Have you heard of a sheep with blue wool? Well, a couple of animal breeders from Russia had claimed sometime 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 are 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 upto 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 upto 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 its 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 upto 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 cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter
Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
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 rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.
The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
All polar bears are left handed.
Ants don't sleep.
Sources:
http://www.factsaboutanimals.net
http://www.indianchild.com/amazing_facts2.htm
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