives for 2 or
3 weeks.
(17). Male mosquitos do not bite, only female
mosquito bites.
(18). For every human in the world there are
one million ants.
(19). For every person there are rougly 200
million insects.
(20). Even a small amount of alcohol placed
on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting
itself to death.
(21). Alligators and sharks can live up to 100
years.
(22). Rats breed so quickly that in just 18
months, 2 rats could have created over 1
million relatives.
(23). A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order
to make one tablespoon of honey.
(24). A honeybee has two stomaches- one for
honey, one for food.
(25). A bee can see the colours green, blue
and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
(26). Great white Sharks can go as long as
three months without eating.
(27). Mayflies live for a year or more as
larvae; but as adults they live for only a few
hours.
(28). Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up
into the shark’s stomach from underneath,
causing the shark to explode.
(29). Killer whales are not whales at all, rather
a species of dolphin.
(30). Most elephants weigh less than the
tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue
whale is the size of a small car.
(31). A cockroach can survive for about a
week without its head before dying of
starvation.
(32). When a dolphin is sick or injured, its
cries of distress summon immediate aid from
other dolphins, who try to support it to the
surface so that it can breathe.
(33). A dragonfly can spot an insect moving
33 feet away.
(34). The heart of a shrimp is located in its
head.
(35). A snail can sleep for 3 years.
(36). The oceans contain 99 percent of the
living space on the planet.
(37). The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift,
can fly as fast as 106mph.
(38). A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of
milk in her lifetime.
(39). A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in
length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
(40). Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain
at a time, and one eye closed.
(41). The leech has 32 brains.
(42). Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from the blowing sand.
(43). The average outdoor-only cat has a
lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats
can live sixteen years and longer.
(44). It takes a lobster about seven years to
grow to be one pound.
(45). On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
(46). Sharks are the only animals that never
get sick. They are immune to every type of
disease including cancer.
(47). Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
(48). The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its
head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
(49). A dolphin’s hearing is so acute that it
can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen
miles away.
(50). A mosquito has 47 teeth.
(51). No two zebras have the same markings.
(52). Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
(53). The sex organ on a male spider is
located at the end of one of its legs.
(54). Birds do not sleep in their nests. They
may occasionally nap in them, but they
actually sleep in other places
(55). Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
(56). The ears of a cricket are located on the
front legs, just below the knee.
(57). Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small
eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger
ones in front.
(58). It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
(59). Polar bears cannot be detected by
infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
(60). A snail only mates once.
(61). Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
(62). Shrimp can only swim backwards.
(63). The owl can catch a mouse in utter
darkness, guided only by tiny sounds made by
its prey.
(64). Strands of spider web are stronger than
steel wire of the same thickness.
(65). Squirrels can climb trees faster than they
can run on the ground.
(66). Tigers have striped skin, not just striped
fur.
(67). Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep
through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of
them will coil up together to keep warm.
(68). Cows have four stomachs.
(69). The honey bee has been around for 30
million years.
(70). If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a
new one.
(71). Oysters can change from one gender to
another and back again depending on which is
best for mating.
(72). A starving mouse will eat it’s own tail.
(73). Sharks have been around longer than
dinosaurs.
(74). A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
(75). The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6
months. (76). A Giraffe has the same number of bones
in its neck as a man.
(77). The blue whale is the largest of all
whales and is also considered the largest
animal to have ever existed in the world.
(78). An adult lion’s roar can be heard up to
five miles away, and warns off intruders or
reunites scattered members of the pride.
(79). Many fish can change sex during the
course of their lives. Others, especially rare
deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex
organs.
(80). The average hen lays 257 eggs a year.
(81). A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
(82). When a dog licks you with a straight
tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
(83). Spiders are believed to have existed for
more than 300 million years.
(84). Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165
million years before they became extinct.
(85). We humans share 98.4% of our DNA with
a chimp.
(86). Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the earth’s
food crop.
(87). The blood of mammals is red, the blood
of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters
is blue.
(88). You should not eat a crayfish with a
straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
(89). Of all known forms of animals life ever to
inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still
exist today.
(90). Monkeys and penguins have prostitutes.
