About Animals

There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 

 

There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world. 

There are 3,000 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene. 

Each of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling and  flying... 

Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears.

 

The world has approximately one billion cattle, of which about 200 million belong to India. 

The life of a housefly is only 14 days. 

A housefly regurgitates the food it eats and then eats it again!

A dog was the first animal to up in space.

 

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first animals to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of a dog known to mankind is the ‘Saluki’. 

 

Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you.

 

There are crabs that are the size of a pea. There are known as ‘Pea Crabs’. 

The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months. 

Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people. 

You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffe ears. It can do so with its own 50cm-tongue.

A  South American Giant Anteater eats over 30,000 ants, per day. 

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

The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer. 

The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h. 

The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale. 

The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale. 

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 crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set! 

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

Each species of grasshopper has its own song. This is important, as the varied species cannot breed 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. 

Bats eat all types of food.

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’.

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

A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food.

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

The sweat glands of a cow are in its nose.

lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard upto 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 upto a mile away. 

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..

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! 

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 garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. 

The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds. 

An angry horned-toad squirts blood from its eyes.

A scallop has 35 eyes that are blue in color. 

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

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. 

A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch. 

 

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. 

An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h. 

The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet. 

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

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

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