Interesting Animal Facts - Can pass on - EDIT

EDIT!!! - I added more the my bio teacher gave us! ^o^  - I put them after my added stuff, so they're not bolded and past the bolded ones o@ lol

These are some interesting animal facts that our Biology teacher showed us and posting on our online site for us to read – I thought they were pretty cool, so I decided to share them ^o^ - If you want to you can pass them off yourself in your own journal, lol

Though I knew a lot of these facts long before she gave them to us, being an animal lover and at one point I WAS going into a biological Science field dealing with animals – There were a few facts even I didn’t know and thought was funny/awesome >.<0 lol

Hehe Enjoy! ^o^

PS: I added a few myself at the bottom, of cool facts I knew, lol o@ - I bolded the ones I added, lol  - I may add more later if my bio teacher gives me more, or I come up with any new ones o@ lol

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

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

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

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

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

A zebra is white with black stripes.

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.

Domesticated turkeys cannot fly.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

Hippos have killed more people in Africa over any other wild animal.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

Baby beavers are called kittens.

Korea's poshintang, dog meat soup, is believed to improve male virility.

Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.

Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.

Rats can't throw-up.

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

Swans are the only birds with penises.

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

The blue whale is the loudest animal on Earth.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.03 mph.

The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long.

The hummingbird cannot walk.

The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million
years.

A Tiger’s SKIN is actually striped – not just it’s fur.

Aphids( Small green insects that ladybugs eat, lol) Are born pregnant and give birth 10 days after they are born.

A Duck’s Quack doesn’t echo.

When Whales and Dolphins sleep, half their brain stays fully active to control surfacing and breathing, etc to prevent them from drowning. in other words - Whales and dolphins can literally fall half asleep; their brain hemispheres alternate sleeping, so the animals can continue to surface and breathe.

Ant’s don’t sleep.

cheetah's are the only big cats that purr

A Rat’s back is super strong – it can withstand you stepping on it and be fine.

A rat can also squeeze through a hole to size of a penny. It does so by collapsing it’s skeleton   into itself and squeezing through the small space.

Rat’s also can’t expel any gas – so if you made them drink/eat something like pop – they’d explode o@ lol

You can usually tell if an Orca Whale (A.K.A – Killer whale ) is a male by it’s dorsal fin. Males stand straight up like a knife, while females (and all young whales too, lol ) have their dorsal fins curve back towards their tails.

Turkeys are one of the most unintelligent animals in the world – When it rains, Turkeys look up at the sky to see where the water is coming from and keep their mouths wide open and end up drowning themselves., lol

As well, Turkeys can be literally scared to DEATH by something as simple as paper fluttering in the wind.

Snails are transsexual – When mating, the male chews off it’s penis to get free from the female, then alters itself to become a female. ( PLEASE don’t ask how I know that one o@ hahahahha…hahaha….haha…ha… >////>0 lol )

Komodo Dragons bring down large prey by biting it, letting it go and then follows it.. – A few days later the animal will collapse and die from a horrid infection left by the toxins in a komodo Dragons mouth

Lionesses do all the hunting in a pride – The male lion(s) just take the food first once it’s brought back, lol

Cheetah’s are the fastest land animal in the world – able to reach about 70 miles an hour.

The Peregrine Falcon has one of the fastest Diving speeds in the world – reaching about 120 miles an hour in a swoop o@

The strongest animal in the world is a Hercules beetle able to lift something like 400 times it’s own weight o@ lol

In Birds of prey – The FEMALE is usually the larger bird, not the male.

A spitting cobra is able to spit poison up to 3 meters away and hit to enemy in the eyes o@ lol

An artic fox is brown and tan in color during the summer to blend into the surroundings – this is caused by the summer heat and it affects the pigment in their fur.

If you separate two ‘love birds’ or if one dies – they will/the other will die as love from a broken heart – that is why they are called ‘love birds’

*** Also new! o@ lmao *** A pig's orgasim lasts for 30 mins o@ lol ( Thank AsakuraMei for that one >.<0 lmao!!! )

The ONLY other animal in the world that has sex for pleasure - not just for reproductive purposes - is the dolphin.

EDIT! - New stuff! ^o^

4,000 years ago in Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death.

One poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Turkeys originated in North and Central America, and evidence indicates that they have been around for over 10 million years.

Worldwide, goats provide people with more meat and milk than any other domestic animal.

A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without a head. They only die because they stave to death and die of thirst.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet, which is where their taste buds are.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you eat bananas.

The disease-carrying mosquito, delivering encephalitis, the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever, is by far the deadliest beast in the animal world.

The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

The tsetse fly kills 66,000 people annually.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

There are approximately 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells in the human body, mostly on the skin and in the digestive tract.