Facts about Animals
1) Camels have three eyelids.
2)A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
3)An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
4)Hummingbirds are not only the smallest birds but are also the only birds that can fly backwards.
5)Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air.
6)A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
7)Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
8)All polar bears are left handed.
9)A crocadile can't stick its tounge out.
10)Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
11)A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
12) Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping.
13)The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute.
14)The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
15)A snail can sleep for 3 years.
16) The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in 2 hours.
17)Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a 24 hour period.
18)An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.
19)The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
20)Most lipstick contains fish scales.
21)Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
22)A jellyfish is 95% water.
23)More people are killed anually by donkeys than in plane crashes.
24)When a horned toad is angry, it can squirt blood from its eyes.
25)A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
26)The oldest domestic cat (with reliable documentation) was a female tabby named "Ma" that lived to be 34 years old.
27)The largest frog in the world, the Goliath frog, is also the highest jumped. It can leap 3 meters into the air.
28)A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
29)If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
30)Cats do not have a collarbone, so they can fit through any opening the size of their head.
31)Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
32)Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
33)Armadillos have four babies at the same time, and they are always the same sex.
34)The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
35)Snakes can see through their eyelids.
36)The Amazon 'Jesus Christ lizard' can run across water.
37)A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
38)An adult blue whale's heart beats around 6 times per minute.
39)The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
40)There are more cows than people in the U.S.
41)The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years old.
42)Sharks are immune to cancer because instead of bone, they have cartilage.
43)A rat can fall from a 5 story house without injury.
44)The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
45)One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
46)The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 lbs.
47)Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.
48)The Galapagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
49)White cats with blue eyes are almost always deaf.
50)The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
11)A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
12) Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping.
13)The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute.
14)The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
15)A snail can sleep for 3 years.
16) The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in 2 hours.
17)Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a 24 hour period.
18)An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.
19)The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
20)Most lipstick contains fish scales.
21)Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
22)A jellyfish is 95% water.
23)More people are killed anually by donkeys than in plane crashes.
24)When a horned toad is angry, it can squirt blood from its eyes.
25)A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
26)The oldest domestic cat (with reliable documentation) was a female tabby named "Ma" that lived to be 34 years old.
27)The largest frog in the world, the Goliath frog, is also the highest jumped. It can leap 3 meters into the air.
28)A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
29)If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
30)Cats do not have a collarbone, so they can fit through any opening the size of their head.
31)Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
32)Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
33)Armadillos have four babies at the same time, and they are always the same sex.
34)The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
35)Snakes can see through their eyelids.
36)The Amazon 'Jesus Christ lizard' can run across water.
37)A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
38)An adult blue whale's heart beats around 6 times per minute.
39)The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
40)There are more cows than people in the U.S.
41)The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years old.
42)Sharks are immune to cancer because instead of bone, they have cartilage.
43)A rat can fall from a 5 story house without injury.
44)The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
45)One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
46)The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 lbs.
47)Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.
48)The Galapagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
49)White cats with blue eyes are almost always deaf.
50)The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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