Author Topic: Simple info about ANIMALS (Read 909 times)

MG4 · « **on:** March 07, 2010, 02:34:40 AM »

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tounge.

2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

15) Ants never sleep.

16) Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

17) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

18) The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

19) A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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

21) The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canaries insulate - "Island of Dogs."

22) There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

23) A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

24) Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

25) A baby bat is called a pup.

26) German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

27) A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

28) It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.

29) The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

30) The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

31) A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

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

33) Snakes are immune to their own poison.

34) An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

35) Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

36) The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

37) Most lipstick contains fish scales.

38) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

39) Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

40) A shrimp's heart is in their head.

41) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

Author Topic: Simple info about ANIMALS (Read 909 times)

MG4

Simple info about ANIMALS