Funny Facts - Animals

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Funny Facts - Animals



A mole can dig about 92 metres in 1 night.

Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood.

Koala bears have finger prints that are almost identical to ours.

In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth.

Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself.

If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.

Goldfish have the memory span of about 3-5 seconds.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Bees can see ultraviolet light.

Bulls are not attracted to the colour red.

An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day.

A flea can jump 350 times its own body length.

The Nile catfish swim upside down.

An Octopus has 3 hearts.

Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole.

The hairs on a polar bear are not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Pigs can't sweat because they don't have sweat glands.

The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.

Snakes have two sex organs.

Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them.

A tuna called the 'Blue Fin' can be sold for over $20,000 around the world.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis.

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

Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded.

It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

The animal that lived longest of all was a turtle. It lived to become the respectable age of 188 years.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.




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