some amazing facts of different animals

                               some amazing facts of different animals

A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds eats approximately seven times its own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. Wow! What an appetite!

Apart from human’s even chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.

A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!

While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.

A probable identity crisis we have here! Though named polecat, this creature is not a cat but a nocturnal weasel-species in Europe.

Is a zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Any guesses? Well, it’s white with black stripes.

Talk about noise pollution in the jungles! A lion’s roar is so loud that it can hear up to a distance of five miles.

Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware; it is loud enough to be heard up to a mile away.

The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks weigh over 200 pounds.

Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.

The male and female African elephants have tusks.

The largest ever lobster to be found weighed 19 kg. It was found in 1934.

The largest recorded jellyfish measured 2, 3 m across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m (120 feet) in length.

The largest giant squid ever found weighed 4 tons. It was traced in the in the North Atlantic in the year 1878.

Most cats in Halifax (Nova Scotia) have six toes. 

There is no sideways movement for a cat's jaws. 

You thought that only you need sunscreen? Well pigs, walruses, and light-colored horses are prone to get sunburned. 

Armadillos have four babies of the same sex, at a time. They are perfect identical quadruplets. 

Armadillos sleep for an average of 18.5 hours, a day. 

Can you walk underwater? Well, here is one animal that can – the Armadillos. 

Which animals can get leprosy? None expect for Armadillos. 

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue. 

How many muscles does a cat have in each ear? No point counting, here’s the answer - 32. 

Which fruit does a reindeer like most? Bananas! And you thought it was the favorite fruit of monkeys and humans. 

How many teeth does a bear have? 42 tooth. 

How many rows of whiskers does a cat have? Interesting! Four row. 

Never anger a Tazmanian devil… Its ear turns into a pinkish-red shade. 

Put a porcupine in water and watch it float. 

There are no vocal chords in a giraffe. 

How many vocal chords do cats have? Go ahead and count… 100. 

A goat's eyes have got rectangular pupils. 

It’s been 4,000 years and no new animal-species has been domesticated. 

You will never hear of a camel's milk curdling.

A single cow lets out the amount of harmful methane gas, which can fill about 400-liter bottles; that too in a single day. Pollution!

Roar, roar! I am the king of the jungle! But did you know the lion would be defeated by a polar bear in a battle between the two?

Humans daydream with their eyes open, and dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.

Bulls are known to be colorblind. It’s a black-and-white life for them!

The sweat glands of a cow are in its nose.

This is really interesting! You will not believe this one! A mosquito has 47 teeth.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison stored in it that it can harm 2,200 people at one go.

A ‘blessing’ is a herd of unicorns.

A ‘mob’ is not just a group of unruly people; but also a group of kangaroos – well behaved or not!

A ‘parliament’ is not just made up of our dear politicians, but is also a group of owls.

Hang a chicken upside down and give it something to eat. The result! It will not be able to swallow its food.

Brainpower! A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds.

While a donkey will sink in quicksand, a mule will not.

According to records there are 50 million monkeys. That is quite an over population!

An angry horned-toad squirts blood from its eyes. Bloodshot eyes!

My blue-eyed boy! A scallop has 35 eyes that are blue in color.

Before a spotted skunk is about to spray it will first do a couple of handstands?

Have you heard of a sheep with blue wool? Well, a couple of animal breeders from Russia had claimed some time ago that they bred sheep with natural blue wool. 

“Moo, moo,” says the cow everywhere in the world; and a pig says “Moo moo” in Japan. 

The eyesight of dogs is better than that of human beings. 

Animal accents! The accent of a cow’s mooing depends on the region it belongs to. 

On an average a hen lays 19 dozen eggs in a year. 

The small intestine of an ostrich measures up to 46-feet in length. 

Your pet cat can scare a black bear. The big fellow will run up a tree to save itself from the little domestic creature. Meow, meow! 

Sleeping beauties! Gorillas sleep up to fourteen hours, a day. 

While the male lion rests in its den, it is the females that have go out and get the food. 

Simon says Jump! No point an elephant simply cannot jump to even save its life. 

No right turn! The bats do not need any boards, for it’s always the left turn for them when exiting a cave. 

Sharks are the only known species to never suffer from cancer. 

Heavyweights! The tongue of a blue whale could weigh more than a full-grown adult elephant. 

Oysters change from male to female gender several times during their lifespan. 

Every shrimp is actually born a male and then become females as they mature. 

An elephant can smell water from a distance of three miles. 

A storage bin! The duckbill platypus is known to store up to six hundred worms in its cheek pouches. 

Music lovers! Make a cow listen to music and there will be more milk in the bucket!

A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation!

No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set!

A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.

Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein.

On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.

A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus.

A coin is heavier than a hummingbird!

It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.

The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch.

Recycling! A housefly vomits the food it eats and then eats it again!

Here is some news for the left-handed people – they are not the only ones, as all polar bears are left-handed.

An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.

The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.

Place a black light over a cat’s urine and watch it glow!

Dogs and cats are either right or left-pawed!

While human fingerprints are a means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of identifying dogs.

A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.

The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutter by’.

The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.

All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1!

The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.

Each species of grasshopper has its own song. This is important, as the varied species cannot breed (rise) with each other. The female needs to be aware that she is listening to a male from her own species.

Compass termites of Northern Australia build tall nests that are wedge-shaped. They measure up to 3.5 m in length.

Flying frogs change color in the day. They are greenish-blue in sunlight and green in the evening. At night there are black.

Boas, as well as many other snakes have special heat-sensitive organs that are called pits. These pits are on their heads. They can detect the heat given by a warm-blooded animal standing close to them.

The king Cobra can grow to the length of 5.5 m, and is regarded as the largest poisonous snake in the world. A tiny amount of its poison can kill up to 30 people.

Anteaters protect their long claws by walking on their knuckles. This makes them look as if they are limping.

Bats eat all types of food. There is no restriction where their diet is concerned.

The hippopotamus’s eyes, ears, and nostrils are on the top of its head. This enables it to stand or sit, almost completely covered by water with as little as possible showing above the surface.

The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’